The hands may have slowed down a bit on PokerStars since Black Friday, but that doesn’t mean the action isn’t still fast and furious at the world’s largest online poker room. And just as the beat goes on, so does the march towards 100 billion hands. In the meantime, there are some other milestone hands… Read more »
After a more than two week break following the fun, sun, and hours upon hours in the poker room at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), the European Poker Tour (EPT) will resume Tuesday in Deauville, France. EPT Deauville will be a €5,000 + €300 event with a 1,000 runner cap, slated to run through February… Read more »
Starting February 1st and running through the rest of the month, PartyPoker will be holding its Card Rush promotion, giving real money players a chance to win cash and freeroll entries just for playing poker like they normally would. Card Rush is a very simple promotion. For every 15 Party Points a player earns, PartyPoker… Read more »
After a dominant performance over seven hours of final table play, hometown favorite Oliver Speidel crushed the opposition to take down the championship of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event. When the seven man final table reported for work on Sunday afternoon in the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, Bjorn Li held a 1.3 million… Read more »
According to a report from one of the most reliable sources of information regarding the ongoing Full Tilt Poker fiasco, poker professional Chris “Jesus” Ferguson could potentially be holding up the deal between the site and Groupe Bernard Tapie, a deal that may bring the beleaguered online site back online. Subject: Poker, who has provided… Read more »
After battling through a difficult field of 659 players at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, the final table has been determined in the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event, with Bjorn Li holding a slightly more than 1.3 million chip lead over Oliver Speidel. Saturday’s play brought back the final twelve men in the event,… Read more »
In what might be viewed as a slight upset, the United Kingdom’s Sam Trickett was voted Player of the Year at the 2012 European Poker Awards over poker Triple Crown winner and countryman Jake Cody during awards ceremonies held last night. The 2012 EPAs, held at the famous Aviation Club de Paris in France, honored… Read more »
After what turned out to be the shortest day of play yet at the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event, Matt Turk holds the lead over Day Two leader Tim O’Shea and a host of top professionals, including Phil Ivey, with Day Three in the books. 75 players were alive and kicking when the play began… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) released its Season X television schedule Wednesday, circling February 12th as the jump-off point for the series. The first episode, along with all subsequent episodes, will air at both 8:00pm and 11:00pm local time. The season, which will once again be broadcast on Fox Sports Net (FSN), will consist of… Read more »
The more things change, the more they stay the same. On Day 2 of the 2012 Aussie Millions, Robert Lam may have been knocked from the top spot, but right there, still stalking the chip leader is the one guy who can make any chip leader very uncomfortable, Phil Ivey. Lam is still in contention… Read more »
As expected, Day 1C of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event was the largest of the three starting flights. With 317 entrants, it almost beat Days 1A (153 players) and Day 1B (187) combined. Two of the top three overall chip stacks emerged from Day 1C, with Robert Lam leading the way with 198,400. Right… Read more »
In late November 2010, Peter Eastgate auctioned off his 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event bracelet, raising over $140,000 for charity. The identity of the buyer was not made public at the time and for the most part, that was the last anyone heard of it. Until now. Our friends over at PokerNews.com… Read more »
Day 1B of the 2012 Aussie Millions likely did not go exactly as James Dempsey planned, but the end result had to be to his liking. The Brit was on the ropes for much of the day, but in poker, just about anything is possible and at the end of Monday’s play, Dempsey was the… Read more »
2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Joe Hachem announced this weekend that he has forged a new relationship with the AsianLogic Group. AsianLogic has a hand in many arenas of gambling in the Asia Pacific markets, from online and live sports betting to online casinos to multiplayer P2P games. The company is… Read more »
The eve of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event is upon the entities gathered at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, but several players have already taken some cash in the land Down Under from the preliminary action. In the $1000 No Limit Hold’em Rebuy event, ten men came back to the felt early this… Read more »
A recent raid on what law enforcement officials in Illinois called a “pay to play” poker game in Illinois demonstrates the divisiveness of the “home game” issue and the activity of law enforcement investigating the supposed illegal enterprise. In an article in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette written by Mary Schenk, the full details are given on… Read more »
The 2012 Aussie Millions is in full swing at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, with the latest champion, Tom “hitthehole” Middleton, crowned in the $1000 (Australian) Six Handed No Limit Hold’em event early this morning (Eastern time). 385 players came out for the two day tournament on Thursday and the players wasted little time… Read more »
The New York Times is reporting that some states, while willing to open the doors for online gaming and poker within their borders, will not see the windfall revenues that would be necessary to solve critical budget issues. The article, written by New York Times writer Michael Cooper, examines the profits that states that are… Read more »
The state of Iowa has long been one of the states included in the discussion of those that could possibly legalize and regulate online poker within its own borders. There was some activity on that front last spring, but nothing materialized. Now, with the recent Department of Justice (DoJ) reversal on the Wire Act, it… Read more »
Eight professional poker players filed a lawsuit against Excapsa Software, Inc., the former controlling company of online poker room UltimateBet, seeking damages for Excapsa’s role in the cheating scandal that was uncovered in 2008. The plaintiffs in the case are, in alphabetical order, Daniel “Ashman” Ashman, Brad “Yukon” Booth, Thomas “tommyboy83” Koral, Greg “Captain Zeebo”… Read more »
Ira Rubin, one of the 11 men indicted by the United States Department of Justice on Black Friday, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy charges in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Sentencing has been set for May 17th. Rubin admitted to working with online poker rooms PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker as a payment processor. He… Read more »
Lock Poker announced this weekend that it has signed Melanie Weisner to its stable of pros, team LockPRO ELITE. She joins a young team which includes Eric “Rizen” Lynch, Chris Moorman, Leo Margets, Bryan “PrimordialAA” Pellegrino, Brett Jungblut. Formerly a pro at Full Tilt Poker, Weisner is primarily a tournament player, specializing in heads-up Sit-and-Go’s. … Read more »
According several reports, the first of which was published Monday by Poker Player Newspaper, Gabriel “Gabi” Campos Woslovsky is leaving his post as Chief Executive Officer of PokerStars. No replacement has been named. Wendeen Eolis first wrote in Poker Player Newspaper that the initial word of the change surfaced last Friday at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure,… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) wrapped up over the weekend, but before the chips were packed away and players jetted off to their next poker destination, there was still the matter of the $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max High Roller event to settle. It was a strong final table with each of… Read more »
The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. Since the announcement came down in December from the U. S. Department of Justice, changing their stance on the usage of the Wire Act of 1961, the online gaming world – and particularly the online poker… Read more »
