Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 29, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After three days of action, one of the preeminent stops on the World Poker Tour, The Legends of Poker Main Event at the Bicycle Casino, is down to just three tables featuring seven players each. The tournament began with two Day 1 starting flights that saw a totalRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 27, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

The months after Black Friday is probably not the best time to be starting an online poker venture, but the fact that the US market has basically been cut-off from online poker didn’t deter 2006 World Series of Poker Champion Jamie Gold from launching his latest project: FreeGoldPoker.com.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

At the 2011 Legends of Poker Main Event, the World Poker Tour (WPT) continued to experiment with new structures, with their latest offering being a multi-entry tournament where players were even allowed to forfeit their stacks at the end of Day 1a if they so chose, giving themRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

There is always a quiet period on the tournament schedule around the globe following the World Series of Poker’s conclusion in July, but this year we saw a second lull in the action, in mid-August, before three of the major poker tours around the globe –the WPT, theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After a horrible 2010 online poker campaign, at one point causing him to quit poker towards the end of the year and leave Full Tilt Poker in the process –which was probably a good thing considering what has happened post-Black Friday—Ilari Sahamies has finally gotten back into theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Event organizers for the GUKPT Goliath tournament –a £100 buy-in NLHE tournament with three starting days, and a multi-entry format—were hoping to surpass the record set at the 2009 Boyle Poker IPO where 1,440 players registered for the event, making it the largest tournament in European and UKRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 26, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In a press release issued on Thursday the Poker Pros Network poker room announced it would be leaving the Cake Poker Network in order to comply with current US laws regarding online poker. The press release also detailed that PPN will be moving to proprietary network in theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 26, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

As I sit down to write this article it’s now over four months since Black Friday first ripped away my ability to play online poker, and in all honesty, except for a few thousand serious online poker players nothing has really changed for the 99.99% of the USRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 26, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It’s safe to say that Phil Galfond made the right decision by moving to Canada in order to continue his online poker career, and if he continues on the torrid pace he has been on during August he may just have enough money set aside to buy aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 25, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The Global Poker Index (GPI) has seen another shakeup at the top as Jason Mercier has reclaimed the #1 spot from Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier who fell to #3 on this week’s list, being bumped by Mercier as well as Erik Seidel. The GPI uses a rolling three-year formatRead Full Article