In breaking news from Bristol, ESPN2 will carry the inaugural season of the PokerStars sponsored North American Poker Tour (NAPT). The festivities will kick off on April 19th on the cable station with the Venetian $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout. Read more »
On Monday evening, Isildur1 played a rousing $200/$400 No Limit Hold'em match against Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo, who has been spending a lot of time at the cash tables of Full Tilt of late. Isildur1 and Bonomo played nearly 2,000 hands, with Isildur1 taking more than $550,000 from the Las Vegas pro. Read more »
2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Joe Cada and seventh place finisher Phil Ivey will headline the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship field. Play gets underway on March 5th at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Read more »
ESPN2's coverage of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event continued on Sunday night, as Team PokerStars Pro member Jason Mercier delivered knockout after knockout. Two more episodes remain and will air on February 28th. Read more »
Matchroom Sport, the producer, promoter, and distributor of the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV, which is underway right now at the M Casino in Las Vegas, won the Rob Gardner Award for Innovation at the 2009 European Poker Awards. Read more »
Recently, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, a Republican who has been a longtime proponent of making online gaming and poker illegal and a staunch supporter of the UIGEA, dropped his opposition to several of President Barack Obama's nominees to the Treasury Department. Read more »
I just got back from a week at the Commerce Casino playing in the L.A. Poker Classic (LAPC) and its live games. It was the best poker trip I've had in a long time. The tournament schedule was awesome! Read more »
Poker News Daily: You won your first bracelet during the 2008 World Series of Poker, getting that proverbial monkey off your back. Is that your biggest poker accomplishment of your career? Lindgren: It has to be. It was definitely a big deal. It was something that I really wanted and was looking forward to, so accomplishing it felt really good. Read more »
Last week, the industry learned that poker author, commentator, radio show host, and professional Bernard Lee had inked an agreement to represent Foxwoods. Now, Terry Chiaradio, Director of Poker for Foxwoods Resort Casino, shares her thoughts. Read more »
Those without a valentine on Sunday were treated to the debut of "High Stakes Poker" Season 6 on GSN, which featured UB.com pro Phil Hellmuth drop $200,000 in a matter of minutes. Kara Scott and Gabe Kaplan hosted. Read more »
In Saturday's action in the 15th running of the quarterly Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), RPM Poker sponsored pro Chris cdbr3799 Dombrowski took down the $109 No Limit Hold'em with Rebuys for $131,000. Read more »
Camped out at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma is Poker News Daily Guest Columnist and tournament director extraordinaire Linda Johnson. The industry veteran is attending the Oklahoma State Championship of Poker. Read more »
We're just two days into the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and poker players have already made waves. Nineteen year old J.R. Celski, an avid poker fan who hails from the United States, took home a bronze medal in the Short Track speed skating event. Read more »
After rising year over year in November, gambling revenue in Nevada slid 3.24% in December 2009 compared to December 2008. In total, the state's gaming establishments raked in $859 million two months ago. Read more »
Recently, casino megalith Harrah's received the green light from the Nevada Gaming Control Board to acquire the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. The move would boost the number of Harrah's Las Vegas Strip area properties to nine. Read more »
Phil Laak defeated defending champion J.C. Tran in heads-up play to win the opening heat of the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV Friday evening. Laak earned 16 league points as he trounced a strong field that included Tran, Daniel Negreanu, Ian Frazer, Roland De Wolfe, Luke "Full_Flush" Schwartz, Vanessa Rousso, and Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko. Read more »
This week, the World Series of Poker Circuit Championship Event in Tunica came to a close with a familiar name outlasting an outstanding final table. The tournament began on Monday with 96 players putting $5000 on the line to take down a WSOP Circuit championship, a diamond and gold championship ring and, perhaps more importantly, their buy-in for the 2010 WSOP Main Event this summer. Read more »
Party Poker has rolled out a promotion that will have players racing to make as many PartyPoints as possible. The first 120 players to reach fifteen hundred points starting today and before February 21th will receive an NHL package. Each package will include two tickets to the VIP suite at the game, hotel accommodations for… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is currently running their FTOPS XV series and those tournaments are simultaneously running along with the Big Money Sunday tournaments this weekend, with millions of dollars at stake. The first big tournament will be played out on Saturday at 1 pm in the Pot Limit Omaha 6-max format and a $350K prize… Read more »
European gambling companies received some positive comments from the new European Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier this week. Speaking for the first time since taking over the role in January, Barnier told the European Parliament Thursday that last year's bwin/Santa Casa ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has little bearing on the Commission's approach to infringement procedures against member states. Read more »
In what has been one of the most watched court cases in the poker world, the United States District Court in Las Vegas determined that poker professional Clonie Gowen's civil lawsuit against the entities that comprise Full Tilt Poker was without merit and has been dismissed fully. Read more »
Ever since I first saw Tom Chambers' online poker screenname I have been a fan. The online poker pro may not be a household name, but his humorous online moniker, "LearnedFromTV" tends to stick with you. Read more »
The high stakes tables have been really busy at Full Tilt for the past weeks and million of dollars have moved around. One player that has been playing in an outstanding way this year is the Full Tilt Pro Cole South. His game has been on the uprise and his profit for this year exceeds… Read more »
The 2006 WSOP runner-up Paul Wasicka has managed to outplay the 96 player field after several days of play and has pocketed $139,422 for his effort. Wasicka started playing poker in ’04 and he has been involved ever since, his first big win came shortly after his incursion into poker. His deep run at the… Read more »
The start of the second day of play brought 122 players to the tables, and by the time the day ends there will be about fifty percent of the field remaining. Day three will give us a disappointed bubble boy and some very excited players after they reach the money positions. The ’09 player of… Read more »
