June 30, 2014
Twenty-seven-year-old Detroit poker pro David Olson is the latest maiden bracelet winner at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, taking down event 52 – the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’Em contest for $303,909 despite a professional-rich and competitive field of 122. The field, and the $1,146,800 prize pool that it generated, could have been […]
June 29, 2014
San Diego poker pro David Miscikowski capped a substantial online and live tournament career over the weekend with his first World Series of Poker bracelet and his biggest pay-day yet – $719,707. Miscikowski’s previous best score was $13,400 in a 2012 WPT event, although he has managed to cash eleven times in WSOP events previously. […]
June 29, 2014
A land, air and river police search in the Slovenian city of Ljubljana has been called off after the body of a man found on the banks of a river in the city was confirmed through DNA testing to be German poker pro Johannes Strassmann. Strassmann (29) had been missing for almost a week, and […]
June 28, 2014
Congratulations to one of the world’s most skilled poker players, Phil Ivey, who on Friday night earned his tenth World Series of Poker bracelet, placing him in the august company of legends Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan, and edging him closer to all-time record bracelet holder Phil Hellmuth. Ivey achieved his latest honour playing heads […]
June 28, 2014
The popular television production Poker Night in America has announced an official sponsorship agreement with the All-American Poker Network (AAPN), which will see 888poker and Avenue Capital Group, a top US investments firm, sponsor Poker Night in America broadcasts. 888 and Avenue Capital are partners in the All-American Poker Network enterprise. Poker Night in America, […]
June 28, 2014
Thousands of players jammed every available inch of space at the Rio in Las Vegas Thursday and Friday as registrations were extended to two starting flights to accommodate 7,862 entrants for the well-named Monster Stack NLHE competition, number 51 on the World Series of Poker schedule. It was the biggest field since the 2006 Main […]
June 27, 2014
Molly Bloom, high buy-in poker organiser extraordinaire and reluctant FBI celebrity, appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” television program this week to promote her tell-all book “Molly’s Game”, detailing her adventures with the very rich and famous at expensive games she put together in LA and New York …until the feds closed in. Bloom received a […]
June 27, 2014
Ultimate Gaming, parent group of the New Jersey and Nevada-licensed online poker room Ultimate Poker and Ultimate Casino, has launched a number of improvements designed with player convenience and appeal front-of-mind, including: * Sharper geo-location capability following WiFi improvements, obviating the need for mobile phones; * The addition of a 25-strong gaming suite from Amaya […]
June 27, 2014
Thursday was a memorable day for US poker pro John Hennigan for a number of reasons, thanks to event 46 at the World Series of Poker – the $50,000 buy-in prestigious Players’ Championship: he bested a 101-strong field that included many of the most notable names in global poker; he was awarded the Chip Reese […]
June 27, 2014
Tyler Patterson has scored eighteen World Series of Poker cashes, and made it to three final tables in poker’s biggest tournament, but never cracked a winner’s bracelet…until Thursday night. The 31-year-old Washington state pro managed to survive a field of 990 other poker fans eager for a share of the $1,337,850 prize pool in event […]