This week, “The Showdown” with Jon Friedberg welcomes recent Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday winner Shaun Deeb. The top-tier poker pro sits at #44 worldwide in the PocketFives.com Rankings and has maintained his place atop the industry for the past five years. Check out Part 1 and Part 2. Friedberg began the show by discussing… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is pulling out all the stops this week, doubling the guarantees on its tournaments to the tune of $30 million. The unique promotion resulted in one of the largest $1K Mondays ever held. Officially dubbed Double Guarantees Week, the action at Full Tilt Poker is expected to be quite hectic between now… Read more »
Two days of play are in the books at the Southern Poker Championship, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). From a starting grid of 214 players, a total of 66 remain. Kevin Elias paces the survivors with a stack of 229,900, while brand name poker pros like Lee Markholt and Full Tilt Poker’s… Read more »
Yesterday, Bluff Magazine revealed the winners of its sixth annual Reader’s Choice Awards, a list that featured several repeat winners along with a bevy of new honorees. The nominees were announced in the first week of December and Bluff opened the voting to the poker community via the internet. The polls for the 14 categories… Read more »
Brandon Cantu proved long ago that he’s no one-trick pony. In 2006, he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event for $757,000, outlasting the likes of Carlos Mortensen and Brent Roberts at the final table. Two years ago, he was up to his winning ways once again.… Read more »
The Showdown Episode 4 is here with Shaun Deeb as guest to the show hosted by professional poker player and WSOP bracelet winner Jon Friedberg. This is Part 1 of Episode 4 of The Showdown. To continue watching, be sure to catch Part 2 of Episode 4 of The Showdown. To kick things off, Friedberg… Read more »
Episode 4 Part 2 picks up with Shaun Deeb joining Jon Friedberg on The Showdown. This is Part 2 of Episode 4. If you missed it, be sure to watch Part 1 of Episode 4. The conversation continues about Twitter and the internet blogging phenomenon. Friedberg makes a comment about all the acronyms and new… Read more »
On Monday, officials from Caesars Entertainment released the schedule for the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The 2011 WSOP schedule features 58 bracelet events including a brand new $25,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em Championship. The festivities will once again take place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The $50,000 Player’s… Read more »
CardRunners instructor Pokey is back to continue his lesson on Expected Value. This video goes into the details of how to calculate EV and how understanding EV can help your decision making process, as well as stay off tilt. Here is the official teaser from CardRunners: In the second episode of this series, Pokey uses… Read more »
The Aussie Millions wrapped up one of its premiere events, the AUD $100,000 Challenge, on Sunday, with England’s Sam Trickett taking down the prestigious title over a stacked field. Saturday saw the event begin with perhaps one of the most difficult fields ever assembled. With the AUD $100,000 buy-in, only the crème of the poker… Read more »
The richest UB.com Online Championship (UBOC) tournament held during its current cycle took place on Sunday. Event #16 was a $2,100 No Limit Hold’em High Roller Deep Stack tournament that brought in a field of 387 players. The prize pool totaled $774,000 – a full $24,000 above the guarantee – and a top prize of… Read more »
Daniel Negreanu isn’t about to let the game of poker pass him by. The Team PokerStars Pro member from Canada wrote in his blog this week that he plans to put in a lot of volume on the world’s leading online poker site in order to keep up with the “younger players.” He may even… Read more »
There was a recent article in the Washington Post about a high school in a Virginia suburb that formed a poker club for its students. The article notes, “[The club] has quickly become one of the most popular extracurricular activities at the Falls Church high school.” Color me astonished. Of course, the anti-gambling groups are… Read more »
The 2010 Casinomeister Awards were recently announced, with Microgaming receiving the award for Best Software Provider and other companies picking up trophies for their performances. The Casinomeister Awards have been handed out for the last decade, honoring the best and worst in the online gaming community. This year, awards were given in 40 different categories… Read more »
Mike “1GOLEAFSGOEH1” Leah took down Event #14 of the UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC, on Saturday. Leah stormed through the field of the $215 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Triple Chance tournament that doled out a short stack to each player. Leah’s victory was worth an even $26,000 and he edged out P0KERCCINI heads-up. Leah, a… Read more »
Poker News Daily can independently confirm that the seventh season of GSN’s “High Stakes Poker” will debut on Saturday, February 26th. The show moves from its customary Sunday night time slot to Saturday this time around. Once again, Gabe Kaplan will provide solo commentary in the booth and Kara Scott will conduct interviews from the… Read more »
Not one, not two, but three players participated in a chop of Event #12 of the sixth UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC. The $162 Sniper No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack tournament drew a field of 563 players and boasted a prize pool that passed $75,000. In addition, a bounty prize pool of $8,400 was up… Read more »
Welcome to Poker News Daily, I’m Sean Gibson and thanks for tuning in to our Weekly News Update, where we recap the biggest headlines in the world of poker! The sixth UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC, is in full swing. The series kicked off last weekend and eleven events have already been completed. A two… Read more »
The Borgata Winter Poker Open’s first event, a $500 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack tournament, drew an astounding 1,472 players on Wednesday. This was an all-time attendance record for a Borgata tournament and marks one of the largest events ever held on the East Coast of the United States. The humongous field also set another… Read more »
Online betting giant bwin has announced the launch of the first real money online poker app for the iPhone, joining Full Tilt Poker and Switch Poker as the only rooms in the mobile arena. The free Texas Hold’em app is available now in the App Stores in the U.K. and Austria, where bwin is based,… Read more »
I caught a clip of the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event the other day and saw eventual champion Greg Raymer jotting down notes about the hands he played. I remember thinking to myself when the show was originally aired that note taking was a great idea. Fast-forward to 2011 and note taking is… Read more »
Thursday marked a slow day in the sixth UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC. Only one tournament was held, a $163 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack event (#11) that offered up a $75,000 guaranteed prize pool. The contest drew a field of 626 players and, when the last river card had been dealt, PWNOOBS walked away… Read more »
Kicking off on Full Tilt Poker on February 6th is the 19th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. The quarterly tournament extravaganza boasts a slate of 45 events this time around and features not one, not two, not three, but nine multi-entry tournaments. Multi-entry tournaments were introduced as part of Full… Read more »
CardRunners instructor Verneer joins our newsmaker hotline to discuss his charity drive to turn a $200 bankroll on Full Tilt Poker into $10,000 and give it all away to charity. Verneer is planning to not just catalog his climb in the micro-stakes games but also make training videos to watch on CardRunners so that people… Read more »
A recent sighting of 1994 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event winner Russ Hamilton in a Florida poker room and a verbal altercation at the tables have sparked the ire of the poker community once again. A poster on the TwoPlusTwo forum named “Slifdog” detailed a trip to Gulfstream Park’s $5/$10/$20 No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
