Poker players around the world have made the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure a regular stop in their live tournament schedules. Spending two weeks at the beautiful island of the Bahamas at the beginning of the year in something that most people will gladly do, and even more if they have the a chance to win millions… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has an innovative promotion that will have college students playing for a $30K prize pool. The tournament will be divided into two parts, one will be online and the wrap-up of the event will take place in Los Angeles. The online main event will be held on November 30th at 8:30 pm. The… Read more »
One of the most popular live tournaments will be hosted a few days after the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure ends. The Aussie Millions will extend for 17 days and there will be a total of twenty tournaments available and millions of dollars in prize pools. The buy-ins range from $1K – $100K. The tournament organization expects… Read more »
One of the top online poker sites in the industry, Cake Poker, has announced that it is making changes in two critical areas of its product. Read more »
There is just one month to go before the November Nine return to Las Vegas to determine the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion and Full Tilt Poker is adding to the anticipation with a new promotion, Pieces of Ivey. Read more »
Two days of play are in the books at the 2009 Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic. The $5,500 buy-in tournament will award $753,000 to first place, while the top four finishers will earn six-figure paydays. The final table will take place on Saturday. Read more »
A high-stakes mutli-table battle between Jay Rosenkrantz and David "Viffer" Peat headlined this week's episode of the G4 online poker reality series "2 Months, $2 Million." In the end, the team earned $371,000 for the week and is up over $500,000 overall. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is always innovating and has a new promotion that will award players with pieces of Phil Ivey’s action at the WSOP final table. Players will have to opt-in to the promotion in their Full Tilt accounts. After that, to participate in the promotion players can play at different cash games or tournaments… Read more »
With the recent live tournaments that took place in London, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Full Tilt Pro Patrik Antonius have been in the same city, which has apparently put them in the mood to play a few sessions for the durrrr challenge. The challenge started with a great pace but it has since slowed down,… Read more »
Cake Poker has announced their new guaranteed tournament schedule. After they encountered some problems in the past 2 months with their software, it looks like they have finally solved the issues and are now revving up their promotions for all of their loyal players who waited patiently for Cake Poker to solve the issues. In… Read more »
The EPT London final table got underway today with American player Aaron Gustavson heading into play with the chiplead at 6.5 million. The shortest stack belonged to Karim Bennani who only had $306K. The other players at the table where: martin Gudvangen, Nikolai Senninger, PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu, Dominic Cullen and the reigning WSOP champion… Read more »
In a curious twist, players logging into the Pitbull Poker client on Wednesday were met with news that the site was officially closed. However, five affiliate banners for other online poker sites also appeared. Read more »
Titan Poker started hosting a one million dollar tournament this past September, and this upcoming weekend there will be an identical event. Players have several ways to enter the tournament, including buying-in directly for $535. There are also many satellite events running every day that will award seats for a fraction of the cost. Every… Read more »
The recent antics of British online poker pro Luke "Full_Flush" Schwartz have only helped to cement his reputation as a bad boy and a poker brat, as he has supposedly been banned not once, but twice from Grosvenor Casino properties. Read more »
This week, "Inside Deal," which airs on ESPN.com, welcomes two of the 2009 November Nine, Phil Ivey and Steven Begleiter, both Full Tilt Poker pros. "Inside Deal" is released every Tuesday. Read more »
With 96% of the field gone, players took to the felts for Days 5 and 6 of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on ESPN. Three women, two former Main Event champions, and one gold bracelet remained. Read more »
Cake Poker has announced their new promotion which will greatly reward players for the time they spend on the virtual felt. The promotion is divided into two sections; the first section will run from 8pm ET on September 30th until October 14th at 8pm ET. The second part will start running as soon as the… Read more »
Gus Hansen has had a difficult second half of the year on the Full Tilt Poker tables. In the first six months of the year he was up $3.2 million at one point, but lost nearly all of it back in June. The following months, July, August and September have brought Gus one of the… Read more »
Last week, Poker News Daily confirmed the rumors that Pitbull Poker, a site on the Flash Poker Network, had shut down amid allegations of superusers and suspicious play. Readers of our site have since threatened litigation. Read more »
PokerStars pro and 2008 WSOP main event champion Peter Eastgate nursed a short stack through much of day, but he seems to be playing outstanding poker and has managed to survive to day four. There are sixteen players remaining and seven of them are linked to PokerStars. Out of the seven, three of them are… Read more »
It has been a difficult year for F1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella, who raced all 2008 with the Force India-Mercedes team but was unable to score a point. Earlier in the year, Felipe Massa had an unfortunate accident and had to take some time off the track to rehabilitate his injuries and get back into shape… Read more »
Even though he has more than 50 years in the poker world under his belt, poker legend Doyle Brunson continues to be one of the leaders in the community, advocating suggestions for improvements to the industry. Read more »
On December 1st, the financial services industry in the United States must fall into full compliance with the regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Working to delay the deadline is the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). Read more »
The European Poker Tour London had 730 players registered and among the field there where some of the top poker pros in the world. As the tournament kept progressing players like Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda and many others were forced to the rail. The tournament is down to less than 30 players and… Read more »
The Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables did not have too much action over the weekend as the nose-bleed regulars seemed to be busy with the big live events going on in London. Phil Ivey played only 37 hands and that was enough to end the day with a profit of $160K. On the other… Read more »
