In my last column, I talked about my 2006 WSOP, in particular the Pot Limit Hold'em event. I covered a lot of the early tournament play that brought me up beyond my starting stack and got me cruising through to the middle stages of the tournament. Check out my recap of the 2006 WSOP Main Event. Read more »
On Tuesday night, cable station ESPN featured action from the Ante Up for Africa charity tournament held during the 2009 World Series of Poker. The final table aired for just 30 minutes in a unique telecast. Read more »
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is a Team PokerStars Pro with an extremely accomplished poker resume. Before getting into poker, "ElkY" was one of the top Starcraft players in the world, with multiple Top 5 finishes in the World Cyber Games, and a victory in the Euro Cyber Games of 2003. Once he turned his attention to cards, Grospellier had immediate success, finishing 2nd in the 2007 EPT Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen for $400K. Read more »
This week's edition of the ESPN poker show "Inside Deal," which airs on ESPN.com, featured 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine member Dennis Phillips and a revealing phone conversation with WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. Read more »
It is tough being a beautiful woman in a man’s sport; many women have tried to pursue professional poker but few have succeeded. UltimateBet’s new professional, Liv Boeree, is one of the few to make it, establishing herself as an important figure in the poker community. She broke on to the tournament poker scene when… Read more »
Absolute Poker offers a $30K guaranteed prize pool tournament with the bounty format to all their players today. The buy-in is $120 + $10 for one of the most popular tournaments at Absolute Poker. Players will be paid $10 for every player they take out of the tournament. This bounty format is mainly used at… Read more »
Jeffrey Lisandro, known as one of the best Seven Card Stud players in the world, proved he is just that at the 2009 World Series of Poker by being the first person to ever win all three Stud events in the same year. Lisandro bagged $125K in the $1500 Stud event, $431K in the $10K Seven Card Stud 8 or Better, and $188K in the $2500 Razz event for a total of over $740K in '09 WSOP earnings. For his amazing feat Jeffrey Lisandro received the '09 WSOP Player of the Year award.j Read more »
Vanessa Rousso is a member of Team PokerStars, and no doubt one of the best female poker players in the game today. Rousso – who's been ahead of the learning curve her whole life – graduated with an economics major from Duke University after just two and a half years, and then moved on to Law School at The University of Miami. During Law School, Vanessa was a member of the editorial board of the University of Miami Law Review, and was also in the top 5% of her class. Despite the accolades, Rousso didn't finish Law Scool, instead deciding to shift her focus to poker. Read more »
Phil Galfond, known as “OMGClayAiken” and “Jman” online, is a nose-bleed stakes cash game expert who also occasionally plays the juiciest tournaments, on both the real and cyber felt. Galfond’s biggest live accomplishment to date is his victory in the 2008 WSOP $5000 Pot-Limit Omaha Rebuy event, which earned him $818K. Perhaps more impressive than… Read more »
J.C. Tran is a tournament poker phenom who hails from Sacramento, California. Tran's biggest accomplishments include two World Series of Poker bracelets, a WCOOP Main Event victory, and five WPT final tables. His biggest cash is actually a 2nd place finish in the 2007 L.A. Poker Classic for $1.1 million, but he would later claim victory and $683K in the World Poker Challenge that same year. Read more »
Brock "tsoprano" Parker, is a long time online tournament grinder who exploded in 2009 by winning two WSOP bracelets, mere days apart. After getting a taste of World Series final table glory in 2008 – a 6th place in a Limit Hold'em event – Parker decided that what he really wanted was that bracelet, maybe even two. And so, four days after winning the $2500 Limit Hold'em six handed event for $224K, Parker shipped the $2500 No-Limit six handed event for $552K. Read more »
In breaking news out of the Southern District of New York, Judge Laura Swain has sided with Costigan Media, the parent company of Gambling911, and ordered the warrants and affidavits associated with the seizure of over $30 million in funds destined for online poker players to be unsealed. Read more »
Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko is, quite simply, a master of the big score. Of his 9 live cashes, Timoshenko has five over $100K, including a massive $2.1 million payday for winning the 2009 Five-Star World Poker Classic. Read more »
PokerStars has managed to be the biggest poker room in the world and they strive to keep growing and keep their status by being always on the spot light. This time around they got a sponsorship deal with ESPN for a new show that will be broadcast today for the second time. It seems like… Read more »
Party Poker is building their poker team and they want VIPs and loyal customer to be the main part of it. Their team started with Mike Sexton and it’s now branching out. Party Poker announced a sponsorship deal with Ian Frazer which has been playing on their site for several years and has some titles… Read more »
Jamie Gold is the winner of the largest cash prize for a televised sports event - $12 million for the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event. After outlasting 8,772 players over the course of eleven grueling days, Gold instantly became a poker-star and one of the many faces of the game. Having been taught poker at a very young age by his grandfather, winning the WSOP was somewhat of a life-long dream for Jami Gold, who had a mere $100K in cashes before making the gargantuan score. Read more »
Justin Bonomo, or "ZeeJustin" to the online world, is not just a rising poker-star, but rather one of the brightest and most analytical players the game has ever seen, period. Born September 30, 1985 in Virginia, Justin got his competitive start at the tender age of 9 by thrusting himself headlong into the world of Magic: The Gathering. Magic being a card game which requires a great deal of skill and strategy to be successful, it's no shock that Bonomo eventually made the transition over to poker. Read more »
At the 2+2 forums a user by the name of "Chesterboy" started a thread that quickly gained a large following accusing the site of foul play. Among the things alleged against Pitbull Poker were superuser access amongst certain players and "stack shaving," where money disappeared off the table without explanation. Read more »
Judge Laura Swain handed down a ruling in the Costigan Media online poker case on Tuesday, although its contents had not yet been released. Her decision may have been influenced by the indictment of Douglas Rennick by the Southern District of New York. Read more »
District Court Judge James Hartmann recently ruled that the testimony of University of Denver Statistics Professor Robert Hannum proving that poker is a game of skill should not have been allowed in a case involving Kevin Raley in Colorado. Read more »
PokerStars is the proud sponsor of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour, a new poker tournament series that brought 1,309 players to the felts and awarded $2,982,436 AUD in prizes. The tour visited 5 cities: Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Queenstown and Queensland. The event winners were the following: • ANZPT Adelaide – Karl Kratschneider – AUD… Read more »
Titan Poker will be the proud sponsor of the ECPokerTour Malta 2009. The event will take place at the luxurious Casino di Venezia from November 13th-15th on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta. Like most of the major tournaments world wide the ECPokerTour Malta will have Super Satellites that will award seats to the event.… Read more »
PokerStars is one of the largest online poker rooms, and subsequently hosts some of the largest tournaments on the internet. Here are the results for the biggest tournaments they hosted on Sunday: Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has thousands of dollars in guaranteed tournaments each weekend; here are the results for the biggest tournaments they hosted on Sunday: Read more »
Antoine Saout, who recently earned a seat as a member of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine, has signed a deal to join Team Everest Poker. Read more »
