November 8, 2011
French poker ace Adrien Allain has scooped the first prize of Euro 310,633 at the Euro 3,200 + Euro 300 World Poker Tour Amn?ville tournament sponsored by the French-licensed WPT poker website. Allain’s prize also carries a $25 000 seat in the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio in 2012. Allain, who is a former […]
November 8, 2011
The weekend saw a UK amateur player, Kevin Steele, achieve a rare accomplishment – his second Pokerstars Sunday Million victory…and he managed to do it just four months after his first triumph in the famous online poker tournament. Steele (36) hails from Plunginton, Preston, and only started playing poker about six years ago in low […]
November 7, 2011
Nine determined men will take their main event final table seats Sunday at the 2011 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Each has paid $10 000 for the privilege of competing in poker’s biggest tournament, generating a total prize pool of $64,540,858….and they have come out on top of an initial entry field of […]
November 7, 2011
Nine players from seven countries took their seats at the Rio in Las Vegas Sunday, vying for the world’s biggest poker honour – victory and wealth at the 2011 World Series of Poker main event. The start was a noisy, glitzy and typically Las Vegas affair, with whooping, chanting, flag-waving and strangely attired crowds of […]
November 7, 2011
Now there are three….Pius Heinz, Martin Stasko and Ben Lamb were bagging up their chips late Sunday night at the World Series of Poker after officials called a halt to the day’s action when Matt Giannetti was eliminated in fourth place just before 11pm PST. The young Las Vegas pro had the button and moved […]
November 7, 2011
Pokerstars, the Isle of Man-based online poker operator that has consistently broken its own records for the largest number of player in action on the internet, is to take a run at breaking the current record – 149,196 players set in 2009 – next (December) month. To mark its 10th birthday, the mammoth site will […]
November 6, 2011
Congressional numbers on political lobbying investment in Q3 of 2011 were published last week, with Caesars Entertainment again a major player with political donations – mainly for internet poker – of $868 000, up some $47 000 on the previous quarter, and continuing an upward trend noticed this year. By comparison, rival land giant MGM […]
November 6, 2011
Nine poker players who are already assured of pay outs of at least a million dollars apiece gather at the Rio in Las Vegas Sunday for the final table action that will decide the winner of this year’s World Series of Poker main event, an epic poker competition that attracted an initial field of 6,865 […]
November 6, 2011
One of the world’s most respected gambling machine and software developers, International Game Technology (IGT) will be pulling the WSOP main event railbirds to its display at the Rio this weekend as it showcases its latest innovation; a machine that uses neural net technology to simulate human-style bluffing and thinking. The advanced technology of Texas […]
November 5, 2011
With the much anticipated World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event final table set to kick off on Sunday after a four month hiatus, the UK-based online betting exchange Matchbook.com will be offering in-play betting as the event unfolds. ESPN2 will be broadcasting the event with a 15-minute delay, kicking off at 15h30 ET and […]