Ante Up for Africa event raises $500K

Pro poker player Annie Duke and actor Don Cheadle helped to raise more than half a million dollars for charity thanks to their Ante Up for Africa event at the San Manuel Casino in Los Angeles.
The casino itself added money to the funds raised by   …full article

No new episodes of ‘High Stakes Poker,’ WPT in danger too?

“High Stakes Poker” may be nearly done on the Game Show Network.
No new shows are in production, and GSN has not yet bought new episodes of the show.

WSOP to open branded store in Las Vegas

If you are looking for World Series of Poker merchandise, it’s going to be easier than ever to find now the powers behind the world’s largest poker gathering are opening a store in Las Vegas to sell WSOP-branded merchandise.
The WSOP announced a multi-year deal with   …full article

Bodog taking action on WSOP prop bets

Bodoglife.com is now taking bets on a variety of possibilities at the World Series of Poker, allowing anyone to bet on the action at poker’s biggest event.
Here are a few of the prop bets (odds as of Wednesday, May 14):
Will a player win 2 or   …full article

‘Poker After Dark’ hosting ‘couples night’

The NBC show “Poker After Dark” will be airing episodes this week featuring three of poker’s most famous couples.
The week’s theme is called “Love at First Raise,” featuring Jennifer Harman and Marco Traniello, David Benyamine and Erica Schoenberg, and Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly all   …full article

Former WSOP winner Jamie Gold to host Playboy celebrity tourney

Jamie Gold, the winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker’s main event, will host the Celebrity Poker Tournament and Casino Night at the Playboy Mansion on Saturday.
He’ll be co-hosting with Khloe Kardashian from E!’s “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” The event is a fundraiser   …full article

Ladbrokes to offer $1M if one of its players makes WSOP final table

Online poker site Ladbrokes has said any of its players that reach the final table of the main event of the World Series of Poker will earn $1 million from the site.
The money will come in the form of a sponsorship package, according to pokerpages.com:
Ladbrokes   …full article

Full Tilt to offer $25K buy-in heads-up tournament

Full Tilt Poker will be putting on the Full Tilt $25K Heads-Up World Championship on May 24-25 in what will be the most expensive tournament buy-in in the history of online poker.
The event takes place a week after the end of FTOPS VIII.

‘Real World’ cast members to play tourney at Doyle’s Room

Doyle’s Room will be hosting a special tournament on Wednesday that will feature members of recent casts of “The Real World,” the MTV reality show:
Recent “Real World” stars Dave Sky and Will Gill (Season 20) and Parisa Montazaran (Season 19, “Real World: Sydney”), will appear   …full article

Get your Package to the 2008 World Series worth $17,000

888.com gives you the chance to win 5 amazing packages to the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, worth $17,000 during the live broadcasting of 888.com’s biggest poker event, the World Poker Crown.
It has been an exciting 2 months during the online tournaments   …full article

Allen Cunningham wins WSOP circuit

Allen Cunningham will head into this year’s World Series of Poker seeking a sixth bracelet, and he’ll be on a bit of a roll.
Cunningham won the main event of the WSOP Circuit held at Caesars Palace. He entered the final table with an average chip   …full article

More details about changes to WSOP final table

Harrah’s held a conference call yesterday to discuss the coming change regarding the World Series of Poker main event, in which the final table will be delayed until November for the purposes of showing it almost live on television.

Report: WSOP main event final table to be played in November

An article published in USA Today is reporting that World Series of Poker main event final table will be delayed until November for the benefit of television.
The main event starts on July 3, and will continue until July 14, when the initial field will have   …full article

NBC announces automatic ways to qualify for NHUPC

It’s not getting any easier for anyone who wants to play in NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
The methods for getting an automatic invitation to the event in 2009 were announced by NBC, and the selection method will guarantee about half the spots in the   …full article

David Chiu stuns Gus Hansen to win WPT Championship

Gus Hansen looked like he had his fourth World Poker Tour title wrapped up at the WPT Championship. But David Chiu made an amazing comeback in heads-up play to win the event and the $3.4 million top prize.

Tourney to help poker make in-roads in Japan

The All Japan Poker Championship is scheduled to take place starting this Sunday in a country where there are no casinos and no gambling.
According to cardplayer.com:
Because casinos are not yet allowed to operate in Japan, this event was created to provide poker fans there an   …full article

Poker tourney to raise awarenss of Darfur crisis

San Manuel Casino in California is slated to host a celebrity poker tournament on May 8 to benefit and raise awareness of Ante Up for Africa, which is headed up by actor Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke.
Ante Up for Africa hopes to shed   …full article

Another exclusive Pacific tournament with overlay

Pacific has set us up with another great tournament with excellent added value. Note that this tournament is open to both new registrations and those that registered for the event held last Sunday:
Time: Friday April 25th at 3pm EST
Name: PTP & RBN WPC Qualifier
Buy   …full article

Canadian wins EPT Grand Final

Twenty-two-year-old Glen Chorny of Ontario, Canada, won the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final on Thursday, outlasting a field of 842 other players to take the season-ending event.
Chorny pocketed just over 2 million Euros ($3.2 million) for the first-place finish, which is believed to be   …full article

Exclusive Pacific Poker Tournament

PTP and RNB were approached by Pacific Poker with the opportunity to run a private tournament this Sunday at 2pm eastern with an absolutely insane value. Pacific does not accept US players. Here are the details:

Great Britain wins Poker Nations Cup

Great Britain won the PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup that ended this week.
The team of professionals from the United Kingdom defeated six other teams in the tag-team poker format, where substitutions were allowed for each nation’s team in each of six “heats.”
According to pokerpages.com:
The winning GB   …full article

WPT reverses decision to take percentage of prize pool for charity

The World Poker decided yesterday not to donate a percentage of the prize pool for its 2008 Ladies Championship to charity after top women’s players said they wouldn’t play in the event because of the policy.
Two-time champion Susie Isaacs led a group of players who   …full article

Hachem nearly gets in fight at EPT Grand Final

Former World Series of Poker main event champion Joe Hachem is nicknamed “Salty” for a reason, apparently.
With 82 players left in the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final, Hachem nearly got into fisticuffs with a player named Woody Deck. At the time, players were two away   …full article

Barry Greenstein wins “Stars of Poker” event at EPT

While players were battling out in the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final, PokerStars hosted an invitation-only table with poker pros playing for a first-prize of $100,000.
Barry Greenstein won the event, outlasting a talented field, according to pokerstarsblog.com:
The line-up was among the toughest you’ll see. Daniel   …full article

One UltimateBet player to go heads up with Phil Hellmuth

One lucky UltimateBet player will get the opportunity to play pro Phil Hellmuth in a heads-up match for $30,000 on Sunday.
UB is holding the Heads-Up SmackDown Bracket of Champions, which is down to its final four players after nine months of competition. The heads-up series   …full article

National Heads-Up Poker Championship TV schedule released

NBC recently updated the broadcast schedule for its fourth annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Coverage of the event begins Sunday and will include action from all three days of the event, eventually won by Chris Ferguson against Andy Bloch in the best-of-three final.
According to pokerpages.com:
The Championship   …full article

Erik Seidel wins WPT’s Foxwoods Poker Classic

Erik Seidel started the final table of the Foxwoods Poker Classic with the most chips, and he ended the World Poker Tour event with all of them.
The final table — consisting of 6 players — lasted 12 hours and 229 hands, and the eight-time World   …full article

WPT to honor past champs, hand out bracelets

World Poker Tour champions will now get a bracelet — just like World Series of Poker event winners do — at an event honoring all its past champions later this month.
The “Ceremony of Champions” will be held at Bellagio’s “O” Theatre on April 21, where   …full article

WSOP main event final table: No delay this year?

A post at pokerati.com apparently quashes rumors — for now — that this year’s World Series of Poker main event final table could be delayed by months for the purpose of broadcasting on television it almost live.
Here’s the blog entry:
With all of the references to   …full article

Jennifer Harman continues charity poker event for Nevada pets

With a first place prize of a seat at the Main Event in the 2008 World Series of Poker, over 100 professional poker players including Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh, Joe Hachem, and, of course, Jennifer Harman herself, the Second Annual Jennifer Harman   …full article

American qualifier wins EPT San Remo

The European Poker Tour San Remo final table featured four players who had made it to EPT final tables before. But an American who qualified online beat them all.
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier won the event, cashing for $1.34 million in winning his first live poker tournament   …full article

Rumors swirling that WSOP main event final table will be delayed, broadcast almost live

The final table of this year’s World Series of Poker main event may be broadcast nearly live and may be delayed by several months to accommodate television, according to rumors circulating on the internet.
Under the plan, wickedchopspoker.com says the final table would be aired on   …full article

RaiNKhaN wins Foxwoods event, and is on a roll

On Wednesday, Hevad “RaiNKhaN” Khan won the $2,000 buy-in no limit hold’em preliminary event at the 2008 Foxwoods Poker Classic, winning $108,000.
Khan, who gained fame in reaching the final table of last year’s World Series of Poker main event, beat a field of 192   …full article

Asian Poker Tour announces 2008 schedule

The Asian Poker Tour released its 2008 calendar and has guaranteed a prize pool of $1 million at each of its four events.
The Tour will begin on May 27 in the Philippines and will wrap up on June 1 in Singapore. The APT will also   …full article

Lee Markholt wins WPT World Poker Challenge

Lee Markholt had cashed 14 times before on the World Poker Tour, but he never made it to a final table.
When he finally made it to one, he didn’t waste the opportunity.
Markholt won the WPT’s World Poker Challenge on Friday in Reno, Nev., taking   …full article

Irish Open ends, Londoner takes top prize

Neil Channing, 40, of London, England, bagged his first huge tournament win yesterday when he outplayed Irish Donal Norton and the rest of the final table in just more than three hours.
Channing took home a huge trophy and €801,400 of the PaddyPowerPoker.com guaranteed €3 million   …full article

PokerStars’ Sunday Hundred Grand gets even bigger

PokerStars’ giant weekly tournament, the Sunday Hundred Grand, just got bigger and shows no signs of slowing down.
PokerStars’ increased the field to 22,500 people for this Sunday’s edition of the tournament, an $11 buy-in. And the field was still full. When the tournament first started,   …full article

Small Town Poker Tour plans for Louisiana

The Small Town Poker Tour, billing itself as “changing the world of poker one hand at a time,” announced today the launch of its “Gator Flop Series” through Louisiana.
The charity poker events, which begin in April, will culminate in October with the award of   …full article

Hellmuth to host charity poker tournament after Kentucky Derby

If gambling at the Kentucky Derby isn’t enough for people at the biggest event in horse racing, there will be even more action after the Run for the Roses.
Phil Hellmuth and Robert Williamson III will host the Kentucky Derby Poker Championship at Caesars Indiana following   …full article

Last year’s third-place finisher at Wynn Classic takes top prize

Last year, in the inaugural Wynn Classic, Chris Moore took third place.
This time around, he sealed the deal.
In the second year of the event, Moore took the top prize of $692,286 in the $10,000 buy-in event.
Despite a top field of players entered in the   …full article

Dates of second WSOP Europe announced

Harrah’s has announced the dates for the second World Series of Poker Europe, which will be held September 19 to October 1 in London, England.
Last year was the inaugural event, and the London Clubs International will host the events again at three different locations. This   …full article

Former WPT, WSOP champ wins more than $1M at Bay 101

Brandon Cantu, who has won both a World Poker Tour and a World Series of Poker event, won the 2008 Bay 101 Shooting Star main event, pocketing more $1 million with the victory. He ran over the final table after coming into the last day   …full article

New WSOP rule limits celebration in 2008

The floor shows of the likes of Hevad Khan and Humberto Brenes most likely won’t be on display at the 2008 edition of the World Series of Poker. If they do, they might find themselves on the rail.
Harrah’s Entertainment released the 2008 edition of its   …full article

Huck Seed wins Canadian Open

Huck Seed, the 1996 World Series of Poker main event champion, won the 2008 Canadian Open Poker Championship in Calgary, Alberta.
Seed wrapped up the win on Sunday for the $100,000 first prize. The win comes on the heels of his third-place finish at the 2008   …full article

Chip leader at final table of WSOP circuit event is DQ’d

The results at a World Series of Poker circuit event held in Atlantic City were pretty much overshadowed by the disqualification of the chip leader at the final table of the tournament.
Lesley Thornburg of Richmond, Va., was leading Event #1, the $300 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em   …full article

Everest Poker signs on as World Series of Poker sponsor

According to an announcement released today, Everest Poker has apparently replaced Party Poker as the primary poker room sponsor of the World Series of Poker. Terms of the deal were not announced, but Everest will be featured as a table logo on all WSOP   …full article

Justin Bonomo: Men Nguyen cheating in live tournament events

Professional poker player Justin Bonomo called out Men “The Master” Nguyen in a blog post today, accusing the well-known tournament player of cheating in various events. Similar accusations have been raised against Men in the past, and are primarily centered around charges of chip   …full article

Pre-registration for the World Series of Poker now open

Harrah’s announced today that the World Series of Poker is now open for pre-registration. Players have the option of registering for all 2008 World Series of Poker events either by registering in person at the main cage of the Rio, the host casino for   …full article

Bodog Poker Open kicks off this week

Online poker room Bodog Poker kicks off the inaugural installment of their tournament series, The Bodog Poker Open, on March 3rd with a $250 No Limit event that will have $10,000 added to the prize pool. The entire schedule is reprinted below.
All of the   …full article

Chris Ferguson wins the National Heads Up Poker Championship

Adding an exclamation point to an already impressive NHUPC resume, Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson triumphed over a field of 63 opponents to bring home the 2008 National Heads Up Poker Championship title.
Ferguson defeated fellow Full Tilt Poker pro Andy Bloch to win the title and half   …full article

Poker Stars and Full Tilt launch WSOP promotions

The two largest online poker rooms chose the same day to launch dueling promotions for the richest tournament series in poker - The 2008 World Series of Poker. Both Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars revealed their extensive satellite schedules for a broad range   …full article

National Heads Up Poker Championship down to quarterfinals

The NHUPC is currently in Day Three, with the original field of 64 now whittled down to 8. The big surprise of the field is former Major League pitcher Orel Hershiser, who is taking on Andy Bloch. The remainder of the matches are   …full article

National Heads up Poker Championship heads into Day 2

The first day of the NHUPC wrapped up with several familiar faces - including defending champ Paul Wasicka - sent to the showers. It was a day of fairly massive suckouts and minor dramas, all of which are captured in the links below.
Here’s a   …full article

LV Sun: Odds for National Heads Up Poker Championship

Jeff Haney has an article in today’s Las Vegas Sun that lays out his list of the odds for the field of the fourth installment of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
At the top of the list: Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Alan Cunningham and Andy Bloch.   …full article

PokerStars qualifier wins EPT’s Scandinavian Open

An American is the latest winner on the European Poker Tour, as PokerStars qualifier Tim Vance won the tour’s stop in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Vance, a 46-year-old construction company manager from near St. Louis, Missouri, won the first prize of 21,086,400 Danish Kroner (around 830,000 Euros or   …full article

Antonio Esfandiari hired by the WPT to do something or other

The WPT has apparently decided that their model for success relies on fewer tournaments and more hype - at least that’s one conclusion you could draw from today’s announcement that the World Poker Tour has hired Antonio Esfandiari to be the ‘face of the WPT   …full article

National Heads-Up Poker Championship players announced

Sixty-three of 64 players in NBC’s fourth National Heads-Up Poker Championship have been confirmed for the event, according to pokerpages.com. The event begins Feb. 29 at Caesars Palace in Lax Vegas and features a first prize of half a million dollars.
The single-elimination tournament starts with   …full article

CardPlayer OPOY standings shuffled post-FTOPS

The CardPlayer Online Player of the Year standings saw a fairly significant shake-up in the wake of the recently concluded Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII. With a 3rd place finish in FTOPS 19 (on the heels of a Sunday Million win), Tomgus456 moved   …full article

World Poker Tour announces schedule for Season 7

The World Poker Tour released the schedule for season 7 of their popular live poker tournament series today. Season 7 will see the WPT visit 14 destinations, including stops at the Borgata, Bellagio, Foxwoods and The Bike.
The schedule is lacking some familiar stops,   …full article

FTOPS comes to a close with main event

Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS VII came to a close early this morning with a winner being crowned in the $535 main event, which had nearly 5,300 people registered. FTP member “Reverse” won the title by beating FTP pro Thomas Wahlroos heads up in the finale.
Reverse’s   …full article

Bodog announces tournament series: Bodog Poker Open

In the middle of another successful installment of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS tournament series, Bodog Poker announced the schedule for the inaugural run of their own tournament series - The Bodog Poker Open.
The series will have six events, capped off by a main event that   …full article

WPT announces TV broadcast schedule for Season 6 on GSN

The World Poker Tour announced the upcoming broadcast schedule for Season 6 of the poker tournament series today. This season, the WPT is leaving its long-time home at the Travel Channel and showing instead on the Game Show Network, also home to the popular   …full article

World Poker Tour downsizing live schedule?

Pokerati is reporting that the World Poker Tour live tournament schedule, set to be released next week, will feature significantly fewer tournaments than 2007’s schedule.
The tournament rumored to be cut are primarily Las Vegas stops.
Excerpt from Pokerati:

PokerStars running $2 million guaranteed FPP tournament

The Poker Stars Turbo Takedown - a tournament with one of the largest guaranteed prize pools in recent memory - is a more unique still for another reason: you can’t buy in with money.
The tournament, set to run at 2:30 EST on February 17th, can   …full article

Sheikhan uninvited from LAPD poker tournament

Shahram ‘Sheiky’ Sheikhan won’t be appearing as planned at an upcoming LAPD charity poker event, according to a story published today by PokerHelper.com. Sheikhan, whose possible deportation from the US due to past charges of sexual misconduct made news a few months ago, has   …full article

Timex: Most people should stay away from poker

In a series of comments to Canadian newspapers following his big EPT win last week, Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald sounded more like a PSA than an EPT champ - which is probably a good thing for the image of online poker players.
McDonald was profiled in an   …full article

Canadian teen wins PokerStars EPT Dortmund

Eighteen and a half years old, Michael McDonald has been playing live poker for only six months. Following the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour stop in Dortmund, Germany, he is now the youngest player ever to win an EPT stop. €933,600 richer from the   …full article

Herald Sun: Arrests made in Jason Potter robbery case

The Melbourne Herald Sun is reporting today that two men have been arrested in connection with the robbing of poker player Jason Potter. Potter was robbed of $30,000 at knifepoint earlier this month during the Aussie Millions.
From the MHS:
Detectives in Melbourne executed two search   …full article

Poker Stars and Full Tilt cooperating with Harrahs to offer Heads Up Poker Championship seats

In an announcement that’s a bit more significant than the typical online poker promotion, PokerStars.net revealed this week that they’ll be offering the opportunity for a PokerStars player to fill one of the four seats not already assigned for the 2008 Heads Up Poker Championship   …full article

World Poker Open winner: Brett Faustman

Brett Faustman wrestled his way to a new piece of jewelry, entry to the World Poker Tour championship this spring, and $892,413 in prize money at the Mississippi Gold Strike Casino & Resort yesterday.
After starting off in second place, the young insurance salesman and former   …full article

World Series of Poker radio to begin next week

January 28 will see the launch of WSOP Radio, the official show for the 2008 World Series of Poker.
The show, which will be presented by Milwaukee’s Best Light, is produced by Bluff Media. Host Nick Geber is a regular commentator on “World Series of Poker   …full article

CardPlayer updates criteria for Online Player of the Year award

CardPlayer has rolled out a revised set of criteria that will be used to determine the winner of the 2008 Online Player of the Year (OPOY) award. The big changes include the ability to officially ‘retire’ a screen name if you permanently switch names   …full article

Florida woman wins World Poker Tour Ladies inaugural event

The World Poker Tour Ladies league kicked off this week at the Borgata, with 383 women entering the inaugural No Limit Hold ‘em Event 6.
Regette Bechara, from Florida, walked away with $33,321 in first prize monies and a seat in the WPTL championship. This was   …full article

2008 Irish Open 2008 schedule

Paddy Power Poker released the schedule for the 2008 Irish Open. This year’s open promises a 3 million Euro prize pool for the main event, with first place guaranteed a minimum of 800k Euros.
Alongside the Main Event activities are the side events, including the first   …full article

Poker player Jason Potter robbed at Aussie Millions

Various sources, including the victim himself, are reporting this morning that 22-year old poker player Jason Potter was robbed of approximately $30,000 (US) yesterday near the site of the Aussie Millions. The robbery took place as Potter was heading back to his hotel after   …full article

Aussie Millions Main Event winner: Alexander Kostritsyn

The 2008 Main Event of the Aussie Millions poker tournament series has concluded, and it’s Alexander Kostritsyn who came out on top of a nearly 800 player field to capture the title and 1.65 million in cash.
Kostritsyn bested long-time pro Eric Seidel in a heads   …full article

Shane Warne joins 888.com, plays in Aussie Millions, sends texts

Shane Warne got in trouble from his seat at the Aussie Millions when he sent a text message. He received a five-minute suspension as a result, but the real consequence of his misguided messaging was the reemergence of gossip concerning the last time he got   …full article

2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure: final results

The 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has come to an end, and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier is the winner, taking the $2 million top prize.
Hafiz Khan was second, with a not-too-shabby $1,100,000.
Complete coverage here

Irish Poker Championship winner: Jude Ainsworth

The Irish Poker Championship is over and has been won by an Irishman. Jude Ainsworth, 28, of Claregalway, took the top prize of €180,000 and a crystal trophy home with him from Galway City earlier this week.
“It doesn’t get much better than this,” proclaimed   …full article

PokerProForAYear Winner: Luke Abolins

The Abolins parents must be proud. Two of their children, Luke and Jo Abolins, ended up in the finals competing to win PokerProForAYear, and one of them won. Not only did Luke win, but his sister held on till the final three.
Luke “Resteal” Abolins of   …full article

Pokerati: PokerBowl money problems

Dan Michalski over at Pokerati wrote about the inaugural PokerBowl and some apparent ongoing financial problems today. Excerpt:
I guess maybe we shouldn’t be surprised when a tournament that relies on too many freerolls and forgets to take any juice runs into a financial clusterflubbing.   …full article

Full Tilt Poker releases schedule for Online Poker Series 7

Online poker room Full Tilt Poker released the schedule for the seventh installment of their popular FTOPS tournament series this week. This time around, the online poker tournament series will offer a total of $10 million in guaranteed prize money spread out over 20   …full article

Aussie Millions gets underway, JJProdigy apparently to attend

Popular poker tournament series The Aussie Millions kicked off this Saturday, and promises to provide a steady stream of news and gossip during its two-week run that caps off with the final table of the Aussie Millions Main Event, currently scheduled for January 20th.
Last year,   …full article

WPT World Poker Open starts today

The first event of the 2008 World Poker Tour World Poker Open kicked off today at the Gold Strike Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Mississippi. The World Poker Open runs from today through Jan. 23, with the $10k championship event taking up the final three   …full article

2008 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour schedule

The 2008 schedule for the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour was recently released.
The tour, sponsored by Blue Square Poker, consists of nine legs stretching from January through mid-November, with the Grand Final taking place in London from Nov. 24-30. Prize monies have been announced to be   …full article

Card Player changes Player of the Year criteria for 2008

Card Player’s new rules for its 2008 Player of the Year qualifications are available in a column by Bob Pajich. Pajich supplies the entire list, pointing out which are changes from 2007.

The championship events of the following international tourneys all count toward POY standings: European   …full article

Card Player online player of the year: Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi came in third place in the Card Player Online Player of the Year ranking, with Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron continuing the streak he started last January with a $255,000 win from Poker Stars Sunday Millions. Matt “ch0ppy” Kay took a close second place.
Baron   …full article

Poker Stars: Josh “JJProdigy” Field not welcome at PCA

Controversial online poker whiz kid Josh “JJProdigy” Field will apparently have to delay his live tournament debut for a week or two. Field, who became notorious for admitted multi-accounting and various other offenses committed while he was racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars   …full article

Josh “JJProdigy” Field offers apology to online poker community

Josh Field, better known to the online poker world as “JJProdigy”, posted an apology of sorts on several major online poker forums this weekend, just days before he is set to make his live poker debut at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
“JJProdigy” is one of   …full article

WPT World Poker Classic Day Two gets underway

Day Two of the (deep inhale) World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic runs today. 152 players remain out of a starting field of 664, and they’ll be competing for a first prize worth almost 2.5 million. Phil Ivey starts   …full article

Main event of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Classic underway at the Bellagio

The main event of the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Classic is underway at the Bellagio. This $15,000+300 buy in event caps weeks of tournament action at the Bellagio and should make for a great close to an exciting tournament year.
For up-to-the-minute coverage, check   …full article

WSOP releases 2008 schedule, dedicates HORSE championship title to Chip Reese

Two big announcements from the World Series of Poker this week, both having to do with their flagship summer tournament series at the Rio.
First up, the announcement of the 2008 World Series of Poker Schedule. The big news: this year will feature eight, count   …full article

WSOP New Orleans: final results

The World Series of Poker circuit event at Harrah’s in New Orleans ended Wednesday, and Andy Philachack is $247,860, a gold ring and a long-awaited first prize richer. He also won a seat into the WSOP 2008 main event. Josh Arieh started out in the   …full article

Tony G wins Moscow Millions, donates prize money to orphanages

Russia’s biggest poker tournament ever, the Moscow Millions, has ended, and winner Tony Guoga of Melbourne has won $205,000, two titles, and a gold bracelet. He’s keeping the bracelet, and “Russia’s National Poker Champion” and “RSPF’s Grand Champion of Russia,” but has already donated his   …full article

Poker Stars clears Chris Vaughn of any wrongdoing in Sunday Million win

Chris Vaughn, who made online poker headlines twice in the last few weeks, once for winning both the Full Tilt Million Guarantee and the Poker Stars Sunday Million in October and then again for having his Full Tilt win revoked when Full Tilt security concluded   …full article

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi responds to Full Tilt Poker cheating charges

Well-known online poker tournament player Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi responded today to charges that he has been banned from Full Tilt Poker for taking over another user’s account during the end stages of the Full Tilt Million Dollar Guarantee on October 21st, 2007.
The account in question:   …full article

1 million dollars guaranteed to the winner of Asian Pacific Poker Tour: Sydney

The PokerStars.net Asian Pacific Poker Tour is wrapping up its inaugural season with what looks to be a fairly massive event this December in Sydney, Australia. In a move that seems designed to ensure that the first season of the tour ends with a   …full article

Full Tilt Poker apparently confirms handoff charges against BluffMagCV

Full Tilt has allegedly confirmed charges, first raised publicly in a thread over at 2+2, that ‘BluffMagCV’, winner of the October 21st ‘One Million Guarantee’ tournament on FTP, handed over his account to another player during the late stages of the tournament.
BluffMagCV is the screen   …full article

Dinh Le wins APPT Macau: Asian Poker Open Championship

The inaugural Asian Pacific Poker Tour Macau: Asian Poker Open, presented by PokerStars.net, crowned a champion early this morning, with Dinh Le taking home the title and nearly $225,000 in prize money. On the 105th hand played at the final table, Dinh Le and   …full article

Historic APPT poker tournament event gets underway in Macau

The very first hand of (legal) live tournament poker in the People’s Republic of China was dealt today as The PokerStars.net Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau: Asian Poker Open got underway, ushering in a new era of poker in the Asian-Pacific region.
APPT President Jeffrey   …full article

Aussie teen wins nearly $100k in first-time tournament

19-year-old university student Daniel Booth played his way into the Adelaide Hold’em Championship Series, bypassing a $3,000 entry fee perhaps out of reach for a part-time supermarket employee and walking away with top prize of $96,000 from a $366,000 prize pool.
“I never dreamed I would   …full article

Borgata Deep Stack Tournament: final table results

The Deep Stack Tournament came to a finish yesterday at the Borgata. Five days of 75-minute-level play by 172 players in the $5,200 buy-in event led to Joseph Cappello taking his $283,800 winning share of the $860,000 prize pool back to New York.
The rest of   …full article

World Poker Finals: final results

The 2007 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods is over, and first time final table player
Mike Vela, senior vice president of an investment company, is the winner. Also at the final table were Nick Schulman and Nenad Medic, the 2005 and 2006 winners of the event,   …full article

PokerStars to record and replay Sunday Million final table with all hole cards exposed

PokerStars announced yesterday a significant change in their final table reply policy for the popular Sunday Million tournament. From here on out, all hole cards of all players will be revealed in the reply.
Currently, the replay only includes the hole cards of players who   …full article

Heartland Poker Tour 2008 schedule released

The “minor leagues of poker” events of the Heartland Poker Tour have been worked out for next year. Beginning in mid-February and continuing through the HPT Championship in Gary, Indiana at the end of 2008, the schedule is as follows:
*   …full article

TheRecord.com profiles Ryan Fisler, co-founder of Real Poker Training

Canadian newspaper The Record published a feature today in their online edition on Ryan Fisler, online poker pro and co-founder of poker coaching site Real Poker Training.com. Some interesting excerpts:
The site has proven nearly as lucrative as Fisler’s gambling. Since it launched in early   …full article

Annette Obrestad blogs about EPT Dublin final table

In an extended entry on her new blog for Betfair, Annette ‘Annette_15′ Obrestad talks about her experience during final table play at the PokerStars EPT Dublin event.
Obrestad, who at 19 is one of the most successful tournament players in all of online poker, is best   …full article

Reuben Peters takes EPT Dublin final table; Annette Obrestad “not happy”

Annette Obrestad held strong to the end, but eventually came in second to Reuben Peters, a stock trader from Colorado, at the PokerStars.com EPT Final Table in Dublin. After picking off most of the competition for Peters, Obrestad hesitated, called, and ended up with a   …full article

Annette Obrestad enters final table of EPT Dublin as chipleader

As day 3 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour: Dublin Event drew to a close, an increasingly familiar face was at the top of the leaderboard - teenage poker phenom Annette Obrestad.
Obrestad, well-known to the online poker world for some time, became a poker household   …full article

ESPN tonight: World Series of Poker 50k H.O.R.S.E final table

The WSOP on ESPN wraps up tonight after a nice steady run of 2 episodes a week for the last several weeks. Capping the excellently produced series: episodes this evening that cover the final table of the $50,000 buy in HORSE, event #39 of   …full article

PokerBowl conferences kick off this evening

The Northern Conference for the Inaugural PokerBowl starts tonight at 7pm PT at the Las Vegas Palms Casino.
According to the PokerBowl site, The Chicago Sharks, Cleveland Crows, Minnesota Young Guns, New Jersey XFactors and Seattle Sentinels will be competing with each other to gain   …full article

World Poker Tour: Spanish Championship winner

The World Poker Tour Spanish Championship is over, and Marcus Lehmann just took home the trophy, 544,987 euros worth of prize money, and a seat at the WPT World Championship in April at the Bellagio.
The stop in Barcelona also set a record for the longest   …full article

Heartland Poker Tour Colorado winner

The Heartland Poker Tour stopped in Colorado and held the largest poker tournament ever in the state. Colorado resident Michael Haggard fell behind time and again only to pull out on top and win $129,780 from a total prize pool of $463,500.
“Wow, what can I   …full article

PokerStars disqualifies winner of WCOOP Main Event

After days of intense speculation regarding impropriety at the final table of the World Championship of Online Poker, PokerStars has confirmed today that main event winner TheV0id was in fact in breach of Poker Star’s terms of service, and has been disqualified and stripped of   …full article

EPT Baden: Final results

Englishman Julian Thew has won €670,800 after four days of play in the latest leg of the European Poker Tournament. After a bit of a scare in the second hand when he lost half his chips, he pulled to the front and stayed there.
The rest   …full article

Update: Impropriety at the final table of the WCOOP Main Event

Rumors regarding the possibility of multi-accounting on the part of WCOOP Main Event winner theV0id have calmed since the initial fury following the closing of the WCOOP, but, according to an official comment from PokerStars, investigations regarding the WCOOP Main Event are still underway.
There’s no   …full article

WSOP 2008 tournament dates

The World Series of Poker 2008 will be held May 30 - July 17, making it two days longer than this year’s.
Players will be given the chance to pre-register at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino beginning May 26, as promoters have decided that the   …full article

PartyPoker.com sponsoring major tournament in Ireland

PartyPoker.com is sponsoring the third annual Irish Poker Championship with Pokerevents.ie at the beginning of next year.
From January 3 through January 6, as many as 400 players will be converging on Galway, Ireland for the tournament, which will be distributed internationally by Ireland’s national broadcasting   …full article

Five years of Irish Open freerolls for Paddypowerpoker winner

Qualifiers are already underway for the Irish Poker Open, set to be the largest (or second largest) UK poker event in history.
And Paddy Power Poker is sweetening the pot for players who qualify through its website. The highest scoring in the tournament will   …full article

International Poker Open breaking UK attendance records

The International Poker Open has 1,015 players registered so far and doesn’t even start till tomorrow. Even if a couple hundred people change their minds about playing in the 2-day No-Limit Texas Hold’em Freezeout tournament, the record of 708 people playing poker at the same   …full article

US Inaugural PokerBowl

Las Vegas will see the first annual PokerBowl, with a prize pool of one million dollars, on October 23.
Five conferences with five teams each will compete in the Pacific Ballroom of Bally’s Casino from October 20 - 22 for the chance to be in   …full article

World Championship of Online Poker: Rumors of impropriety at the main event final table

It’s becoming almost a knee-jerk response of the online poker community to crank up the rumor-mill after a major online tournament event or series, and it appears that the wake of the World Championship of Online Poker at Poker Stars won’t be any exception, as   …full article

Charges filed against six men associated with “European Poker Challenge”

Six Swedish men allegedly involved with running the unlicensed European Poker Challenge in Grebbestad, Sweden have been arrested and charged.
The 700-player, 250 Euro buy-in, unlicensed poker tournament was busted almost as soon as it began. The top prize of 50,000 Euros was not awarded, and   …full article

World Championship of Online Poker: TheV0id wins main event

The World Championship of Online Poker ended Sunday, with TheV0id coming out on top and running away with the $1,228,330.50 prize.
mpg1000 started out at the top, with nearly twice as many chips as second-place ka$ino’s ten million. ka$ino held tight to second place and   …full article

APPT Seoul: And the winner is…

The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Seoul has wrapped up with a blindingly fast final table. After less than six hours, Ziv “ziviland” Bachar of Israel walked away with $139,872 and a seat at the APPT Grand Final in Sidney.
At 25-years-old, the Tel Aviv   …full article

EPT London: Final results

Joseph Moauwad of Lebanon came from behind on the final table to win the European Poker Tour in London today. “I feel very much magnificent,” said Moauwad of the £611,520 win.
Florian Langmann of Germany came in second with £346,528 after Moauwad ended up with three   …full article

Chris Moneymaker on strong run in European Poker Tour London

Former WSOP champion and ‘man you owe a few drinks to if you’ve made a profit playing online poker ever in your life’ Chris Moneymaker is making a strong run at the PokerStars European Poker Tour London event.
Moneymaker, who has been fairly quiet on the   …full article

World Poker Tour faces unique payout dilemma

What do you do when you guarantee a million dollar first place prize for a tournament, but the entire prize pool for the tournament ends up being just about a million dollars?
That’s the tough situation recently faced by Tournament Director Jack McClelland at the World   …full article

World Championship of Online Poker: pes4fans wins Event #17

The 2007 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is winding down, but there’s still plenty of exciting events approaching. That said, one of the more action-packed events is now behind us, as Event #17 - $320 6 max NLHE - is in the books.
pes4fans,   …full article

European Poker Tour London: Day One

178 enter, 60 survive.
Chris Moneymaker was the highest placing Team PokerStars member (and American) yesterday, behind only Nicolas Levi and Daniel Mangas.
1. Nicolas Levi, France £100,300
2. Daniel Mangas, Spain £98,500
3. Chris Moneymaker, US £79,700
  …full article

2008 Irish Open venue announced

The 2008 Irish Open is expected to have even more players than last year’s record-setting 708. With the European poker tournament coming up on Easter weekend (March 19-24), Paddypowerpoker.com has chosen this year’s 1,000 capacity venue, the Citywest Hotel, located 15 kilometers west of Dublin.
Last   …full article

World Championship of Online Poker: Ubsolute wins Event #15

The WCOOP is moving quickly toward a wrap up, and last night moved players even closer to the final event of the series with the closing of Event #15, $320 7 Card Stud.
The event attracted about 700 people, one of the smaller WCOOP fields so   …full article

World Series of Poker on ESPN: Day 2B scheduled for broadcast tonight

The World Series of Poker Main Event coverage on ESPN continues this evening with 2 hours that focus on Day 2B of the tournament.
The second installment of Day 2 covers the play of nearly 1000 people who survived Day 1. By the end of   …full article

European Championship of Online Poker coming in November

The European Championship of Online Poker, sponsored by the VC Poker group, will kick off at the end of November. The brand new competition has all the hallmarks of the bigtime: bracelets, MVP title, funny acronym.
The ECOOP site has more information, including schedules. The   …full article

World Championship of Online Poker: ruthan wins Event # 9

The NLHE with rebuys shove-with-any-two-in-the-first-hour-fest that was event #9 of the World Championship of Online Poker attracted nearly 2,200 players (and double that amount in rebuys and add ons) and concluded with a top five that featured 2 Americans and three Swedes. At the   …full article

Borgata Open: Roy Winston wins championship

On a final table that featured three players with previous WPT final table experience, it was a WPT newcomer who came out on top of the last six standing at the Borgata Open Main Event.
Roy Winston, a medical doctor by profession, beat out a final   …full article

World Championship of Online Poker: copi wins Event #8

The WCCOP rolls on, and as we near the half way mark, another event is in the books. Last night it was Event #8 - the $530 buy in Omaha Hi/Lo Limit event.
With 917 people, this event generated a significant prize pool, and plenty   …full article

Borgata Open final table features Mike Matosow and five other people he’s sure to not have any respect for

The final table for the WPT Borgata Open is set, and the six players who will be competing for the top prize of over 1.5 million dollars (chip counts courtesy of WorldPokerTour.com):
Seat 1: Heung Yoon - 3,090,000
Seat 2: Roy Winston - 5,335,000
Seat 3: Haralabos Voulgaris   …full article

Heartland Poker Tour Minnesota winner

After an argument with his girlfriend, a 4-hour predawn drive, and 21 hours of play, real estate investment manager Mark Sandness picked up $53,199 at Northern Lights Casino in Walker, Minnesota.
“The