The tentative dates for the World Championship event of World Team Poker have been announced. Poker News Daily has learned that the highly anticipated tournament will likely take place in Las Vegas from October 11th to 17th. World Team Poker officials are still negotiating with the Golden Nugget, which hosted the series’ first tournament last… Read more »
How can you get inside an opponent’s head if you don’t know what makes him tick? In this series that fuses poker, behavioral psychology, and entertainment, JimmyLegs cracks open the human mind to find out just how it works…and sometimes fails. This week: He discusses superstitious thinking and unrelated events. Read more »
Phil “The Unabomber” Laak set out to break the Guinness World Record for poker endurance because he always wanted to own a world record. Laak didn’t just end up breaking the world record, he crushed it by surpassing the old 78 hour milestone all the way to 115 straight hours of live poker. The record… Read more »
Taking second place in a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event would be slightly disappointing for any poker player, but $381,000 in cold hard cash might console most of them. For Tom “durrrr” Dwan, who finished second in Event #11: $1,500 No Limit Hold’em on Sunday, it was all about the bracelet. Dwan, one of… Read more »
On today’s Daily Deal: strip poker at the WSOP and Men Nguyen shows why he’s The Master. Also, Annette Obrestad signs on to represent her country, and Phil Laak sets what could be an unbeatable poker record. Hello, I’m Sean Gibson; welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily. The WSOP was definitely eventful… Read more »
The weekend looked like it would be a calm one from poker players on Twitter… until Tom “durrrr” Dwan made his assault on Event #11, a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event, at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). With Dwan making the final table with the chip lead – and with anywhere from $5 to… Read more »
As always, PokerStars was full of action this past weekend, with scores of players showing up to try to win life-changing money. Numbers were slightly down across the board, probably in part because of the weekend tournaments at the World Series of Poker, but there was still plenty of money to be won. First on… Read more »
Unabomber Poker pro Phil Laak endured 115 straight hours of poker, a new Guinness World Record. That’s nearly three traditional work weeks compacted into just under five days. Laak’s enduro challenge played out at a $10/$20 cash game at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Laak shattered the old record of 78 hours set by Paul… Read more »
On Saturday night, the 2010 Aussie Millions debuted on GSN. Announcers Paul Khoury and Grub Smith had the call of Day 1 of the AUD $100,000 buy-in High-Roller event and each player had only 30 seconds to act. Full Tilt Poker sponsors GSN’s latest foray into unique poker programming, which can be seen at 9:00pm… Read more »
Poker Hall of Fame nominee Men “The Master” Nguyen took home his seventh World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet by winning the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud World Championship. He banked $395,000 and recorded his 67th WSOP cash, good for the second most all-time behind Phil Hellmuth’s 76. Nguyen also has 38 WSOP final table… Read more »
Online poker has been assaulted on several fronts over the past few days. The June 1st institution of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) had, to this point, yet to be in full effect. Another ruling in Switzerland, issued the day after the UIGEA was enacted, has been decried by poker’s preeminent governing body… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker pro Annette Obrestad will play for Team Norway as part of World Team Poker. The former Betfair pro will join Thor Hansen to represent the Scandinavian country. Team Norway did not compete in the kickoff World Team Poker event, which played out at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas last month.… Read more »
Fresh off the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Brandon Cantu has re-signed with the online poker site UB.com for one year. The Las Vegas resident owns more than $3.6 million in lifetime tournament earnings. Cantu had originally signed with UB.com in May 2009 and appeared at the site’s party at Studio… Read more »
Canadian student Pascal LeFrancois collected his first bracelet and $568,974 by winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Event #8 on Friday evening. The Montreal, Quebec native took a massive chip lead to the final table and breezed through to add his name to the list of Canadian bracelet winners, joining… Read more »
On Friday, Unabomber Poker pro Phil Laak reached the halfway point of his endurance challenge. On a quest to break the standing record of 78 – yes, 78 – straight hours of poker, Laak is camped out at a $10/$20 table at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. While others are enduring the grind of the… Read more »
The Hijack Seat is back with poker legend Billy Baxter, interviewed by our own Bernard Lee. In this exclusive interview, Baxter discusses topics that include who might be the best 7-2 Lowball player in the world in addition to why it’s such a great poker game. Afterwards he talks about his WSOP experiences of the… Read more »
Arguably the hottest discussion at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) presently is Phil Hellmuth‘s deep run in the $1,500 No Limit Hold ’em event (#6), where Hellmuth was fifth in chips going into the final day of play with 25 players left. Hellmuth was updating progress on Twitter throughout Day 2, including this Tweet… Read more »
One of PND’s reporters is on the other side of the news this year. JD is in Vegas for the WSOP, but he will not be conducting interviews or reporting chip counts; he is on a quest to win his first bracelet. We asked him to submit weekly updates of his WSOP experience as part… Read more »
On today’s Daily Deal, a well-known pro takes down a twenty-one hundred player tournament at the World Series of Poker and poker players are allegedly taking performance-enhancing drugs. All this and more on the Friday edition of the Daily Deal! Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily. In… Read more »
Completing its first week of action at the Rio in Las Vegas, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) awarded two bracelets on Thursday night, with three other tournaments in action and two set to start their Day Ones on Friday. Event #6, the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Shootout, began on Tuesday with 358 runners coming… Read more »
DoylesRoom, which is part of the Cake Poker Network, recently unveiled their version of knockout tournaments – Prime Time Fights. Every Tuesday and Thursday night, DoylesRoom will now feature $30+3 tournaments where every player has a $5 bounty on their head. Additionally, there’s incentive to play in the Prime Time Fights regularly as there are… Read more »
For the past several years, one of the fixtures of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). The one million member lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. once again hosts a booth in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas this year, spreading the gospel to the… Read more »
There’s more than just money and bracelets on the line this year at the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Four online poker players will be competing over the next six weeks for a spot in the prestigious DoylesRoom Brunson 10, a group of pros handpicked by 10-time bracelet winner Doyle Brunson. Each of the… Read more »
Today we’ll update you on WSOP results, Brian Townsend resigns as CardRunners’ lead instructor, French gaming authorities get ready to start issuing licenses, and UB.com looks for the craziest WSOP bet. Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily. The WSOP is officially in full swing. The Mizrachi brothers… Read more »
To put it lightly, Chris “Moorman1” Moorman is an online poker phenom. Born in Brighton, UK, he attended Essex University, where he began playing poker in home games with his friends. Before long he found online poker and, since winning $70 in a freeroll tournament, he hasn’t looked back. Initially a mid-stakes cash game player,… Read more »
