Full Tilt Poker guarantees $19 million in prizes this month during their FTOPS XIII Tournament Series. Remember that the FTOPS events will end this Sunday, don’t miss out on the chance to win hundreds of thousands of dollars plus exclusive merchandise from Full Tilt Poker. Here is a list of results for the FTOPS events… Read more »
Month: August 2009
Face The Ace Finishes Last in Timeslot for Second Straight Week
After premiering to last place ratings last week, the new NBC poker show "Face The Ace" failed to increase viewers in its second run over the weekend, again finishing last in its timeslot on Saturday night. Read more »
Lock Poker Signs Nine Players, Promotes Eric Lynch to VP
Officials at the Cake Poker Network room Lock Poker have made a splash in the last week, signing nine of the game's top players. In addition, Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Eric Lynch (Rizen) has become the site's Vice President of Product Development. Read more »
Poker in the Park Features Jamie Gold Charity Tournament
At 7:30pm local time on Thursday, 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Jamie Gold and 2008 winner Peter Eastgate will host a 50 player charity poker tournament benefiting the Jamie Gold Foundation. The event is one of many that will take place as part of London's Poker in the Park. Read more »
Emil Patel Reveals 2 Months, $2 Million Strategy
Among those who will compete on G4's new online poker show "2 Months, $2 Million" is Emil "Whitelime" Patel, who will join forces with three other players to earn $2 million collectively in just two months. Poker News Daily caught up with Patel in the days leading up to the premiere on Sunday, August 16th at 9:00pm ET. Read more »
Asian Poker Tour Invites U.S. Swimmer Michael Phelps to 2009 Event
For the second straight year, record-breaking U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has been invited to play in the Asian Poker Tour's (APT) Macau event. The festivities run from August 12th to 23rd at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino. Read more »
Face the Ace: Don Topel Loses $1 Million Match
Full Tilt Poker pro Gavin Smith was the executioner of "Face the Ace" contestant Don Topel on Saturday night in the $1 million match; Topel walked away with nothing. The NBC poker show returns on September 12th. Read more »
CelebPoker Moves to iPoker Network
On August 12th, CelebPoker will move from Boss Media's International Poker Network to Playtech's iPoker Network, the third largest worldwide and the largest that does not accept players from the United States. Read more »
PokerListings Founder Andreas Oscarsson Murdered in Sweden
PokerListings founder Andreas Oscarsson was shot to death in Sweden on August 3rd, according to a post that appeared on the popular news site. He was not involved in the day-to-day duties of the site when he was murdered, but rather served as an advisor to the industry staple. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Tournament Results
Full Tilt Poker offers one of the largest selections in online tournaments every day, with prize pools ranging from $5000 to $75,000 guaranteed every day. Here are the results for the guaranteed tournaments held yesterday after 2pm at Full Tilt Poker: Read more »
PokerStars Awarding seats to the EPT Kiev
PokerStars is awarding seats to the EPT Kiev Sports Poker Championship, giving players a chance to share a table with some of the best poker players from around the world. Below are the results for the guaranteed tournaments that took place yesterday in the afternoon and at night at PokerStars: Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Starts Strong with FTOPS XIII
Full Tilt Pokers thirteenth installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series got underway this week with a number of daily tournaments with juicy prize pools. The series officially began Wednesday night with a $216 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Tournament with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Despite it being the middle of the week,… Read more »
Johnny Chan Says “Poker King” Could Be Next “Rounders”
As preparations continue at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau for the Asian Poker Tour Festival Macau (which starts next Tuesday), players are beginning to flood the Chinese territory. Read more »
Pitbull Poker Issues Statement on Cheating Allegations
Over the last few weeks, users on the TwoPlusTwo forums have been buzzing about allegations against the small flash-based poker room Pitbull Poker. Users from TwoPlusTwo accuse Pitbull Poker of "stack shaving," superusers, and security holes. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Tournament News
Full Tilt Poker offers a unique tournament today with a guaranteed price pool of $75,000. The regular buy-in is $500+$35, but you can earn your seat by winning a Satellite event for as little as $24 + $2. Tournament will start at 9pm ET. Here are the results for the tournaments held yesterday in the… Read more »
PokerStars Tournament Recap for August 6, 2009 – 1st half of the day
PokerStars offers great tournaments every day of the week, but the weekends are special at PokerStars. On Sundays, PokerStars hosts the Sunday Million with $1.5 million guaranteed and at 12:45pm ET the Sunday Warm-Up takes place with a guaranteed prize pool of $750,000. Here’s the list of results for the first half of the day… Read more »
PokerStars Overrun by a “Rook”
Accomplished online poker player Jeff “ICuRaRook” Sluzinski has left his mark on PokerStars this week with a phenomenal hot streak in their multi table tournaments that includes back to back wins in the Nightly Hundred Grand and Wednesday Quarter Million. Many players will only dream about having the kind of run that Jeff Sluzinski has… Read more »
WSOP on ESPN Ratings Down 8% After Two Weeks
Poker News Daily has learned that ESPN's coverage of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has experienced an 8% dip in television ratings through two weeks to 0.72. Last year, the mark was 0.78. Read more »
Jim Tabilio Leaves Poker Voters of America
With the organization growing leaps and bounds, Jim Tabilio has left his post after founding the Poker Voters of America, an advocacy group that promotes protection of online poker players in California and around the United States. Read more »
Titan Poker Tournaments Results for August 6, 2009
Titan Poker belongs to the iPoker network, which currently stands as the third biggest network in the online poker room industry. The only downside to Titan Poker is that it cannot take action from US customers. Considering their great promotions and tournaments, it’s a shame that their traffic can’t increase with US traffic. Titan Poker’s… Read more »
PokerStars Tournament Recap – Tournaments from August 5, 2009 Part II
Some of the biggest prize pools are up for grabs in the late hours at the PokerStars tournament lobby. Here's a list of the biggest guaranteed tournaments held yesterday at PokerStars: Read more »
Full Tilt Poker and 16 Million Reasons to Play Poker
The FTOPS XIII started yesterday, but it’s not late to get in on the action. Full Tilt Poker offers great prizes, and there are many satellite tournaments that will guarantee you a seat at many of the FTOPS events for a fraction of the costs. Each event will be hosted by a Full Tilt Poker… Read more »
Absolute Poker Action on August 6, 2009
The high stakes tables at Absolute Poker have no action going on: there are a few players seated at several $100/$200NL Limit tables but it seems like they respect each other too much to actually face each other. On the other hand the low-mid stakes tables have 16 completely full tables, and an average of… Read more »
Online Poker Payment Processor Indicted in New York
Douglas Rennick, who worked with the internet gaming payment processors KJB Financial Corporation, Account Services, My ATM Online, Alenis Limited, and Check Payment Financial, has been indicted on bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling charges. Read more »
PokerStars Tournament Recap from August 5, 2009 Part I
It was a busy Wednesday at the PokerStars tournament lobby, with thousands of players registered at the biggest prize pool tournaments. Here's a list of the results for the afternoon tournaments: Read more »