Day three has come to an end at the EPT Warsaw event and only 24 players remain. Many players saw their hopes of winning a big live event crushed while others had the luck of surviving another tough day on the felts. American Carter Phillips got off to a strong start, but busted near the… Read more »
Cake Poker will be hosting their monthly $250K guaranteed this upcoming weekend. There are multiple ways of qualifying as satellites are running around the clock for as little as $3. Players also have the option to redeem eleven hundred gold chips for a seat to the prestigious online tournament. The Gold Card Lottery will award… Read more »
Another week has ended and Absolute Poker has once again put thousands of dollars on the line in their guaranteed tournaments. The virtual felts will start to warm-up at Absolute Poker today with a $15K guaranteed with re-buys at 7 pm. Two hours later a $25K prize pool will be up for grabs in a… Read more »
EPT Warsaw started with two hundred and three players and there’s only fifty five remaining. Today will be a tough day since they will play down to only twenty four players. The top prize will exceed half a million dollars and it has been a fierce battle thus far. PokerStars pro Peter Eastgate failed to… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey will be on the cover of the ESPN magazine that will be hitting news stands on November 2nd. We are currently only two weeks away from final table of the ’09 WSOP and the crowning a new world champion. The magazine article will spotlight a side of Ivey that… Read more »
Bodog Poker will be running two series of tournaments that will award thousands of dollars. All Bodog players will be able to participate in the different tournaments, which will be held during the same week, starting November 1st and ending on November 8th. To give players an idea the Bodog Poker IV Championship will have… Read more »
The Warsaw event has turned out to be a very interesting tournaments with some extremely tough table draws. One tough battle is taking place at the table where Carter Phillips is demonstrating his aggressive style. He currently holds the chip lead and is bullying his fellow poker players at the table, and the best part… Read more »
Party Poker is offering a great promotion that will have players turning $3 into $2k and all they have to do is play poker. The idea behind the promotion is simple, there are six levels of ten seat sit & go’s. Players will be able to buy into any of the levels and if they… Read more »
The last 24 to 36 hours have been really slow at the Full Tilt high stakes tables where not much has gone on. The red pros and the high stakes regulars seemed to be busy with live tournaments, or they are just playing at another poker room. Patrik Antonius played a tiny session yesterday against… Read more »
This past weekend was quite busy for the 5th largest online poker network. The Ongame network hosted the final of the Grand Series of Poker III which had a guaranteed prize pool of $300K. Four weeks prior to the tournament, RedKings and all its sister sites hosted a large number of satellites and qualifiers that… Read more »
It’s Wednesday and the guaranteed tournaments at Absolute Poker have more than $340K up for grabs. There will be various types of tournaments available, including re-buys, deep stack tournaments and two knockout events. Starting at 4 pm there will be a $1K guaranteed 6-max with an $11 buy-in, and one hour later a $4K GTD… Read more »
Just as expected by the tournament organizers, Day 2B of the EPT Warsaw had a much larger field than the first day as a total of one hundred and thirty players showed up to compete. Day 1A had three players who took the spotlight, including Carter Phillips who ended the day as chipleader and has… Read more »
Each sport has its prominent stars; in tennis we have Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal and in MotoGP there’s Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo. In poker one name that stands out is Phil Ivey who has definitely proven to be a prominent star in the poker world. Phil’s success in poker embraces all types of… Read more »
One of the most successful players in cash games has been Patrick Antonius, who signed with Full Tilt Poker this year and has been playing remarkable poker since 2008 on the Full Tilt virtual felts. In just seven months of play in 2008 PA recorded a profit of $1.35 million, and in 2009 his numbers… Read more »
Party Poker released a software update not too long ago and they have received a large amount of feedback from their customers. Although most of the feedback has been positive, Party has also used the comments to determine which areas can still use some improvement. Because Party Poker listens to their customers concerns and advice,… Read more »
The EPT Barcelona that ended almost two months ago had tons of excitement for all the spectators. It also brought a PokerStars qualifier name into the spot light as Carter Phillips dominated the massive player field and managed to win the event. Something that no player has been able to do is win two European… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has done it again, they have managed to get their hands on 16 tickets to the LeBron James NBA Kickoff party that will take place in Toronto, Canada. The party will be held after the Raptors play the Cavaliers on October 28th at Brant House. Twelve out of the sixteen tickets will be… Read more »
All Titan Poker players will be able to participate in the different tournaments that will award packages to the ECPoker Tour Malta. The super satellites will be held each Sunday and Monday night. At least one package will be awarded per tournament, and each package will include four night hotel accommodations at the luxurious Excelsior… Read more »
The six day tournament has kicked off with 88 players showing up for Day 1A, which is a small field for European Tour Standards, but a much larger field is expected tomorrow. The first man to leave the tournament was Guiseppi Vividomini who decided to mix it up with aces against Peter Bosen. The flop… Read more »
The Big Money Sunday’s bring in thousands of players who all want to win life changing money, and the best part is that any payer who has top notch skill plus a bit of luck can take down any of the big events that are played at Full Tilt. Michael Craig and Vivek Rajkumar, both… Read more »
Annie Duke is well known for having a great poker skill set and a warm heart, and she is involved in several charity organizations. On the other hand, Phil Hellmuth is known for being bitter, grotesque and basically a poker brat, but he also helps to raise money for charity foundations. This time around both… Read more »
Absolute Poker is expecting the November nine to resume play and crown a new world champion just like all the poker players around the world. To help ease the wait, Absolute has put thousands of dollars on the line in two different leaderboards that will award $2k per day. The promotion has started and it… Read more »
For all those players that enjoy traveling to exotic locations, Full Tilt Poker will be awarding seats to the Red Sea Poker Cup that will be hosted in the Casino Aladin at the Domina Coral Bay Hotel in the luxurious resort Sharm el-Sheikh. This is not only a great opportunity to play poker in a… Read more »
This past weekend, players around the world took some time away from their TV sets and other activities to play in PokerStar‘ biggest guaranteed tournaments. This weekend 7,856 players took the Sunday Million challenge, and the prize pool swelled to $1,571,200. Just before level 34, player Helten22 was nursing a short stack and he made… Read more »
The PokerStars APPT Auckland had 263 players registered, including some of the areas top pros like Tony Hachem, Grant Levy, Emad Tahtouh, Celina Lin and Eric Assadourian. The rest of the field consisted of PokerStars qualifiers and the new generation of New Zealand such as Neil Stewart, Josh Eagan, Shaun Goldsbury, James Honeybone and reigning… Read more »
