The fallout continues to be felt in the online poker industry after the move of DoylesRoom. The Cake Poker Network has shown a drop in player numbers, while the Yatahay Poker Network has seen a major boost, according to PokerScout.com. When DoylesRoom, the online poker outlet fronted by poker legend Doyle Brunson, departed the Cake… Read more »
There was close to $1 million on the table when the $150,000 Cash Game week of NBC’s “Poker After Dark” kicked off on Monday night. The blinds held steady at $300/$600 with an ante of $500 paid out of the big blind. Six players took to the felts for the show, which airs at 2:05am… Read more »
Online gaming firm 888 Holdings PLC reported its fourth quarter 2010 financial results on Monday, bringing to a close another successful year. For the quarter ending December 31st, 2010, total operating income across all of 888’s business units was $71 million, an increase of 18% when compared to the third quarter of 2010. Most of… Read more »
We are about six weeks into 2011. How are you coming along with your New Year’s resolutions? One of mine was to take more time for myself and to play more poker. With that in mind, I decided to spend a week at the Commerce during the L.A. Poker Classic (LAPC) recently. I cancelled all… Read more »
The Showdown with Jon Friedberg returns and Jack Effel, tournament director of the World Series of Poker, is his in-studio interview guest. This is Part 1 of 2. Be sure to watch The Showdown – Episode 6, Part 2. In this episode, on top of interviewing Jack Effel, Friedberg discusses the vote on Full Tilt… Read more »
The Showdown continues with WSOP tournament director Jack Effel. Host Jon Friedberg begins this part of the interview by asking about how Effel puts together the tournament schedule. Specifically, is it made so No Limit Hold’em players get to play in all the No Limit Hold’em events and mixed players for mixed events and the… Read more »
The next competitor in the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown was announced earlier today through the PokerStars blog. The next opponent for the hyper-aggressive Viktor “Isildur1” Blom will be a man who has racked up a tremendous record in both live and online competition. Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov will be Blom’s opponent this Sunday when the SuperStar Showdown… Read more »
CardRunners presents Dr Razz and his Razz starting hand system in this poker training video. Here is the official teaser from CardRunners: Doctor Razz is back! This week, Dan re-introduces his famous Starting Hand Power Rating System and discusses the theory and practice behind using it at the table. He then replays some hands from… Read more »
The 19th installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) kicked off Sunday with a $216 No Limit Hold’em event hosted by Full Tilt Poker pro Huck Seed. The event, which ran during Super Bowl XLV between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers, still managed to draw 6,607 entrants for a total prize… Read more »
The biggest bet over the weekend by poker players wasn’t on Super Bowl XLV, surprisingly. Apparently, a wager in Orlando drew tremendous attention from fans on Twitter and the poker forums. According to information from Justin “Boosted J” Smith over his Twitter account, a prop bet was set up for Ashton Griffin. The bet apparently… Read more »
No, this isn’t some sort of early April Fools Day joke. Season 7 of the popular GSN cash game series “High Stakes Poker” will feature former “Saturday Night Live” star Norm MacDonald as its host. The new cycle will premiere on Saturday, February 26th at 8:00pm ET and be shown in 3D. It will re-air… Read more »
Over the weekend, former UB.com front man Phil Hellmuth was in Dallas, Texas for Super Bowl XLV, which saw the Green Bay Packers defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 last night. Part of Hellmuth’s itinerary was a stop at Southern Methodist University to chat it up with former U.S. President George W. Bush. After meeting country… Read more »
Ten days ago, a lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California numbered VC057998. The litigation pits poker players Eli Strickland and Edwin Pairavi against the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles over what the Plaintiffs claim is a “classic bait and switch.” The suit surrounds a $200,000 guaranteed poker tournament held… Read more »
A brand new week of NBC’s “Poker After Dark” premieres on Monday. In fact, the new cycle, a $150,000 Cash Game, is so big that it will span two weeks. The blinds will be $300/$600 with an ante of $100 and the game features a rock solid lineup of pros. Two players will make their… Read more »
With Super Bowl XLV upon us, many in the poker community are preparing for the “Big Game” in different ways. While many are in Dallas for the festivities, some will actually be working when the game begins on Sunday night. While Phil Hellmuth has been traveling the Super Bowl party circuit, challenging him for being… Read more »
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is back. The 19th installment of the popular quarterly series gets underway on Sunday and is comprised of 45 events of all formats and varieties, including Rush Poker tournaments, Cashout tournaments, and Multi-Entry tournaments. Multi-Entry tournaments were added to the Full Tilt Poker client in January and were… Read more »
Sunday marks the 45th NFL Super Bowl. The NFC Champion Green Bay Packers will battle the AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers at 6:30pm ET in Dallas, Texas. UB.com is gearing up for the “Big Game” by holding a $200K Touchdown promotion, awarding 40 seats in its weekly $200,000 Guaranteed. The $200,000 Guaranteed runs every Sunday and… Read more »
If you were banking to see former UB.com pro Phil Hellmuth on the 12th cycle of the ABC reality series “Dancing with the Stars,” then you might have to wait a little longer. This week, while in transit to Dallas for the Super Bowl and dropping names like they were molten lava, Hellmuth addressed the… Read more »
Welcome to the Poker News Daily Weekly update, as always I am your host Sean Gibson, and I’ll be recapping the week that was in the world of poker. Lets get to the top headlines! Our first story follows up on the Bellagio heist that occurred months ago. You might remember a man dressed in… Read more »
According to news reports, the alleged thief who knocked off the Bellagio in Las Vegas for $1.5 million was apprehended due to the help of the online poker community. Reports on several websites including Yahoo News and SportsInteraction.com detail the activities of the alleged “Bellagio Bandit.” Anthony Michael Carleo, who was arrested on Wednesday morning… Read more »
The poker world lost one of its most charming personalities on Tuesday when Jack Ury passed away at his home in Terra Haute, Indiana. Ury was the oldest person to ever play at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the age of 97, a superlative he logged last year, and will forever be remember… Read more »
This month, PartyPoker is bringing back its popular Snowball promotion, allowing players to bank up to $10,000 in cash and get access to $100,000 in freerolls. The promotion, which was last held in September, will run until February 28th at 23:59 ET. If you’re interested in participating in the PartyPoker Snowball promotion, you must opt… Read more »
An Irish newspaper is reporting that a company associated with Full Tilt Poker, the second largest online poker operation in the industry, has shown tremendous expansion over the past two years and will add even more jobs in 2011. The article, which appears in the Irish Times, states that Pocket Kings, Ltd., Full Tilt Poker’s… Read more »
An IT expert from England could face jail time after stealing an alleged $12 million in online poker chips from Zynga’s Texas Hold’em application on Facebook. Ashley Mitchell, 29, pled guilty to five charges on Wednesday and was told by Judge Philip Wassall that he faced a substantial jail term for performing the “sophisticated” offenses.… Read more »
How do you celebrate a $2.3 million cash windfall? Buy an island? Burn a couch? Dance a jig? For 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event winner Galen Hall, a party at a swank San Francisco hotel and a trip for 20 friends on a party bus were just what the doctor ordered, according to… Read more »
