Poker News
Ex-professional hockey player enjoying a lucrative World Series
The 40th Anniversary World Series of Poker is turning out to be a lucrative ride for former professional hockey player and Vancouver poker pro, Greg 'FBT' Mueller. Having cashed for $53 885 in Event 6 on June 1st, he went on to tak...
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CBS expose on UltimateBet and Absolute Poker scandals re-published
Industry observers were trying to work out over the weekend why CBS and The Washington Post both decided to re-publish a seven-month-old story o...
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Tough heads up with Watkinson
Las Vegas-based poker pro Brandon Cantu is the latest winner of a WSOP bracelet - his second - following some great poker in Event #48 - the $1 500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo competition at the World Series of Poker....
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Third time lucky for UK pro
John Kabbaj's win in Event #45 - the $10 000 buy-in World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em competition at the World Series of Poker this week was a case of third time lucky - it was the third time the UK professional player had made it through to a WSOP final table. The difference was that this time he took home the bracelet (his first) and the...
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12 US stops planned
The World Poker Tour has announced 12 stops in its Season 8 schedule, which starts at the Bellagio in Las Vegas with the Bellagio Cup V on July 13 2009 and ends back at that venue on April 17th with the massive $25 000 buy-in WPT World Championship.
The schedule also shows the usual WPT stops at Bay 101 in San Jose, California; the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles...
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Aussie pro becomes only the fifth 'experten' to win 3 bracelets in the same year
Jeffrey 'Iceman' Lisandro (43) has continued his remarkably successful run at the 40th Anniversary World Series of Poker by winning his third bracelet this year - a feat matched previously by only four others in the 40 year history of the world's gre...
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PokerStars.com has advised dates and venues for the third season
The popular PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) will soon start it's third season, with a five venue program that includes stops in Macau, South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines and Australia....
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New Orleans pro denies Russian a third bracelet
Event 40 - the $10 000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship at the World Series of Poker saw an American and a Russian across the table from each other in a thriller of a heads up atter they had survived an entry field of 295 players and a final table with plenty of talented pros looking for the biggest share of the $2...
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There are exceptions to the rule, but the police remain obdurate
The court battle between the Israeli Poker Federation and the police continued before Justice Edmond Levy in Tel Aviv Monday. Despite having signed off on applications to...
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National Poker Week launched
Former US Senator Alphonse D'Amato, chairman of the Poker Players Alliance appropriately chose the current 40th Anniversary World Series of Poker to announce National Poker Week, which will take place from July 19 to 25 this (2009) y...
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"Lekker, lekker" the railbirds yell as Marc Naalden takes down Event 38
Event #38 at the World Series of Poker - the $2 000 buy-in Limit Hold'em competition - has passed into the history book after a spirited two hour heads up out of all proportion to the disparate chip stacks of the final two players.
The 446-strong entry field generated a prize pool of $811 720 and...
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Jeff Lissandro is king of the seven card stud genre this year and wins a second bracelet
Jeff Lissandro has done it again! The Australian-born poker pro has won his second World Series of Poke...
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Texan player Jordan Smith achieved his first WSOP bracelet in Event 36 - the $2 000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em contest, which attracted a field of 1 695 and offered a prize pool of $3 084 900. Among the starters were David Rheem, Kathy Liebert, Joe Sebok, Scott Seiver, Jonathan Little, Darus Suharto, Shaun Deeb, Jared Hamby, Lika Gerasimova, Rob Hollink, Michael Binger, Kenna J...
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Big entry fields and a surprise ending for two aces
26-year-old Las Vegas professional player Eric Baldwin took home his first World Series of Poker bracelet and the main prize of $521 932 in Event 34 - the $1 500 buy-in No Limit Hold'em competition, besting an entry field of 2 095 players that included aces like the UK's Roland De Wolfe and Internet and live tournament...
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Major session turns in favour of Durrr as Challenge nears halfway point
Despite the distraction of the ongoing World Series of Poker, Patrik Antonius and Tom 'd...
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