Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 07, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News, World Poker News | No Comments »
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Where to begin! There were so many stories over the past week in the world of poker that it will be hard to fit them all in this article. There are updates on the Jonathan Duhamel robbery situation, Thor Hansen’s battle with cancer, the Entraction Network has been renamed, and poker made some inroads as a mind sport in the country of Brazil toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 02, 2012 Posted in Poker Player News | No Comments »
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Earlier this week Daniel Negreanu sat down for an interview with the website pokerplayer.co.uk, who somehow always manages to bring out the best and most controversial remarks in Daniel –you may recall it was the same outlet that Negreanu infamously referred to Annie Duke as a C***in a prior interview. This time around the line of questioning focused on the current state of poker,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 29, 2012 Posted in Aussie Poker News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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Phil Ivey is back! Since last April the world’s best poker player in many people’s minds has been MIA in the poker world, but after being spotted at the APT Macau tournament he showed up for the 2012 Aussie Millions , and it’s safe to say that he made his return to poker a very memorable one! Ivey nearly made the final table ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 27, 2012 Posted in Aussie Poker News, High Stakes Poker News | No Comments »
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The Aussie Millions schedule has a number of high-profile poker tournaments, but there is also a televised cash-game that is taking place and it has attracted some of the biggest names in the game. The $500/$1,000 half-NLHE/half-PLO game with a $100,000 minimum buy-in, dubbed The Million Dollar Cash-Game, is being filmed for television and includes a lineup that has included Sam Trickett, Daniel Negreanu,Read Full Article

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 08, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom seems to have recharged his batteries after a long layoff from both the online and live poker tables. Blom. Who was basically MIA from PokerStars and the live tournament scene from the summer until December managed to tally over $1 million at the PokerStars tables since his return, and yesterday he scored his first major tournament win byRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 07, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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If the Bahamas wasn’t at the top of Galen Hall’s list of favorite destinations after winning the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event, it could very well be by the end of Saturday. Hall is currently the chip-leader heading into the final table of the $100k buy-in 2012 PCA Super-High-Roller tournament, which will net the winner about $1.2 million! The final table ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 06, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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It seems like the Super-High-Roller tournaments may be here to stay as the $100k buy-in tournament that kicked off the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) came very close to last year’s mark of 38 entrants on Thursday, with a total of 34 players registering for the event. As would be expected for a tournament with a six-figure buy-in the participants in the event wereRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 05, 2012 Posted in Tournament News | No Comments »
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There hasn’t been a major live poker tournament since before the Christmas weekend, when the World Poker Tour wrapped-up their 2011 schedule with the WPT Venice and the Epic Poker League hosted their 3rd Main Event of the year. Now that the holidays and festivities of ringing in the New Year are over, the poker world is ready to get back at it, andRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 03, 2012 Posted in Op-Ed, Poker Players | No Comments »
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There are plenty of poker players whose lives are an open book, thanks to their stardom as well as their propensity to make use of social media. These players, like Daniel Negreanu, Tony G, and Phil Hellmuth catalogue most of their daily activities, and although they are very interesting their lives do not hold the secrets that people love to uncover. But there isRead Full Article