Playing more hands in heads up competition than it took at the final table to reach that point, Stefan Schillhabel staved off the assault of a powerful Adam Geyer to take down the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star championship last night in San Jose. Schillhabel had stormed to the lead during Thursday’s play,… Read more »
For many of us in the poker world, being the next victor in the World Series of Poker Championship Event would be a lifelong dream, the epitome of playing the game. Becoming poker’s next World Champion is the goal of anyone who seemingly has ever picked up a hand of cards and a few poker… Read more »
The final table has been determined for the 2016 World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event in San Jose, CA and only one Shooting Star, poker professional/announcer Maria Ho, remains with their bounty intact. To say the Day 3 field was a competitive one would be a huge understatement. Dylan Linde brought the 36… Read more »
There are several happy souls in northern California as the sun breaks on Thursday morning, some because they received a cash in the 2016 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament in San Jose. The others are among the survivors who are sleeping peacefully as they know they will come back later in the… Read more »
TonyBet Poker, which bills itself as the “first-ever global Open Face Chinese Poker site” launched a new rakeback system this week, making an interesting change to how we normally look at rake rebates. As everyone reading this likely knows, online poker players are often able to receive a portion of the rake they pay back… Read more »
A ridiculously trivial legal case hit another milestone last week as the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled against two café owners who were arrested back in 2007 (yes, we’re going back almost a decade) for running a €10 re-buy poker tournament at their establishment. Richard Blaas and Rene Kurver owned the Amsterdam’s Café de Viersprong… Read more »
The second starting flight of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event was held Tuesday as 422 more players gave the tournament a whirl. The resulting overall field of 753 is the largest in the tournament’s history. A total of 292 players remaining from both starting flights, led by Ari Engel… Read more »
888poker recently demonstrated that it will become the latest online poker room to make a significant move toward catering to recreational players at the possible expense of high volume grinders, announcing that it will introduce a new rewards program on March 28th, 2016. In a post on Two Plus Two, an 888poker representative wrote: We’d… Read more »
It was a long Day 1A at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Monday, as those who made it all the way through had to slog through eleven 60-minute levels. With two hours for dinner and short breaks, that’s thirteen hours centered around poker, not counting however early the players got to… Read more »
After poker players boycotted PokerStars for the first time at the beginning of December 2015, Amaya Inc.’s Vice President of Corporate Communications Eric Hollreiser posted on the PokerStars blog, apologizing for some of the missteps in communicating the VIP program changes (against which the players were protesting), but saying the company wasn’t going to reverse… Read more »
Slowly but surely, the amount of original programming is beginning to stack up for the 24/7 streaming channel (and hopefully soon we’ll see some more television outlets) Poker Central. Less than six months into their run, Poker Central will debut their latest program on Monday night, featuring arguably the most well-known tournament director in the… Read more »
In this day of 1000 channel cable conglomerates (OK, probably more along the lines of 300-500 after duplication, but you get my drift) and internet sites, you can pretty much get anything you want on television and the internet nowadays. When it comes to news and information, there are literally almost 100 stations that broadcast… Read more »
Fighting his way from the back of the pack, Dietrich Fast was able to deny World Poker Tour champion Mike Shariati his second WPT title of the Season XIV schedule, winning the WPT L. A. Poker Classic early Friday morning. Fast had his work cut out for him as, with his decent stack of 2.365… Read more »
The final table is set for the World Poker Tour’s latest stop in southern California at the L. A. Poker Classic. Heading up the six-man final table will be 2015 World Series of Poker “hybrid” (online/live tournament) bracelet winner Anthony Spinella, who will come to the final table with a nice chip stack of 3.705… Read more »
The Georgia Attorney General’s office has determined that daily fantasy sports (DFS) are illegal in the state, that according to a letter from Deputy Attorney General W. Wright Banks, Jr. to Georgia Lottery Corporation Senior Vice-President and General Counsel Joseph Kim on Friday. Kim had previously requested clarification of Georgia gambling law, asking if DFS… Read more »
There are just two days left for the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event, as the field has gone from a stout 515 to just 14 players. Today should be a relatively short day; action will conclude when the six-handed final table is concluded, though at this point in major tournaments,… Read more »
Last week, the iPoker Network, which is composed of such online poker rooms as TitanPoker, William Hill, and Ladbrokes Poker, rolled out a new poker variant called Six-Plus Hold’em. Unlike other new poker games that have come along over the last few years, this isn’t another “fast fold” game or “lottery sit-and-go” format, but rather… Read more »
Attention online poker botters: head over to Svenska Spel if you know what’s good for you. Then again, you might all just be competing against each other, so your efforts might be futile. Why, you may ask? Recently, a group of five Svenska Spel account holders who were proven to have used bots to win… Read more »
Another day is in the books at the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event, as the field was whittled from 111 players to just 43 heading into Tuesday’s Day 4. Germany’s Dietrich Fast is perched at the head of the class with 1.07 million chips, the only player to crack the… Read more »
