July 5, 2016
The fourth of July will be memorable for Vietnamese immigrant Hung Le as not only America’s Independence Day, but his own in financial terms after winning $888,888 in the $888 buy-in No Limit Holden “Crazy Eights” event at the World Series of Poker. Now living in Dayton, Ohio the 53-year-old has a wife and five […]
July 4, 2016
Allan Le (30) lived up to and surpassed the proud records of his poker-playing relatives Tommy and Nam Le over the weekend, taking the honours and earning his first bracelet in the new World Series of Poker schedule addition, the $1,500 buy-in Omaha Eight-or-Better Mixed competition. The California poker pro has 30 WSOP cashes and […]
July 4, 2016
Online and live tournament poker pro Andrew “Lucky Chewy” Lichtenberger (28) from New York has the respect of most of his peers and has been successful in many tough competitions since 2009, but the monkey on his back has always been his inability to secure a World Series of Poker bracelet despite cashing on 33 […]
July 3, 2016
Chicago poker pro Brandon Shack-Harris (38) claimed his second World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet and the impressive top prize of $894,300 over the weekend when he took down the $10,000 buy-in 8-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha Championship at the Rio in Las Vegas. Post-match he acknowledged that it had been one of the toughest in his […]
July 2, 2016
Amaya Inc., parent group of Pokerstars and Full Tilt, has announced that both operations will be withdrawing from the Slovenian market on July 4. In similar fashion to the exit from Israel a few days ago (see previous report) the notification to players assures them that their accounts and positive balances remain secure and can […]
July 2, 2016
The schedule for the twentieth edition of what is arguably the southern hemisphere’s biggest poker festival – the Aussie Millions – has been released, offering 26 events over 20 days with buy-ins from A$1,150 to A$250,000 and more than A$1.5 million to the winner of the main event. The spectacular will take place at Crown […]
July 2, 2016
Safiya Umerova (28) is clearly a singularly focused woman, admitting that having discovered the game of poker she has devoured every book on it that she can find, listened attentively to advice from other players, and taken part in as many cash games and tournaments as she can with the goal of playing professionally and […]
July 1, 2016
The Montreal-based Playground Poker Club, an active venue in the live tournament sector, has agreed a partnership with online poker operator Party Poker that will see the club promote the Party Poker brand and host major live tourneys and satellites. In return, Party Poker will provide the club with a digital presence through its internationally […]
July 1, 2016
33-year-old New York professional player Shaun Deeb, one of the many notable names at this year’s World Series of Poker, has boosted his $1.5 million in live tourney career earnings with a $111,101 victory – and his second WSOP bracelet – in the $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud competition. Good cards and consummate skill and […]
July 1, 2016
This weekend’s celebration of Canada’s national day will be more memorable than usual for Canadian online and live tourney player Kristen Bicknell (29)…she became this series’ first woman event winner after taking on a star-studded field of 2,158 in the $1,500 buy-in Bounty event. In addition to the prestigious bracelet – her second – Bicknell […]