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Online Poker: TimDawg888 Wins Sunday Million
PokerStars Sunday Million As part of the PokerStars 2X promotion, the guarantees for many of the major events last night were doubled, including the Sunday Warmup, the Sunday Million, and the Sunday Second Chance. The doubled guarantee meant that the Sunday Million was more like the Sunday Two Million, as it had a $2 million […]
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Blue Square Opens GUKPT Betting Market
The GUKPT online festival will take place on BlueSquarePoker.com from July 21 — 25. Blue Square is currently taking bets on the $500 no-limit main event which is set to kick off on Friday July 25 at 8pm. Betting will be available right up until the first hand is dealt. Favourites at 40/1 are online […]
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World Series Of Poker Euro Update: Day 45
Ten days ago, the World Series of Poker main event began. Going into day 6 were 79 weary soldiers. The plan was to play down to 27 and that is what they did. The blinds started out at 15,000-30,000 with a 4,000 ante, meaning a player with the average stack of just over 1.73 million […]
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WSOP: Main Event Day 6
Day 6 of the World Series of Poker main event started at noon yesterday (July 13) in Las Vegas, and there were 79 players gunning for the final 27 spots in the tournament before the day would come to a close. That number has been reached, and the final three tables will return tomorrow in […]
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Daily Revenue Almost Doubles at Gaming VC Poker
Gaming VC has announced key performance indicators for the first six months of 2008. Daily poker revenue jumped 46 percent to €15,000 from €8,000 in the first half of 2007. Casino was up 12 percent to €108,000 in the same period, year-on-year, while sportsbook was up 117 percent from the second half of 2007 to […]
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888 Expands Asian Presence With Poker Dome Agreement
888.com today announced it had entered into a partnership with the PokerDome Group to launch PokerDomePoker.com which will target Australia and the Asia Pacific region. PokerDome, which has a number of live poker rooms across the region and operates the Oz Poker Tour, previously operated Southern Cross Poker on the iPoker network. Gigi Levy, CEO […]
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Irish Report Recommends Online and Casino Regulation
“Regulating Gaming in Ireland”, a report published last week by the Casino Committee, has made 32 recommendations on the regulation of casinos and remote gaming in Ireland. Among them are the call for a “socially responsible and secure arena for the development of remote gaming based in Ireland”. The report says, "The recent United States […]
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WSOP: History — 2005 Recap
The 2005 World Series of Poker continued to see unprecedented growth fueled by online amateurs that had been inspired by the win of Chris Moneymaker in 2003. Forty-four preliminary events were on the schedule, and, despite the major presence of amateurs, many of those events were won by professional players. T.J. Cloutier added a sixth […]
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WSOP: Main Event Q and A — Brandon Cantu
Brandon Cantu won the $10,000 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star championship event in March, and during the 2006 World Series of Poker he survived a field of 2,776 to win a bracelet ($1,500 no-limit hold’em). So, perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise to see Cantu still around in the main event of the […]
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WSOP: History — 2004 Recap
The main event in 2004 shattered all prior attendance records at the World Series of Poker, or anywhere in the world of poker, for that matter. The final count for entries was 2,576, and, once again, many of them had won their way in through online and live satellites. PokerStars had once again supplied a […]
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WPT: Day 1C of the Bellagio Cup
With a not-so-stellar field size on both days 1A and 1B, the Bellagio Cup IV needed some big results in order to match the success of last year’s tournament. As the clock ticked toward noon, the field size continued to rise and rise, eventually getting all the way to 446 entrants when registration ended after […]
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Online Poker: Interview with Owen 'ocrowe' Crowe
When college, call centers, and dealing poker don’t work out, the next logical step is playing poker, right? Well, that’s what poker pro Owen “ocrowe” Crowe figured, and it has certainly worked out for him so far. That is especially the case now that, as of this interview, Crowe was one of just a few […]
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Two Card Player Pro Instructors Still in WSOP Main Event
Two instructors at Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) are still in the running for the $9.1 million first-place prize of the World Series of Poker main event, and one of then was second in chips to start day 6. Andrew “Foucault” Brokos and Mike “The Mouth” Matusow made it through day 5 at […]
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World Series of Poker Euro Update: Day 44
75 players were left out of an initial 6,844 after day 5 of the main event. Irishman James McManus started the day as chip leader but Romanian Cristian Dragomir fought him successfully for the top spot after taking down a large pot with quad fours. Russia’s Ivan Demidov also made his way on to the […]
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WSOP: Main Event Day 5
One hundred and eighty-nine players started day 5 at the World Series of Poker main event today, and when action came to a close at 11:30 p.m. only 79 remained. The major money is getting close now (everyone left in play will walk away with at least $77,200, while the winner gets $9,119,338), but the […]
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WSOP: History — 2003 Recap
The World Series of Poker main event in 2003 experienced a number of supporting factors that swelled its number of players to 839, a growth rate of 33 percent over the year before when 631 players competed. The rising popularity of online poker rooms helped supply over 50 players, while satellites at brick-and-mortar casinos around […]
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WSOP: Main Event Q and A — Jeremy Joseph
Poker annals are full of stories about chip leaders at the end of one day who crash-and-burn the next. The ability to maintain a consistent chip stack is vital to a player’s success, and to do it at the top of the leader board is a rare feat. Jeremy Joseph has managed just that. Leading […]
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WPT: Day 1B of the Bellagio Cup
The second of three starting days for the Bellagio Cup IV was much like the first, except it attracted about 30 percent more participants. The increase in players was a nice boost for the prize pool, which was threatening to be lower than last year’s Cup, despite an increase to $15,000 in the buy-in. The […]
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World Series Of Poker Euro Update: Day 43
Day 4 of the main event was fast and furious. It played so fast that action had to end early, at the end of level 19, with 189 players remaining. Notable Europeans among the herd heading towards the exit sign were Russian Kirill Gerasimov, Frenchman Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and Norwegians Chris Bjorin and Dag Martin […]
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WSOP: Main Event Day 4
Day 4 at the World Series of Poker main event played fast. It played too fast in fact, and action ended for the night at the end of level 19, with 189 players remaining in the $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championship. Those players will return tomorrow at noon, for day 5 action, and the field […]
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WSOP: Main Event Q and A — David "Raptor" Benefield
Primarily a high-stakes cash game player, young David Benefield had two deep runs in big buy-in events at this year’s World Series of Poker leading up to the main event — a 13th-place finish in the $10,000 pot-limit hold’em world championship, and a 10th-place finish in the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha world championship. Well, he’s at […]
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WSOP: History — 2002 Recap
The number of preliminary events was expanded from 27 to 35 in 2002 at the World Series of Poker, and one player won three of them. Phil Ivey entered six events, cashed in five of them, and won three bracelets ($1,500 seven-card stud — $2,500 seven card stud eight-or-better — $2,000 S.H.O.E.). Other highlights included […]
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WPT: Day 1A of the Bellagio Cup
There are a few unanswered questions surrounding the status of the World Poker Tour. As season VII kicked off today with Day 1A of the Bellagio Cup, a few concerns have yet to be addressed. The first, and likely biggest concern, amongst the players is the status of a network contract for their televised final […]
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Strip Poker: Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza ME Sunday
The Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza is ending its 45-event tournament series with a $5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em championship event that begins on Sunday, July 13, at noon. For those who are looking to get into the event for cheaper, there is a $540 buy-in super-satellite scheduled for Saturday at noon. For every 10 players, one […]
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California Online Poker Law to Protect Residents
The proposed California law that would be the first step toward allowing online poker rooms in California made it through its first committee, and its sponsor, Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, hopes to see it lead to a law that would give the residents of his state a place to play online poker regulated by a governmental […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner: Tate 'colsha' McDaniel
SpadeClub.com, the innovative online poker community, offers a risk-free way to win at poker with no deposits and no buy-ins. Find out more. SpadeClub member Tate “colsha” McDaniel finished in first place on Sunday, July 6, during the $5,000 weekly event to take home his $1,500 share of the prize pool. McDaniel stays pretty busy […]
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WPT Bellagio Cup IV Main Event Begins Today
The last preliminary event in the Bellagio Cup IV tournament series ended yesterday, and if the prelims are any indication of the kind of turnout expected for the $15,000 buy-in* World Poker Tour main event that begins today, it should be a large field full of top pros. Here are the results of the events […]
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World Series of Poker Euro Update: Day 42
Day 3 was filled with eliminations as play made its way towards the money. When the bubble finally burst, players got down to business, pushing out the shorter stacks and getting rid of the weaker links. Many Europeans came on strong, proving themselves as a force to be reckoned with on day 3 of the […]
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WSOP: Main Event Day 3
Day 3 at the 2008 World Series of Poker main event brought about the albatross of the poker world — the money bubble. When the clock read 10:30 p.m., 675 players went to hand-for-hand action in the $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championship, and just over an hour later, the ironically lucky number of 666 players […]
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WSOP: Main Event Q and A — Bernard Lee
Harvard graduate Bernard Lee made his first appearance to the poker public when he finished deep in the 2005 World Series of Poker main event, eventually ending his run in 13th place and earning $400,000 for his efforts. Since then, he has become a regular figure on the felt, known not only for his consistent […]
