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Paul Zimbler Sets New Heads Up Poker Record

Paul Zimbler has succeeded in his quest to set a new heads-up poker world record, playing 78 hours 25 minutes 45 seconds straight against 183 of opponents and raising £35,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation in the process. The marathon session, which started Monday night, ended on Thursday evening around 8 p.m. BST with a report […]

WPT — Olivier Busquet Wins the Borgata Poker Open

The final table at the $3,500 World Poker Tour no-limit hold’em championship came to a close today at the 2009 Borgata Poker Open. Olivier Busquet topped a field of 1,018 players to take home the top prize worth $925,514 and his first WPT title. Busquet came into the final table with the chip lead, but […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Roland de Wolfe

Roland de Wolfe was a journalist writing about poker before he decided to take a seat at the felt as a professional player. The decision has proved to be a good one for the Londoner. He has now won $4,512,347 playing tournament poker, and this summer he achieved something that only one other poker player […]

Online Poker — Yevgeniy Timoshenko Wins $1K Monday

It’s been quite the week for WCOOP Main Event champion Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko. After taking down the largest prize in the history of online poker, he didn’t even have time to enjoy it, because he was leading at the final table of the $1K Monday at the time. Of course, he won that too, […]

Chris Moorman Signs as Poker Pro for DoylesRoom

DoylesRoom.com has signed the latest member of The Brunson 10 ― 24-year-old Chris Moorman from England. Moorman, who has over $4 milion in career winnings, joins Alec Torelli, Amit Makhija and Zachary Clark as part of the team. “Moorman reminds me a lot of me, except for the British accent,” said Doyle Brunson. “He’s a […]

Final Table from Hell is Back Tonight at DevilfishPoker.com

The Final Table from Hell III gets underway at DevilfishPoker.com this evening at 9 p.m. CET (8 p.m. BST). The winners of the weekly Devilfish Bounty tournament each Thursday for the next five weeks get a seat at the Final Table to play against Dave Ulliott in November. The winner of the six-seater tournament will […]

World Series of Poker Europe Event 3 — Day 1

Day 1 of the World Series of Poker Europe (sponsored by Betfair) event No. 3, the £5,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament, kicked off with 154 wannabe bracelet winners. Among the many Internet phenomenons, live poker gods, and exciting newcomers in the field were Irish Open champion Christer Johansson, Michael Binger, Barny Boatman, Anthony Lellouche, Sorel Mizzi, […]

PKR Launches Mac Compatible Poker Software

PKR.com, the 3D online poker room, today announced its revolutionary online software is now available for Apple Mac users. Apple Mac’s using the Leopard or Snow Leopard operating system are now fully compatible with PKR and online poke players can download the software, which includes all the features of the Windows-based software, for free. PKR.com […]

Direct Buy-Ins to Irish Poker Festival Sold Out

The Ladbrokes.com Irish Poker Festival being held in Killarney from, Oct. 2 to 4, has sold out its direct buy in seats. The only way for poker players to qualify now is via the live €60 super satellite at the INEC Killarney where 30 seats will be up for grabs on Oct 1. Last year […]

World Series of Poker Europe — Erik Cajelais Wins Event No. 2

With five players out of a 158-strong starting field returning to continue the final table of the World Series of Poker Europe’s £2,500 pot-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha event, it didn’t take too long to trash it out. After a total of eight hours at the final table across both days, the winner was revealed — young […]

WPT — Borgata Poker Open Day 4

It was business as usual at the Borgata Poker Open today as the field once again played down quickly during eight levels of poker. This time, the number of players lost was small, as the field shrank from 27 down to a final television-table of six, but the stakes were high, as each spot climbed […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Greg Mueller

Greg Mueller made three final tables at the 2009 World Series of Poker. His first came when he cashed in seventh place in the $10,000 seven-card stud world championship. Mueller’s next deep run came in the $10,000 limit hold’em world championship, a game that is one of his specialties. Mueller won his first gold bracelet […]

Online Poker — Interview With Ryan ‘g0lfa’ D’Angelo

In its eight-year history, only two players had won multiple bracelets at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Unknown Canadian player spawng was the first to accomplish the task, picking up his first bracelet in 2005 and his second just a year later. In 2006, Kyle “kwob20” Bowker won both of his bracelets, […]

Poker Strategy — Tom Dwan Poker After Dark Cash Game Hand

“From 1995, I’ve played high limit. I’ve never played in a tougher game than this one.” — Eli Elezra For the past two weeks, Poker After Dark ran brand-new episodes that featured a stacked, six-handed table of cash-game experts on NBC, and viewers were riveted. By the end of the two weeks, the players had […]

World Series of Poker Europe Event 2 — Day 2

Day 2 of event No. 2, the World Series of Poker Europe’s £2,500 pot-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha tournament, saw the field struggle to find a winner with so many big names and skilled professionals still remaining. The general consensus was that play would continue until a champion was crowned instead of having a final table today, […]

PokerStars Lose One Pro, Gains Another

PokerStars.com yesterday confirmed the departure of long-time pro Isabelle Mercier. The French Canadian player, who won the World Poker Tour Ladies Night II in 2004, had been with PokerStars for five years and is moving on to “take on new projects”. However, things do not stay static in the world of high-stakes poker for long […]

European Poker Championship Results from The Vic

With all eyes in the poker world currently on London, one of the lesser publicised festivals is currently running at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London. The European Poker Championships are pulling in players who, perhaps, are not bankrolled or eager to take on the big names at the World Series of Poker Europe also taking […]

Online Poker Player Uses VIP Points for Honeymoon

PartyPoker.com has unwittingly helped a 35 year-old Canadian and his new wife take the first steps in their marriage by providing the honeymoon for the couple through their VIP programme. Gary Scharkov from Toronto found the holiday to St. Lucia in the VIP store and the Palladium Lounge Elite member used 55,000 Party Points to […]

WPT — Borgata Poker Open Day 3

Day 3 at the World Poker Tour $3,500 no-limit hold’em championship at the Borgata Poker Open once again saw a huge chunk of the remaining field hit the rail. Yesterday, over 500 players made their exit to take the field down to 169, and today play charged right through the money bubble when 100 players […]

European Masters of Poker Malta Final Starts Today

The European Masters of Poker grand final gets underway in Vittoriosa in Malta today (Sept. 23) where it will stay for four days. Up to 500 players will sit down to a starting stack of 15,000 in chips rather than the usual 10,000 for the €1,500 + €150 buy-in finale. Barcelona, the penultimate stop, was […]

Bodog Celebrates Its 15-Year Anniversary with Poker Series

In a decade that has seen an explosion of online gaming and millions of new customers testing their skills on the virtual felts, many new companies have set up shop to accommodate the masses. But as most companies try to gain their footing, one veteran business is celebrating an impressive milestone. Bodog is celebrating its […]

Jeff Shulman Chooses Hellmuth as WSOP Coach

One of the biggest names at the final table just got an even bigger name to coach him. Jeff Shulman, the president of Card Player Media, has selected 11-time bracelet-winner and 1989 World Champion Phil Hellmuth to serve as his poker coach for the main-event final table in November. “The simplest reason why I’m doing […]

World Series of Poker Europe Event 2 — Day 1

Event No. 2 of the World Series of Poker Europe got off to a cracking start yesterday as a total of 158 entrants was depleted to just 22. The £2,500 pot-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha event is a new addition to the WSOPE and sees nine hands of hold’em and Omaha played in rotation, with 7,500 in […]

WSOP Europe — J.P. Kelly Wins Event No. 1

Nine players from a total field of 608 began day 3 of the £1,000 no-limit hold’em event, the first event of this year’s World Series of Poker Europe. Fabien Dunlop was the clear chip leader, but there was plenty of room for maneuver on the score board, and with many short-stacks in the mix, the […]

Summer Sizzler Freeroll Tonight at DevilfishPoker.com

DevilfishPoker.com’s Summer Sizzlers — a series of online poker freerolls with more than €10,000 in prizes — continues tonight at 8 p.m. (BST). The tournament is capped at 2,000 players. The tournaments are free to enter with a guaranteed prize pool of €666, and the players receive 1,500 chips to start, but to add a […]

Online Poker — Yevgeniy Timoshenko Wins WCOOP M.E.

The second and final day of the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) came and went, but not without its share of fireworks. A total of 178 players returned to the virtual felt, all with their eyes on the $1,715,200 first-place prize. Day 1 chip leader Jason “TheMasterJ33” Dewitt had a tough situation on […]

Heads-Up Poker Record Attempt Underway

Some of the biggest names in poker stared down Paul Zimbler at the World Series of Poker Europe yesterday as he attempts to raise £50,000 for Sparks Children’s Charity and create a new heads-up world record. Zimbler will try to play 200 consecutive heads up matches over 80 hours without any sleep. First up was […]

WPT — Borgata Poker Open Day 2

Day 2 at the $3,500 no-limit hold’em World Poker Tour championship event at the Borgata Poker Open began with 570 players. By the end of eight levels of play just 169 remained as a huge chunk of the field hit the rail with the blinds and antes escalating. Here is a look at the notable […]

South Carolina Poker Players Win Their Appeal

By the way he was jumping up and down and screaming outside of his house, Bob Chimento’s neighbor thought he had stepped on a nail. But, in reality, Chimento was just letting out his emotions after a three-and-a-half-year legal battle finally gave him the result he was fighting for. “I couldn’t stop hooting and hollering,” […]

New Poker After Dark to Feature Ivey, Negreanu

The original winner-take-all six-player $20,000 buy-in is back after two weeks of high-stakes cash games on Poker After Dark, and the biggest names in poker have assembled to duke it out for the $120,000 first-place prize. Taking to the felt this week are Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Hellmuth, and Doyle […]