On Saturday night, the finals of the Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship continued on GSN. The four-handed final table saw its first elimination and the show ended with three teams left standing. Teammates alternate action by street in the Doubles Poker Championship suite at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas. Howard Lederer and Phil… Read more »
The Quick Summary Poker4Green is one of the latest rooms to join the Cake Poker Network. Created in 2010, the site is one of the first in the industry to have a dual purpose for its operations. Along with providing an outlet for poker, the ownership behind the site also is looking to use some… Read more »
The Cake Poker Gold Card Race will begin on November 2nd and, for the next four weeks, award their cash game players with a total of $25,000 in free money. Each week counts as a race for players to collect as many Gold Card “miles” as they can. Cake Poker’s Gold Cards are handed out… Read more »
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, announced on Thursday that it will be joining forces with ESPN to provide its state-of-the-art software for the ESPN Poker Club, a free-to-play poker section on ESPN.com. The new poker room will be available sometime in November, presumably before the airing of the World Series of Poker (WSOP)… Read more »
Could another online poker player take down a major live tournament? It’s certainly shaping up that way at the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals, where Chris “Big Huni” Hunichen paces the field after three days of action. The tournament will crown a winner on Tuesday, when general elections will occur in the… Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that Victory Poker pro Antonio Esfandiari will appear in a major motion picture alongside three high-profile celebrities. The yet-to-be-named movie begins filming in five weeks. On Monday, Victory Poker officials took part in a home game with major Hollywood producers, celebrities, and poker players. On Thursday, Esfandiari dined with one… Read more »
Registration remained open through the first level of play on Friday in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals. When the cash boxes closed for business, 242 players had registered for the $10,000 buy-in tournament, a drop of 31% from the 353 that entered last year. In 2009, Cornel Andrew Cimpan took home… Read more »
Welcome back to the Poker News Daily Weekly Update where we recap the biggest headlines in the world of poker. I’m your host Sean Gibson. Our first story congratulates Jim Anderson, who became the first ever champion of a WSOP Circuit Regional Championship on Thursday after trumping the field in Hammond, Indiana. The ten thousand… Read more »
In a recent column, I wrote about PartyPoker’s new game, Double Hold’em. Who knows if it will have staying power, but it was really cool to see an online poker site put something new out there. Full Tilt did so with Rush Poker, and it is definitely fun, but even that variation uses the standard… Read more »
No tricks here! On Sunday, celebrating Halloween, UB.com is holding two special qualifiers into its weekly $200,000 Guaranteed. At least 40 seats will be up for grabs, and the two satellites have a combined price tag of just $4.40. Plus, the site welcomes players from the United States with outstretched arms. UB.com, which makes its… Read more »
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Thursday that the man who held up Oklahoma poker pro Jason Potter at knifepoint in January 2008 lost an appeal against a minimum two-year jail sentence. Dwayne Johnstone, a 34-year-old felon and drug addict, and another man stole more than $31,000 from Potter as the poker pro was leaving… Read more »
Jim Anderson became the first ever champion of a World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Regional Championship after trumping the field in Hammond, Indiana. The $10,000 buy-in tournament started with 226 players and Anderson banked over $500,000. Anderson finished 242nd in this year’s Main Event in Las Vegas, driving deep in poker’s most prestigious tournament.… Read more »
Major League Baseball’s World Series kicked off last night, with many in the poker community keeping up to date through their Twitter accounts. By the informal survey of poker’s best through the Twitterverse, it seems the San Francisco Giants are the choice over the Texas Rangers. “Tailgating before game 1 of the World Series,” Tweeted… Read more »
On Wednesday, World Series of Poker (WSOP) and ESPN officials held a conference call to preview next week’s resumption of the Main Event, which will trim the November Nine down to a winner. This year, poker fans at the Rio will likely experience shorter lines as a result of increased seating inside the Penn and… Read more »
Full Ring grinder RonFar3 is back with another strategy video from CardRunners to help you get your game to the next level. Here’s the official teaser from CardRunners: Full Ring Theory and Practice: RonFar Part 2 Released 09.21.2010 We introduce new instructor RonFar3 with some serious style: a new series showcasing the true theory behind… Read more »
Parting ways with UB.com recently were Matt “mattg1983” Graham, Michael Binger, and Billy “Patrolman35” Kopp, who no longer appear on the room’s list of sponsored pros. UB.com makes its home on the USA-friendly CEREUS Network along with its sister site, Absolute Poker. Graham’s contract originally ran for one year and the young poker gun was… Read more »
Andy Bloch joins us from the Ante Up For Africa tournament at the 2010 World Series of Poker. During this red carpet event, we caught up with several big names from poker as well as television, movie and sports celebrities that participated to raise awareness and money for the needy in Africa. Bloch is known… Read more »
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, announced this week that it will be teaming up with FOXSports.com to create a free poker room made available on the popular sports news site. The PokerStars.net poker application will be hosted on FOXSports.com and provide a free-play poker client as well as news, tournament results, poker strategy,… Read more »
Twenty-four players are left standing in the first ever World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Regional Championship, which is taking place at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, located just outside of Chicago. The bursting of the money bubble ended play on Tuesday. Cero Zuccarello became the first ever Bubble Boy at a Circuit Regional… Read more »
History is being made this week as the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is holding tournaments on the continent of Africa for the first time. A stop on the WSOP Circuit, WSOP Africa is currently underway at the Emerald Resort and Casino in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa and will run through the end of the… Read more »
The 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event field shrunk from 27 players to 18 on Tuesday night as the tournament aired on ESPN. Two players began with over 20 million in chips and five of the top nine stacks were seated at the ESPN feature table. PokerStars pro Johnny Lodden was the first… Read more »
Mark Kroon, known online as P0ker H0, talks about the WSOP and gives some insider tips for first timers that plan to make their way to the event next year. If you ever have dreamed of playing in the World Series of Poker Main Event but have never made the trip out, Kroon gives his… Read more »
In recent days, the popular poker training site CardRunners signed “Cash Plays” co-host John “Nicolak” Kim to its roster of instructors. Kim’s first video focused on $5/$10 No Limit Hold’em. He sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss becoming an official part of the CardRunners family. Poker News Daily: Thanks for joining us. For… Read more »
One of the top players from this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event has parlayed his success into a sponsorship from the online poker room PokerStars. Theo Jorgensen, the veteran Danish poker pro who was one of the chip leaders at the WSOP Main Event with four tables remaining, has become the latest… Read more »
On Monday, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the 1.2 million member strong lobbying voice for poker players in the United States, welcomed a new Board member into its ranks. Patrick “Skallagrim” Fleming, who manages the PPA’s Litigation Network, will bring insight to the Board as the organization heads into 2011. PPA Chairman Alfonse D’Amato commented… Read more »
