When Victory Poker opened its doors earlier this year, it welcomed a handful of high-profile players into its stable of sponsored pros. Antonio Esfandiari, Paul Wasicka, Andrew Robl, and Brian Rast, among others, now wear the Victory logo as the site attempts to build its reputation as one of the world’s top online poker rooms.… Read more »
In a lawsuit that has popped up on both PocketFives.com and TwoPlusTwo in recent days, a Florida resident seeking to recover “illegal poker gambling losses” is suing six online poker players from Illinois. The lawsuit includes nearly 190 pages of tournament results and is numbered 1:10-cv-06543. Targeted in the case are six top players from… Read more »
Recently, the Canterbury Park Racetrack and Card Casino announced a new partnership with the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) and PokerStars, the tour’s headline sponsor. What makes the partnership interesting is that there are no NAPT events held at the Shakopee, Minnesota poker room. With the freshly inked deal, Canterbury Park will host four super… Read more »
On Tuesday night, the field of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was chopped from 48 players to just 27. As the action quickly approached the November Nine, the eliminations were fast and furious. You can catch ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 WSOP Main Event every Tuesday at 9:00pm ET. Danish pro… Read more »
Longtime poker pro Randal “RandALLin” Flowers is the chip leader entering the final table of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago. After extended play on Tuesday, Flowers will come armed to the six-handed televised final table with 40 big blinds. The action picks back up today at 4:00pm PT. Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler was… Read more »
Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., the world’s largest casino company and owner of the World Series of Poker brand, filed an initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The company is going public just three years after private equity firms Apollo and TPG Capital took it private for $30.7 billion, and hopes… Read more »
On Monday night, a brand new week of the PokerStars-sponsored “Big Game” kicked off on FOX. The newest cycle featured Elizabeth Houston as the so-called “Loose Cannon.” PokerStars staked Houston, who was recently laid off from eBay, with $100,000 and she’d keep any profits earned. The “Loose Cannon” with the most profits at the end… Read more »
Jay Rosenkrantz, who plays online by the name of “Pr1nnyraid” (among others) and is also a well respected poker writer, wrote on his blog that he and another player will be collaborating on a documentary that will focus on online poker. Rosenkrantz will be joined by CardRunners instructor Taylor Caby in the endeavor which, according… Read more »
Jared Tendler is a licensed therapist who specializes with poker players. In this video he conducts a session with our own Sean Gibson to talk about his tilt and confidence issues with poker. Tendler’s client roster includes Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt along with many high and mid stakes professional poker players. In this session, Tendler breaks… Read more »
This month, the CEREUS Network poker room UB.com is holding a number of tournaments and contests tailor-made for its low-stakes customers. All together, they have been dubbed the Perfect Play. Perfect 10 All month, UB.com will hold $10 + $1 multi-table tournaments 10 times per day. They will commence once per hour, on the half… Read more »
The Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2010 was announced on Tuesday morning. 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Dan Harrington and eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel will be enshrined during a ceremony on November 8th at the Rio in Las Vegas. Harrington received four of this author’s ten Poker Hall of… Read more »
With 13 players remaining in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago, a familiar face sits perched atop the leaderboard. Full Tilt Poker pro Annette Obrestad, the winner of the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event, is the lone player over two million chips in the Bellagio tournament. The final elimination… Read more »
This year’s kickoff event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit stop in Hammond, Indiana attracted 1,611 players for the largest Circuit field ever assembled. Brett Schwertley ultimately took down the $350 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament for a WSOP Circuit ring along with a $77,000 payday. Schwertley isn’t just some random Chicago area… Read more »
WSOP Bracelet winner Matt Janda brings us a $2/$4 NLHE strategy replayer video, produced by CardRunners. Let’s take a look at the official CardRunners teaser for this video: Matthew Janda – Released 09/08/2010 It’s more than your average replayer vid. In this $400 NLHE session, Janda is replaying every single hand where he voluntarily puts… Read more »
In a lawsuit winding its way through the Nevada court system, poker pro Russ “Dutch” Boyd is being sued by TwoPlusTwo Interactive, LLC for “cyber squatting,” or owning a website that intends to profit off the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. In a post on TwoPlusTwo last week, site owner Mason Malmuth… Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that the Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2010 will be announced on Tuesday. Two players will be enshrined during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event November Nine festivities in three weeks after garnering a majority vote. Last year, World Poker Tour (WPT) host Mike Sexton was the… Read more »
Last December, Stephen O’Dwyer, known in the online poker world as “MrTimCaum,” made the final table and finished sixth in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. On Monday, he’ll look to turn in another deep run in a WPT event by widening his chip lead at the Festa al… Read more »
Since the World Series of Poker (WSOP) this summer, my life has been a complete whirlwind. After I witnessed the entire five-hour Main Event final table bubble (which went well into the wee hours of July 18th), we taped the ESPN Inside Deal WSOP wrap-up show at about 8:00am with no sleep. Fortunately, right after… Read more »
On Saturday, the second and last semifinal of the Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship aired on GSN. The one-hour episode featured four teams vying for the two remaining spots at the series’ final table. Phil Ivey and Chris Ferguson began with 350,000 in chips, the lowest total of the group, while Erick Lindgren and Johnny… Read more »
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) legend Randy Couture will host the third annual “Operation All In” charity poker tournament and auction fundraiser at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas on Saturday, October 30th. The tournament and auction will benefit the Xtreme Couture G.I. Foundation, which honors the veterans of America’s armed forces. The event is open… Read more »
After turning in deep runs in the 2009 and 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Events, Matt “mcmatto” Affleck is making poker headlines once again. This time, he’s pacing the field of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago after two days of play. Affleck holds a stack of 585,300, just edging out… Read more »
This November, the World Poker Tour (WPT) will once again head to the historic and picturesque city of Marrakech, Morocco, for its second ever poker tournament in the North African region. For this year’s version, co-sponsors Chili Poker and the WPT have teamed up to make the stop at the Casino de Marrakech a full-blown… Read more »
Day 1 of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago took place on Friday, with 294 players coming to the felts at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Registration remains open until around 5:00pm PT today and, this year, the tournament saw its buy-in shaved from $15,000 to $10,000. The day began with Tony “Bond18”… Read more »
It’s not every day you see a 23-way chop in a live poker tournament. 23 ways! However, that’s exactly what happened in a $400 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack event held during the Foxwoods World Poker Finals this week. A whopping 23 players divvied up the prize pool, each taking home at least $10,000. Seriously, there… Read more »
Welcome back to the Poker News Daily Weekly Update! I’m your host, Sean Gibson, and we’ll take a look now at the biggest poker headlines of the week. We’ll start this week with a little poker literature news. Check out “No Limits: The Fundamentals of No Limit Hold’em” by Chris “Fox” Wallace and Adam Stemple.… Read more »
