July 3, 2014
Lawyers for top international poker pro Phil Ivey, who has been accused of using baccarat edge-sorting skills to cheat the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa out of $9.6 million in 2012, have filed a motion for dismissal of the charges in a Nevada court. Ivey’s lawyers deny any wrongdoing on his part, and claim that […]
July 2, 2014
Minnesota online poker grinder Mike Kachan put his experience in long hours of internet poker action to good use in event 56 of the World Series of Poker, playing into the early hours of Wednesday morning to capture his first gold WSOP bracelet and $403,483 in the $1,000 buy-in NLHE event. The event’s relatively low […]
July 2, 2014
The Latin American-facing live tournament organiser Latin Series of Poker (LSOP) is to re-brand following a copyright complaint from the World Series of Poker, which claims that the LSOP title infringes its copyright and trademark. Diego Chan, president of LSOP, said this week that he has opted to re-brand his company, which will in future […]
July 2, 2014
23-year-old Massachusetts poker pro Daniel Colman has a record of beating top names in the game for big prizes, as his two million dollar win earlier this year against Dan Cates in the EPT High Roller attests…and he did it again Tuesday night at the Rio in Las Vegas when he was victorious in the […]
July 1, 2014
Five days ago 22-year-old Swiss Hotel Management grad Hugo Pingray was just another face in a 7,862 entry field for the World Series of Poker event 51 – the inaugural Monster Stack – and one of the smaller stacks to boot. By late Monday night Las Vegas time he was an instant millionaire and the […]
July 1, 2014
Tuesday afternoon and evening Las Vegas time should see the completion of one of the major events in this year’s World Series of Poker – the million-dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop charity which starts Day 3 with the following around the last table, all of whom should cash for at least $1.3 million: […]
July 1, 2014
By the third day of World Series of Poker event 55, a $1,500 buy-in NLHE contest, Canadian player Asi Moshe was among 17 survivors of a massive original field of 2,396, hanging in around the middle of the chip stacks….by day’s end he had claimed his first WSOP winner’s bracelet and a very impressive first […]
July 1, 2014
The World Series of Poker spectacular was not the only game in town this week; the Hollywood Poker Open at the M Resort Spa and Casino in Las Vegas proved it was also capable of pulling in players with an entry field of 692 for the $2,500 buy-in event, creating a tempting prize pool of […]
June 30, 2014
20 players – all that remained from a starting field of 474 – survived to the third and last day of Event 54 of the World Series of Poker and gathered at the Rio in Las Vegas to compete for the best share they could get of the $1,294,020 prize pool in the event, a […]
June 30, 2014
The $10,000 buy-in Ladies NLHE Championship competition – number 53 on the World Series of Poker schedule – came to a conclusion over the weekend with a heads up between two amateur players, businesswoman Haixa Zhang and digital marketing specialist Mikiyo Aoki. It was the culmination of a three day affair in which 793 entrants […]