Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 31, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Day 4 of the 2012 World Series of poker saw the first open-event bracelet handed out and a full four tournaments in action. It also saw a number of female players taking it to their male counterparts, but first let me start off with another story involving womenRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 31, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

  May 31, 2012 marks the official launch of the Revolution Gaming Network. Lock Poker officially left the Merge Gaming Network at Midnight on May 31, with the site bringing its substantial player base to the Revolution Gaming Network (formerly the Cake Poker Network). Unhappy with the MergeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 30, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The third day of the World Series of Poker was the biggest so far, with Day 2 of the $1,500 NLHE event in full swing, and two other tournaments getting underway including one of the new events in 2012, a $3k Heads-Up PLO/NLHE tournament. Besides all of theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 30, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The first new event on the 2012 World Series of Poker schedule was a hit before the first card was even dealt. The $3,000 Heads-up NLHE/PLO tournament reached its cap of 512 players, selling out well before the start of the tournament. The tournament itself is one ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 30, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

For all of the people that are under the impression that the zeitgeist has online poker legislation moving forward (albeit very slowly) and that it is a matter of not if but when needs to understand that there are still plenty of voices arguing for a complete banRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Memorial Day the first open-bracelet event at the 2012 World Series of Poker got underway, not to mention the first winner of the 2012 WSOP was crowned in the Casino Employee tournament. But perhaps the most interesting story of the day came via Twitter, where John KimRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Friday the newly minted Revolution Gaming Network will come online, as Lock Poker’s purchase of the Cake Poker Network will finally come to fruition with the launch of the newly branded Revolution Gaming Network. You can visit the new launch page at www.RevolutionGaming.eu In a short pressRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 28, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Since we will be doing daily updates from the greatest spectacle in poker (the 2012 version) this will be the last tournament update for a while, but there was definitely plenty of tournaments taking place in the lead-up to the 2012 World Series of Poker, so here isRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 28, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Series of Poker is in full swing and just before the tournament series got underway we were treated with a new SrslySirius song/video, this one ringing in the 2012 WSOP in the way only SrslySirius could do. So before we get into what is going atRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 27, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

German poker pro Marvin Rettenmaier had a very good week at the WPT Championship. Not only was Rettenmaier announced as the latest sponsored pro of Party Poker (the company that just happens to own the World Poker Tour) but the young poker pro managed to dominate during theRead Full Article