On Friday, former World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Niner Scott Montgomery posted on his Facebook account, “Getting ready to celebrate my gf’s birthday. hope she likes my gift!” This seemingly innocuous statement was met with some surprise by many as, prior to this, Montgomery had not indicated through Facebook any changes in his relationship… Read more »
Continuing to deliver in the live and online poker tournament worlds, Team PokerStars pro Jason Mercier outlasted a monster field in the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Event #42, $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em, to win the title and its $435,000 payout. The two-day tournament drew an outstanding crowd of 3,122 players, which cracked… Read more »
After two days of play in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Borgata Poker Open, tournament veteran John D’Agostino leads the way with a stack of 681,000. He has a slight lead over the second place stack of Giuseppe Pantaleo and, when play resumes for Day 3 on Tuesday, both will be seated at the same… Read more »
The “Bernard Lee Poker Show,” which airs every Tuesday from 6:00pm ET to 7:00pm ET on 1120 AM in Boston, 970 AM in Worcester, and 1390 AM in Cape Cod, is dishing out $1,000 in cash and prizes. The occasion: celebrating the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine. The show is making it… Read more »
Full Tilts MiniFTOPS XVII is complete with some massive pay-outs made for pretty small buy-ins. Some on the most noteworthy events were: Event 16, the 2nd most expensive tournament of the series, the $109 No Limit Hold’em tournament had 4,011 entrants creating a prize pool of $401,100, over $100,000 more than the initial guarantee. The… Read more »
The second weekend of the WCOOP series had 5 events, paying out over a cool $6.6 million. Saturday’s action started with event 38, the $530 No Limit Hold’em Heads Up tournament. 943 entrants came to play, creating a prize pool of $471,500 and leaving $128,500 to PokerStars to meet the guarantee of $600,000. Day one… Read more »
Taylor Caby is the head instructor at CardRunners and a legend in Heads Up online poker circles. In this exclusive match-up that can only be seen here at Poker News Daily, he goes head-to-head against our own Sean Gibson at a Sit & Go of No Limit Hold’em. At stake is a prop bet between… Read more »
Season 2 of the PokerStars.net-powered “Million Dollar Challenge” debuted on Sunday flanking the NFL on FOX. Longtime sports commentator Chris Rose served as the host and also tackled play-by-play duties, while Michelle Nunes dished out details on a special online freeroll. The first challenger of the new season was Jessica Cupini, a single mom attending… Read more »
The record books were re-written over the weekend, as 1,042 players turned out for the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City, the largest WPT field ever assembled. Last year, the tournament, which sports a $3,500 buy-in, drew 1,018 players, meaning that attendance this year was up 2%. Over 300 players turned… Read more »
The team at CardRunners is back with a PLO Postflop Theory strategy video. For those of you that dabble in Pot Limit Omaha, or are a budding superstar making your way up from the micro-stakes, then this video will be of serious help to your game. Here’s the official preview from CardRunners: LearnedFromTV – Released… Read more »
In Event #2 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe, Jeffrey Lisandro captured his fifth gold bracelet, tied for the 12th highest total overall. Lisandro came out on top of the field in a ₤5,000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament that attracted 120 players. The bracelet marked Lisandro’s first non-Stud title and he took down… Read more »
On Saturday night, the third regular season round concluded on the Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship, which airs on GSN. The festivities featured must-win matches for David Oppenheim and David Benyamine, who are fighting for post-season births. Each player competes in four regular season matches and, in a unique twist to team poker, players alternate… Read more »
Goldwater Bank in Scottsdale, Arizona has agreed to forfeit $734,000 in assets tied to money laundering and illegal online gambling operations, the FBI said on Friday. The one-branch bank was accused of transferring funds for several online gambling sites, including PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room. At least $13 million was transferred in the… Read more »
Prior to the start of this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe, the industry gathered at the Kensington Close Hotel in London for the first annual British Poker Awards. On Monday evening, the best players in the British poker community received accolades for their achievements over the past year. The winners of the individual… Read more »
In breaking news from California, State Senator Rod Wright has been indicted on eight counts, including “false declaration of candidacy, voter fraud, and perjury beginning in 2007, when he changed his voter registration to run for the legislature,” according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper. Officials allege that Wright did not live in the district… Read more »
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Poker News Daily Weekly Update. We are moving to this new weekly format for now as we have a ton of great poker lifestyle pieces heading your way and didn’t want you to miss out on those. However, I’ll still be back bringing the news every Friday.… Read more »
In Season 2, the Borgata Poker Open became a regular stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Today, the first of two starting days in the $3,500 buy-in East Coast poker tournament will begin at 11:00am ET. Tomorrow, it’ll be Groundhog Day for Borgata and WPT officials, who will see Day 1B play out. Last… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe is in full swing this week, with poker players keeping their fans in touch with the action through their Twitter accounts. The biggest news of the tournament schedule has been Phil Laak taking down his first bracelet on Thursday evening. Laak was quite prolific with his Tweets as… Read more »
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, released its 2010 Congressional Ratings Guide this week. The guide provides ratings for every member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate on their stances on poker issues. According to PPA Chairman and former Senator Alfonse… Read more »
She’s good from far, but is she far from good? –Anonymous One of my college roommates introduced me to that goofy little line about 15 years ago or so. It refers to how a member of the fairer sex can appear to be the catch of the century when you spot her all the way… Read more »
Event #1 of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe was a £2,650 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed tournament. Amazingly, it sold out after attracting 244 players. Unabomber Poker front man Phil Laak walked away with £170,000, but perhaps more importantly, his first WSOP gold bracelet. Laak now has over $500,000 in career WSOP earnings… Read more »
One of the most popular made for television poker shows, the PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge, will return with new episodes this Sunday, according to an announcement from the number one site in the online poker industry. Fox Television will once again air the Million Dollar Challenge as companion programming to its coverage of the National… Read more »
This week, the ESPN.com poker news program “Inside Deal” welcomed North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun Main Event champ Vanessa Selbst. The newly minted PokerStars pro made the November Nine of the Partouche Poker Tour. Discussion first turned to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event money bubble, which popped this week as… Read more »
In the conclusion of our exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the World Poker Tour, we check out some of the history of poker and also get to see more of Mike Sexton’s pre-game preparation. Afterwards, host Sean Gibson is joined by the two men leading the WPT for an exclusive interview with President Adam Pliska and… Read more »
On Thursday, word broke across the online poker industry that SpadeClub, a subscription-based room that welcomes action from the United States, had ceased operations. Players are now asked to sign up for CardPlayer Poker on the ZEN Entertainment Network. Text found on SpadeClub’s website explains, “Going forward, all SpadeClub members are being offered a chance… Read more »
