Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 27, 2010 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

The Lithuanian Sports Poker Federation has been recognized as an official sports federation inside the country’s borders. The ruling opens the door for poker tournaments to be organized outside of Casinos in Lithuania, and the federation has wasted no time in announcing a tournament in Vilnius from AprilRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 27, 2010 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

What started with the loss of PokerHost was soon followed by Sportsbook, SuperBook and Players Only, and now word has come down that a fourth online poker site is leaving the Cake Poker Network to join the much smaller Merge Gaming Network. The latest site to jump shipRead Full Article

Posted by PokerFelts on Mar 26, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The online phantom player ‘Isildur1‘ who has been creating a stir within the high stakes online poker scene at Full Tilt Poker has once again managed to get his name into the media spotlight, even though this time he’s not actually caused the attention himself. With the announcementRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 25, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

While there is nothing illegal or even unethical with short-stacking –where a player buys-in for about 20BB, the table minimum, and plays a push/fold strategy, and upon doubling up leaves the table to start all over again—many poker players loathe sitting at tables with players implementing this strategy.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 25, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Carlos Mortensen continues to rack up major victories in poker tournaments; the latest notch on his belt came at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open, where Mortensen captured his third WPT title –tying Gus Hansen for most all-time—on his way to winning almost $400,000. Mortensen who won the 2001Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 25, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The North American Poker Tour is on its way to Connecticut, and it will be Mohegan Sun (the other casino in the Connecticut woods) and not Foxwoods that will be hosting the festivities. The NAPT tournament kicks off on March 27th with a $550 “Deep-Stacks” tournament, and willRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 25, 2010 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

As of April 15th, both Sportsbook and Players Only Poker will officially absolve their relationship with the Cake Poker network, and join the Merge Gaming Network. No explanation has been given for the change, or why the sites would choose to move from the 10th to the 20thRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 25, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Back in January 2009 online poker superstar Tom “durrrr” Dwan issued an open challenge to the poker community offering them 3:1 odds that he would beat anyone, except his close friend Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, over 50,000 hands of heads-up poker. The rules stated that the stakes had toRead Full Article

Posted by PokerFelts on Mar 24, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With the United States stealing the headlines as they look to clamp down on gambling activity by their citizens, the UK Gambling Commission has finally started to show that they do really exist and aren’t just a myth, issuing their first 3 cautions surrounding illegal gambling within publicRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 24, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After a thread was created on the 2+2 forums titled “StoxTrader cheating/multi-accounting discussion” the fit hit the shan for poker professional Nick “StoxTrader” Grudzien. Here are the cliff’s notes of the whole sordid affair: Grudzien was called out for playing on multiple accounts, being a short-stacker, rat-holer, andRead Full Article