The survivors from Days 1A and 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville BestBet Open combined into a single field Sunday, with half of the original 320 players sitting down for the start of Day 2. The field was trimmed almost exactly in half again, with 55 players making the cut for today’s Day… Read more »
Season 8 of the European Poker Tour is about to come to a close as the EPT Grand Final Main Event is ready to crown a champion in Monaco. The final table was determined Sunday and taking a substantial chip lead into the final day is Bernard Guigon with 4.9 million chips, 2 million more… Read more »
In saddening news from the state of Texas this morning, 1972 World Series of Poker Championship Event victor, four-time WSOP bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Fame member “Amarillo Slim” Preston has passed away after a lengthy illness. The legend of the poker world was 83 years old. Last weekend, Preston was entered into hospice… Read more »
Players turned out in droves for the second of two Day Ones at the World Poker Tour’s Jacksonville BestBet Open in Florida, pushing the overall entries over the 300 entries mark. With only 125 players on Friday stepping into the brand new BestBet Jacksonville poker room, there was a chance that the overall numbers for… Read more »
The end is near for the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final, playing out at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Casino, as the final 26 players have been determined who will contend for the final championship of the EPT’s Season Eight schedule. 130 players came back on Saturday with the unpleasant task (for some of… Read more »
The World Poker Tour continues its swing through the state of Florida during the month of April, landing in Jacksonville for the WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open, which kicked off yesterday with the first of two Day Ones. WPT officials decided to make the $5000 buy in tournament a re-entry event, meaning that anyone knocked out… Read more »
The second day of play for the European Poker Tour Grand Final has concluded, short of the money bubble and with a member of the Team PokerStars Pro roster sitting atop the leaderboard. 394 runners returned to the felt in Monte Carlo on Friday with Nicolas Yunis holding onto the lead over fellow Day 1B… Read more »
With high profile events going on in both the professional poker world and the professional golf circuit, it may be surprising that some of their brightest stars would bypass an event. For these gentlemen, however, it is for a good cause. Tonight, World Series of Poker Championship Event winners Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson will… Read more »
The second Day One of the European Poker Tour’s penultimate event of Season Eight, the EPT Grand Final, is in the books, with player numbers coming in right around the field size drawn for the 2011 version of the tournament. After Day 1A brought in a nice sized field of 271 players (of which 165… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has reached its next to last event of their Season Ten schedule, heading just up the coast of Florida from their last stop to land in Jacksonville, FL, tomorrow. Starting at noon tomorrow, the inaugural WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open will begin play in their $5000 Main Event. The tournament will be… Read more »
According to a report in a major newspaper, the battle lines are being drawn between state governments and the U. S. Congress regarding the online poker issue. In an article on Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal written by noted journalist Alexandra Berzon and assisted by Heather Haddon, the duo report that Nevada Senator and… Read more »
This week marks the beginning of the end of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 8 as the EPT Grand Final Main Event gets underway. The best players in the world are flocking to the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort in Monaco, paying €10,000 + €600 to try to follow in Ivan Freitez’s footsteps… Read more »
Online poker room Lock Poker has made a significant addition to its stable of young pros, adding Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad to the Lock Pro Elite team. Her signing comes just a week after she inked a deal with poker representation agency Poker Royalty, a move which now appears to have led to the Lock Poker… Read more »
In a whirlwind of rumors and unofficial confirmations, the poker community was sent into a frenzy Tuesday as word came out that it is not going to be Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) that will buy Full Tilt Poker, but rather Full Tilt’s rival, PokerStars. As part of the alleged $750 million deal, PokerStars will reportedly… Read more »
The game of poker, especially tournament poker, requires a lot of patience. As much as one might want action, a player can’t just throw out bets willy-nilly and hope to win. It often requires orbit after orbit of waiting for the right moment and the ability to take advantage of that moment to win a… Read more »
If you have been playing at PartyPoker for a while, you likely have gotten used to the online poker room introducing a new promotion at the beginning of every month. But lo and behold, Party is launching a new one today, a full week before the start of May. The VIP 500 Club, which gives… Read more »
It was a relatively short day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown on Sunday, as it took less than seven hours to determine the composition of the final table. Sure, seven hours to eliminate nine players may seem like an awful high average time between knockouts, but at this stage of… Read more »
One of the most popular ways for poker players to improve their skills is through the variety of “poker camps” that are available. Many times, however, these courses can be priced out of a player’s bank account, leading many to bypass the training camps. One of the venerable institutions of the “poker camp” community is… Read more »
After coming to the final table with a sizeable chip lead, Belgium’s Davidi Kitai was able to fend off the challenges of his opponents to capture the championship of the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Germany, Saturday night. Kitai came to the final table with 5.695 million in chips with his closest pursuer, Bahadir… Read more »
Day Four of the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown is in the books, knocking slightly more than half of the players out who came back for Saturday’s action. 32 players were in their seats in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s arena at noon on Saturday, faced with a task that is… Read more »
Play on Day Three of the World Poker Tour stop at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, has reached a key moment, whittling the field down to just shy of the money bubble. 102 players stepped up to continue the battle on Friday with Clyde Hinton on the point and a… Read more »
The European Poker Tour stop in the historic city of Berlin, Germany, has reached its penultimate moment, determining the final table of this event before its last tournament of its Season Eight schedule. 24 men came to the tables on Friday, looking to become the latest champion on the EPT and gain some momentum heading… Read more »
For many professional poker players, the opportunities for endorsements – either around the game of poker or outside of the game in the mainstream market – can be few and far between. As a result, many have taken the track of signing with poker agents who can be particularly forceful in gaining the player that… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in Hollywood, FL, has completed its second day of play, with Clyde Hinton holding a slim lead over veteran poker pro Tommy Vedes. With late registration open until the start of action on Thursday, the 209 players who survived from the original 281 player field still did… Read more »
The newest poker room that opened in Florida last month, Best Bet Jacksonville, has surpassed expectations by leading the state in revenues in its inaugural month of action. According to the Florida Times-Union, Best Bet Jacksonville pulled in the most revenues for the month of March of the 24 poker rooms in the state. Times-Union… Read more »
