Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 07, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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Phil Hellmuth won his 13th World Series of poker Bracelet this week and in the process became the first person to win both the WSOP Main Event and the WSOPE Main Event, not to mention sewing up the 2012 WSOP Player of the Year award. But believe itRead Full Article

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

The €10k Mix-Max No Limit Holdem event at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe is down to the final 16 players. The final 16 have been paired up for the heads-up portion of the tournament, which will see some very interesting matchups take place as some ofRead Full Article

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

The World Poker Tour is in the northern African city of Marrakech for the third straight year, and there was major rebound in the attendance numbers this time around — after a major drop in attendance between the 2009 inaugural WPT tournament in Marakech, Morocco and the 2010Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 20, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

While the €3,300 buy-in WPT Slovenia tournament was wondering where all of the poker players were, the Bellagio staff knew precisely where they were, and pulled off a major coup by scooping up most of the big name players who had busted out of the Main Event atRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 04, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After a so-so turnout on Day 1a of the final $1k NLHE tournament of the 2011 World Series of Poker, yesterday’s massive field of over 2,600 entrants came virtually out of nowhere, and not since the initial $1k Stimulus Special tournament back in 2009 has the World SeriesRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 10, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

The next domino in what is surely the downfall of both UB Poker and Absolute Poker has fallen, as the Cereus Poker Network announced on Monday that they would be parting ways with all of their sponsored pros –a total of 11 sponsored players. 10 players from UBRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 19, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The $5,000 buy-in Main Event at the Wynn Classic attracted 242 hopefuls this year, and in the end it was UB Poker’s Brandon Cantu who walked away with the title and a nice payday of $363,844. Cantu entered the final day with the chip-lead, and was able toRead Full Article