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The PokerStars makeover continues. This week, many players on the world’s largest online poker site have received e-mails telling them that their regular heads-up cash game tables will disappear on Friday, replaced with Zoom Poker tables. The e-mail was brief: We are writing to inform you that as of Friday 12th February No Limit Hold’em,… Read more »
It has often been mentioned as one of poker’s “major” tournament events. Much like tennis has the Australian, French and U. S. Opens along with Wimbledon as its majors, poker’s “majors” have often been listed as the World Series of Poker Championship Event, the World Poker Tour World Championship (it was discontinued this year), the… Read more »
It seemed unlikely at the start of the final table, but local favorite Chris Leong – who started the final table as the short stack – was able to come from behind to defeat the start of day chip leader Rafael Yaraliyev to capture the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open… Read more »
After a protracted twelve-hour battle, the final table has been set for the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City, NJ. Heading that final table will be relative newcomer Rafael Yaraliyev, who will sit at the start of the day on Friday with 9.945 million in chips. There are two wolves beating… Read more »
The “Battle at the Borgata” is heating up as only 34 players are left in the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open. When the players return for Day 4 this afternoon, Kane Kalas will hold the honor of being the chip leader, but WPT champion David Paredes – who won the fall Borgata Poker… Read more »
Good news for poker players out of New York Tuesday as Senate Bill S5302 passed through the Senate Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering by a unanimous 9-0 vote. The bill aims to legalize and regulate “certain interactive poker games that are considered to be games of skill” (read: online poker). This is the first… Read more »
David Baazov certainly knows how to grab the attention of the financial and poker communities. A year and a half after his company, Amaya Inc., announced its intentions to purchase the parent of PokerStars and Full Tilt in a $4.9 billion deal, Baazov has let loose with another shocker: he is now interested in personally… Read more »
According to her personal Twitter account and the casino, the inaugural champion of the World Series of Poker Europe, Annette Obrestad, has signed an “ambassador deal” with the Venetian Las Vegas. The deal, of which no details were announced, apparently began this weekend. The mysterious details began to leak out earlier this week when Obrestad… Read more »
In a rapid four-hour final table – after a four-day layoff for the Aussie Millions Main Event – Germany’s Fabian Quoss defeated the start of day chip leader Ben Tollerene to capture the championship of the $100,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne on Saturday. Tollerene was the massive leader coming into play, being… Read more »
The final table is set for Aussie Millions Main Event and it looks like it will be a battle between two men. Chip leader Ari Engel and Day 3 chip leader Tony Dunst will head to the final table on Sunday 1-2 in the counts, with Samantha Abernathy and Kitty Kuo among those in the… Read more »
After a flurry of activity on Day 3 in Melbourne, Australia, Tony ‘Bond_18’ Dunst is at the helm of the Aussie Millions Main Event. As Dunst holds a sizeable lead in one of poker’s unofficial “majors,” Ben Tollerene will have a couple of days to ponder his position as the chip leader of the $100,000… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event has come and gone with just 154 players remaining to advance to Day 3. After late registrations were counted, the total field for the three starting flights plus those few last minute entries on Day 2 amounted to 732 players. Australian James Obst led the 376… Read more »
All three starting flights of the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event are in the bag (as are the chips), so it is finally on to Day 2, where all of the survivors of the day one flights come together in a unified field. 337 players registered for Tuesday’s Day 1C at the Crown Casino in… Read more »
The 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event got underway over the weekend as championship hopefuls turned out at the Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia to start their journey to a title in one of the most popular events on the worldwide tournament calendar. Two of the three starting days are in the books (with the tourney… Read more »
In what was a frantic Day Two, Chance Kornuth came from the middle of the pack to take down the championship of the $25,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions as the Main Event prepares to take center stage at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Kornuth was smack in the middle of the 26 players… Read more »
While it might not draw as much attention as it has in years past, the Aussie Millions still can draw a crowd to the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Perhaps because it is summertime “Down Under,” the weather and the heat of the poker tables always seem to bring the international poker community to the… Read more »
With the presentation of the awards just over a month away, the eleven categories in contention – and the four nominees in each category – have been announced for the 2nd Annual American Poker Awards, which will take place at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, on February 25. In its inaugural year, Alexandre… Read more »
After catching a great deal of flak for simply airing repeats of programs that are several years old instead of the bold, innovative programming that they promised, the 24/7 poker channel Poker Central seems to be stepping up its game a bit for the beginning of 2016. Not only will one of their more popular… Read more »
They came into the final table as the top two players, so it was only natural that they would be the ones who would decide the championship. After all was said and done, Mike ‘SirWatts’ Watson emerged as champion of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure European Poker Tour Main Event over Anthony Gregg, who was denied… Read more »
It was a day of history at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure European Poker Tour Main Event on Wednesday as the final table for the event was determined. When the final six men come back to the felt this afternoon, Mike ‘SirWatts’ Watson will be at the helm of the ship but he will face the… Read more »
There are just a couple days left in the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event and as has been the case all week, it is Leonardo Pires leading the field. Pires was the chip leader after Sunday’s Day 2, lost the lead for a while on Monday but ended with a dominant chip stack… Read more »
The poker got back to normal Monday at the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event as there were no reported incidents of anybody expelling bodily waste at the tables. Instead, it was all business (though who is to say trying to win a pricey prop bet isn’t serious business?) as the field continued to… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event took place Sunday and like any live tournament, some people were eliminated, others built their chips stacks and all in all, much poker was played. But let’s forget about all of that for now and talk about what really happened on Sunday: Antonio Esfandiari… Read more »
After making the final table of this same event twice previously (in 2011 and last year), Bryn Kenney finally found “third time lucky” as he maintained his lead he brought in to the final table to the end of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s $100,000 Super High Roller event. Kenney had a minimal lead, his 3.82… Read more »
While most people visit the sun and surf of Paradise Island in the Bahamas for those basic necessities of life – sun and surf – the folks who have invaded that tropical locale this week aren’t there to get a nice winter tan. The 13th Annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is in full swing with the… Read more »
