June 28, 2007
Day 4 of event 39 at the World Series of Poker – the $50 000 buy-in World Championship H.O.R.S.E. competition – is reaching a climax, with the final table now set for the last great confrontation among the 8 players who have survived despite being challenged by some of the toughest and most skilled poker […]
June 27, 2007
The electrons on Absolute Poker.com’s email press release announcing its new Bad Beat Jackpot (see previous report) were barely dry when five of the company’s online players were recipients of a total of $78 000 this week. Barely a day into the initiative, in which Absolute funded the embryo Bad Beat Jackpot with an initial […]
June 26, 2007
The online poker site Absolute Poker.com has introduced a new Bad Beat Jackpot that allows player suffering from bad beat blues to turn their situation around, adding a new spin to its Texas Hold’em poker games. “We’re taking away the pain delivered by bad beats by throwing money at the victims,” stated David Clainer, senior […]
June 25, 2007
Last year’s variety of top company hospitality suites and the generous entertainment these dispensed have been missed at the 2007 World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas, but – for Team Bodog players at least – help and all the comforts of home and then some are on hand in a mobile […]
June 25, 2007
Perhaps one of the most heartwarming of the human stories emerging from the World Series of Poker currently running in Las Vegas is that of blind player Jason Holbrook which Fox News reported this week. The Bakersfield, California man started playing America’s favourite card game at the age of five and growing up to become […]
June 22, 2007
New Jersey state police, accompanied by local cops and members of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Task Force busted a poker gambling operation in an Edison office building this week after a month long investigation, police announced. Lt. Joseph Shannon told reporters that the illegal gambling operation, to which players were attracted by Internet and email […]
June 21, 2007
Last week Phil Hellmuth clinched a new World Series of Poker record when he became the first player ever to win 11 event bracelets (see previous reports), and this week he was on the hunt again for a crack at bracelet number 12 in event 28, the $3 000 No Limit Hold ‘Em competition, and […]
June 21, 2007
Poker is alive and well in Africa.120 players turned out for the ninth All Africa Poker Tournament this week (see previous report) generating an impressive Rands 3 million prize-pool that justified its claim as the “richest poker tournament in Africa.” And after some enthralling heads up play against final opponent and former All Africa Poker […]
June 21, 2007
Competing for the public interest as the World Series of Poker Main Event starts in Las Vegas on July 6, two poker companies have announced an innovative “al fresco” poker event to be held in Leicester Square, London. Bluff Europe Magazine and World Poker Tour promise an afternoon of poker fun-in-the-sun to be held to […]
June 20, 2007
One of the larger prize-pools in the World Series of Poker – that for the $2 000 No Limit Hold ‘Em played over the weekend – was chased by an impressive 1 800 entrants. Among them were Joe Tehan, Evelyn Ng, Greg ‘FBT’ Mueller, Erik Seidel, Lee Watkinson, Cliff Josephy, Mark Seif, Jennifer Tilly, Barry […]