Poker News Daily: You're second in chips to Darvin Moon heading into the final table of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Would you have rather played down to a winner in July instead of waiting until November? Read more »
Ultimate Bet’s Blog Tournament has proven a great success over the last 7 months, rallying up to 2000 players for the blogger-only freeroll. This has prompted Ultimate Bet to increase the prize pool to $1,000 and run a special edition: the Delicious Blog Freeroll. Delicious is a well known social bookmarking site that allows users… Read more »
After changes in their country's online gaming laws went into effect on Monday, Italian poker players woke up to find that they could not play on the international version of PokerStars, leaving many in a state of confusion as to what forced this change. Read more »
The motion by Costigan Media to unseal the warrants and affidavits associated with the seizure of over $30 million in online poker funds may be ruled on next week. Lawyers for the parent company of Gambling911 and the U.S. Government took to a New York courtroom on Monday. Read more »
The Bodog Mini Poker Series ended last week, and as a result there is already one player on his way to next year’s WSOP Main Event. Many players entered the 13 Mini Poker Series events, placed in the Semifinal Tournament or got a seat by being in the top ten of the Series’ Tournament Leaderboard.… Read more »
Though they may not be playing for a share of $9,000,000, the 9 finalists of Everest Poker’s Anniversary $500,000 Guaranteed Tournament will play in the same table where the November Nine are battling it out later this year. Everest Poker will offer a stepladder of qualifiers in August and September so players can pay or… Read more »
Tonight marks the return of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN. At 8:00pm ET, the network will air the $40,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em tournament commemorating the 40th running of the WSOP. Read more »
Joe Cada, the youngest member of this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event “November 9” continued his incredible month this past Sunday while reaching the final table of UltimateBet‘s $500 buy-in $100K Guaranteed tournament. While his 5th place finish at the final table yesterday was not much in comparison to the over $1.2 million… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker experienced another successful Sunday as all of their major ‘Guaranteed’ tournaments far exceeded expectations. The flagship Sunday tournament, the 6:00pm EST $750K guaranteed boasted the largest prize pool it has seen all summer, with 4,401 players putting up the $200+$16 entry fee in hopes of taking home the $155,434 first prize. Full… Read more »
The 2009 WSOP will certainly be remembered for dominating performances by Jeffrey Lisandro and Phil Ivey. While those two superstars took the poker world by storm, Poker News Daily was at the Rio all summer to catch some of the other memorable stories from the world's largest poker event. Read more »
Playing under the name Wu_Wizard, Kevin MacPhee (known as ImaLuckSac on PokerStars) was able to maneuver through the field of 487 players that entered the tournament to ultimately claim the $25,000 top prize; his second Bodog $100K victory this month. Read more »
Matt "ch0ppy" Kay claimed his second win in a PokerStars Million Dollar Guaranteed tournament this past Sunday by taking first place in the monthly PokerStars Turbo Takedown. Read more »
A hearing involving the seizure of $14 million in online poker players' funds from payment processor Account Services will take place on Friday, August 21st at 1:30pm. The location: the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Read more »
Poker News Daily can confirm that Ultimate Bet Star Player Tiffany Michelle will compete on the upcoming season of the CBS reality series "Amazing Race," according to anonymous sources inside the industry. The show debuts on September 27th at 8:00pm ET following "60 Minutes." Michelle's partner, according to Bluff Magazine and various television news outfits, is Maria Ho. Read more »
National Poker Week attracted 33 State Directors from the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) plus a throng of the game's elite to Washington, DC. In the end, over 100 meetings were held on Capitol Hill. Poker News Daily was on-hand for the festivities and reviews several of the surprises of National Poker Week. Read more »
At the recent Poker Players Alliance (PPA) charity tournament benefiting the USO of Metropolitan Washington, talk show host Montel Williams was among those in attendance. A former chip leader of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in years past, Williams has a wealth of poker experience under his belt on the world's biggest stage. Read more »
In online poker's version of Iron Chef, Face the Ace will premier on NBC on August 1st. The show will air in the 9:00pm to 10:00pm ET time slot and is hosted by The Sopranos' Steve Schirripa. It features pros from Full Tilt Poker. Read more »
On Monday, Costigan Media, the parent company of Gambling911, will present its case as part of a hearing to determine whether the warrants and affidavits used to seize over $30 million in online poker player funds should be unsealed. Read more »
Just like the WSOP has a popular Media Event every year, Bodog is hosting its own version by inviting all poker bloggers to apply for an entry into the Bodog Poker Blogger tournament. The tournament is open to any poker bloggers or owners of legitimate gaming or sports-related blogs, and the dates for the event… Read more »
Just before heading to the nation's capital for National Poker Week, representatives of the 1.2 million member strong Poker Players Alliance (PPA) were hard at work drafting a motion to file an amicus brief for the lawsuit by Account Services to recoup $13 million in online poker player funds. Read more »
Titan Poker and the EC Poker Tour reach the Mediterranean island of Malta for a few days of luxury and poker, and Titan Poker is sending players out to enjoy this experience and have a shot at the big money. The EC Poker Tour Championship event will take place at the luxurious five-star Casino di… Read more »
Cake Poker is giving out large guaranteed prizes this weekend: from $15,000 today through $250,000 tomorrow and up to $1,000,000 to be won at the English Poker Open. Today at 3pm ET the $15,000 Guaranteed Bounty tournament will take place, with a buy-in of only $55. This is an unusual tournament because every player has… Read more »
PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, has unveiled the Americas Cup of Poker, bringing players from 13 countries in the Western Hemisphere together to do battle. Up for grabs is a $250,000 prize pool. Read more »
Ultimate Bet has enhanced its software with two main improvements: the use of “username” instead of “nickname” and an improved and more secure P2P transfer system. Users who got confused with the difference between “username” and “nickname” are bound to have an easier time now: the word nickname has been completely discontinued at UB, so… Read more »
In breaking news from PokerStars, the inaugural European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Moscow, Russia has been canceled. In its place, the EPT will travel to Kiev, Ukraine for a €5,000 buy-in tournament on August 18th, the beginning of EPT Season 6. Read more »
