April 13, 2007
The biggest event yet in the World Poker Tour Classic playing out at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the $5 000 No-Limit Texas Hold’em, has been won by poker pro Mike Hauptman who takes a champ’s bracelet, a seat in the prestigious WPT championship final…and a healthy $365 995 pay check. Despite a competitive field […]
April 13, 2007
The week started on a high note for a 31 year old Toronto construction worker and online poker player, who truimphed in the latest Absolute Poker Dream Package online tournament, winning a series of sponsorships worth over $150 000. Father of three Daniel Boone finished first in last Sunday’s online poker tournament to claim a […]
April 12, 2007
Speculation and rumour on where the famous Doyles Room.com online poker venue would relocate following the pull-out from the US of Tribeca-Tain-Playtech network came to an end this week with the announcement that the popular site has joined the expanding Microgaming Poker Network. The move will allow Doyle’s Room to expand into European markets and […]
April 12, 2007
Top poker pro J.C.Tran showed his cool professionalism in a tense World Poker Tour tournament at the Bellagio this week, beating several other key players in a starting field of 238 to take home a fat $272 320 winner’s paycheck and a victor’s bracelet. Tran won Event 4, the $3 000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em competition, […]
April 11, 2007
In a sign of the (USA) times, Casino City writer Aaron Todd revealed this week that Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker have made amendments to marketing strategy that will result in several well-known poker pros such as Michael Mizrachi, Mark Seif and Antonio Esfandiari, no longer being used to promote the sites. Following a merger […]
April 10, 2007
Irish poker player Marty Smyth is smiling this week following his Euro 650 000 victory in the Irish Poker Open. The money was on former WPT and EPT champ Roland De Wolfe, who dominated much of the final table action after starting with a short stack and building up in some remarkable hands of scintillating […]
April 9, 2007
The weekend’s poker action centred on the World Series of Poker Circuit event at Caesars in Indiana, where an impressive lineup of poker pros fought it out for a seriously good payday of $238 756. In the hunt were Barry Greenstein (who finished 17th) Scott Fischman (9th), Young Phan, Mimi Tran and several other top […]
April 9, 2007
One of the world’s great cricketing legends, fast bowler Shane Warne found himself headed back to the pavilion in short order this week, but it was a UK-based gaming website, rather than a cricket pitch that witnessed his departure. The Sunday Herald Sun in Australia reports that a gaming website promoted by Warne has been […]
April 8, 2007
Players Only.com has budgeted an impressive $150 000 for a new series of tournaments in which a World Series of Poker sponsored seat worth $12 000 will be won each week for the next three months. The twelve weekly ‘World Series Giveaway Tournaments’ that begin this weekend and continue through to the WSOP will take […]
April 7, 2007
The major television network NBC and games developer 5000ft Inc have released a new video game that is going to wow pokerheads with a yen for some big tournament action. The new interactive game is based on NBC’s action-packed Heads Up Poker Tournament television series, with the theme enhanced with really cool 3-D graphics. The […]