December 13, 2013
Dmitry Holdeew, a German player who qualified via a Pokerstars satellite competition, has claimed the honours – and the Euro 226,400 first prize – in the Eureka Prague main event in the Czech capital. To do so, he had to survive an entry list of 1,314 other players, a tough final table and a tense […]
December 13, 2013
Another high profile figure from the New York illegal gambling “art dealer” bust earlier this year, Molly Bloom aka the Poker Princess, entered a guilty plea Thursday before a federal court in New York. Bloom specialised in hosting high stakes poker games for celebrities, starting in Los Angeles and moving to New York before returning […]
December 12, 2013
Top international poker pros were among the 22 players who ponied up $100,000 apiece to compete in the 2013 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic High Roller this week, generating a prize pool of $2,167,000. The entry list read like a who’s who of global poker and featured names like Antonio […]
December 12, 2013
The much-hyped five-month, 10,000-hand poker challenge between Norwegian poker pro Ola “‘Odd_Oddsen” Amundsgård and politician Erlend Wiborg has fizzled out unexpectedly after the first clash, in which Wiborg was heavily defeated over an initial 1,056 hands. The challenge was supposed to illustrate that over time skill will always trump good fortune, a key element in […]
December 12, 2013
International tennis ace and avid poker player, Rafa Nadal will be a starring attraction at the European Poker Tour Prague this week, and will be captured in action by the latest camera technology as he competes in a Euro 100,000 charity event. Railbirds at the Hilton Hotel venue will already be marvelling at a special […]
December 12, 2013
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement delivered a disappointing decision on the Pokerstars-Resorts Casino online gambling licence application Wednesday, telling the partnership that its application would be suspended for two years due to an “unresolved federal indictment” against Pokerstars founder Isai Scheinberg. The indictment referred to harks back to April 2011 and Black Friday. […]
December 11, 2013
Irish player sincinaty118 can be proud of his performance in the Pokerstars Sunday Millions online poker tournament over the weekend – he (or she) scored $421,971 as the winner despite a massive entry field of 26,925 that generated a $5.3 million prize pool – well above the guaranteed $5 million. The winner could have claimed […]
December 11, 2013
Tuesday’s congressional hearing in Washington DC on the pros and cons of federally legalised online poker produced little in the way of new arguments or emotional fireworks as those for and against the concept delivered their presentations and answered questions from the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. The hearing will […]
December 10, 2013
Dutch poker pro Rens Feenstra has claimed the winner’s prize of $103,000 in the Unibet Open Riga poker tournament main event, further boosting a bank balance already swollen by his $205,879 victory in the recent Master Classics of Poker tournament. Feenstra started final table action as the chip leader, facing Rick Jansen, Damian Mizinski, Jens […]