2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine member Phil Ivey graces the cover of the November 2nd issue of ESPN: The Magazine. The expose, entitled "4 Days, 3 Nights, $1 Million," chronicles Ivey's jet-setting exploits at the craps tables in casinos around the world. Read more »
Day 8 of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event played out on cable station ESPN on Tuesday night. The two-hour broadcast featured future November Nine members Phil Ivey, Jeff Shulman, and Darvin Moon. Read more »
Taking down the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Festa al Lago event was poker pro Tommy Vedes, who earned $1.2 million for his efforts. Vedes, who took 19th in the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and made the final table of a $1,500 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha High-Low contest, sat down with Poker News Daily to recap his recent run. Read more »
Not only does PokerStars have some of the best promotions in the industry but they also sponsor some of the biggest live tournament series. They started out with the already famous European Poker Tour and quickly added the Asian Pacific Poker Tour and the Latin American Poker Tour. On top of all that, PokerStars has… Read more »
Absolute Poker will be hosting a Halloween Treat tournament that will have players battling to make it to the top five positions and earning their seat to the Sunday $200K. The buy-in will be $30 + $3 but there are plenty of not-so-scary satellites running around the clock at only $2.20. The Absolute Poker schedule… Read more »
Just this weekend the EPT Warsaw saw Frenchman Chistophe Benzimra win the top prize of $533K and PokerStars is already hosting satellite events to the next European Poker Tour event on schedule. This time around the tour will take poker players from around the world to the beautiful resort called Algarve in Vilamoura, Portugal. The… Read more »
Every true sports fan has watched ESPN's "SportsCenter," which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary on the air. On September 6th, Chris Berman (30 years), Bob Levy (30 years), and John Saunders (23 years), the elder statesmen of ESPN, hosted a trip down memory lane for this iconic sports recap show. Read more »
This week, the ESPN poker franchise "Inside Deal" welcomed 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine member Kevin Schaffel. New Poker Hall of Fame nominee member Mike Sexton also called into the show. Read more »
All Party Poker players wait patiently for the opportunity to play at the biggest guaranteed tournament that is hosted on the first Sunday of each month. Not all poker rooms offer such an outstanding prize pool and the opportunity to win life changing money. The best part of it all is the many ways of… Read more »
It’s almost the end of the month which means FTOPS and its $20 million in guaranteed prizes is fast approaching. But before the FTOPS XIV start there will be a unique tournament hosted that will have players fighting to make it to the money and take home a chunk of the $250K that will be… Read more »
In what has to be one of the surprise stories of this poker year, a 22 year-old part-time poker player from Oak Forest, Illinois, Dan Livingston, has become the latest champion on the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, just outside Chicago. Read more »
The World Poker Tour's (WPT) $15,000 buy-in Festa al Lago wrapped up on Monday with Tommy Vedes mounting a furious comeback heads-up against Jason "StatusUp" Lavallee. Vedes earned $1.2 million from the Bellagio poker tournament. Read more »
Ultimate Bet has thought of a promotion that will have all their players battling at their virtual felts for one of the five seats that will be on the line in a Halloween Treat $200K Giveaway tournament on Saturday October 31 at 8:30 pm. The top five players will be awarded a seat to the… Read more »
A new player under the screen name “Isildur1” has been spotted at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. Apparently he wants to gamble it up against some of the best poker players in the world. Over his first 4K hands his balance took a dive of about half a million dollars but he… Read more »
Anyone in the world of poker knows the difficulty of not only the game, but also making a living at it. On his blog at Full Contact Poker, professional player Daniel Negreanu demonstrated this reality with a thorough breakdown of statistics culled from the World Poker Tour's (WPT) website. Read more »
Poker News Daily can independently confirm that former World Poker Tour (WPT) and "Poker After Dark" hostess Shana Hiatt will not reprise her role on GSN's "High Stakes Poker." Instead, it appears that Kara Scott will be signed. Read more »
Titan Poker will be rewarding their cash players with extra cash during the second half of October. When playing at cash games all players will earn stars and in order to qualify for the extra cash prizes there has to be a minimum of stars accumulated by each player. The higher the amount of stars… Read more »
The European Poker Tour Warsaw did not have as many players as expected, but there were still plenty of experienced players and pros among the field. PokerStars pro Dario Minieri did not have one of his best performances but he entered the High Roller event and managed to win it. After that he decided to… Read more »
It was a busy weekend at the PokerStars tables again as players from all parts of the world wanted to win a percentage of the huge prize pools up for grabs. The Sunday Million’s prize pool swelled to $1,648,400 and a total of 1,260 players would leave the tournament with extra money in their PokerStars… Read more »
Season 1 of G4's "2 Months, 2 Million" came to a close last week and the result was an outburst of chatter in the poker community regarding the innovative reality show. The cast landed well short of its $2 million goal, but the majority of viewers seem to be pleased with the overall product that G4 presented. Read more »
Players logging into the popular online poker room Bodog on Sunday to play in the weekly $100,000 Guaranteed flagship tournament found the site down due to technical difficulties. Read more »
History may be in the works at the final table of the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Fiesta al Lago, as Freddy Deeb vies for his record-tying third WPT title. Deeb holds a slight chip lead over Shawn Cunix entering the six-handed televised table. Read more »
Poker players Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho posted their highest finish to date in the CBS reality series "Amazing Race." The duo arrived at the Pit Stop in second place at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Read more »
One of the major poker headlines this week was the news that Party Gaming Cofounder Anurag Dikshit would divest himself of nearly 114 million shares of the company's stock, which is traded in London under the symbol "PRTY." Now, the industry has had a chance to react. Read more »
In a unique experiment, World Poker Tour tournament staff decided to forgo multiple starting days for the Festa al Lago and instead allowed players to register any time during the first eight levels. Read more »
