Red Rock Harley-Davidson is set to unveil its brand new Las Vegas store by celebrating with a three-day festival from November 7-9. The event, called "Rock Hard, Ride Harder", will raise funds for the Nevada Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Read more »
The man who patented the "Hole Card Cam" will be enshrined in the Poker Hall of Fame in November. Entrepreneur and World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Henry Orenstein will be honored during the WSOP Main Event final table on November 9th at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Read more »
After starting the day with the chip lead, 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event final table participant Hevad "Rain" Khan had to survive a significant deficit during heads-up action at the final table before emerging as the champion of the 2008 Caesars Palace Classic early Friday morning. Read more »
On September 29th, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) filed an appeal with the Third Circuit Court in a case to declare the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) unconstitutional. This week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed its response with the Court. Read more »
Recently, cable station GSN announced that it had decided to move poker-related programming to Sunday nights. The network is the home of popular cash game show "High Stakes Poker" and holds the rights to the sixth season of the World Poker Tour. Read more »
The Independent Chip Model (ICM) is a game theory application that has become essential in sit-and-gos. It is best defined as a way to calculate your equity in relation to the prize pool based on the stack sizes of the remaining players in the tournament. Simply put, ICM is a way of analyzing how much your current chip stack is worth as a dollar value. Read more »
On October 27th, one man made history at Foxwoods, the site of the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals. In the days leading up to the WPT's televised championship event, a series of preliminary tournaments have been held. Winning a preliminary tournament three years in a row by taking another one down in 2008 was Poker News Daily contributor Bernard Lee. Read more »
The 2008 Caesars Palace Classic steamed full speed ahead on Wednesday and, by the end of the night, a familiar face was sitting atop the leader board. When play begins at 2:00pm Pacific Time this afternoon, the remaining 19 players will play down to the champion. Read more »
During the broadcast of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event on ESPN, two incidents have stood out above the rest as potentially breaching what is considered acceptable behavior by players in poker tournaments. Read more »
The Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker IV (LEOCOP IV) held the fourth tournament on its docket on Wednesday, which was a $22 buy-in Beat the Team event with $10,000 added. The goal was to knock out Ladbrokes-sponsored pros in the field in order to capture a rich prize placed on each person's head. Read more »
When the final nine players return for the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event on November 9th, they won't be headed to the Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino. Instead, the action will move to the Penn and Teller Theater inside the hotel, where the final table participants will quite literally take center stage to determine a winner. Read more »
Ylon Schwartz is a member of the World Series of Poker November Nine, the players at the Main Event final table. He is passionate about the fact that the conclusion of the tournament should not have been postponed and now finds himself in the middle of the fray, holding the fifth largest chip stack when play resumes. Read more »
While you can learn the game of poker by playing online for free, no cost poker seminars held in casinos to teach new students about poker are often unheard of. The world's largest card room, Los Angeles' own Commerce Casino, is looking to change that notion. Read more »
After a successful debut in 2007, the Second Annual Caesars Palace Classic, which started on Tuesday, surprised everyone by drawing a huge field which surpassed expectations. The poker tournament drew in 311 players, an increase of 24, or 8%, from last year. Read more »
The second running of the Winter Bayou Poker Challenge at Harrah's New Orleans is shaping up to be bigger than ever. This time around, the tournament series boasts 15 events in total, up from 10 during the 2007 installment. Read more »
Fresh on the heels of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear seizing and pursuing the forfeiture of 141 internet gambling domain names in the United States, the buzz in Australia surrounds a plan to ban pornography and internet gambling sites from being accessed by residents of that country. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that the three judge Appeals Court panel in the case involving the seizure and forfeiture of 141 internet gambling domain names will convene for the first time on November 18th, according to Interactive Gaming Council (IGC) attorneys. Read more »
The Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker (LEOCOP) kicked off over the weekend, the fourth time that the tournament series has been held. This time around, it boasts $500,000 in money added to the prize pools of 16 tournaments, culminating in a $250,000 added Main Event on November 9th which has a $1,100 buy-in. Read more »
When play resumes in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table, Darus Suharto will be sixth in chips. He is the self-proclaimed amateur at the table and has had his life turned upside-down ever since the tournament wrapped up play in July. Read more »
One of the most common lines I heard uttered by players, almost exclusively amateurs, was, "I'm folding everything until I make the money. Even pocket Aces." Most people who say this are not serious, but every year, without fail, I hear about someone who actually did fold Aces pre-flop and showed them to the table to prove it. The question that inevitably comes up after something like this is, "Is it ever reasonable to fold pocket Aces pre-flop?" Read more »
Professor I. Nelson Rose is one of the leading legal minds in the internet gambling industry. He has over 1,000 published works and has testified in gambling-related cases around the United States and around the world. He gave Poker News Daily his thoughts on the events unfolding in Kentucky. Read more »
On Tuesday, the World Series of Poker Main Event will air two one-hour episodes at 9:00pm ET and 10:00pm ET. The field of the final 27 players will take to the felts inside of the Rio in Las Vegas. Players left in the field may shatter a bevy of milestones, making every episode a truly entertaining affair. Read more »
For the first time ever in its five year history, the European Poker Tour (EPT) is entering into Budapest, Hungary, for a slate of tournaments starting on Tuesday. Read more »
While neither the Chicago Cubs nor White Sox were able to reach baseball's Fall Classic, there is still plenty of World Series action that the denizens of the Second City can get into. For the first time ever, the World Series of Poker Circuit continues its 2008-09 season with a stop near Chicago at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. Read more »
Bertrand Grospellier, who is known in the online poker world as "Elky," controlled the final table of the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago event, eliminating every person and holding more than a 15:1 chip lead when play was heads-up. Read more »
