June 28, 2009
Las Vegas-based poker pro Brandon Cantu is the latest winner of a WSOP bracelet – his second – following some great poker in Event #48 – the $1 500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo competition at the World Series of Poker. The 29-year-old pro player had to survive another massive entry field of 762 players to […]
June 27, 2009
John Kabbaj’s win in Event #45 – the $10 000 buy-in World Championship Pot-Limit Hold’em competition at the World Series of Poker this week was a case of third time lucky – it was the third time the UK professional player had made it through to a WSOP final table. The difference was that this […]
June 25, 2009
Jeffrey ‘Iceman’ Lisandro (43) has continued his remarkably successful run at the 40th Anniversary World Series of Poker by winning his third bracelet this year – a feat matched previously by only four others in the 40 year history of the world’s greatest poker extravaganza. The last WSOP player to make this benchmark achievment was […]
June 25, 2009
The World Poker Tour has announced 12 stops in its Season 8 schedule, which starts at the Bellagio in Las Vegas with the Bellagio Cup V on July 13 2009 and ends back at that venue on April 17th with the massive $25 000 buy-in WPT World Championship. The schedule also shows the usual WPT […]
June 24, 2009
Event 40 – the $10 000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship at the World Series of Poker saw an American and a Russian across the table from each other in a thriller of a heads up atter they had survived an entry field of 295 players and a final table with plenty of talented pros […]
June 24, 2009
The popular PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) will soon start it’s third season, with a five venue program that includes stops in Macau, South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines and Australia. Poker players aiming to participate in the popular tour are advised that the program includes the following: Macau : Grand Lisboa Casino MacauAugust […]
June 23, 2009
Former US Senator Alphonse D’Amato, chairman of the Poker Players Alliance appropriately chose the current 40th Anniversary World Series of Poker to announce National Poker Week, which will take place from July 19 to 25 this (2009) year. The PPA executive, who represents the over one million members of the PPA, was in Las Vegas […]
June 23, 2009
The court battle between the Israeli Poker Federation and the police continued before Justice Edmond Levy in Tel Aviv Monday. Despite having signed off on applications to hold poker tournaments in previous years, the police have this year decided that the game is prohibited and refused to sign a permit. That left the IPF in […]
June 23, 2009
Positive news from the state of Florida is that Governor Charles Grist has signed off on a bill passed by the state legislature in May this year which authorised a detailed study of the possible impact of Internet poker on an intrastate basis. A positive report would provide powerful leverage for the many politicians who […]
June 23, 2009
Ray Foley (37) of Northville, Michigan, is the victor in Event #39 – the $1 500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em competition at the 2009 World Series of Poker. The event drew an entry field of 2 715 and delivered a prize pool of $3 705 975, with 26 players surviving through to the final day, […]