Party Poker Premier League final table set

April 10, 2012

The final table for the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker V has been set and play started Tuesday morning at the Montesino in Vienna. The eight-finalist table is the culmination of a series of heats that started on April 4th and involved many of the top professionals in international poker playing in groups, with each group […]

Poker Table Stats adds hand rages

April 9, 2012

Poker Table Stats, an online poker program that provides real-time statistics across many sites, added hand ranges in the “Rank Calculation” area this week. The new functionality allows online poker players to use Poker Stove and Karlsson Sklansky hand range calculations instead of the “One vs. One All-In” default hand rank, a company statement advised. […]

Irish open reaches final table

April 9, 2012

The last nine players standing in the Paddy Poker Irish Open currently running in Dublin will probably come back to the table today thinking “there can be only one” as they contemplate a main prize worth Euro 420,000 and eight opponents to beat. Starting three days back with an entry field of 502 hopefuls, the […]

UK player wins inaugural iSeriesLive poker tournament

April 7, 2012

Brit poker ace James “Flushy” Dempsey has taken down the winner-takes-all, $10,000 buy-in inaugural iSeriesLIVE tournament in Dublin, beating out an illustrious band of 9 other top international players that included Maria Ho, Faraz Jaka, Devilfish Ulliott, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, and Carlos Mortenson. The brainchild of Poker Royalty chief Brian Balsbaugh, the event was […]

888 Canadian poker sponsorship pays off

April 7, 2012

888Poker’s decision to replace Pokerstars as the sponsor for the University Poker Championship event in Montreal (see previous reports) has been vindicated by the major interest shown in the event, report the organisers. Eighty-four competitors from 14 universities in Quebec province qualified for the tournament by accumulating points playing online poker at 888 Poker over […]

Unibet launches fast poker

April 7, 2012

Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars have proved the outstanding commercial success of the high speed poker concept with their Rush and Zoom products (see previous reports), and now Unibet has entered the field with Relax Poker’s Fast Poker product. The major European internet gambling group announced the launch of the new offering this week, giving […]

A new poker star rising

April 6, 2012

Veronika Pavlikova, an 18-year-old internet poker player who has already made $225,000 and a name for herself as xbet_kiddi in online tourneys, has made an impressive entry into the major live tournament sector with her recent Euro 70,000 win at the France Poker Series Snowfest event in Evian, and is already being hailed as the […]

SCOOP schedule finalised

April 6, 2012

The draft schedule for the next Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker was released for player comments some weeks ago (see previous report) and has now been tweaked and firmed up by the poker company. Pokerstars is guaranteeing $30 million in prize pools for the popular event, which will run online between May 6 and […]

New disclosures show that Epic Poker League finances in poor shape

April 6, 2012

New financial filings on April 3 show that the Epic Poker League’s parent company, Federated Sports and Gaming, financial situation is worse than was first indicated in its February 28 bankruptcy disclosures, which recorded 100 creditors and debts of $5 million. Card Player reports that the new filings show that FS&G has almost $8 million […]

The biggest poker buy-in yet

April 5, 2012

Arrangements for the World Series of Poker one million dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament (see previous reports) are progressing apace with the announcement Wednesday of a supporting satellite program. WSOP has named 15 U.S. land casinos where players will have the opportunity to win a million dollar seat at the tournament through […]