July 17, 2015
Yesterday saw the start of the eleventh edition of Pokerstars’ popular MicroMillions online poker tournament, offering 10 days of online action and $5 million in guaranteed prize pools. 100 different events are on the packed schedule, giving players a wide choice of game-styles and buy-ins.
July 17, 2015
Bluff Media, a poker publication that was founded in 2004 by Eric Morris (see previous report) appears to have been axed by Churchill Downs, which bought the company in February 2012 with a view to using it to promote its online ambitions. In a Twitter comment this week, Morris advised: Eric Morris @EricMorris1616 BREAKING NEWS:@BLUFFMedia […]
July 16, 2015
Pokerstars has released details of an online Super High Roller NLHE tournament featuring what is likely to be the most expensive online buy-in ever at $51,000…with correspondingly big money pay-outs for winning players. The previous record for the biggest ever buy-in for an online poker tournament was $25,000, which was shared by heads-up tournaments in […]
July 16, 2015
The tables have been folded up and placed in storage, the vendors and posters are gone, and life returns to normal at the Rio in Las Vegas following the departure of the World Series of Poker players, media reps and railbirds after the final table was set this week (see previous reports). The nine finalists […]
July 15, 2015
One of the few achievements in poker that have eluded popular poker pro Daniel Negreanu – a seat at a World Series of Poker main event final table – was again denied him in Las Vegas Tuesday night when he was eliminated at 11th for $526,778 by the seemingly unstoppable Joe McKeehen from Pennsylvania. Hall […]
July 14, 2015
Day 6 of the World Series of Poker main event has been completed, with just 27 players remaining from the 68 who started the day. Many followers were rooting for the only female still left in contention, Kelly Minkin, an attorney from Phoenix Arizona who has already earned an extra $8,500 from prop bets that […]
July 14, 2015
Poker entrepreneur and Global Poker Index founder Alex Dreyfus, who is also CEO of parent company Mediarex Sports & Entertainment, has announced that MSE has just raised $4.9 million in Series A funding from private investors. The London-based Global Poker Index is a ranking authority for 450,000 professional poker players, and wants to aggregate the […]
July 13, 2015
Day 5 at the World Series of Poker main event saw 237 survivors from an original field of 6,420 take their seats, but by the end of the day just 69 remained, with the big money cashes now starting. The final elimination of the day, David Fuhs, collected a check for $96,445. A slew of […]
July 12, 2015
There’s just one former World Series of Poker Main Event champion left in this year’s main event race and that’s Jim Bechtel, who won his spurs in the 1993 tournament. Both Ryan Riess and Joe Hachem were busted at 426th and 298th respectively, whilst Phil Hellmuth was eliminated at 417th by his friend Daniel Negreanu […]
July 11, 2015
The survivors of all the starter flights in this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event combined Friday for the first time, with 1,796 starters, a field diluted to 1,051 by the dinner break in some frenetic action as the 1,000 player money bubble approached. When it broke, ensuring that going forward every player earns […]