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

According to PokerNews.com the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia has confirmed that the Aussie Millions will once again host a $250,000 Super-High-Roller tournament. The first $250,000 Super-High-Roller took place at last year’s Aussie Millions, and despite being hastily created in the middle of the tournament series a respectable field of 20 players entered the tournament. According to the PokerNews.com report several players have alreadyRead Full Article

Victor “Isildur1” Blom returned to the online poker tables at PokerStars this past weekend, and in the process managed to win more in a single weekend than any other poker player at the site has won all year, save one, Ilari “Ilari_Fin” Sahamies. Overall Blom collected roughly $1.5 million in his weekend sessions, playing in a variety of different PLO games against virtually everyRead Full Article

When the idea of a special $1 million buy-in tournament (with some proceeds going to the OneDrop Charity, precisely $111,111 from every entry) during the 2012 WSOP was first announced during the World Series of Poker, many eyebrows were raised. Even more eyebrows went up when WSOP officials stated that IF the tournament attracted 22 or more players (the number of entrants in theRead Full Article

All eyes will be on the quaint city of the Prague as the Czech capital hosts the 12-day long Prague Poker Festival. With its impressive architecture, Prague is a city steeped in culture and historic tradition. It’s also a popular party destination, with people from all over Europe keen to sample the cheap alcohol and beautiful women. The festival sees the collaboration of threeRead Full Article

At the end of play on Day 2 of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event the field had been pared down to just 116 players, from the original starting number of 593, and poker fans will find a number of recognizable names amongst the chip leaders. In the Top 10 alone you’ll find the names of Hoyt Corkins, Triple Crown WinnerRead Full Article

With the 2011 online poker year entering the fourth quarter, I figured it was time to take a look at who has been prospering at the online poker tables in 2011, and who have been the contributors to those prosperous players. So without further adieu, here are the biggest winners and losers over the first nine months of 2011. I’ve listed both the overallRead Full Article

It’s safe to say that Phil Galfond made the right decision by moving to Canada in order to continue his online poker career, and if he continues on the torrid pace he has been on during August he may just have enough money set aside to buy a Canadian version of his infamous NYC Condo Slide! Since moving to Canada, Galfond has been cleaningRead Full Article

After months of speculation and planning the Epic Poker League was set to begin its life on Tuesday with its first $20k buy-in Main Event, and the only remaining question to be answered was; how many people would show up? In the end, a solid turnout of 137 entrants –including the nine qualifiers from the Pro/Am—showed up at the Palms Casino to take partRead Full Article

One lawsuit goes away and another one appears to take its place, so is the saga of Full Tilt Poker after Black Friday. Just when the beleaguered online poker room thought it was making some headway in resolving its problems in repaying US poker players who can no longer participate in games at the site –rumors of an imminent sale of shares of theRead Full Article