October 1, 2009
At $20 000 to play, the PokerStars European Poker Tour High Roller event in the London Poker Festival is not for the faint-hearted, but that did not deter an entry field of 75 players that included some of the best players on the planet. Among those who coughed up the necessary cash for a chance […]
September 30, 2009
Railbird excitement is building at the Empire Casino in London’s Leicester Square as the main event of the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe approaches final table stage, with 36 players competing for one of the nine seats. After making his customary grand entrance, this time as a chariot-borne Roman emperor, earlier this week (see […]
September 30, 2009
The fortunes of mysterious high roller ‘mantonas’, who returned to the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker this week after a two month absence and was up around $200 000, took a bad turn in recent clashes that have left the still unidentified online player down over half-a-million dollars. The NLHE and PLO virtual tables […]
September 30, 2009
MacUpdate has announced the retail availability of Poker Copilot, touted as the only poker hand history analysis software for Mac OS X that supports both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, as well as cash games and tournaments. Poker Copilot for Mac OS X 1.34 features a new live dashboard, several new charts, new statistics, and […]
September 30, 2009
The Las Vegas land gambling venues deal approximately 11 million hands of poker a day; by comparison, the social networking games developer Zynga is currently dealing an average of 150 million hands of poker a day. The comparison is a startling illustration of the power of the Internet, a medium which Zynga has turned to […]
September 29, 2009
Back in August this year the big names in high risk/high value online cash games were flocking to the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables to get some of the action generated by a still unidentified Swedish high-roller using the handle ‘martonas’. This enigmatic player enjoyed a few weeks of roller coaster action with literally millions […]
September 29, 2009
The world’s biggest online poker site, PokerStars.com has done it again; with 307 016 players simultaneously playing on 42 814 virtual tables on September 6, the site set a new record, at the same time showcasing the continuing international popularity and demand for the online game. The new benchmark for poker popularity has been recognised […]
September 29, 2009
We don’twant to spoil the fun for future viewers outside the USA of the exciting CBS television reality program ‘The Amazing Race’, so we’ll forego the detail, but poker pros Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle’s performance on the recently screened first leg of the program was disappointing. The two woman team (see previous reports) recently […]
September 28, 2009
Day 1b registrations for the GBP 10 000 buy-in Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe now playing at the Empire Casino in London reached 178 players, bringing total entries in the event to 334, many of them internationally known names in the game. The field all seek a victory that carries with […]
September 27, 2009
Marching Romans in full armour, white horses drawing a gold chariot and Phil Hellmuth decked out as Julius Caesar, breastplate and all, had the crowds in London’s Leicester Square gaping Saturday as Vegas razzmatazz invaded the immediate environs of the Empire Casino. A movie premiere, perhaps? No, it was the start of the main event […]