This week, “The Showdown with Jon Friedberg” welcomes a bearded Justin Young. The former engineer turned poker player is fresh off a win in a qualifier at Caesars Palace for the National Heads-Up Poker Championship and shared how his background has influenced his game. UB.com sponsors “The Showdown,” so support the show by signing up… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker, the world’s second largest online poker room, released a software update on Tuesday that added several new features. Cutting to the chase: Private Tournaments Just like it sounds, players can now create their own private tournaments, restricting entry to whomever they would like to participate. For those who want to set something… Read more »
All this week, “Poker After Dark” is hosting a $50K Idol game featuring five young guns battling poker legend Doyle Brunson. Each player received a starting stack of 50,000 in the unique sit and go and the blinds began at 300/600. You can catch “Poker After Dark” nightly at 2:05am ET on NBC. Brunson was… Read more »
On this episode of “The Showdown,” Jon Friedberg hosts Justin Young as his guest. This is part 1 of 2. After this video, be sure to check out The Showdown – Episode 14, Part 2. Also, if you haven’t signed up at UB.com yet, you can open an account and use promo code “UBPND” to… Read more »
Justin Young shares some of his toughs on poker as well as his most recent experience playing at the WSOP with viewers of “The Showdown.” This is Part 2 of Episode 14. If you haven’t already seen the beginning of the show, be sure to watch The Showdown – Episode 14, Part 1. The show… Read more »
Monday night’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Butler Bulldogs captured the attention of millions of sports fans as well as the crème of the poker world. Recent Wynn Classic champion Tim West perhaps put the battle for the title best when he Tweeted, “So excited for this game… let’s… Read more »
PartyPoker, the world’s third largest online poker room, is offering up 1.8 million prize cards as part of its Card Rush Instant Win promotion in April. The promotion will run through April 30th or until the prize cards are given away and offers numerous chances to earn extra cash by playing on the site this… Read more »
It looks like 2011 is going to be the year of the High Roller event. With new offerings like the Aussie Millions $250,000 Super High Roller tournament and Full Tilt Poker’s Onyx Cup Series leading the way, tournaments for the richest of the rich are the new trend. The latest offering comes to us from… Read more »
Ever wanted to go to the Super Bowl? How about the World Cup championship game? What about Wimbledon? Or maybe the Olympics? This week, PokerStars launched a promotion called the Game of Your Life to send players to sporting events on their bucket lists. Text found on PokerStars explains what you have to look forward… Read more »
For the first time ever, UB.com is holding a standalone Mini Ultimate Bet Online Championship (MiniUBOC). The action gets underway this weekend. The MiniUBOC, which is scheduled for April 10th to 17th, will offer big money guaranteed events with much lower buy-ins than the normal UBOC. Along with the tournaments, UB.com will be offering several… Read more »
One week after splitting a pair of heads-up matches with Daniel Negreanu in the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom faced off against one of online poker’s brightest young stars on Sunday. 20-year-old Scott “URnotINdangr” Palmer challenged the talented Swede to four tables of $50/$100 No Limit Hold’em and came out on top after 2,500… Read more »
Saturday night marked the debut of 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel on the GSN cash game series “High Stakes Poker.” The show, whose new episodes can be seen at 8:00pm ET and 11:00pm ET on Saturdays, featured an all-new lineup this week containing three recreational players and five hungry… Read more »
Chris DeMaci is a huge star in the world of online tournament poker who has proven in multiple big buy-in live events, he is a true force to be reckoned with. According to several online databases, DeMaci has over $1.47 in lifetime career earnings and hails from Newport Beach, CA in the United States. One… Read more »
Beginning this Friday, Full Tilt Poker will be opening up its wallets to give players free money during its Take 2 promotion. The Take 2 promotion gives players of any bankroll a shot at adding some extra cash to their accounts. For earning five Full Tilt Points (FTPs) a day for five days during the… Read more »
In April, Cake Poker is bringing back two popular promotions and continuing its World Series of Poker (WSOP) satellites. Starting this month, players can earn double Gold Cards with the Turbo Gold Cards promotion and earn cash and prizes by redeeming their Gold Cards with the Match and Win promo. Running from April 1 through… Read more »
I first started playing poker on a whim. Like many, I saw the World Series of Poker on television, thought it was interesting, and decided to see what I could find out about the game. After an internet search, I found an online poker room, something I had never heard of before, and joined the… Read more »
In breaking news from the Midwest, a bill in Iowa that would have created an intrastate online poker market appears to be dead for the foreseeable future. According to the Associated Press, “Sen. Jeff Danielson, a Cedar Falls Democrat, said lawmakers couldn’t agree on the bill. It will instead be amended to request a report… Read more »
If you’ve ever wanted an Apple iPad2, the rakeback clearinghouse TheNuts has you covered. You can score this next generation electronic item simply by signing up for Lock Poker during April and raking $1,000 before May 31st. If you can manage that, then TheNuts will hook you up with an iPad2, which is worth about… Read more »
In case you missed it, the dates for the Federated Sports and Gaming poker league, run by Annie Duke, have changed. All of the other parameters about each tournament remain the same; however, the dates have been adjusted “out of respect for the poker community at large and to make it easier for the top… Read more »
The merger between two gambling giants was completed on Thursday, as Austria-based bwin and U.K.-based Party Gaming formed to create the world’s largest listed online gambling company. bwin.party digital entertainment began trading Thursday with an opening share price of £1.94. The new London Stock Exchange ticker for bwin.party shares is “BPTY.” Party Gaming and bwin… Read more »
Fans of the PokerStars-sponsored “Big Game,” a cash game series that airs late nights on Fox, will be in for a change when its second season begins airing in June or July. Chris Rose, who hosted Season 1 alongside Joe Stapleton, will focus on baseball duties for Fox. In his stead will be longtime poker… Read more »
Dwyte Pilgrim is a poker player that can no longer be considered one of the game’s best kept secrets, nor can he be considered one of poker’s best up-and-comers. After taking down a televised event on the World Poker Tour, Dwyte Pilgrim is now considered one of the best live tournament pros on the circuit… Read more »
