The 6th stop on this year’s PokerStars.net ANZPT was a $2,500 AUD buy-in tournament, and what started with 287 poker players taking to the felt on August 11th at the Conrad Jupiters Casino Gold Coast has concluded with Nauv Kashyap walking away with the trophy and nearly $183,000 AUD. The action started fast and furious at the final table with seven players hitting the rail in just over 3 hours of play. However, the heads-up battle wouldn’t follow suit. BothRead Full Article

The Game Show network is set to unveil a new type of poker game this Saturday at 9PM when the $50,000 buy-in Doubles Poker Championship is set to air. The format of the game has two partners playing a hand of poker against another team of two: One teammate will play the hand both pre-flop and on the Turn, with the other teammate taking over for the Flop and River –we’ll see how this innovation plays out, and more importantlyRead Full Article

World famous poker player; Phil Ivey opened up the new high stakes poker room called the Ivey Room last Saturday. It was really only a matter of time before Phil had his own poker room named after him and it was fitting it was a high stakes one. The Ivey Room is located at Aria in the MGM city centre. The room is expected to attract the highest stakes poker played in Vegas. The room was opened with a 1Read Full Article

After three successful tournaments, the Ante Up for Africa poker tournament has become as much of a staple at the World Series of Poker as the ladies only championship, casino employees tournament or seniors tournament. The 2010 version will once again feature a star-studded lineup of poker pros, professional athletes, and Hollywood celebrities. Among those who have already agreed to participate in the charity tournament that raises funds to the help the people of Darfur as they deal with dictatorshipRead Full Article

Today marks the first tournament in the World Team Poker competition –a series of tournaments featuring eight different teams of poker players representing their country—with a $50,000 buy-in event taking place in Las Vegas Nevada, at the Golden Nugget Casino. Coinciding with the launch, World Team Poker has announced the tournaments will be broadcast by Fox Sports Net (FSN) and will be aired as 13 1-hour telecasts. With some of the biggest names in poker competing in the event, coupledRead Full Article

When the World Series of Poker kicks off on May 27th it won’t be the only game in town. The original home of the WSOP will be running the 4th annual Binion’s Poker Classic, a series of poker tournaments with a pared down buy-in compared to its cross-town rival, Harrah’s and the World Series of Poker. The 46 tournaments at Binions feature buy-ins as low as $100, and much like the tournament the Casino made famous culminates in a MainRead Full Article

Poker is a game that seems to grow not only in terms of the player base but also in terms of the number of venues that are trying to get in on the action by hosting poker games and tournaments. The latest news is that Royal Caribbean, a leading cruise company will be looking to hold a live poker cruise onboard the worlds largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s ‘Oasis of the Seas’. The news that poker players are not onlyRead Full Article

Just when you thought Daniel Negreanu couldn’t possibly run into any more bad-beats/coolers/poor decisions, the PokerStars pro took two massive hits on this week’s episode of High Stakes Poker on GSN to send his Poker ROI for the show deeper into the negative. The first hit saw Negreanu in a pot with Mike Matusow and Eli Elezra where Matusow was lurking in the weeds limping in with pocket kings, Negreanu decided to play the 8-9 of clubs, and Elezra raisedRead Full Article

Rumors have been swirling on Poker News Daily and at Pokerati.com about the new poker room at the Aria Hotel and Casino competing or replacing Bellagio’s “Bobby’s Room” as the place for high stakes poker in Las Vegas. Well further evidence has come to light that this is indeed more than rumor and speculation, as the Aria has released an invite to Ivey’s Room, with an exclusive invitation-only $1,000,000 freeroll tournament! It would appear that the Aria Casino has comeRead Full Article

Fans of High Stakes Poker are undoubtedly used to the “run-it twice” request when all the money is in the middle, but how about Dario Minieri and Tom Dwan deciding to “run-it 4 times” on a flop of 2-10-3 with Minieri holding K-3 and Dwan holding K-10. Dwan was able to win all four of the deals, and Minieri decided to call it a night after losing the $344,000 pot. In a more typical “run-it twice” scenario, Daniel Negreanu wasRead Full Article