In the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star event's final table, Mclean Karr bested a talented final table that included UB.com pro and 11-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. Read more »
Cake Poker doesn’t boast a tournament with the pedigree of PokerStars’ Sunday Million or Full Tilt Poker’s $750K, but they still do offer a great slate of weekend tournaments. First, Cake Poker runs their normal nightly schedule all throughout the weekend. At 5pm, Cake Poker features a $10 $10K Guaranteed Rebuy. Following that at 6:30pm… Read more »
Daniel Negreanu is always among the first in line to provoke poker brat Phil Hellmuth. The PokerStars Team Pro took another hearty shot at Hellmuth this week, making Hellmuth a rather humorous offer for the upcoming WSOP Player's Championship. Read more »
In December, Oates Media Group, the creators of the poker game show "Shuffle Up and Deal," announced an online casting call seeking contestants. Three months later, the franchise is still looking for a sponsor to bring its product to life. Read more »
Night in and night out, PokerStars runs the biggest and best tournaments online poker has to offer. Yesterday, the action started with the Daily Thirty Grand, which received 5491 entrants and paid out 810 spots. When the dust finally settled, truck625a bested the field and added nearly $7K to his bank account. Losing the heads-up… Read more »
Poker pro Scott Seiver has been on the run of a lifetime. The young gun finished fourth in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour High-Roller Bounty Shootout last month for $215,000 and won the L.A. Poker Classic High-Roller event for another $425,000. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker’s MiniFTOPS XV continued yesterday with two great tournaments. Event #2, a $20 + 2 Omaha H/L Pot Limit tourney, garnered 4198 entrants and generated a $84K prize-pool ($75K was guaranteed). After nine hours of intense play, TUTANKHAMEN emerged victorious, taking home $16.6K for his win. TheHenk settled on second place for $10K,… Read more »
Almost nine months have gone by since the Pitbull Poker scandal was blown wide open and to date, justice has yet to be served. The small poker site, formerly part of the Flash Poker Network, was first put under investigation by members of the TwoPlusTwo forum community. Read more »
After 15 grueling hours of play in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star event, the field was whittled from 27 players to six. Among those competing for the $878,000 first place prize is UB.com pro Phil Hellmuth. Read more »
The armed robbery that took place during the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin festivities was featured on the German television program "Aktenzeichen XY Ungelöst," the equivalent of "America's Most Wanted." Read more »
Titan Poker, the iPoker network’s flagship site and one of Europe’s biggest, recently released a new version of their client software. Chief among the updates are the implementation of Razz games, a new Flash version of the site that supports Mac users, and the inclusion of five languages: Hungarian, portuguese, Romanian, Czech, and Greek. Additionally,… Read more »
For several years, the only two poker television shows that anyone knew about were the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN and the World Poker Tour (WPT) on the Travel Channel (now on Fox Sports). Read more »
PokerStars, the world's leading online poker site, has announced the cancellation of its Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Chile event in Vina del Mar from March 19th to 23rd. The cancellation comes as a result of a massive earthquake that rocked the South American nation on February 27th. Read more »
After the conclusion of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas, players quickly moved the action to San Jose for the always popular World Poker Tour stop at Bay 101. Prior to the start of the event, Daniel Negreanu decided he wanted to cross-book his action with online phenomenon Tom "Durrrr" Dwan. Read more »
Once the king of online poker, Party Poker can’t quite offer what they used to due to dropping out of the US market, but they still do have a great schedule of nightly tournaments. Party Poker kicks things of at 2:15 with a $22 $10K Guaranteed Rebuy and follows that up with a $55 $20K… Read more »
While Bodog Poker is a relatively small site, especially when compared to giants like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, sometimes that can mean more value for your tournament dollar. Wading through six thousand players to ship a huge tournament is obviously a great feeling, but variance prohibits that from happening very often. With Bodog Poker’s… Read more »
Every night on PokerStars is action packed, and last night was no different. The day started off at 1pm with the Daily Thirty Grand, which saw 5560 players register to create a $55.6K prize-pool. When the dust settled, JazzFunkMast emerged as the victor, taking home $7K for his efforts. Jake784 lost the heads-up match and… Read more »
UB.com pro and 11-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth leads the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star event entering its play down day. By the end of Thursday, six players will be left standing. Read more »
A total of 18,875 players – yes, eighteen-thousand eight-hundred and seventy-five – showed up to play the opening event of MiniFTOPS XV. Full Tilt Poker guaranteed $350K, but the mass turnout swelled the prize-pool to $377.5K, and the tournament paid out almost 2500 spots. After what must have been an agonizingly long twelve hour grind,… Read more »
The UB.com poker news show "Poker2Nite" aired its second episode of Season 2 on Wednesday. National Heads-Up Poker Championship winner and Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Annie Duke joined the Versus franchise. Read more »
Although the entire incident was caught on tape and broadcasted around the world through social media outlets like Twitter and YouTube, German police still have no leads and no suspects in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin armed robbery. Read more »
You won’t find any tournaments on UB.com tonight with 15K runners, but that could be a good thing; unless you make the final table, playing a tournament that large can only end in disappointment…and that’s going to happen more often than not. So, if MiniFTOPS isn’t your thing, swing by UB.com for some of their… Read more »
On Wednesday at 21:00 ET, the Mini version of the 15th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will kick off. The schedule features 27 tournaments, culminating in a $55 No Limit Hold'em Main Event on March 21st. Read more »
The world of poker is dominated by men for the most part, but there are women who have made their mark on the felt. On many a poker forum, there is a debate as to who the "hottest" poker player in the game is – and that debate goes for the men in the game as well as the ladies. Read more »
Tuesday, ESPN.com released the March version of "The Nuts," its ranking of the top ten poker players in the world. The list does not simply rank the best living players, but rather aims to determine who is currently playing the best poker. Read more »
