July 11, 2016
Guy Laliberté’s successful water charity poker tournament initiative One Drop is set to raise even larger sums of money for struggling communities with an initiative planned for the target-rich environment of the wealthy and famous – Monte Carlo. The indefatigable entrepreneur used the World Series of Poker over the weekend to launch a new Euro […]
July 11, 2016
The popular ladies event at the World Series of Poker this weekend attracted a field of 819 that included some tough competition in the forms of Amanda Musumeci, Wendy Freedman, Amanda Baker, Michelle Deng and Yaxi Zhu, but it was Detroit poker dealer Courtney Kennedy (37) who took the honours and the $149,108 main prize […]
July 11, 2016
The $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker NLHE main event kicked off over the weekend in the Amazon Room at the Rio, with the tables packed with players from all over the world – many of them top professionals. Starting the ball rolling, tournament director Jack Eiffel welcomed competitors, saying: “I wish all of you […]
July 10, 2016
One of the skins on the Chico online poker network, PayNoRake, closed its virtual doors on July 5 after the company merged with Tiger Gaming, an operator offering a variety of other online gambling options to widen player choices. PayNoRake players will find the transition easy enough; they can use their existing user names and […]
July 10, 2016
High stakes online poker professional Jens “Jeans89” Kyllönen (26) showed once again that he is hard to beat at Pot Limit Omaha – live or online – when he was victorious in the World Series of Poker $25,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha championship event over the weekend. The blonde Finnish player bested a talented field […]
July 9, 2016
Amateur players David Prociak and Yue Du proved once again this week that the World Series of Poker is not necessarily the domain of the professional aces, taking down two important events for their first bracelets and substantial amounts of prize money. In the three-day $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split tournament Florida small business […]
July 8, 2016
UK poker pro Andreas Olympios has emerged the winner in the Party Poker – World Poker Tour 500 tournament at the Aria in Las Vegas, besting a field of 3,956 to claim the main prize of $260,000…his largest live tourney pay day yet. His victory was all the more remarkable for the fact that he […]
July 7, 2016
US poker pro Brian Rast (34) has added another victory to his already glittering professional poker career, earning his third World Series of Poker bracelet and $1,296,097 main prize after taking down the prestigious $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship Eight Game Mixed event. In doing so he became only the second player to win the […]
July 7, 2016
With just ten events left in this year’s World Series of Poker series, three more maiden winner’s bracelets have been won by professional players in their twenties. David Peters (29) has a long list of live tournament and online high stakes accomplishments on his cv and over $12 million in career earnings, yet a WSOP […]
July 6, 2016
The failure of Assemblyman Adam Gray to push forward his online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 for a vote on the California state Assembly floor on June 30 has been explained… in a last-minute tally of political support he determined that he would be just short of the two thirds vote he needed under legislative […]