June 11, 2014
The influential Poker Players Alliance has put its support behind attempts by Pokerstars to oppose the inclusion of “bad actor” language in any intrastate online poker legalisation bills that may be presented to California legislators. The Alliance has made available the results of a survey that shows most Californian online poker players surveyed are supportive […]
June 11, 2014
Pokerstars marketers are always up for trying something innovative, it appears following the news that the online poker company has partnered with highly acclaimed rapper MC HotDog in the production of his new album, which will be promoted via an expensively presented video item titled Pokerstar. The Pokerstars blog reports that award winning MC HotDog […]
June 11, 2014
Full Tilt Poker (FTP) claims administrator Garden City Group (GCG) will make another round of payments to approved petitioners on Thursday, June 12, 2014. The distribution approved by the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section will include approximately 3 500 payments totaling $15 million and includes affiliates who submitted petitions confirming their […]
June 11, 2014
Georgia professional poker player Kory Kilpatrick took down the 2014 WSOP Event 20: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout, taking a seat at his first WSOP final table to win the title, bracelet and $254 891 in prize money. Joining Kilpatrick at the final table were previous bracelet winner Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Chris Bell and Taylor Paur. […]
June 10, 2014
Houston, Texas grinder Ted Gillis is the latest WSOP bracelet winner after taking down the event 19, a $1,500 buy-in NLHE contest which recorded an entry list of 2,086 players, all keen for a share of the $2,816,100 prize pool. The large field distilled to a final table that saw Gillis facing John Hennigan, Dejan […]
June 9, 2014
34-year-old Irish poker pro Paul Carr’s financial and legal woes continue, with Judge Carroll Moran of the Limerick Circuit Criminal Court ruling for the forfeiture to the State of Euro 242 230 found in a plastic shopping bag in a car by Limerick Gardai (see previous reports). The money, mostly in Euro 50 notes and […]
June 9, 2014
Two more World Series of Poker events reached a conclusion Sunday night, with Dan Heimiller and George Danzer respectively winning event 17 Seniors NLHE Championship and event 18, a $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Razz competition. The Seniors event pulled in 4,425 entries to generate a prize pool of $3,982,500 which over two days was whittled […]
June 9, 2014
Belgian ace Davidi Kitai claimed his third World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend – the only European to do so – but only after a tough tussle with Gordon Vayo that demanded an extra day be set aside in order to decide a winner. On Saturday the two ended heads up action with […]
June 8, 2014
Todd Bui, a cash-game grinder from Sacramento and Los Angeles, claimed his first WSOP winner’s bracelet and a $124,510 prize Saturday for taking down Event 16, a $1,500 buy-in Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Low Ball contest. 348 hopefuls entered for the event, creating a prize pool of $469,800. Among the entrants were names like Todd […]
June 8, 2014
High profile poker pro Phil Hellmuth has lost out again in his quest for a record 14th World Series of Poker bracelet. Having suffered his first disappointment this year when Ted Forrest thwarted his bracelet ambitions last week in the $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Razz (see previous report), Hellmuth was eliminated in eighth position in Event […]