The 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event is working its way through its 629 player field towards its conclusion on Saturday. After Day Three concluded, only one man was above the one million chip mark, Ray Ellis, but 35 other men were in pursuit of his position in first place. Yesterday’s action began with 68 players… Read more »
While it may seem like it was eons ago, the explosion of the game of poker – driven by the flood of players to the online version of the game – was only a few short years ago. A new book that has recently hit the shelves not only looks at that halcyon time but… Read more »
The 567 survivors from Days 1A and 1B of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event combined on Tuesday for Day 2 and, as expected, the field was trimmed down in a hurry. Just 160 made it to bedtime with chips, led by Scott Herz and Joe DiMartino with 519,300… Read more »
One of the most popular poker festivals outside of North America, the Aussie Millions, is hopping as usual. Already in full swing at the Crown Melbourne Casino, the A$10,000 Main Event of the 2013 Aussie Millions has completed its three opening day starting flights and is now ready for the divided fields to merge into… Read more »
The second starting day of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open was anticipated to be a big one and a big one it was. 645 players shelled out the $3,500 to test their skills in the first WPT Main Event of the year, a sizeable jump from the 397 who showed… Read more »
Super high buy-in poker tournaments have been getting more and more popular over the last couple years as poker festival organizers look for ways to make the fields dense with the world’s strongest players. One of the first and most popular of the mega buy-ins was the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge. The 2013 version of… Read more »
The first World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event of 2013 got underway Sunday in Atlantic City, as the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open saw 397 players pay $3,500 to enter the first of two starting days. Leading the remaining field of 209 runners is Luis Vazquez, who will begin Tuesday’s Day 2 with 182,075 chips.… Read more »
It is kind of strange to think of poker players who are in their 40’s as “old timers” or players whose peak of poker fame was just a few years ago as “old school,” but that’s probably would Mike “The Mouth” Matusow and Phil Hellmuth are. Hellmuth has remained relevant since the peak of the… Read more »
After two days of battle amongst the 64 players chosen for the event, the “Elite Eight” have been determined at the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The first-ever winner of the tournament in 2005, Phil Hellmuth, is still in contention to once again make poker history as the… Read more »
The first round of the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship is in the books, with the field being whittled down from its original 64 combatants through a long day of action to the 32 players who will come back today. Spades Bracket The contestants in the Spades bracket drew the short straw (depending on… Read more »
In what may be an indicator of his action on a proposed online gaming and poker bill in his state, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey offered his opinions on the legislation on a New Jersey radio show on Tuesday night. During the “Ask The Governor” program on the radio station New Jersey 101.5 on… Read more »
After a rollicking party on the grounds of Caesars Palace, the brackets are set for today’s start of the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship, with a champion set to be crowned on Saturday. After a year’s hiatus, the 2013 NHUPC will feature 64 poker players battling it out in a NCAA “March Madness” style… Read more »
Wednesday morning, ahead of the drawing of first round match-ups for the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC), poker pro Daniel Negreanu announced that he was withdrawing from the event. The announcement came via Negreanu’s “@RealKidPoker” twitter account with the promise of a further explanation later. That explanation was given via a video posted on YouTube.… Read more »
Mississippi State Representative Bobby Moak (D – Bogue Chitto) re-introduced an online gaming bill to the state legislature last week, taking another shot at making intrastate online gambling legal in Mississippi after having a similar effort shot down last year. House Bill 254 aims to establish a regulatory framework for online gambling, including online poker,… Read more »
CarbonPoker, an online poker room on the Merge Poker Network, announced Tuesday that this will be the last month for its rakeback program. Citing benefits to the overall poker economy, a representative from CarbonPoker also said that rakeback will likely be eliminated across the entire network. Yesterday, CarbonPoker representative “CarbonRyan” posted the news in Two… Read more »
Betfair Poker launched its new poker room on the iPoker Network Tuesday, the first step in move that will eventually see all Betfair traffic removed from the Ongame Network. Having just announced the decision to switch networks about two weeks ago, this would rank as one of the fastest switches we’ve seen in the industry.… Read more »
For years, PokerStars has been the gold standard in online poker. It is a poker room that knows poker; management didn’t just throw together some software, slap a download link on a website, and take it easy. The folks over there understand how the game works and how players think and, in turn, have provided… Read more »
Officials from Caesars Entertainment and the organizing committee for the event have named the final 32 players for the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship, with some outstanding players among those selected as well as some left outside looking in. Leading the list of the 32 remaining players who have been invited and confirmed their… Read more »
In what might be a potential signal to the United States as it battles with the question of regulated online poker, the French regulatory agency in charge of administering the country’s system admitted recently that there may be a need for relaxing their rules on their country online poker industry to allow for the international… Read more »
The schedule of events for the inaugural World Series of Poker foray into Australia was announced earlier this week, setting a slate of five tournaments and two special events that should draw the international poker community “down under” come this April. The World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) will be held at the Crown Casino… Read more »
Internet gaming firms may be having some issues trying to enter the United States online poker market, but it appears that one may be about to enter the brick-and-mortar arena. Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, has entered into an agreement to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City… Read more »
Vanessa Selbst made history Monday, becoming the winningest female in live poker tournament history after taking the crown at the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 High Roller Event. Selbst, clearly the best female tournament player in the world right now and one of the elite players of either gender, won $1,424,420 for the victory,… Read more »
The state of Germany’s online gambling industry is a mess, to put it lightly. The German state, or Land, of Schleswig-Holstein has announced that it intends to join the other 15 states in the State Treaty on Online Gaming. In doing so, it would end its de facto rebellion as the only German state to… Read more »
PartyPoker announced last week that it will soon make changes to its VIP program, appearing to flatten the VIP structure by eliminating the highest loyalty levels. The initial announcement was made on PartyPoker’s VIP page, but it was tacked onto the bottom of page, making it so that most people would never see it. Most… Read more »
The first major event of 2013 wrapped up yesterday and just like the “warm-up” $100,000 Super High Roller Event, a player came from way behind, overcoming a sizeable chip deficit to win the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event. That man was Bulgarian Dimitar Danchev, who became the first player from his country to… Read more »
