Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 24, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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38 players entered the €100,000 Super-High-Roller tournament at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, and as Day 2 begins a total of 45 entries were sold in the re-entry format. The seven players who decided a single €100,000 bullet was not enough were Gus Hansen, Jason Mercier,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 21, 2012 Posted in Poker Player News, PR | No Comments »
Annette Obrestad

It looks like one of the top free agents in poker may soon have a new home, as it was announced on Friday that Annette Obrestad has signed with the poker representation firm Poker Royalty. Historically this has been a sign that the player in question will soonRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 20, 2012 Posted in Live Poker News, Online Poker News | No Comments »
Poker News Boy

Every week in the Friday Wrap we try to bring you a recap of the top stories from the world of poker, but occasionally we have to veer off-track and update our readers on some of the stories they may have missed over the course of the week.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 04, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
EPT

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final will have a new addition to its schedule this year as the tournament series in Monte Carlo will host the first six-figure buy-in tournament in European poker history. The tournament will be a €100,000 buy-in Super-High-Roller event, and has already attractedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 31, 2012 Posted in Tournament News, WSOP News | No Comments »
ONEDROP

The $1,000,000 buy-in poker tournament scheduled to take place at the 2012 World Series of Poker will feature some of the biggest names in the world of poker, as well as some titans of industry, and now we know precisely when the tournament will take place and whatRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 30, 2012 Posted in Online Poker News, Poker Room News | No Comments »
SuperStar Showdown

Two of the top heads-up No Limit Holdem in online poker will be battling this weekend in a $1 million freezeout match. Yesterday PokerStars announced that Isaac Haxton and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom have agreed to square-off in a winner-take-all Heads-Up Match with each player putting up $500,000! TheRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 30, 2012 Posted in Poker Gossip, Poker Player News | No Comments »
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The one thing Daniel Negreanu will never be accused of is keeping things bottled up. Negreanu spends most of his time trying to right the wrongs in the poker world, and taking certain people to task over their conduct; even his half-hearted defense of good friend Erick Lindgren’sRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 25, 2012 Posted in Live Poker News, TV Poker | No Comments »
iseries

There is a new player in the televised poker industry, the iSeriesLIVE, but unlike its predecessors and the current incarnations of televised poker shows, iSeries is putting a whole new spin on the staid programming that poker fans have grown accustomed to. The iSeries will be an invitation-onlyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 23, 2012 Posted in Live Poker News, Online Poker News | No Comments »
Poker News Boy

This is our weekly look at the top stories in the world of poker. This week all was fairly quiet on the tournament front, but there was plenty of rumor, gossip, and speculation to more than make up for it! This week we saw a high-profile banned fromRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 20, 2012 Posted in Online Poker News, Poker Room News | No Comments »
SuperStar Showdown

After blowing a near $100,000 lead over Isaac Haxton in last week’s Superstar Showdown on PokerStars –the first Superstar Showdown match the site has hosted since last June—Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom came back with an impressive victory of UK high-stakes pro Andrew “Kanu7” Millar. The twoRead Full Article