Aside from his outstanding poker play and myriad of poker tournament achievements (as if those weren’t enough), Daniel Negreanu is perhaps best known for his willingness to speak his mind. Lucky for us, he has a poker blog on his site, FullContactPoker.com. This week, he chimed in on an issue that has been getting more… Read more »
PokerScout.com, the internet’s leading website for online poker cash game traffic tracking, put out its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update on Monday, revealing that traffic fell a slight one percent last week. The site chalked up the drop mainly to the holiday season, as even though people spend more time indoors, they also spend that… Read more »
It is a little slow on the poker news front this week, so let’s expand outward into other forms of gambling, namely sports betting. I’m not a bettor myself – I really only participate in play money contests and I’m usually terrible even at those – but I do find sports betting interesting. Yesterday, ESPN.com… Read more »
It has certainly had its issues of late, but the Winning Poker Network (WPN) has been forging ahead undeterred. The latest from the network that includes such online poker rooms as America’s Card Room, BetCRIS, and True Poker: a super-sized Beast promotion for the New Year. The Beast is a weekly rake race on the… Read more »
Bitcoin. It’s so hot right now. Another new Bitcoin online poker site announced that it will be launching soon, continuing the gradual trend of upstart poker rooms trying to skirt anti-online gaming funding regulations by going with the virtual, decentralized currency. European site Bitnplay (not to be confused with the late 80’s, early 90’s hip-hop… Read more »
Many people deeply involved in the game of poker – be they players, writers or other industry professionals – have given their opinions on whether someone should take up the activity as a profession. Three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Dutch Boyd has now added his thoughts to the mix, giving many something to… Read more »
Despite some late charges by those pursuing him, Daniel Colman – who ran roughshod over the High Roller circuit this year – swept the major Player of the Year races in the tournament poker world. On the Bluff Magazine countdown, Colman was virtually untouchable coming into the final month of the year. Despite not earning… Read more »
Now that Santa Claus has dropped down chimneys around the world, the Hanukkah menorahs have been put away and the Festivus pole’s “Airing of Grievances” have been heard, we now enjoy a bit of relaxation before a New Year comes. Over the past 12 months, the poker world has provided several exciting moments amidst what… Read more »
Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal casino is still open…for now. Scheduled to close this past Saturday, December 20th, it remains alive for the time being thanks to a $20 million injection from billionaire investor Carl Icahn. Trump Entertainment’s lawyers said this week that the money might allow the Boardwalk fixture to stay viable for all… Read more »
Popular poker personality and poker player Kara Scott announced Tuesday that when this year comes to a close, she will be stepping down from her role as partypoker ambassador. On her CardRunners.com blog, Scott said she is ending her five year run simply because the role no longer offers the opportunities it once did. She… Read more »
As Martin Jacobson continues to bask in the glow of his World Series of Poker Main Event victory, likely with some pricier presents under his Christmas tree, the preliminary schedule for the 2015 World Series of Poker has been announced. It is just an outline of the schedule right now, but it gives aspiring competitors… Read more »
I don’t know about all of you poker players in countries that are not the United States (‘MURICA!), but these next couple weeks are going to be slowwwww. Yes, we have the fun of Christmas, the end of Hanukkah, and New Year’s Eve/Day, but in between businesses don’t want to do much of any work,… Read more »
In October, the European Poker Tour (EPT) announced that Malta has been added as a stop on this year’s tour. Though the March dates for the poker festival had been set, no formal schedule had yet to be published. Last week, the complete schedule for EPT Malta was, in fact, release, and it is a… Read more »
Online poker has been around for about 16 years and has really been rolling for 10-11 years. In that time, you would think that the online poker rooms would have their software sleek and refined, chock full of player-friendly features. But alas, it is not so much of the time. Ultimate Poker (may it rest… Read more »
The World Poker Tour wrapped up their 2014 tournament poker schedule on Saturday night at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, with Mohsin Charania joining the ranks of multiple WPT winners in taking down the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic and Andrew Lichtenberger emerging victorious in a heated battle in the Alpha8. WPT Five Diamond… Read more »
Into their Season XIII schedule, the World Poker Tour has announced the list of the fortunate individuals that comprise their “Ones to Watch” over the next several months. This year’s list is comprised of several players who have made a significant mark in the poker community but just haven’t been able to take that “big… Read more »
One of the final “big” tournaments of 2014 is coming closer to a conclusion. The World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic is down to 33 players with Yi Fang at the head of the field and past WPT champions Jared Jaffee and Keven Stammen in pursuit. 78 players came back on Thursday for… Read more »
Stephen Graner entered the final table of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event with a commanding chip lead and in something of a surprise, led wire-to-wire to capture his first-ever EPT crown. The surprise is not that Graner won, it is that he never even came close to relinquishing his lead. We… Read more »
A rash of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continues to plague the online poker industry. The most recent victim: the Winning Poker Network (WPN), which had to abandon its extremely ambitious million dollar guaranteed tournament on Sunday because of technical difficulties most likely caused by a DDoS attack. WPN is one of the few… Read more »
For the second day in a row, the targeted number of remaining players in the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event was a bit off from reality. On Day 4, the goal was to get down to 24 players, but the field was whittled by two extra players by the end of the… Read more »
The plan for Day 4 of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event was to play down to 24 players, but…BONUS POKER! The festivities went so quickly that when the chips were bagged and tagged, just 22 players remained, with Germany’s Fabio Sperling on top with 4,357,000 chips. In second place is the… Read more »
When the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) bill was not added to the recent omnibus spending bill in the final days of Congress’s lame duck session, we in the poker community breathed a sigh of relief. We were staring at the real possibility of the UIGEA all over again, but fortunately, nothing happened. At… Read more »
The 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event has sped through three days and more than one thousand eliminations as the tournament heads into Monday’s Day 4. Leading the way after Day 3 is Sweden’s Simon Mattsson with 1,790,000 chips, but American Stephen Graner is nipping on his heels with 1,713,000 chips of his… Read more »
New e-mails that have emerged in the ongoing Sony Pictures Entertainment scandal has now encompassed the poker community. According to the London Daily Mail, e-mails leaked out on Friday point out what has been a rather adversarial relationship between the head of the company, Chairman Amy Pascal, and one of the most powerful writers in… Read more »
After a partnership that lasted for slightly more than a year, the online poker site PokerHost and its partner in the Equity Poker Network have announced that they will part ways. The severance of the deal between the two organizations took effect on December 9, slightly more than a year after the Equity Poker Network… Read more »
