Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 19, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Over the past few days PokerStars has been running an interesting contest for its players, asking them to guess the identity of the newest member of PokerStars Team Online. PokerStars players were given several clues by various Team PokerStars Pros, and on Thursday the site announced that wellRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 08, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) is still pushing ahead despite whispers throughout the poker community that the undertaking has bitten off more than it can chew, but if the signings the ISPT has made are any indication, the tournament that is seeking to attract tens-of-thousands of playersRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 02, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

My suspicions as to the veracity of the $100 million poker tournament in Macau that was being flouted seem to have proven correct, as one of the Macau poker scene’s major players, Tom Hall, took to the 2+2 poker forums yesterday to offer his opinions on what wasRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 28, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The Macau poker scene is best known for the ultra-high-stakes cash-games that take place in what has become known as the Las Vegas of the Near East, but there is also a major poker tournament that is the genesis of those high-stakes poker games, the APT Macau MainRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 14, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Chalk up yet another $1 million score for Titan Poker pro Sam Trickett, as the young poker star increased his 2011 tournament earnings to a mind-boggling $4.5 million this past weekend by winning the 2011 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event. After a mammoth field turned out for last year’sRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 13, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

For years the Cake Poker Network has been staunchly against allowing players to use Heads-Up Display’s (Known in the poker world as HUD’s) taking a number of steps to dissuade and disallow their usage at any of the network’s online poker tables. It now seems that the entireRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 10, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 PokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 25, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »
PokerStars versus Full Tilt

Prior to Black Friday, PokerStars controlled an estimated 50% of the online poker traffic in the world, with Full Tilt poker a distant second with a further 25% of the online poker traffic. That left a 25% piece of the pie for the hundreds of other online pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Rich on Jul 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | Comments Off on The Gladiator Returns at PartyPoker
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We have brought to your attention over the last few weeks some great ways to qualify for this years WSOP, mainly through freerolls and cheap satellite buy-ins, which lead onto the larger qualifiers and a guaranteed seat. Today is the turn of the big 3 oily can thatRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 11, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Three big names in the poker world are sitting atop the leader-board heading into the final day of the $1,500 Pot Limit Holdem tournament at the 2011 World Series of Poker, Brian Rast, Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler, and Ali Eslami. Rast is one of the best cash game playersRead Full Article