Ylon Schwartz, a member of the WSOP November Nine, just finished fourth in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, cashing for $3.77 million. He talks about how he got started in poker as well as his thoughts leading up to poker's most prestigious tournament. Read more »
On Monday, online poker rooms Eurolinx and Poker Host announced that they would no longer accept new customers from the United States. As Microgaming Network sites, Eurolinx and Poker Host had previously not allowed players from 13 states in the U.S. where internet gambling is problematic. Read more »
After a 117 day layoff, the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event resumed on Sunday night. At the end of play, two men were left standing and will now compete for the $9.1 million first place prize: Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov. Read more »
With 33 players left at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, Day Four figured to either be a quick day of play in getting to the final nine players or a long grind of five levels of play. By the time play had been suspended for the evening, Full Tilt Poker pro Mike Matusow had emerged as the leader of the event with ten players left. Read more »
Recently, the Entraction Network released its financial figures for the third quarter of 2008. The numbers in Q3 2008 in comparison to the third quarter of 2007 were dramatically different, much to the delight of the company's investors and stakeholders. Read more »
The Main Event of the Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker IV (or LEOCOP IV as it's commonly referred to) begins today, serving as the culmination of one of the most successful tournament series ever held on the online poker room. Read more »
After the furious action from Friday, where nearly 160 players were eliminated, Saturday at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals did not disappoint. Many in the field wondered if Jonathan Jaffe could sustain his chip lead and drive his way to the final table. Read more »
In San Jose, Costa Rica, 20 year-old American Ryan Fee emerged victorious from a pack of 219 players to win the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) San Jose event. Players made the pilgrimage to San Jose from five continents and 33 countries around the world. Read more »
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) X started this week and has already helped generate record traffic numbers for the site as well as massive payouts for each of the first five events. The tenth edition of the series has been a huge success thus far by covering each of its guaranteed prize pools by a wide margin. Read more »
With 249 of the original 412 players left in the field at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, it looked as though they would need quite a bit of time to work down to the final table, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Read more »
The end of October marked the cessation of business for Fleet Street Games, a subscription-based online poker room. Each month, members of these sites, which are generally legal in the United States, pay a fee which allows them access to thousands of dollars in tournaments. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that poker network Microgaming may be leaving the United States market entirely, according to a reliable source that represents one of its online poker rooms. Currently, the site enforces an IP block on customers from 13 U.S. states. Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour's stop at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut for the World Poker Finals easily exceeded the Day 1A starting field and will guarantee that the champion of this event will walk away with a million dollar payday. Read more »
On Thursday, the show lineup for the CBS news program "60 Minutes" was announced. Absent from the list of three feature segments once again was an exposé on online poker. With the 2008 WSOP Main Event resuming on Sunday night, the timing could have been right for the story to air concurrently on the network. Read more »
After an article was published by the Dow Jones Newswire, word spread like wildfire through the online poker world that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had received the final regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) on October 21st. Read more »
The key to using the Independent Chip Model (ICM) is making choices that have a positive expectation over time. In Part One, we went over the calculation of a player's current chip stack as a dollar value. Now we can move forward and make decisions based on that information. Read more »
In breaking news on Thursday, the World Poker Tour announced that it had signed an agreement with FullTiltPoker.net, the educational site owned and operated by Full Tilt Poker. The online poker room will receive title sponsorship to the 26 episodes that will air on Fox Sports Net as part of the WPT's seventh season. Read more »
The World Poker Tour kicked off action on Wednesday for its seventh visit to the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut and was greeted with a smaller than usual crowd. Read more »
In an e-mail sent to its affiliates on Thursday, the Fortune Lounge Group announced that it would no longer accept new players from the United States beginning on Monday, November 10th. Instead, the Group will shift its attention to bringing in new customers from the rest of the world. Read more »
In the latest twist in the reimbursement of players at Ultimate Bet, a subsidiary of the parent company (Tokwiro) of the online poker room has won a $15 million judgment against Excapsa, a software manufacturer and former owner of the site. Read more »
On Tuesday afternoon, World Poker Tour Enterprises announced their third quarter 2008 earnings, which were significantly down overall versus the same time period of 2007. Yet both of the executives who were on the investor call on Tuesday were confident that WPT Enterprises could turn around with the repositioning of the company in the coming year. Read more »
The tenth chapter of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will get underway Wednesday evening with a $200 Six-Max No Limit Hold'em event. It is the first of 25 tournaments that make up a total guaranteed prize pool of more than $15 million. Read more »
The first every Dream Team Poker Tournament at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is sold out. When the tournament kicks off on Saturday, November 8th, there will be 25 three-person teams taking the field, including some of the biggest poker stars and Hollywood celebrities. Read more »
Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass) is one of the biggest allies of the online poker world. He's introduced several pieces of legislation favorable to the industry, including HR 2046. Frank, along with every other member of the United States House of Representatives, was up for re-election on Tuesday night. Read more »
I don't get the opportunity to play a lot of poker these days. I'm busy as a commentator with the World Poker Tour, involved with NLOP.com and Party Poker, but most importantly, I'm a new father (Ty Michael Sexton is ten weeks old!). Read more »
