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

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

On Wednesday night at the Aviation Club in Paris, France the 2011 European Poker Awards were handed out. Among the winners of the coveted awards were Sam Trickett (Poker Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (Best Tournament Performance) with longtime poker insider Jesse May heading home with the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award. Overall there were very few surprises/upsets on the evening with allRead Full Article

With a final table that included established poker pros like Tony G, Sam Trickett, Gus Hansen, Joe Hachem, and Sorel Mizzi, it was young gun Dan Smith who would come away victorious in the $100k Challenge tournament at the 2012 Aussie Millions. The $100k buy-in event saw a total of 22 players register for the tournament on Sunday, and eight of those players reachRead Full Article

Attendance in the $100k Challenge at the Aussie Millions was way down from last year’s impressive 38 entrants, with just 22 players registering for the $100k buy-in tournament this time around. Even with the attendance drop the tournament still managed to attract some of the biggest names in poker, including Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, Daniel Cates, and even Phil Ivey, all of whom haveRead Full Article

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Crown Casino hosting the Aussie Million tournament series the casino decided to honor the previous nine winners of the Aussie Millions over that time period with an invitation to play in the Aussie Millions Tournament of Champions. The Tournament of Champions winner would receive a very lucrative prize, as they would be the recipient of freeRead Full Article

The 2012 Aussie Millions tournament series kicked-off Thursday with a $1,000 No Limit Holdem tournament that will feature two days of registration. Over the course of the 18 day Aussie Millions series a total of 26 separate poker tournaments will take place, including the Aussie Millions Main Event, the $100,000 buy-in Challenge, the $250,000 buy-in Challenge, a $5,000 buy-in Chinese Poker tournament, a $25,000Read Full Article

The final ballots have been cast by our hand-picked panel of poker experts, and after a little bit of deliberation we were able to settle upon a winner in each if the 10 categories we selected this time around. Congratulations to all of the winners and the deserving nominees. Here is a look at the winners as well as all of the nominees forRead Full Article

It’s that time again; time to vote for the 2011 PokerNewsBoy.com Awards. For 2011 the categories have been streamlined to 10, with 5 Player of the Year Awards up for grabs, as well as five other awards ranging from Poker Moment of the Year to Best Poker Blog. Last year we opened up our voting for the 2010 PokerrnewsBoy.com awards on our forum andRead Full Article

You could just feel that the something special was going to happen throughout the entire World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic main event, as the big names kept surviving, and the story-lines began to develop. Now with just six players remaining for the coveted title, Antonio Esfandiari is a mere five eliminations away from defending his WPT Five Diamonds title fromRead Full Article