Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 24, 2012 Posted in Aussie Poker News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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Well, it looks like I was dead wrong with my prediction that Day 1c of the 2012 Aussie Million Main Event would attract only 200 entrants, and that attendance would be down some 25% year-over-year! While the Aussie Million Main Event did not reach last year’s attendance total of 721 players, Day 1c drew an impressive 317 entrants, putting the final tally at 657Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 13, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
2012-PokerStars-PCA

With the 2012 PCA Main Event playing down to the final table, the numerous poker superstars who failed to reach the penultimate day of the Main Event found another tournament in the Bahamas where the final table participants would all receive at least a six-figure payday, the $25k buy-in High-Roller event. The format for the tournament allowed for re-entries, and seven players did inRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 09, 2012 Posted in Online Poker News, Poker Site News | No Comments »
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While the Player of the Year races for live poker tournaments was one of the closest in history (at both Card Player and BLUFF Magazine) the title of Online Poker Player of the Year at Card Player Magazine was an absolute runaway victory for Jason “jdpc27” Wheeler. Wheeler tallied an impressive 8,076 OPOY Points on his way to the award, besting his nearest competitorRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 27, 2011 Posted in PNB News | No Comments »
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The final ballots have been cast by our hand-picked panel of poker experts, and after a little bit of deliberation we were able to settle upon a winner in each if the 10 categories we selected this time around. Congratulations to all of the winners and the deserving nominees. Here is a look at the winners as well as all of the nominees forRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 15, 2011 Posted in Epic Poker League News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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On Wednesday a total of 100 players registered for the third Epic Poker League Main Event, which is being played as a NLHE Mix-Max tournament –Day 1 is played at 8-Max tables, Day 2 at 7-Max tables, Day 3 at 6-Max, and Day 4 at 4-Max. Among the players who entered the $20,000 buy-in tournament were Erik Seidel (who surprise, surprise ended the dayRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 14, 2011 Posted in PNB News, Poker Industry News | No Comments »
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It’s that time again; time to vote for the 2011 PokerNewsBoy.com Awards. For 2011 the categories have been streamlined to 10, with 5 Player of the Year Awards up for grabs, as well as five other awards ranging from Poker Moment of the Year to Best Poker Blog. Last year we opened up our voting for the 2010 PokerrnewsBoy.com awards on our forum andRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 09, 2011 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
prague

With the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamonds Poker Classic taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada the center of the US poker world at the moment, nearly halfway across the world it’s the European Poker Tour’s annual stop in Prague, Czech Republic that is headlining the European poker scene. The EPT Prague Main Event is entering Day 4, and the tournament has seen its record-settingRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 07, 2011 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
prague

Just days after the World Poker Tour set an attendance record in Prague for the largest WPT tournament ever held in Europe it was the European Poker Tour’s turn as the 2011 EPT Prague broke its own record for the largest EPT Prague event in the eight year history of the tournament series, as well as the largest poker tournament ever held in CzechRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 06, 2011 Posted in Tournament News, WPT News | No Comments »
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In a year when top tournament players have amassed some amazing records and numbers –Sam Trickett, Erik Seidel, Jake Cody, Bertrand Grospellier, Chris Moorman, Eugene Katchalov, Ben Lamb, and so on– Andrey Pateychuk has quietly put together a remarkable year of his own, with his latest resume booster being the 2011 WPT Prague Main Event title. The WPT Prague Main Event title would notRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Nov 19, 2011 Posted in PR | No Comments »
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Las Vegas Company BBL Enterprises, LLC introduces an innovative online poker tool that will protect an online poker player’s tournament buy-in and entry fee. BubbleProtection.com uses revolutionary technology that creates a new bubble, encompassing an additional 10% of the field.  This radical technology created by Poker Pro Labs (www.pokerprolabs.com) in partnership with Poker Players International (www.ppipoker.com) is available to all non-U.S. players for allRead Full Article