Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 24, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Last year it was Ben Lamb; two years ago it was Jeffrey Lisandro; before that it was Daniel Negreanu, Allen Cunningham, and even Tom Franklin. So the question for the 2012 WSOP is who will be the big star of the 2012 World Series of Poker? In thisRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 06, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

As the 2012 World Series of poker approaches I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the questions poker players and the poker media will have going into the nearly two-month long summer poker series in Las Vegas. In the firstRead Full Article

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

A huge field of 117 players registered for the €25,000 High-Roller tournament at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Monte Carlo on Sunday, and 16 of those players used the re-entry format, bringing the prize-pool up to an impressive €3,325,000, and guaranteeing the winner overRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The $100k buy-in tournaments have not gone the way of the dodo as many expected, despite drastic declines in attendance at both the 2012 PokerStars PCA and the 2012 Aussie millions in January. A recent $100k (actually nearly $120k buy-in) Super-High-Roller attracted 30 people in the Philippines, and theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier is one of the most accomplished poker players of the last decade; his exploits at the online poker tables are the stuff of legends, and since making the transition to live tournament poker ElkY has managed to build upon his online reputation, and is nowRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 13, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Vienna Main Event is in the books, and with just 66 players remaining in the field there are a slew of top young players amongst the chip-leaders looking to make a splash in a WPT championship event. Perhaps the biggest nameRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 12, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With a number of big names pros in Europe for big events like the iSeries Live and in Vienna itself for the Party Poker Big Game and Premier League, the World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament in Vienna, Austria had a larger than usual number of big-name US pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 30, 2012 Posted in PR | No Comments »

Bubble Protection, a Las Vegas company that offers online poker players the opportunity to insure their tournament entry fees against being lost is proud to announce the appointment of Chris Moorman as their company spokesman. Chris Moorman is the most successful player in online poker history having recentlyRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Bubble Protection, the world leader in online poker tournament entry fee protection and indemnity, today announced the appointment of Will “The Thrill” Failla as company spokesman. Will Failla has amassed over four million dollars in career earnings, winning multiple titles both live and online. Mr. Failla is theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Championship event in Copenhagen, Denmark ended day 2 of the Main Event with a familiar name in the pole position, Lock Poker Pro Melanie Weisner. Weisner managed to edge out a few other players for the end-of-day chip-lead, and with just 72Read Full Article