June 12, 2015
Toronto poker fan Sam Greenwood (26) is undecided on whether he’s a professional player or not, but he surely plays like one, taking down event 22, a $1,000 buy-in NLHE contest Thursday to boost his career earnings past half a million dollars and claim Canada’s first win in the current WSOP series. Greenwood survived a […]
June 12, 2015
Ben Zamani (28), a modest and retiring live tournament and online professional player from Boca Raton, Florida has triumphed in event 20 at the World Series of Poker, a $1,500 buy-in NLHE competition that attracted an entry list of 1,844 hopefuls, many of them leading professionals on the international circuit. Claiming his first World Series […]
June 11, 2015
Austrian poker fans will face more restrictions in the future, when the country’s Finance Ministry plans for tax reform come into effect and confine poker action to licensed land casinos, electronic lotteries like win2day and WINWIN machine operators. Wirtshauspoker (pub poker) will still be allowed – but on condition that the games are only held […]
June 11, 2015
Even 21 at the World Series of Poker – a $10,000 buy-in Omaha Hi Lo Split Championship – is in the record books as a victory for Los Angeles poker pro Daniel Alaei, who scored a first prize pay day of $391,097 for the win and his fifth WSOP winner’s bracelet. A prize pool of […]
June 11, 2015
Many a crook has discovered to his cost that the expert players and industry people who frequent the 2+2 poker forum are hard to fool, and a group of allegedly Russian bot operators are the latest to experience this truth. Members of the forum quickly picked up on a number of players who they claim […]
June 10, 2015
Arizona poker professional Matt Elsby (38) bested a field of 319 players in the $3000 buy-in Six Handed Limit Hold’em Event 19, winning his first career WSOP gold bracelet and $230799. Elsby defeated French pro Gabriel Nassif who has been a fixture at the WSOP each year since 2005, but his first gold bracelet remains […]
June 10, 2015
With 7,275 entrants and a prize pool worth $9,821,250, the $1,500 buy-in Millionaire Maker competition attracted huge interest at this year’s World Series of Poker, and five days on it has produced a winner. 27-year-old Lockheed Martin electrical engineer Adrian Buckley from Dacono, Colorado will be taking home his first WSOP bracelet and the winner’s […]
June 10, 2015
With allegations of cheating via mysteriously marked cards still reverberating around the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas last week (see previous reports on Moldova player Valeriu Coca), security officials may want to follow up on a Poker News story about a Dutch supplier of questionable technology. The publication reported Tuesday that an […]
June 9, 2015
The high profile poker pro from California, Phil Hellmuth (50) proved to a packed rail that he still has it in spades early Tuesday morning Vegas time when he eliminated his last opponent to claim victory and his 14th World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet in event 17 – the $10,000 buy-in Razz Championship. That […]
June 9, 2015
After a three-year hiatus forced upon him by open heart surgery and a still-problematic brain tumour, Brit World Series of Poker veteran John Gale (61) returned triumphantly to the Las Vegas tournament this year by winning event 18 – the $1,500 buy-in NLHE Turbo competition – over a fast-paced two days of blistering action. In […]