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

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 aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 22, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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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 inRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 07, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The third Championship tournament of the 2011 World Series of Poker began yesterday with 202 players registering for the $10k Omaha 8 Championship, a number just slightly off of last year’s tally of 212 entrants. As is usually the case with non-NLHE Championship events the field was madeRead Full Article

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

The $25k buy-in NLHE Heads-Up Championship got underway on the opening day of the 2011 World Series of Poker on Tuesday, and attracted a field of precisely 128 players –which likely had tournament officials doing cartwheels and back-flips as logistically this is the perfect number for a bracket-styleRead Full Article