Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

There is a lot of talk regarding this tournament, with players and poker fans wanting to know all of the details, as well as speculating on the overall field-size, future of the tournament, and what this tournament may do to poker going forward. How many players will enter?Read Full Article

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

In a recent interview Phil Hellmuth stated he is about 80% likely to add his name to the growing list of players that will be participating in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament that will be held during the 2012 World Series of Poker. TheRead Full Article

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

After three full days of play the starting field of 665 players has been pared down to just 26 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Monte Carlo. Day 3 of the tournament was scheduled to see the field shrink to just three-tables of eightRead Full Article

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

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 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 Mar 30, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 23, 2012 Posted in 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 21, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Yesterday the Party Poker Premier League added the thirteenth player to its roster, Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier, leaving only a single slot to be filled before the event begins on April 10th, 2012 –in addition to the 14 professional players there are two qualifiers. ElkY, who added the TripleRead Full Article

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

After a long day at the Bay 101 poker tables 54 of the 142 players that registered on Day 1a of the WPT Championship event, the Bay 101 Shooting Stars, remained in the hunt for the title. The remaining players will now wait for Day 1b to commence,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 25, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One of the most popular poker tournaments in the world got started on Friday as 523 players registered for the World Poker Tour Season X LA Poker Classic. Among the entrants were some of the biggest names in the poker world, including Phil Ivey, making the WPT LARead Full Article