February 5, 2015
Nottingham-based live poker venue Dusk Till Dawn (DTD) and bwin.party digital entertainment’s Party Poker have teamed up in a multi-year branding and online deal. Under the terms of the agreement, DTD’s online satellites and tournaments will have a dedicated DTD tab within the Party Poker online lobby. Conversely, DTD’s live club will feature on-site Party […]
February 3, 2015
NYX Poker, formerly Ongame Network, has signed UK-licensed White Hat Gaming in a deal that will add the poker vertical to the operators existing casino games offer. NYX Gaming Group Ltd already has a long-standing relationship with White Hat Gaming utilising its OGS online gaming content. David Flynn, EVP Business Development for NYX Gaming Group […]
February 3, 2015
PokerStars.com 2015 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) Main Event awarded a record first prize of $396 516,38 to Russian player “Nikki Hefner” this past weekend. The $700 NL Hold’em Main Event attracted a field of 4169 players generating a prize pool of $2 772 385 which far exceeded the $2 000 000 guarantee. Final […]
February 3, 2015
The 46th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) schedule was released this week featuring nearly $200 million in prize money, several new events and an increase in starting chips. This year an eleventh new bracelet event caters for online players for the first time. The $1000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em -Limit Hold’em event will culminate in […]
February 2, 2015
Russian Victor Ilyukhin (63) has taken the first title of season 9 of the Grosvenor Casinos’ UK Poker Tournament 2015 (GUKPT) . Ilyukhn bested a field of 289 and ultimately Alex Spencer in heads-up play, a student who has already accumulated GBP 200 000 in tournament winnings at the tender age of 21. The GBP1,090 […]
February 2, 2015
Phil Ivey took the Aussie Millions LK Boutique A$250 000 Challenge for the third time in five challenges outlasting 24 high profile competitors. Ivey took home A$2 250 000 having bested the likes of Dan Smith, Isaac Haxton, Richard Yong, Scott Seiver, Erik Seidel and ultimately Mike McDonald heads-up. Event 21: LK Boutique $250,000 Challenge […]
February 1, 2015
High stakes professional player Richard Yong has made millions in live tournaments, yet strangely has never actually finished in first place until this weekend, when he changed all that with a major win in the A$100,000 buy-in Aussie Millions Challenge, boosting his bank balance with a useful A$1.87 million – his biggest single score yet. […]
February 1, 2015
Online poker players have increasingly been using streaming technology from Twitch to broadcast their internet poker action live to fans, but for one player using the system it turned out to be an expensive learning curve this week. The poker information site Pocket Fives reports that Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel was hacked by a viewer registered […]
January 31, 2015
Philadelphia poker pro Aaron Mermelstein (27) took home the winner’s prize of $712,305 and his first WPT title this weekend after besting an entry field of 989 players in the 2015 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open. The large field ponied up $3,500 apiece in buy-ins, taking the prize pool well over the guaranteed […]
January 30, 2015
The quality live and media reportage provided by Poker News on the World Series of Poker tournament will not be present this year following an apparent difference of opinion between Poker News parent IBus Media and WSOP management. Following a tweet by Matthew Parvis, head of content at IBus Media, advising that Poker News would […]