November 7, 2017
Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, the poker professional and businessman who besmirched his reputation in the Full Tilt Poker debacle in 2011 and remains silent on the issue, has only recently reappeared at live poker tables, yet his skills have propelled him to the Player of Year, according to a Twitter announcement by WSOP on Monday. His […]
November 6, 2017
Starting Sunday January 7 next year, Americas Cardroom on the Winning Poker Network will be offering 12 one million dollar guaranteed MT tournaments, a significant $12 million investment by the operator. Publicity material from the operator claims that the Sunday tournaments constitute the largest available to action-starved US players, with buy-ins of $265 and prizes […]
November 6, 2017
It’s been a profitable weekend for German poker pro Dominik Nitsche, who has soared to the top of Germany’s biggest poker earners after his Euro 3.4 million win in the Euro 111,111 buy-n One Drop High Roller event at the World Series of Poker Europe in Rozvadov, which carried a Euro 10 million guarantee. Nitsche […]
November 5, 2017
Dutch poker pro Albert Hoekendijk became the latest winner at the World Series of Poker Europe in Rozvadov over the weekend, seizing victory in the Euro 1,111 buy-in Little One for One Drop event to score his first WSOP bracelet and the Euro main prize of Euro 170,784. The event attracted a field of 868, […]
November 3, 2017
Scots poker pro Niall Farrell has plenty to celebrate this weekend, having won Euro 745,287 and a WSOP bracelet in the Euro 25,000 buy-in High Roller at WSOPE at Kings Casino in Rozvadov, with the win qualifying him for a Triple Live Crown accolade after two previous major tourney victories in Malta and Punta Cana […]
November 3, 2017
Matous Skorepa, an amateur player from the Czech Republic, just scored the biggest win – by a factor of 10 – in his short career as a live tourney player. The young Czech bested a field of 4,115 entries to win the Euro 550 buy-in World Series of Poker Europe Colossus event at Kings Casino […]
November 3, 2017
PokerScout.com, the online poker information and monitoring site, has been acquired by Malta-based Catena Media for a reported $350,000, the latest in a GBP 60 million string of acquisitions by the media and marketing firm. Whilst some industry observers felt that the consideration paid for such a well-known brand was surprisingly low, others pointed to […]
November 2, 2017
Pokerstars’ big investment in this year’s Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) continued to pay off handsomely this week in several events where buy-ins topped the guarantees. Hosted at the Pokerstars Live poker room at the City of Dreams in Macau, several tournament events paid well for many of the game’s top names.. The HK$100,000 buy-in […]
November 2, 2017
Whether you approve or not of Chris “Jesus” Ferguson’s role in the historic Full Tilt debacle, there is little doubt that he remains a formidable player despite the distractions of the past, public opprobrium and a five year break from major live tournament play. Returning this year to the public game he has won or […]
November 2, 2017
In an interesting sequel to this week’s revelations that the Stars Group (formerly Amaya) is a major shareholder in poker information site Poker News, the independent publication Flush Draw has revealed that the change of ownership was agreed in 2011 and followed the Black Friday debacle in which US Department of Justice enforcers effectively shut […]