The Ultimate Bet ‘Raise’ benefit program was changed recently and they have better rewards for all their players. The new features include an improved Ultimate Shopping store where players can exchange their Ultimate Points for electronics, Ultimate Bet gear, and other goodies. The Raise program has several levels, which are dictated by the amount of… Read more »
With the news that A.J. Benza will not be returning for Season 6 of GSN's "High Stakes Poker," gossip waves have hit the poker community about who the next host of the highly popular cash game program will be. Read more »
In level six on day 1B the Australian Pro Tony Hachem announced that he was all-in when the board was Kd-10d-2d-Ks-Qd. There were no callers but Tony showed his royal flush anyway. Unfortunately, the best hand in poker went to waste as nobody else wanted to push their chips into the middle of the table.… Read more »
The first episode of PokerStars’ Million Dollar Challenge featured the unlikeliest of faces as Catholic Priest Andrew Trapp hit the felt in search of a million dollars. Trapp’s first opponent, NBA star John Salley, didn’t put up much of a fight versus the Daniel Negreanu-coached priest. Daniel had an accurate read on the priests’ opponent… Read more »
Fresh off the third tournament in its history, which took place at the Rio during the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, Dream Team Poker announced a Monday Night Football promotion at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Read more »
A recent announcement from the London-based online gaming company Ladbrokes revealed that it is continuing to struggle during the global recession. The numbers in the statement indicate that overall revenue for Ladbrokes was down 15% from the same period in 2008. Read more »
In a recent blog entry that appeared on DoylesRoom.com, site namesake Doyle Brunson blasted two poker franchises to hit television airwaves in recent months: NBC's "Face the Ace" and FOX's "PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge." Read more »
In this week’s installment of the G4 online poker reality show “2 Months, $2 Million,” a high-stakes home game featuring David Williams, David “Viffer” Peat, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, and Andrew “good2cu” Robl took center stage. The “2 Months, $2 Million” cast entered the week up $507,000 on the season with two episodes remaining. Jay Rosenkrantz,… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has created a tournament that will have players battling to reach the money and win a chunk of the massive $250K in a tournament called The FTOPS XIV Warm Up that will be held on November 1st. The winner of the event will also win a $535 seat to the FTOPS XIV… Read more »
Ultimate Bet pro Tiffany Michelle one of the new contestants at the Amazing Race, and she will be traveling around the world for upcoming episodes. Players can now follow the show and win cash prizes and best part of it all, it’s all free. There will be daily freeroll qualifiers that will award seats to… Read more »
Cake Poker will be giving all their players the chance to play in the European Poker Tour event in Prague and have recently announced a series of tournaments that will award seats to the live tournament. Season six of the EPT will have players making a stop at Prague. In the event last year there… Read more »
Poker News Daily can confirm that Team PokerStars Pro member Vanessa Rousso will not be the next co-host of GSN's "High Stakes Poker." The revelation comes on the heels of the news that longtime host A.J. Benza will not return for Season 6. Read more »
Team PokerStars Pro's Hevad "RaiNKhaN" Khan's ride through the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event sparked controversy around the industry. "The Bulldozer" and other dances became staples of the poker world and brought about the aptly-named "Hevad Khan Rule" addressing excessive celebrations. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker pro Patrik Antonius is considered one of the best poker players in the world and he prefers to play cash games because he can win more money in a shorter time period. But even though he does not play in many live tournaments, he is considered a successful player in tournaments and… Read more »
PokerStars sponsored player Lee “Final Table” Nelson warned the entire day 1A field that they should stay out of his way. Unfortunately for Lee, things didn’t go as planned as on just on his second hand in the tournament all the chips were pushed in on a board that ran Q-4-5-7-4. Lee held pocket sevens… Read more »
Legendary poker player Doyle Brunson will be feted yet again on Friday night, but not for any of his performances over his 50-plus year career in the game of poker. Read more »
Sportingbet, the parent company of online poker room Paradise Poker, saw growth in net revenue, earnings, money wagered, and profit thanks in part to a focus on emerging online gambling markets. Read more »
This week on the ESPN.com poker show "Inside Deal," Team PokerStars Pro member Hevad Khan relived some of his memorable antics from the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and gave his take on this year's November Nine. Read more »
Two original November Nine members, Dennis Phillips and 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate, took center stage on ESPN on Tuesday night. Play from Day 6 of the 2009 Main Event wrapped up from the Rio in Las Vegas. Read more »
Titan Poker is awarding packages to the Irish Winter Festival that will run from October 24th-26th. The Festival will take place in the City West Hotel in Ireland. Each package will include the $2,300 main event buy-in, four night accommodations at the City West Hotel worth about $500, $1025 for traveling expenses and some additional… Read more »
The Asian Pacific Poker tour has made its scheduled stop in Auckland and the festivities will run from October 10th and extend until October 18th. The tour is hosted at the Skycity Casino in New Zealand. The main event will start tomorrow – the buy-in is $3,250. Other tournaments that stand out are a ladies… Read more »
The Party Poker Open V got underway, but not before some controversy surrounding Luke “FullFlush1” Schwartz, who he recently got into some trouble at a London casino after grabbing a sandwich and refusing to pay for it. Luke was initially banned from the casino, but after some negotiating he was able to play on the… Read more »
At a time in the online gaming industry when internet casinos and online poker rooms are shutting their doors to American players, one site has gone the opposite route and started to accept players from around the world. Read more »
The durrrr Challenge railbirds could be disappointed since durrrr and Patrick played against each other but their session was not at the official challenge tables. They played over 170 hands and their session lasted around 30 minutes. Patrik was ahead at the end and ended with a profit that was more or less $115K. The… Read more »
We're eight episodes through the G4 online poker reality series "2 Months, $2 Million" and the cast is $507,000 in the black. Among those who made waves in last week's episode was Jay Rosenkrantz, who sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss his heads-up match against David "Viffer" Peat and the show in general. Read more »
