Over the last few days, rumblings could be heard in the online poker community that Full Tilt Poker was going to make some sort of announcement on May 30th. People’s hopes were raised, thinking that this may mean that Full Tilt was ready to start sending payments out to U.S. customers, who have had their… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) about to begin at the Rio in Las Vegas, there was one more piece of business for WSOP officials to conclude: the WSOP Circuit National Championship. Little Rock’s Sam Barnhart emerged victorious Sunday night at Caesars Palace, claiming the $300,000 first prize and a spot in the history… Read more »
Louisiana’s Jonathan Poche is having quite a month on the Circuit. Barely a week after winning the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event in New Orleans for $121,000, Poche is the overwhelming chip leader at the WSOP-C National Championship final table at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Poche entered Day 2 second in chips,… Read more »
The top performers of the 2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit season gathered at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas Friday afternoon for Day 1 of the inaugural WSOP Circuit National Championship. The invite-only freeroll tournament offered a prize pool of $1 million up for grabs, with first place collecting $300,000 and the first WSOP bracelet… Read more »
The inaugural season of the Federated Sports + Gaming (FS+G) professional poker league doesn’t begin until August, but the final measures are being taken to ensure that the highly-anticipated league goes smoothly. On Thursday, FS+G unveiled its eight-person Standards and Conduct Committee, which will work to ensure “fair play, good character and integrity in every… Read more »
While the U.S. Department of Justice continues its effort to weed out online poker in the States, many countries in the European Union are opening their doors to online gambling operators with new regulation systems in place. According to a report by eGaming Review, Casino Gran Madrid, which hosted this year’s European Poker Tour (EPT)… Read more »
While the U.S. Attorney’s Office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Internal Revenue Service are running around seizing online gambling domain names, freezing player funds, and otherwise doing whatever they can to stop Americans from playing internet poker at home, the state of Nevada is looking to do the opposite. On Tuesday, Nevada’s Senate… Read more »
Not that the first one wasn’t a gigantic, Shaquille O’Neal-sized boot, but since the indictments of eleven principals of the three largest U.S.-facing online poker rooms on April 15th, poker players have been wondering if the other shoe was going to drop. On Monday, it did, although nobody knows for sure how many feet the… Read more »
From the “any news is better than no news” files, there has been some recent activity on the Full Tilt Poker cashout front. While customers from the United States still have not received their funds from the world’s second largest online poker room, Full Tilt has overcome its inertia and has taken what look to… Read more »
The last major open event leading up to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is down to a final table in the Big Easy. The WSOP-Circuit $10,000 Southern Regional Championship played down to nine players at Harrah’s New Orleans Saturday with some familiar faces still vying for the top prize of $237,456. AJ Jejelowo will… Read more »
Erik Seidel may have taken the spotlight away from Scott Seiver at the World Poker Tour Championship on Friday. But the 26-year-old poker phenom has 1.6 million reasons not to care. Seiver earned his first World Poker Tour title and $1,618,344 for his victory in the $25,000 WPT Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The… Read more »
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He’s done it again. Well, almost. Erik Seidel is one elimination away from winning yet another High Roller title in 2011. The man who’s already accrued more than $4.3 million in earnings this year will play Erick Lindgren for $1,092,780 and the World Poker Tour $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller crown on Friday afternoon at… Read more »
It’s a very surreal setting in the Bellagio poker room. We have star-studded pros like Erik Seidel and Daniel Negreanu seated in the high-limit room in the rear of the casino’s poker room vying for millions of dollars. Meanwhile, Read more »
Galen Hall is one day away from what could be his second seven-figure score of 2011. Not bad for a kid who considers himself a part-time player. The 24-year old Stanford student who won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event in January for $2.3 million is the chip leader of the $25,000 World Poker… Read more »
It was moving day Tuesday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship, as the money bubble was finally burst and the field inched ever closer to the final table. Galen Hall will be the chip leader when play resumes Wednesday, sitting with a stack of 3,438,000 chips, well ahead of Sam El Sayed, the… Read more »
Live poker is eaaaaaaasyyy. Or, loldonkaments. That could have been what Jordan Jayne was thinking on Sunday when, at the tender age of 20, he won the Heartland Poker Tour’s (HPT) Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort stop in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, the first live tournament he had ever entered. For his victory over 385 opponents,… Read more »
More than tripling his chip stack from the start of the day, Abe Mosseri ended Day 2 of the 2011 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship as the chip leader with 685,200 chips, as the field was slowly whittled away. With 116 of the original 220 players remaining, there is still a long way to… Read more »
Day 1 of the $25,000 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Championship got underway on Saturday with 188 players taking to the tables at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Christian “charder30” Harder sat atop the leaderboard at the end of five levels of play, with Ali Eslami, Kyle “KJulius10” Julius, Justin Young and Doyle Brunson all… Read more »
888 Poker experienced great success in the early days of online poker, especially among US players, but it was one of the rooms hit hardest by the UIGEA. The 888 site has been recently relaunched with new software, a new look, and a new lease on life. Read more »
The final stop of Season IX on the World Poker Tour will kick off on Saturday with the $25,000 WPT World Poker Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The tour’s flagship event begins at noon local time today and runs through Friday, May 20, where a final table of six players will commence at 4… Read more »
CarbonPoker was established in 2007 resides on the Australian-based Merge Gaming Network. The U.S.-friendly poker room offers the best sign-on bonus in the industry, a huge 200% deposit bonus up to $500, allowing players to improve their game while cashing in on a massive bonus on a network Read more »
The final table of the 2011 European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Madrid was made up of an eclectic group of eight players, with seven different countries being represented and contrasting personalities making for a unique live broadcast on PokerStars.tv on Thursday. Venezuela’s Ivan Freitez entered the day with the chip lead and put… Read more »
Party Poker is a monster among online poker sites. They are one of the biggest rooms with tremendous player action at any time of the day. They did suffer a costly hit to their player base when they decided to exclude US customers as a response to US legislation towards online gaming. Party Poker's outstanding marketing efforts have resulted in a rebound of player traffic and they are once again on the rise. Read more »
Titan Poker is one of the most important poker rooms on the iPoker network, launched in 2005 with Playtech software. The network received a tough blow when US policies caused them to ban US customers, which affected their player traffic. However, Titan Poker has fought to gain its traffic back by creating promotions, tournaments and freerolls to attract new customers. Another bid for new customers is the multi-lingual interface: Titan Poker is available in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Dutch and French. Read more »
