Not all online poker rooms can offer players the chance to represent them at the major live events around the world, but the contract PokerStars is offering will include a $5K monthly salary and $40K to spend on the live events around the globe. Players will get to choose the live tournaments they participate in… Read more »
Tuesday signified a landmark day in the online poker industry, as Ultimate Bet, a USA-facing site on the CEREUS Poker Network, rebranded itself UB.com. The two-letter acronym has been the site's nickname since its launch 10 years ago. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker's 14th installment of its Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) came to a close Monday morning when a champion was crowned in the $535 buy-in Main Event. Austria's "zhivago2" outlasted a record-setting field to earn a payday of $418,839 and the gold FTOPS jersey. Read more »
Poker Hall of Fame inductee and World Poker Tour (WPT) Host Mike Sexton will serve as the host for "Shuffle Up And Deal," a poker themed game show that will air on the MyTV network in 2010. The half-hour program has been tapped for 13 episodes. Read more »
The European Poker Tour is currently hosting the fifth event in their season six schedule and this time around the event is held in Portugal. The tournament is scheduled to be played out in five days with a winner declared on Sunday. It’s not unusual to spot some of the PokerStars pros and qualifiers at… Read more »
The Full Tilt high stakes tables have been really hot recently, especially with player Isildur1 challenging Red Pros left and right. Yesterday was a session that Patrik Antonius will remember for the rest of his life, as in just 2189 hands he managed to take $2.7 million from Isildur1. But their epic session also broke… Read more »
Tuesday marks the beginning of the live version of the Tom "durrrr" Dwan Million Dollar Challenge, which is unfolding in London. The festivities will see Dwan battle Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, Sammy "Any Two" George, and Marcelo "luckexpress" Marigliano. Read more »
Over the weekend, a brand new poker movie debuted, "Shark Out of Water." The film, which stars Matty Finochio and Artine Brown, also features poker pros Brad Booth and Ultimate Bet front man Phil Hellmuth. Read more »
Recently, officials from Bodog announced the formation of the Bodog Network, a family of sites encompassing the various Bodog brands around the world with expansion to non-Bodog domains expected in 2010. Poker News Daily sat down with Jonas Odman, Vice President of the Network, to review the company's plans to take on new sites. Read more »
The name Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan has long been linked to Full Tilt Poker, but only because the nosebleed stakes cash game player has logged millions of hands on the world’s second largest online poker site. However, all that changed when Full Tilt officially welcomed ‘durrrr’ to their Red Pro Team. Last week, news spread like… Read more »
Cake Poker is among the top ten biggest online poker rooms and it has earned a reputation for having some of the best graphics and features available in online play. The Cake Poker Network is home of more than 40 poker rooms some of which are among the top online poker rooms in the world. … Read more »
One month ago, the Kentucky Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that pits the state's Justice and Public Safety Cabinet against the owners of 141 internet gambling domain names, including those belonging to industry titans like PokerStars and Fill Tilt Poker. Read more »
Ultimate Bet’s biggest guarantees of the weekend were, of course, reserved for Sunday. The first tournament on the schedule was a $100K tournament that started at 2 pm, the top two players made a deal and at the end the top two finishers were MattGraham and VIETCON01. The biggest tournament of the weekend was the… Read more »
PokerStars attracts thousands of players every weekend, and this Sunday was no exception as The Sunday Million’s prizepool – which had a special $2.5 million guarantee – eventually swelled to $3,656,600. When the tournament started there were 18,283 players and it took ten and a half hours of play until there were only 9 players… Read more »
The most anticipated final table of the year has ended although Full Tilt Pro Phil Ivey was clearly the crowd favorite to take down the $8.5 million first place prize, his competitors had other ideas. Darvin Moon ended Ivey’s run much earlier than anticipated when his A-Q sucked out on Phil’s A-K. Phil Ivey finished… Read more »
Late last week, World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack stepped down from his post and removed himself from Harrah's entirely. The move caught much of the poker world off-guard and Poker News Daily solicited reaction from a few of the game's top names. Read more »
Recently, PartyGaming, the parent company of PartyPoker, completed the acquisition of the World Poker Tour. Despite a last-minute proposal from Mandalay Media, a mobile gaming company, WPT shareholders rubber-stamped the sale for $12.3 million plus a percentage of future gaming revenues. Read more »
It was a great honor for me to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. It really is the ultimate career achievement award. To know that you'll always be linked to the legends of poker - guys like Chip Reese, Stu Ungar, Doyle Brunson, Puggy Pearson, Johnny Moss, and Jack Binion - is an awesome feeling. Read more »
This weekend, Greg Sessler, a male, took down the Ladies Championship during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit stop at Harvey's Lake Tahoe. Sessler defeated Mimi Kalem heads-up. Read more »
Former "Survivor: China" contestant Jean-Robert Bellande is no longer a sponsored pro of Bodog, according to a representative from the online poker room. His current agreement expired at the end of October and was not renewed. Read more »
A few months ago, a player from Sweden by the name of Isildur1 came onto the scene at the nosebleed-stakes tables and has rampaged through opponents. This player, whose true identity remains anonymous to add to the intrigue, has played about 85,000 hands against top pros and showed a profit of over $3.6 million. Read more »
Two sites on the iPoker Network have merged into one, as members of the online poker room Fair Poker have had their accounts transferred to Noble Poker. Players on Fair Poker recently received a notice informing them of the change and offering a deposit bonus as a welcome to the new site. Read more »
The challengers continued to struggle on the NBC poker franchise "Face the Ace." On Saturday, tax attorney Andrew Weinstein and poker novice Adam Drescher each left the show's Las Vegas set with nothing to show for their efforts except some network television face time. Read more »
Within minutes of news breaking that Jeffrey Pollack would be stepping down as the Commissioner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the poker community began to sound off on the matter, be it through Twitter, online poker forums, or personal blogs. Read more »
The Absolute Poker family just became a little larger. The USA-facing site on the CEREUS Poker Network welcomed former 2002 "Real World" star Trishelle Cannatella as a sponsored pro. Poker News Daily sat down with Cannatella to discuss her new role. Read more »
