June 3, 2014
The latest summary of high stakes online poker winners and losers publishing by the High Stake Data Base shows that Gus Hansen and Viktor Blom continued to battle with losses throughout May 2014 despite putting in more hours than most on the virtual nosebleed tables. The duo played 30,000 and 40,000 hands respectively across all […]
June 3, 2014
The online poker information site United States of Poker.net has published a well-reasoned op-ed on why US legalised internet poker in states like Delaware, New Jersey and Nevada has underperformed relative to the expectations of politicians and analysts. The reason is not the competition that illegal operators constitute, a widely held belief voiced by many […]
June 2, 2014
The action continued at full blast in Las Vegas over the weekend as more World Series of Poker events concluded, handing out millions of dollars in prizes to players. In the $10,000 buy-in Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball competition 120 entrants, including noteworthy names like David Benyamine, Jon Turner, Jason Mercier and Alexandre Luneau, battled […]
June 2, 2014
Event 8 at the World Series of Poker – the $1,500 buy-in Millionaire Maker – attracted the biggest WSOP entry field since the 2006 main event this week, registering 7,977 hopefuls over two start days and generating a massive $10,768,950 prize pool which will ensure that the ultimate winner takes home well over $1.3 million. […]
June 1, 2014
The first of the $1,000 buy-in NLHE events at the World Series of Poker proved to be good news for Kyle Cartwright over the weekend which saw the Tennessee pro demolishing the opposition to start final table action with a million chip advantage, subsequently using the edge to skilfully dominate play and emerge the winner […]
June 1, 2014
With the next hearing on internet gambling legalisation in Pennsylvania scheduled for June 3 and already attracting media attention (see previous reports) the news emerged last Friday that a new Senate bill will soon be introduced seeking to regulate and license intrastate online poker. Pennsylvania Senator Edwin Erickson is the man behind the new bill […]
May 31, 2014
The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas awarded another gold bracelet Friday when mixed games specialist Brandon Shack-Harris bested a field of 1,127 other competitors to claim victory in the $1,000 buy-in Pot-limit Omaha event and claim the lion’s share of the $1,015,200 prize pool. Shack Harris’s take-home after defeating Morgan Popham in the […]
May 31, 2014
International poker pro Vanessa Selbst had the satisfaction of taking down a trash-tweeting Jason Mo Friday in the $25,000 buy-in Mixed Max event at the World Series of Poker, turning possible failure into certain victory by taking two major pots in the finale. The event was one of the first to start at WSOP last […]
May 31, 2014
Party Poker’s now not-so-new improved poker software – it was launched to .com sites nine months back – has at last been made available to French players using the three brands in the ring-fenced French market, PMU.fr, PartyPoker.fr and ACFPoker.fr. It should prove a popular development, giving French players access to the company’s acclaimed fast-fold […]
May 30, 2014
The first bracelet event in this year’s World Series of Poker – the $500 buy-in Casino Employees NLHE competition, took rather longer than anticipated but has concluded at the Rio in Las Vegas, with Roland Reparejo claiming the main prize of $82,835 after 3 days of action and a tense early-hours-of-the-morning adjournment at the heads […]