August 20, 2014
Assemblyman Ralph R. Caputo, a Democrat and the deputy majority whip and chair of the New Jersey House of Assembly’s Tourism, Gaming and Arts Committee, launched a vicious attack on Pokerstars Tuesday, perhaps motivated by growing reports that under its new Amaya Gaming ownership, the world’s biggest and most successful online poker operator has ambitions […]
August 19, 2014
Danish high stakes player Gus Hansen’s patience and resilience through difficult weeks were rewarded last week when he finally enjoyed a good run on the Full Tilt nosebleed tables to emerge top weekly winner with a profit of $600,000. Although impressive, the amount still pales beside Hansen’s overall losses over the past few years, said […]
August 19, 2014
The Goliath Main Event of the Coventry leg of Grosvenor Casino’s UK Poker Tour turned out to be a record breaker this week, with 3,394 punters signing up for the GBP 120 buy-in live event. Making it through to the final table were Ryan Foster, Mark Adam, Neville Price, Arjun Ruparel, Rodrigo Hernandez, Mihaly Jancso, […]
August 19, 2014
Last weekend’s Pokerstars Sunday Million ended in a profitable chop for Finnish winner ‘€urop€an’ and his heads up opponent ‘sh4wshank’, who agreed a heads up chop of just under $352,000 in the closing stages of the event, with the Finnish winner taking home $185,500 and the runner up scoring $168,270. The $215 buy-in NLHE event […]
August 18, 2014
Only cancellations are now available for the third and last entry day of the Pokerstars Estrellas live poker tournament currently unfolding in Barcelona. 2,343 hopefuls have entered the tournament, a significant increase over the 2,131 entries recorded at Pokerstars’ record-breaking EPT tourney in Sao Paolo last year. Estrellas entry Day 1a had 438 entries; there […]
August 18, 2014
PartyPoker’s New Jersey operation has published the schedule for its much-anticipated Garden State Super Series, promising a guaranteed prize pool of at least a million dollars, spread over sixty events in three tier buy-ins that will run from September 7 to September 21. With buy-ins designed to attract low, medium and bigger spenders, the tournament […]
August 17, 2014
Taking the fast-fold poker fad to new heights this week, Carbon Poker has launched its Supersonic Sit ‘n Go product, boasting it is the fastest on the internet. The online poker site offers two variants of the new product; a four-max format wherte blinds increase every 2 minutes and players start with 300 chips, or […]
August 15, 2014
Aussie pro Martin Kozlov demonstrated his talent and class this week in not only taking down, but totally dominating the A$3,000 buy-in NLHE 2014 Sydney Championship Main Event at The Star Casino in that city. He not only bested a field of 234 other players, but singlehandedly demolished all but one of the nine players […]
August 14, 2014
Chinese player Zhenru Xie bested a talented entry field of 808 Wednesday to win the Pokerstars Macau Poker Cup 21 live main event. 108 finishers cashed from the HK$ 7,837,600 prize pool. In addition to the $216,000 in first prize money, Xie was awarded an expensive Slyde Titanium watch and the prestigous Red Dragon trophy, […]
August 14, 2014
The Equity Poker Network has announced the departure of Gear Poker effective August 13 by mutual and amicable consent. EPN confirmed that all Gear Poker player payouts will be met, and that Gear Poker has committed to contacting its player base again when they have a new network solution in place. “Gear Poker’s exit is […]