After originally announcing that they would depart the American market earlier this year, the online gaming outlet Bodog has instead opened up a new operation that exclusively services their customers in the United States. American players who now log into the Bodog.com or Bodog.eu URLs are being transferred to the new site “Bovada.lv,” which looks… Read more »
One of the final major events of the 2011 tournament poker season is underway at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, as the Epic Poker League’s third of five scheduled events began yesterday afternoon. As with the EPL tournaments, every Main Event has a different format. Originally, the scheduled event for this third tournament… Read more »
Legendary online poker grinder Randy “nanonoko” Lew will attempt to become a Guinness World Record holder this coming January at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. There is one catch though: he has no idea what record he is going to try to set. And that’s where the poker community comes in. A PokerStars VIP Manager going… Read more »
If it seems like the World Poker Tour (WPT) has an event every week, it’s because it does. At least this month. During the first week of December, we had WPT Prague, won by Andrey Pateychuk. This weekend, James Dempsey won the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las… Read more »
The Tropicana Las Vegas has announced that 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Jamie Gold has been named the casino’s Poker Spokesperson and Ambassador. Additionally, the Tropicana’s redesigned poker room will be named “The Jamie Gold Poker Room.” “The ownership and management of the new Tropicana, as well as Jamie, have an… Read more »
The Epic Poker League, about to start the third tournament series of its first season, has decided to grant the legendary Doyle Brunson its first lifetime player card, which will grant him eligibility for every Epic Poker League event, regardless of whether or not he met the entry requirements. “It’s unnecessary but I guess it’s… Read more »
If you are going to win a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, you might as well do it on a whim. Such was essentially the case for James “Flushy” Dempsey Sunday night, as he won the 2011 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The Brit was not in Las Vegas specifically to play… Read more »
Earlier this month, MGM Resorts International filed a lawsuit against several entrepreneurs who have purchased domain names that pertain to different MGM properties, with attorneys for MGM stating that they were “cyber squatters.” This legal battle is beginning to heat up, as a Texas man has filed a response to the MGM lawsuit that challenges… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic has reached its penultimate moment, determining the six handed final table during play Saturday night. Thirteen players came back on Saturday afternoon to the Bellagio, prepared to work their way down to the traditional six handed WPT final table. 2010 World Series of Poker… Read more »
The final champion for the 2010 calendar year on the European Poker Tour has been determined, with Martin Finger outdueling David Boyaciyan to take home the crown at the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel, the Czech Republic. Of the eight men who came to the felt on Saturday, it was thought… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic is down to its next to last day, with a former November Niner at the helm and the defending champion still in the hunt for a historic repeat. 49 players started the action on Friday and, with the final table playing on Sunday, were… Read more »
The final table for the last event of the European Poker Tour in 2010 is set in Prague, the Czech Republic, as Martin Finger holds a slim lead over Nicolas Levi for tomorrow’s action. 31 players came back to the tables on Friday, looking to get down to the traditional eight handed EPT final table,… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson World Poker Classic chugged along at the Bellagio in Las Vegas Thursday, eliminating almost two thirds of the remaining field during its Day Three action. Starting the day, 149 players came back to the felt from the original 413 players and, in contrast to Wednesday’s play, they all knew… Read more »
Prague seems to be the destination of choice for many poker tournament circuits as well as professional poker players. Just days after its last big buy in tournament for the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour pulled into the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel in the Czech Republic and the… Read more »
The final tournament of the 2011 calendar year for the World Poker Tour, the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, will move on to Day Three play with Grant Lang atop the leaderboard of the 149 players still alive in the tournament. Action kicked off in the poker… Read more »
Remember when a one million dollar first prize in a poker tournament was mind blowing? Well, how about a one million dollar buy-in? It will happen next year, at the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Both a real bracelet event and a charity tournament, the “Big One for One Drop” will run from July… Read more »
The traditional tenth anniversary gift is tin or aluminum. We don’t know about you, but when talking about the tenth anniversary of the first World Poker Tour (WPT) event, referring to it as a recyclable doesn’t sound quite right. Good thing there are “modern” anniversary gifts. Therefore, this week’s running of the Doyle Brunson Five… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) is back in Prague for the fifth time this week as players set their sights on a first prize of more than three-quarters of a million Euros. Held at the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel, the $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em event started with two Day 1 flights… Read more »
Andrey Pateychuk probably felt extremely lucky to even be at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague final table. This year’s European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo Main Event champ found himself all-in with A-K late on Day 3, only to see his opponent flop a set of 9’s. The poker gods were with him, though,… Read more »
We bet some of you out there have been jonesing for some scandalous UB news. After all, since the vilified online poker room died in the fallout from Black Friday, the vast majority of the poker community’s hate has been focused on Full Tilt Poker, and rightfully so. People likely already accepted the fact that… Read more »
Day 3 has come and gone at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague and we are down to the final table. Entering the day, 62 of the 571 original players still remained, and while it took until the wee hours of the morning, the field was narrowed all the way to just the six players… Read more »
According to a highly respected financial magazine, there is a battle brewing in Europe between one of the member European Union countries and a top player in the online gaming and poker industries regarding proposed regulations for the nation. In an article on the Financial Times website written by James Wilson on November 30, the… Read more »
The money bubble has popped in the historic city of Prague, the Czech Republic, as the World Poker Tour grinds its way along to its final table Monday afternoon. 218 players came back to the felt on Saturday at the Kings Casino in the Corinthian Hotel in Prague and, from appearances, it would be a… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is putting the “world” back in its moniker lately, and its latest stop at the Kings Casino at the Corinthian Hotel in Prague, the Czech Republic, has proven to be a huge success. Two Day Ones played out over Thursday and Friday and, by the end of registration on Day 1B… Read more »
It was announced earlier this week that the crème of the European poker community will descend on the Aviation Club de France in January for the eleventh installment of the European Poker Awards. The Aviation Club, one of the top poker destinations in the world, will serve as host of the awards ceremony on January… Read more »
