Sunday was another crazy day at the PokerStars tables as thousands of players registered to the major tournaments which made competition extremely tough. The Sunday million had 8,587 players wanting to take the $252K first place prize home win them. It took 9.5 hours to play down to ten players, when icedavid pushed all his… Read more »
Party Poker players will get the chance to win extra money for the holidays with three new promotions that guaranteed at least $1 million in prizes. The first promotion is the Cash Game Race which will have players earning Party Poker points at the cash ring games. The player that accumulates the most points from… Read more »
The ongoing clash between Isildur1 and the game's most vaunted high-stakes cash game players reached new levels over the weekend, as the cagey Swede played record-setting sessions with Full Tilt Pros Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Tom "durrrr" Dwan. Read more »
Swedish newcomer Isildur1 has dominated the action on Full Tilt Poker in recent weeks, helping grow the eight largest pots in online poker history. One of his opponents, CardRunners instructor Haseeb "INTERNET POKERS" Qureshi, sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss Isildur1's recent dominance. Read more »
Absolute Poker is constantly working to make things easier for their customers. Their goal is to improve the customer experience, and in search of that they have implemented the use of icons in their lobby to make it more user friendly. For ring games they have implemented the six icons that will identify the following… Read more »
Railbirds around the world have been overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of action they’re seeing at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. However, railbirds aren’t the only contented group at Full Tilt Poker, as two of the red pros are enjoying Isildur1’s action as well. Up until this weekend, Isildur had been… Read more »
Underground poker games are, of course, a long-standing tradition throughout the United States – simply the commercial version of home games that have made up the backbone of poker playing today. Read more »
Travel agency owner Antonio Matias took down the European Poker Tour's (EPT) Vilamoura Main Event in the roving tournament series' first ever trip to Portugal. Matias took home a €404,793 top prize. Read more »
Last Friday, former Bear Stearns executive Steven Begleiter joined Bloomberg news hosts Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman to discuss his sixth place finish in the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and his future in the game. Read more »
Absolute Poker Pro Matt Vengrin will serve as a judge in the upcoming Miss California Teen USA pageant. The event, which wraps up Sunday, will determine who will succeed reigning Miss California Teen USA Chelsea Gilligan of Beaumont. Read more »
The PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge returned on Sunday to Fox following NFL coverage and saw Brian Barboza take down a celebrity, a poker pro, and show front man Daniel Negreanu en route to a $100,000 payday and a trip to the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Read more »
Recently, two high-powered, longtime opponents of internet gambling issued a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner calling for the compliance date of the UIGEA regulations (December 1st) to be enforced. Read more »
One of poker's top tournament directors is the Bellagio's Jack McClelland, master of ceremonies for some of the game's top events. Gearing up for the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, McClelland sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss the state of the poker tournament world. Read more »
One of the new stops on Season Six of the European Poker Tour (EPT) was a November jaunt to Vilamoura, Portugal. The tournament, which got underway on November 17th, drew 322 runners, making it the third largest EPT event of the season so far. Read more »
Tom “durrrr” Dwan, recently signed by Full Tilt Poker, had a great run in London at the Live Million Dollar Challenge. The rules of the challenge stipulate that players must play 500 hands or go broke before ending the match. Dwan’s first opponent was Marcello “luckexpress” Marigliano who played well and eventually got the better… Read more »
The finale of the Full Tilt Poker Million Dollar Challenge in London featured sponsored pro Tom "durrrr" Dwan taking Sammy "Any Two" George for a colossal $750,000. Dwan entered the contest up over $40,000 after facing Marcello "luckexpress" Marigliano and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. Read more »
In posts that appeared on the online poker forums PocketFives.com and TwoPlusTwo.com, a preliminary 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) schedule may have been leaked. The link to the schedule has since been removed. Read more »
While Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Tom "durrrr" Dwan have swapped six-figure pots with the Swedish phenomenon Isildur1, online poker fans and players have been offering their thoughts on Isildur1 and high-stakes play. Poker News Daily sought out the opinion of two top professionals in the game today for their outlook on this week's battles on the virtual felts. Read more »
The Global Gaming Expo is currently unfolding from Las Vegas and, as part of its coverage of the event, CNBC's "Closing Bell" aired a four-minute segment entitled, "Odds Favor Online Gambling?" Read more »
After being in the market for over 10 years, Ultimate Bet is slowly trying to change their image. UB wants to reach more people world wide and to give prospective players additional motivation to sign-up, they have added a variety of new tournaments to their schedule. In addition, UB has also improved the structures of… Read more »
Playing poker in one of the oldest European Poker tournament has its benefits, not the least of which is the history and tradition surrounding the event and its past winners. The Irish Open has long since attracted the biggest names on the European poker circuit, no doubt due to the tournament’s prestige and prize money… Read more »
The tournament at Vilamoura has seen very tough competition; the starting field of 322 players is now down to 38 players, only three of which are PokerStars Pros. PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser held the chip lead at one point in the tournament until Jeff Sarwer managed to take it from him. However, Frenchmen Antony Lellouche… Read more »
Isildur1 made his first appearance at Full Tilt Poker in September of 09 and he has kept a low profile ever since. The only thing that is known about him is that he comes from Sweden, that’s it. He jumped into the poker scene and brought a lot of gamble with him to the virtual… Read more »
The ongoing Eurolinx and BetOnBet sagas continues, as the investigation of the now-defunct online poker rooms has left the jurisdiction of Malta's Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) and is now in the hands of the Malta Police Department. Read more »
Last week, the sixth season of GSN's cash game franchise "High Stakes Poker" was filmed at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas. Some of the game's best turned out for the three days of taping and sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss their thoughts headed into the suite. Read more »
