There aren’t many players that have been more important to Norwegian poker than two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Thor Hansen. On Tuesday the poker world was saddened to hear the news that the 64 year-old has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The news has come via the 2+2 poker forum and on a number of Twitter accounts, although it has yet toRead Full Article

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

While the 2011 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic was playing down to the final table (and what a final table it will be) another tournament with a massive prize-pool was taking place, but unlike the WPT Championship which drew 411 players this tournament was contested by only 23 players. The second $100k Super-High-Roller tournament hosted by the WPT saw aRead Full Article

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

Apparently if your name is Doyle Brunson the prospect of playing in the $20,000 buy-in Epic Poker League Main Event or being a guest of honor at the EPT Prague Main Event still takes a backseat to a good old-fashioned high-stakes cash-game (presumably with a few whales) according to his Twitter account. Brunson has never been a big traveler to poker tournaments, so itRead Full Article

Just before one of the greatest final table showdowns in World Series of Poker history, where two potential future poker giants Martin Staszko and Pius Heinz clashed in a heads-up battle that lasted over 100 hands, two other poker giants were honored with their induction into the Poker Hall of Fame: Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson. Greenstein, known as the “Robin Hood of Poker”Read Full Article

2010 World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year Andy Frankenberger is further proving that his brilliant 2010 campaign was far from a fluke. The Wall Streeter turned poker pro has already captured a coveted WSOP bracelet in 2011 and now finds himself back in familiar territory, at a WPT televised final table. Frankenberger made two final tables during Season 9 of the WPT,Read Full Article

Phil Hellmuth is already making his presence felt at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe, as the “Poker Brat” is currently amongst the final eight participants in Event #1, the €2,500 Six-Handed NLHE tournament. In addition to possibly padding his lead for the most WSOP bracelets of all-time –Hellmuth currently has 11 WSOP bracelets with Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan each possessing 10Read Full Article

With the PokerStars European Poker Tour London tournament series now officially in the books, the poker world will set its sights on the next major tournament series; the World Series of Poker Europe, taking place in Cannes, France from October 7-21, 2011. The WSOPE will feature seven bracelet events as well as the non bracelet Ladies Championship, and the Invitational Caesar’s Cup which willRead Full Article

On the same day that Barry Greenstein and Doyle Brunson came out in defense of Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson, another high-profile poker player was blasting the decision-makers at Full Tilt poker, specifically Howard Lederer and Ray Bitar. The website PokerAkedemia.com was able to get Daniel Negreanu to answer a few questions while in Budapest, Hungary, and in true Negreanu fashion, he didn’t pullRead Full Article