The National Heads-up Poker Championship gets down to the final four, the CEREUS network corrects its security issues and a SCOOP Main Event Champion is crowned. Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily, brought to you by PokerSource.com. On Sunday, the quarterfinals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship… Read more »
This past weekend in online poker was one of the juiciest or bloodiest in recent memory and with PokerStars’ SCOOP coming to a close, one thing was certain: there was no shortage of tantalizing prize pools. Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu agreed on Sunday afternoon, Tweeting, “Leaving golf course now and going to play all three SCOOP… Read more »
The witness list for Wednesday’s internet gambling hearing in the House Ways and Means Committee was released this morning. The lineup features a “who’s who” of Congressmen that have had an impact on internet gambling, including Barney Frank (D-MA) and Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). Frank is internet gambling’s main champion on Capitol Hill. The longtime Massachusetts… Read more »
On Tuesday at 10:00am PT, ClubWPT and WPT Facebook Hostess Alison Waite will host a Twitter chat to discuss anything and everything related to poker. To participate, players should log into their Twitter accounts, enter “#lovepoker” in the search bar, and you’ll be following the conversation with the Playboy Playmate. Waite serves as the face… Read more »
Monday night featured the final action from the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) on ESPN2. This time, the High Roller event at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure took center stage. The $25,000 buy-in poker tournament, which played out in January, featured German Tobias Reinkemeier holding the chip lead entering the final table. The broadcast… Read more »
When it comes to the big stage, Freddy Deeb knows how to step up his game. Since the beginning of 2009, he has cashed in four World Poker Tour (WPT) events, including the 2009 WPT Celebrity Invitational. Last year, he cashed in three World Series of Poker (WSOP) events, including one final table and a… Read more »
Taylor Caby is the founding member of CardRunners.com and is an established high stakes pro poker player. He has specialized in heads-up play and made tons of money by being one of the most steady and aggressive players in online poker. Caby joined us for an interview and discussed his 2010 so far which involves… Read more »
If you’re playing online poker for real money, then you should be taking advantage of rakeback. Our family of Play Poker Network sites, which includes ThisIsTheNuts.com and PocketFives.com, offers 33% rakeback on Cake Poker. In April, one player made mincemeat of the site’s competition, Prescott “Ingenol” Murphy. The Pennsylvania poker player piled up a five-figure… Read more »
On today’s Daily Deal, the PPA speaks about the looming implementation of the UIGEA, we find out who won the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, former WPT stockholders go into a new branch of business and new celebrities confirm attendance to the After-school All Stars charity tournament. Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the… Read more »
With an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, it’s pretty safe to say that Rafe Furst is one smart dude. He began his career as an artificial intelligence researcher. After a few years in the workforce, he left in 1996 to form his first company, Pick’em Sports, which… Read more »
Over the past few years, nobody has been more involved in the poker radio scene than Scott Huff. He initially got started as a tournament reporter for CardPlayer, a job that had him on the road following the tournament circuit with BJ Nemeth. Eventually, CardPlayer turned to Huff for their radio show idea, The Circuit,… Read more »
Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Oliver ‘Ali’ Nejad was a happy-go-lucky kid who never failed to entertain his family and friends with his personality and sense of humor. It seemed inevitable that he was destined for T.V. , but it wasn’t until his high school friends urged him to audition for a local youth… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker’s MiniFTOPS culminated yesterday with three more extremely juicy events. First was a $26 KO 6max tournament that garnered 14,886 entrants and a $300K prize-pool. When all was said and done, thugmoneymkr came out on top to the tune of $45K. Losing the heads-up battle was tripnip2020, who settled on $30K for second.… Read more »
Every year, players eagerly await the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and 2010 is no exception. To a poker player, it’s an opportunity for fame and fortune. It really is a place where dreams come true. Although it was 26 years ago, I vividly remember my first trip to the WSOP back in 1984. It… Read more »
On Sunday, programmers for the popular CEREUS Network fixed a security issue after implementing OpenSSL for client-server communication. The custom-based XOR encryption appears to be no more. PokerTableRatings.com, which first reported that players’ hole cards could potentially be hacked via a wireless network, posted in an update on Sunday, “We can confirm that SSL is… Read more »
On Sunday, the quarterfinals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship aired on NBC. Of the eight players left standing, four were former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champions. The poker tournament wraps up this Sunday, May 23rd, on NBC. In the first hour of coverage, 2008 WSOP Main Event champion Peter Eastgate faced… Read more »
Nevada casino gaming “win,” or revenue, was relatively flat in March 2010 compared to March 2009, according to figures released by the Gaming Control Board last week. Nevada casinos hauled in $912.2 million during the month. Gaming revenue on the famed Las Vegas Strip actually rose in March year over year. The Strip, which features… Read more »
Former stockholders of the World Poker Tour (WPT) have found success in a different line of business since selling the brand to Party Gaming for $12.3 million back in November. The company, which now goes by the name Ante4 Inc., became an energy corporation in April and has seen its share price more than double… Read more »
World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Theo Jorgensen came out on top in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris on Saturday. Jorgensen, who once defeated Full Tilt Poker pro Gus Hansen in a boxing match, banked €633,000 from the €10,000 buy-in tournament. Jorgensen entered the final table as the chip leader.… Read more »
On June 1st, the financial services industry in the United States must fall into line with the regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). What the lay of the land come the first day of June will be is anyone’s guess. In recent days, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the industry’s primary grassroots… Read more »
Former “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Brad Garrett will attend the upcoming charity poker tournament hosted by UB.com pro Annie Duke benefiting After School All-Stars. The $250 buy-in, $100 rebuy event will play out on May 20th from the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. A bevy of superstars will attend, including Full Tilt Poker pro and… Read more »
In one of the sillier stories you’re likely to come across this weekend, Full Tilt Poker pro Van “Sirens” Marcus‘ Ferrari F430 Spider was stolen from the Crown Casino parking lot on Friday morning in Melbourne, Australia. You might be thinking that this sounds like a standard carjacking, but you’d be wrong. All that the… Read more »
In the all-new Cake Shop, introduced in recent days on Cake Poker, players can redeem their hard-earned Gold Chips for Cake Poker gear, tournament tokens, bonus cash, the newest electronics, a Ducati Super Bike, and even… cake! Long recognized for its industry-leading VIP program, Cake Poker rewards players of all levels. The site’s loyalty program,… Read more »
On today’s Daily Deal, Bernard Lee celebrates his radio show’s third anniversary, Michael Mizrachi finds himself in a tight spot, a former Playmate of the Year graces Poker2Nite’s set, and Tiffany Michelle talks to PND about her WSOP plans. Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily, brought to… Read more »
On Friday, CEREUS Network developers rolled out OpenSSL encryption for Absolute Poker and UB.com. Tokwiro Chief Operating Officer Paul Leggett announced on UB.com’s blog, “We have done thorough testing on the release and everything is working as it was designed. We are now engaging several third parties to test the new Client-Server encryption.” Shortly thereafter,… Read more »
