September 13, 2011
888Poker has apparently stolen a march on its competitors by organising a live poker tournament conveniently close to Montreal in the First Nation sovereign enclave of Kahnawake. The Super Stack tournament, scheduled to take place over two days on April 7 and 8, 2012, will be held at the Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec, […]
September 13, 2011
Players on the internet poker information site PocketFives this week report receiving email notifications from PokerView.com advising them that it is switching networks from Everleaf to Merge mid-September. Apparently PokerView’s US players will be “grandfathered” over to Merge in the move (Merge does not accept new US player registrations although it services existing American players […]
September 13, 2011
Internet and live tournament poker pro Sorel Mizzi has boosted his career earnings by a useful Euro 234,495 by winning the 2011 WPT Grand Prix de Paris High Roller event, beating Freddy Deeb heads-up in a reversal of the title Deeb took from him a year ago. The Euro 15,000 buy-in event attracted only 36 […]
September 13, 2011
In California the rivalry between groups interested in the legalisation of online poker has increased this week with one organisation turning up the heat in a media campaign and another calling for a slow-down in order to achieve a more considered and consensual approach. The California Online Poker Association, backed by the Morongo and San […]
September 12, 2011
The very democratic introduction of a US government communication website entitled “We the People” (http://www.whitehouse.gov/wethepeople) has prompted the Poker Players Alliance legalisation action group to initiate a new petition aimed at getting the attention of US administration officials and lawmakers. The motive behind the website is the all-important creation of American jobs in a stagnating […]
September 12, 2011
Matthew Waxman, the Parkland, Florida ace who has been playing professionally for just 3 years, bested a field of 312 to win the World Poker Tour Paris main event over the weekend. The Florida Atlantic psychology grad landed the largest single score of his career with a main prize worth Euro 518,750, driving his live […]
September 11, 2011
Next month’s World Series of Poker Europe will again feature an epic US vs. Europe clash on the felt between teams of top pro players representing the two geographical blocs. Sponsored by Caesars Entertainment, which provides the prestigious Caesars Cup after which annual tournament is named, the two teams will be selected for the Ryder […]
September 11, 2011
There may have been only 97 entries for the second Epic Poker League major live event, but that was sufficient to give 22-year-old internet poker whiz Mike “Timex” McDonald a $782 410 first-place prize when he took it down this week at the Palms in Las Vegas. The victory was all the more remarkable because […]
September 9, 2011
Beleaguered online poker group Full Tilt faces another legal obstacle with the Canadian consumer group, Groupe des droits des consommateurs, announcing today that it has filed a national class action suit against the company on behalf of players who have been unable to reclaim their money following the U.S. Department of Justice action earlier this […]
September 9, 2011
Finnish online poker pro Ilari Sahamies’s up-and-down year soared to new heights this week when he hammered the high stakes opposition on Pokerstars in an electrifying session that saw him take home over $500 000. Our readers will recall that two weeks back Sahamies was battling – down around $800 000 in his 2011 numbers. […]