The final six players have been determined in the Season VII World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship. The Bellagio in Las Vegas will play host to the featured table today at 4:00pm Pacific Time, with Yevgeniy "atimos" Timoshenko holding a commanding chip lead. Read more »
The finale of the Bluff Online Poker Challenge saw Brian "SNo0oWMAN" Hawkins dominate the competition. He turned a $200 bankroll into $25,0000 in just one month, $20,000 more than the next closest finisher on the leader board. Poker News Daily sat down with Bluff Magazine Editor in Chief Matt Parvis to get his reaction. Read more »
Poker News Daily: You finished as the runner up to Ryan Daut in the 2007 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Critique Daut's play during that tournament. Haxton: I thought he played really well. Going into the final table having played against all of those guys, he was the one who I knew the least about and was the least concerned with. Read more »
There ain't no mountain high enough to keep Mike "timex" McDonald from becoming the newest Full Tilt Poker Red Pro. For the youngster from Canada, it's another accomplishment in what has already been a highly successful tournament poker career. Read more »
We all know what the point of playing poker is. To make money. Well, considering it is a game, the point is also to have fun, but you don't need to learn strategies about having fun now, do you? You want to make money playing poker. Read more »
Friday marks the all-important play down day in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship. Tenth place will pocket $98,000, while the winner of the finale of Season VII will see their bank account rise by $2.1 million. In the chip lead entering the critical day of play is Scotty Nguyen. Read more »
There are many options for poker players to get some extra training in prior to the start of the WSOP at the end of May. For players on the East Coast, the Borgata Casino and Spa is the place to be, as the gambling Mecca will be offering a $500,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack Tournament that should draw huge numbers. Read more »
Recently, Dusty "Leatherass" Schmidt outlined a high-stakes $1 million prop bet that pairs golf with poker. The competition consists of 72 holes of golf plus 10 heads-up poker matches. PokerNewsDaily.com sat down to talk with the young poker prodigy, who is also an instructor at the popular poker training site StoxPoker. Read more »
Amid demand in the online gaming industry, it has taken years for online poker rooms and casinos such as Bodog to hear the demands of customers and develop software applications for mobile platforms. Read more »
Sitting with the sixth largest chip stack entering Day 5 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship on Thursday is none other than the winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $50,000 HORSE Championship, Scotty Nguyen. Read more »
A new research study gathered by Harvard Medical School's Addictions Department and European gambling group bwin has reported that gambling addiction has remained virtually static over the past few decades despite the major increases in online betting. Read more »
The turning point of Season 2 of Fox Sports Net's "Best Damn Poker Show" was the abrupt departure of contestant Scott Clark. Patrick Karst, a member of Team Annie Duke, ultimately won the series, which was in its second season. Clark sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss his experience and quitting the show. Read more »
This week on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice, comedian Joan Rivers compared World Series of Poker bracelet winner Annie Duke to Hitler. It's a comment that has not sat well with one of the top female players in the game. Duke sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss her reaction. Read more »
At the beginning of Day 2 of the ongoing World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship, a moment of silence was held for PokerRoad producer and poker player Justin Shronk, who passed away tragically last weekend at age 27. Read more »
Although the age-old game typically takes center stage on GSN's "High Stakes Poker," a prop bet between Antonio Esfandiari and "The Notebook" director Nick Cassavetes stole the televised cash game show this week. Read more »
On Monday, the second day of play in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship played out at the Bellagio. Sitting with the second largest chip stack when the action concluded was a familiar name in the live poker world: Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier. Read more »
The World Poker Congress has announced the dates for its 2009 meeting and revealed some of the prominent members of the poker community who will speak during the event. Read more »
In a recent article by the Associated Press, it was revealed that the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the major lobbying force for the poker industry, plans to spend $3 million for lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill during the current Congressional session. Read more »
The second of two starting days in the seventh annual World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship played out on Sunday. When the smoke cleared, just 337 players had entered, a drop of 38% from last year's tally of 545. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker? King: I originally started playing after watching the Main Event run by Chris Moneymaker in 2003. It got me interested in poker. Read more »
This week marked a brand new chapter of the rift between World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Annie Duke and comedian Joan Rivers. The two hour show, which airs on NBC at 9:00pm ET on Sunday nights, was highlighted by Rivers comparing Duke to Hitler. Read more »
In last month's column, I discussed strategies for the Bluff Poker Challenge. As of the end of March, anyone who wants to win has to go for broke and just play all of the biggest MTTs they can afford, hoping for a couple of sizable scores. I want to discuss some of the things I had working for and against me when I started the Challenge that factored into my overall decision-making process. Read more »
Vadim Trincher won his way into the WPT Championship by virtue of winning the Foxwoods Poker Classic earlier this month. He banked $731,000 in the tournament as well as a $25,000 seat into the end-of-season Championship, which kicked off on Saturday from the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Read more »
The Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) saw its budget boosted by $130,000 as a result of a fundraiser spearheaded by Jennifer Harman. Over 120 players turned out for the tournament, which took place at the Venetian on Friday night. Read more »
As part of the schedule at its year-end championship, the PokerStars-sponsored European Poker Tour will host a charity tournament to benefit Ante Up For Africa. Read more »
