The two Day Ones for the World Poker Tour’s Season XV stop at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Oklahoma are in the books. Coming through the larger of the two, Michael Hahn ended Day 1B with a sizeable chip stack of 370,000 chips to pace the field heading to Sunday’s Day 2 action. With more… Read more »
After a few weeks off with the conclusion of the 2016 World Series of Poker – that is, everything but the “November Nine” – the tournament poker world is swinging back into gear as the month of July comes to a close. One tournament in Florida has become the de facto kickoff to the second… Read more »
We’ve hit the doldrums of the post-World Series of Poker season and many have used the break to recharge their batteries. Some players will be heading back to the tables when the tournament schedule cranks into full swing in August but others, even though they are highly successful, will step back and not play quite… Read more »
In mid-May, PokerStars absorbed Full Tilt’s liquidity, ending the checkered existence of the once high-flying poker room, leaving behind just the carcass of the Full Tilt brand. On Friday, eGaming Review reported that Amaya, owner of PokerStars and Full Tilt, was eliminating “dozens” of jobs in its London office, the assumption being that these positions… Read more »
With the launch of BLAST Poker this week, 888Poker has also initiated some promotions to go along with its new Lottery Sit & Go variant. Through September 19th, 888Poker is running daily freeroll tournaments to celebrate BLAST, giving players a chance to win cash prizes and BLAST Poker tickets. There are two types of daily… Read more »
I just wrote one article about Lottery Sit & Go’s, so might as well write another, while the subject is on my mind. Guess today is an all-Lottery day. The news on this page: 888poker has launched its own Lottery Sit & Go version this week, called BLAST Poker. Like any Lottery Sit & Go,… Read more »
The Spin & Go games at PokerStars are generally the first ones we think of when we consider the Lottery Sit & Go, but it was French poker site Winamax that introduced the world to this type of game when it launched Expresso Poker in July 2013. Since then, countless copycats have arisen (well, not… Read more »
UK-based Rank Group and Gibraltar-based 888 Holdings confirmed rumors this weekend that they have teamed up in talks to acquire competitor William Hill, the largest gambling company in the UK. No financial numbers have been made public. Both 888 and Rank issued a statement today, which reads, in part: 888 Holdings plc (“888”) and The… Read more »
In an e-mail sent to Poker Players Alliance (PPA) members late last week, PPA Vice President of Player Relations Rich Muny relayed the positive news that a ban on internet poker has been removed from the Republican Party’s platform in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Ever since online poker has been a… Read more »
After more than five years of travel through the courts in the United States, the final settlements regarding Full Tilt Poker were quietly reached earlier this year, ending the saga of the now-defunct twice over online poker site and putting it into the history books. The issues that Full Tilt faced were directly related to… Read more »
The Global Poker League is in a hiatus at this time, taking a break after finishing the first half of their inaugural season and their “Summer Series” during the run of the World Series of Poker. It’s certainly been an interesting run so far for GPL creator Alex Dreyfus’ pet program and it has seen… Read more »
After a two-month span that saw him earn almost $10 million, Germany’s Fedor Holz has emerged from the orgy of poker in Las Vegas as the overall leader of the two major Player of the Year leaderboards in the industry. Holz’s play has simply been mind-boggling since Memorial Day in the United States. Coming over… Read more »
The poker boom’s origin story begins in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event. ESPN’s television coverage was coming of age, allowing millions of viewers to revel in the victory of an amateur with the glorious poker name. It was also the first time that most people had heard of… Read more »
Now that the World Series of Poker-proper is over and we’re just waiting for All Hallows’ Eve Eve and the start of the Main Event final table, other poker festivals can now start to try to turn the attention of poker players and fans back to them. As such, PokerStars is running a special Spin… Read more »
Day 7 of the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event began with 27 players filling three tables and finally ended at around midnight Pacific time as the nine member of the final table – best known in the poker world as the “November Nine” – were determined. Leading the way is New York’s Cliff… Read more »
Late last week, PokerStars pushed through an update to its software and in the process removed a cash game feature that likely was not even something a lot of players were fully aware of: the ability to choose whether or not one wants to show their hole cards when two or more players are all-in.… Read more »
Since early on in the 2016 World Series of Poker, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Jason Mercier was going to claim the WSOP Player of the Year (POY) title and while he did, it was not until yesterday, that he could say the award was officially his. With Paul Volpe’s ouster from the… Read more »
Here we are. The 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event field was whittled from 80 players down to just 27 on Sunday. The next step: determine the November Nine. Those 27 remaining players will get together at noon Pacific time on Monday and will play as long as it takes to get down to… Read more »
Two days from now, the “November Nine” will be determined for the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event. As for Saturday, the 251 players who came back for Day 5 action had their minds set just on making it through another day. 80 men were able to keep the dream alive after another grinding… Read more »
The tension is beginning to mount in the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino’s Amazon Room in Las Vegas as the final days of the 2016 World Series of Poker’s Championship Event are in action. With only 251 players remaining from the monstrous 6737 player field, WSOP bracelet winner Bryan Piccioli is the player that… Read more »
The 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event saw the entirety of the field come together for the first time. The 2186 players who had been fortunate enough to battle through the alphabet soup mix of Day Ones and Twos were now faced with the challenge of surviving another large field and actually making it… Read more »
The final Day Two is in the books at the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event and, although he would emerge with the day’s largest stack, Day 2C chip leader Gustavo Lopes wasn’t able to catch the man who is the overall chip leader, Valentin Vornicu. A massive throng of 3252 players – larger… Read more »
As the 2016 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event rolls on, we are still in that weird-feeling portion of the tournament in which the field is carved into pieces. We already had the three starting flights, but the Main Event is so big that even on Day 2, the field has to be split… Read more »
The highlight of the World Series of Poker every year is obviously the $10,000 Main Event. A few other events on the schedule have captured the interest of poker players and the poker public alike, though, including the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, the Colossus, and the Big One for One Drop. Created by Cirque du… Read more »
If you play poker, you will inevitably play against some unsavory characters. I suppose in everything we do in life, we have dealings with people we love and people we would rather see trip on the sidewalk and chip a tooth. But poker seems to bring out the creeps sometimes. Enter Chris Ferguson and Howard… Read more »
