Although the federal government has a bit of trouble coming to grips with online poker regulation, right under their noses a burgeoning live poker scene is beginning to emerge. In Maryland, the opening of a new casino – going up against an established casino that has had more than a two year head start –… Read more »
After a successful debut last year, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, attempted to make lightning strike twice with the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) $10 million guaranteed prize pool Main Event. Unlike last year, however, the final numbers fell far short of the goal with a massive overlay… Read more »
While they have never publicly released any financial information, it is pretty much conceded that PokerStars (as well as other online poker sites) minted money, especially during the halcyon days of the mid-2000s. A recent recounting of a story might leave many in the poker community thinking about “what could have been” if it had… Read more »
Local favorite Harry Arutyunyan, who calls the Bicycle Casino his home turf, fought off a difficult final table on his way to defeating Mike Eskandari to take home the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker championship early Saturday morning. Coming to the final table, Arutyunyan was in good position with his 3.67 million stack good… Read more »
The first official event of Season XIII of the World Poker Tour has reached its penultimate day as Massoud Eskandari leads the final table at the WPT Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. 16 men returned to action on Thursday, looking to get down to the official WPT final table of… Read more »
Capping what has been a historic stop in the history of the circuit, the European Poker Tour crowned two champions to close out their 100th stop at the Casino Barcelona in Spain. In the third largest Main Event in EPT history, Andre Lettau battled through a marathon final table to emerge as the champion and,… Read more »
Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event was the first in which the entire field was playing together at the same time. 223 players came out of the three Day 1’s, but only one of the three chips leaders from the starting flights – Tyler Cornell – made it… Read more »
And so here we are. The first final table of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 11. Just eight players remain from the original 1,496 in the EPT Barcelona Main Event; leading the way is Hossein Ensan with 10,295,000 chips, the only play to eclipse 10,000,000. This would be one hell of a score for… Read more »
Tyler Cornell ran away with Day 1C of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event Monday, finishing the day with nearly 100,000 more chips than his nearest opponent. As is almost always the case in a multi-starting flight event, Day 1C was the largest of the three flights, with 222 entrants… Read more »
The first Main Event of the European Poker Tour’s (EPT) Season 11 is in the home stretch. Day 4 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event is in the books and just 25 players remain of the 102 that began Monday’s action. It is an extremely tight race for the number one spot with Bram Haenraets… Read more »
The WPT500 was held during the World Series of Poker Main Event, but the “real” World Poker Tour (WPT) started this weekend with the 2014 WPT Legends of Poker at the legendary Bicycle Casino in California. Days 1A and 1B are in the books with 1C currently running; leading a strong field to this point… Read more »
It was payout time at the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event Sunday as 292 players lined up for Day 3 knowing that only 239 of them would make the money. The player best positioned to make much more than the min-cash is Andrei Konopelko, who ended the day as the chip leader… Read more »
Over the past few days, the attention of the poker community has been on several facets of the tournament poker world. While the 100th European Poker Tour event started in Barcelona, Spain (and has drawn some attention), two other controversies have erupted that have split the poker world on both sides of the equation. Prior to… Read more »
The 100th tournament in the history of the European Poker Tour, taking place at the Casino Barcelona in Spain, brought its entire field together for the first time on Saturday. At the end of the day’s festivities, Vojtech Ruzicka utilized his strong Day 1A play to come out on top of the Day 2 field… Read more »
After what was a strong Day 1A field of players, the European Poker Tour might have thought that the Day 1B field numbers would be just icing on the cake. Instead, for the 100th event in the EPT’s history, a massive throng flooded the Casino Barcelona in Spain to eventually create the third-largest field in… Read more »
Earlier this week, the poker world was struck by the deaths of two of its more colorful personalities. On August 16, “Gentleman” Liam Flood passed away at the age of 71 and, on August 18, Tony Korfman passed away at the same age after complications from hip surgery. Flood was arguably one of the most… Read more »
One of the long running debates – not only about our game but about others also – is whether poker should be considered a sport. Although it enjoys prominent airtime on such networks as ESPN and Fox Sports 1, there are many who don’t consider poker an athletic endeavor but a “game” or an “activity.”… Read more »
Celebrating the 100th event in their storied history, the European Poker Tour kicked off its Season 11 schedule on Thursday at the Casino Barcelona in Spain. With a field that would be applicable for the final day of a multi-start day field, poker professional Michael Mizrachi emerged on top at the end of the day.… Read more »
The first Main Event of the new season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) is set to begin this weekend. But Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler, the live tournament min-cash king, is not planning to play in the 2014 WPT Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in L.A. On Tuesday, he announced he will be boycotting… Read more »
The Global Poker Index’s (GPI) takeover of the live poker tournament world is in full swing. The latest deal the player ranking site has made is with the European Poker Tour (EPT), as the EPT will now expand its use of the GPI’s ranking formula to determine its Player of the Year (POY). Interestingly, the… Read more »
The post-World Series of Poker doldrums are over; major live tournament poker has started back up. Today, the €50,000 High Roller Event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona concluded with Olivier Busquet taking the crown and €896,434. The field was very large for a High Roller Event, with 77 total entries from 58 unique… Read more »
After two straight positive weeks, the summer doldrums finally caught back up to the online poker industry as internet cash game traffic dropped one percent last week. In its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update, traffic monitoring site PokerScout.com reports that of the top ten poker rooms and networks, it was split evenly with five rising… Read more »
Wait, what? Didn’t we just report that absolutely nothing happened in regards to online poker in the California legislature for the umpteenth consecutive year? We did. No bills will be passed that will legalize and regulate poker on the internet in the Golden State in 2014. But Californians may still be able to play online… Read more »
Not long ago, the internet killed the print edition of the once venerable Newsweek magazine. I was a subscriber many years ago, finding it a convenient way to keep up with world happenings when I was in business school. But that was then. In March of this year, Newsweek’s parent company, IBT Media, revived the… Read more »
As PokerStars gets closer to re-entering the United States, it wants to keep its reputation as squeaky clean as possible. The world’s largest online poker room already had to go through a lot and fork over tons of money just to get back into MAYBE the neutral graces of the U.S. government. It doesn’t need… Read more »
