In more than 2,000 hands played in the Tom "Durrrr" Dwan Million Dollar Challenge on October 27th and October 28th, Dwan earned $82,000, pushing his lead to nearly $780,000 overall after 27,185 hands. Read more »
A recent change to the tournament schedules at CEREUS Network sites Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet has online grinders rejoicing at the fact that it will now be even easier to bolt to the bathroom during a long session of online tournament play. Read more »
Earlier this decade, when poker wasn't the behemoth that it is today, a noted writer by the name of James McManus accepted a job from Harper's Magazine to cover the 2000 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Read more »
The schedule for Season 3 of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) was announced this week and headlining the list was the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, also a staple of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in 2010. Read more »
Party Poker hosts a 1 million dollar guaranteed tournament once per month and in November that special day is this upcoming Sunday, when players will have the opportunity to win life-changing money in this outstanding tournament. All Party Poker players will be able to play at the event either by qualifying through one of the… Read more »
It appears that the fight to purchase World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) is not over. In August, a subsidiary of Party Gaming put in a bid to buy the roving tournament series for $12.3 million. Now, Mandalay Entertainment has upped the ante to $35 million. Read more »
Tom “durrrr” Dwan is considered to be among the best poker players in the world, and this year has been a veritable seesaw for him. At the beginning of the year he had one of the biggest downswings in his career, which took his bankroll into red numbers for almost 4 million dollars. He managed… Read more »
Day 1A brought a larger field of players than last year – just like the tournament organization was expecting. A total of 307 players entered the tournament and the majority have busted out by now. The field has gotten tougher and the players remaining have had skill and luck on their side to survive up… Read more »
Absolute Poker will have hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line this weekend, and all of their players can participate in the different tournaments that will give them a chance to take some of that money home. Players will get to warm up and improve weaknesses in their game with today’s guaranteed tournament schedule… Read more »
On Thursday, the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies held a hearing to review proposals to expand gambling within the Commonwealth. Speaking on behalf of the online poker industry was Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Massachusetts State Director Randy Castonguay. Read more »
As part of a conference call held on Thursday, ESPN poker commentators Norman Chad and Lon McEachern previewed the conclusion of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table, set to resume on Saturday, November 7th. Read more »
PokerStars has become more involved in the live tournament scene, promoting some of the major tournaments world wide like the EPT, APPT, CSPT and of course the LAPT. Part of the huge logistics operation behind these great events is deciding where the tournament stops will be. Because coordinating such events cannot be done in a… Read more »
Many people have been discussing the relative merits of Limit Hold'em recently with regards to it being a "solved game". There is no other form of poker that relies so heavily on statistics and mathematics than Limit Hold'em. Read more »
One of the most prestigious tournaments in the world will be played this upcoming January and it will have AUS $2.5 million on the line. Some of the best poker players in the world have their calendar marked for this yearly event that has the biggest prize pool in the Australian continent. In 2009 there… Read more »
The Baltic Festival has been a success all around. The city, Tallinn is a beautiful place and the Swissotel is just a top notch place where players feel comfortable in their tobacco free environment. Day 1A ended with a few notable players busting in the late stages of the day. PokerStars player Shaun Deeb unfortunately… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Pro Phil Ivey was featured in this weeks WSOP coverage on ESPN because he is by far the player who will attract the most attention from the media as well as from the players railing the action. Like all of the ‘November Nine’, Ivey has one million dollars guaranteed in his pocket,… Read more »
2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Women's Champion Sally Anne Boyer has filed a lawsuit against Harrah's Entertainment, the WSOP Academy, and other related companies for misuse of her image for advertising purposes. Read more »
Another "High Stakes Poker" rookie has been added to the roster of players taking part in the sixth season of the popular GSN show. Full Tilt Red Pro Andrew Feldman will be joining the lineup and is making history as the first British player to ever appear on the cash game franchise. Read more »
Today, Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) released a study by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) revealing that up to $41 billion could be generated by regulating and taxing the internet gambling industry over a 10-year period. Read more »
Returning in November on PartyPoker, the world's fourth largest online poker site, is the popular Gladiator promotion. At stake are entries into the 2010 Aussie Millions worth AUD $10,500. Read more »
Ultimate Bet has a total of $326K spread out in the different guaranteed tournaments through the day, including the largest guaranteed tournament on the internet. The first guarantees start at noon but the action gets interesting at 7 pm when a $55 $15K tournament with re-buys will have players fighting for their way into the… Read more »
A popular name at the Full Tilt high stakes tables is Ilari “Ziggmund” Sahamies, who has measured-up against some of the best poker players in the world and has demonstrated that he definitely has the skill to play against them. Ziggmund showed what he is capable of recently at Full Tilt where he ran over… Read more »
The beautiful city of Tallinn is the location for the Baltic Festival which has brought around 300 players to battle it out in hopes of leaving this gorgeous city with a fat check in their pocket. Day one A kicks off today with 130 players and play will stop when there’s probably 60 players left. … Read more »
Resuming on November 7th will be the final table of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. ESPN has 24 hours to edit the finale for airing and on the scene will be Coordinating Producer Jamie Horowitz, who sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss the network's preparations. Read more »
Online poker room PKR recently revamped its entire multi-table tournament (MTT) schedule to allow for more variety, more events with larger guarantees, better Omaha tournament selection, and a greater number of satellites so that players with a wide range of bankrolls can get in on the action. Read more »
