July 2, 2010
Three more gold bracelet have been awarded to players at the 41st World Series of Poker over the past twenty-four hours as the world’s biggest poker spectacular closes in on the much-anticipated Main Event 57. Michael Linn bested an entry field of 2,543 in event 49, the last of the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em contests […]
June 30, 2010
Hopes that Scott Montgomery might achieve a second bracelet at this year’s World Series of Poker are diminishing following his bust out of event 47, one of the popular $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em competitions, which reached a final table Tuesday night after three tough days. 3,128 players registered for the event, but that had been […]
June 29, 2010
Building on the momentum of the past year, the Poker Players Alliance announced this week that it will drop a fundraising “money bomb” on July 1st in order to raise additional funds leading up to a crucial vote this summer on legislation to license and regulate online poker. A money bomb is when an organisation […]
June 29, 2010
With the World Series of Poker going into its 32nd day in Las Vegas, three more players claimed gold by winning their events. For Jesse Rockowitz it was the excitement of a first bracelet when he took down event 45, a $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em contest with a main prize of $721,373 after a heads […]
June 28, 2010
The poker action continued on several events at the 41st World Series of Poker in Las Vegas over the weekend, and the much anticipated Tournament of Champions kicked off. In event 45, the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em competition, 35 players – all that remains from a massive original field of 3 100 – returned for […]
June 28, 2010
Police in South Korea have revealed that they have arrested 33 hackers who used a malware program to cheat online poker players out of 55 million won ($45,265) from last November through May, the publication Joongang reports. The hackers were led by two men identified only as 30-year-old Yu and 29-year-old Kim, who have been […]
June 26, 2010
British players continue to do well in World Series of Poker, with Steve Jelinek claiming a fifth gold bracelet for the Brits in event 41 of the 41st WSOP. Event 41 was a $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better competition entered Day 3 Thursday afternoon with15 players left from the initial entry field […]
June 26, 2010
The world’s largest online poker provider, Pokerstars.com may be prepared to tangle with the confused US legal system, but when it comes to French players the operator is playing it strictly by the book. Judging by website notifications and comment this week on well-informed poker message boards like 2plus2, Pokerstars has now excluded French players […]
June 26, 2010
Message board scuttlebutt and claims on the Cake Poker blog as the week ended suggest that the two-week-old, 115 hour endurance record for playing poker set by Phil ‘Unabomber’ Laak in Las Vegas may have been eclipsed. However, the claims are questionable, and it is unknown if very specific and demanding Guinness Book of Records […]
June 24, 2010
Perth, Ontario pro Scott Montgomery (28) emerged victorious Wednesday night in World Series of Poker event 36, a $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em competition contested by an initial field of 3,102. It was the culmination of four tough days of highly competitive poker which saw the final nine survivors return to the tables for the last […]