Australian native Tyron Krost has taken home the title in the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event, which emanated from the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Krost defeated a field of 746 players and earned AUD $2 million for his efforts. Read more »
The battle over whether California Indian tribes can provide online poker may soon come to a head. Many in the industry are anticipating a hearing on the issue next month, as the tribe behind an effort to create a state-sanctioned online poker site last year has apparently renewed its efforts to push a bill. Read more »
The move from the Boss Media Network to the iPoker Network is almost complete for the small online poker room King Solomons Poker. The site recently announced that players with accounts on its old Boss Media IPN site will no longer have access to the Boss Media-powered tables as of February 1st. Read more »
The world's largest online poker site is giving away tickets to the world's premier football game, Super Bowl XLIV. On Sunday, two pairs of tickets to the "Big Game" in Miami will be up for grabs on PokerStars. Read more »
Event #16 of the ongoing Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC) played out on Friday, with 206 entrants turning out for a $530 Pot Limit Hold'em Six-Max event. When the smoke cleared, UB.com member TORREY5 banked $27,000 for the win. Read more »
The outpouring of support to the millions of people affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti continues, as online poker room Mansion Poker is the latest site organizing an event to raise money for the cause. Read more »
After nearly 32,000 hands in the Tom "durrrr" Dwan Million Dollar Challenge, the youngster leads rival Patrik Antonius by well over $1 million. Dwan ended the latest session up $199,000 after a quick 892-hand encounter. Let's take a look at a few recent hands during January's play. Read more »
On Wednesday, February 17th at 9:00pm ET, the USA-friendly online poker room UB.com is hosting an extra special freeroll in which the winner gets a once-in-a-lifetime skydiving experience with Joe Sebok. In total, $2,000 in cash and prizes will be up for grabs, with the winner plummeting to the ground with the PokerRoad personality. Read more »
The normal payout in DoylesRoom biggest guaranteed tournament on Sundays is $125K, but once a month DoylesRoom takes it up a notch and doubles the guarantee; this happens on the last Sunday of every month. This upcoming Sunday all DoylesRoom players will have the opportunity to participate in the tournament and see their balance increase… Read more »
All Ultimate Bet players will have the unique opportunity to enter an exclusive freeroll that will have $2K in cash prizes, but since that doesn’t seem too special after all, the first place prize will also include the opportunity to Skydive with Ultimate Bet Pro Joe Sebok in the Nevada desert. To enter the tournament,… Read more »
After seven days at the tables outplaying seven hundred and thirty eight players, the final table is set and will be played out in several hours from now. The players that made it to the final table are the chip leader Sorel Mizzi, Stephen Shelley, Annette Obrestad, Tyron Krost, Frederik Jensen, Kosta Varoxis, Peter Jetten… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has made important announcements in the past two weeks. First was the release of the Rush Poker tables, which has created some controversy among players. Some love the fast paced action and some more methodical players believe that not being able to analyze the style of play of their opponents takes their… Read more »
A recent decision by the European Union's Court of Justice (ECJ) offered clarification as to how EU law affects online gaming regulations in individual states within the Union. Read more »
ne thing PartyPoker has done extremely well in its history is provide some of the best promotions for its customers. With its popular Cash Machine set to end on January 31st, PartyPoker had to come up with another promotion that would continue to capture the interest of its players. Read more »
"You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." Thanks to Kenny Rogers and his hit song "The Gambler", those words will forever be ingrained in the game of poker. Read more »
Like father, like daughter. Doyle Brunson's daughter, Pam Brunson, will manage the Brunson 10, according to officials from DoylesRoom. The stable of up-and-coming poker pros numbers four, with six men and two women yet to be named. Read more »
The Fox Sports Net poker news show "Poker2Nite" welcomed the always outspoken Mike "The Mouth" Matusow this week. The franchise airs at 11:00pm ET every Wednesday night and can also be seen on The Score at 3:00pm ET on Sundays. Read more »
Although most online poker players use Windows PCs, there has been a growing swell of players using Apple Mac computers like MacBook Pros and iMacs. The Mac-centric poker niche is growing, with four major sites having native software clients: PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, UB.com, and Absolute Poker. Read more »
Ziigmund is a well known high stakes player, despite of his young age he has been around for some time and he certainly has the chops to play against the best players in the world. He ended ’09 with a profit of around $3 million, despite the fact that in November of 2009 he was… Read more »
Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker have put together the fourth edition of the UBOC tournaments, and the players’ response has been great. The final events will follow in the next days and there will be $1.3 million guaranteed at stake. This past weekend was the first $1 million guaranteed tourney and it reached a total… Read more »
All Titan Poker players will have additional motivation to play at the ECPokerTour in Barcelona. Two of the options to enter the tournament are to buy-in directly or to win a seat by playing at the many satellites available each day at Titan Poker. There will be stage one satellites running each day for as… Read more »
One day prior to Super Bowl XLIV between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints, officials from Victory Poker will celebrate the site's launch at a party at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas. The online poker room will open for business on February 1st. Read more »
The Aussie Millions festivities kicked off in Australia and thousands of players from all parts of world have taken on the challenge of trying to become a new millionaire in one of the most important tournaments in the world. Stewart Scott is a Party Poker sponsored player and also the defending champion at the Aussie… Read more »
With his win in the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Southern Poker Championship, "The Alabama Cowboy" Hoyt Corkins claimed his second WPT title. The DoylesRoom pro banked $739,000 for his efforts at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi. Read more »
This afternoon, rumors spread around the poker industry that Cake Poker, which had purchased T.J. Cloutier's 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, was planning to return the piece to its rightful owners. Poker News Daily can now confirm those rumblings. Read more »
