Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 28, 2013 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Lock Poker, The #1 US online poker site, has just announced their latest monthly promotion that will begin in February dubbed the Grind for Glory promotion. Grind for Glory will feature the usual monthly Rake Race run by the site but this time around Lock Poker is offeringRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 16, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

NBC has been playing their cards close to their vest when it comes to the roster for the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which is set to take place in less than 10 days. Normally the roster would already be in, and be scrutinized and debated adRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 12, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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This is the opening salvo in a three part series that will examine the biggest stories and themes in poker over 2012: To start this series off I will look at some of the black-eyes the poker world received in 2012. Part 2 will focus on the biggestRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 04, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The Big One for One Drop tournament was a booming success at the 2012 World Series of Poker, stealing the show at the biggest tournament series in the game over the past week. The three-day event was capped-off with a fantastic final table that featured poker superstars PhilRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 21, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

With the online poker market in Spain now opened-up, and PokerStars with an online poker license in hand, the site has decided to ramp-up their marketing in the country by signing tennis superstar Rafael Nadal to represent the PokerStars brand. Nadal isn’t the first sports star signed byRead Full Article

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

Every year a handful of poker superstars (usually from the online world) turn 21 and decide to partake in the biggest event in poker, the World Series of Poker. Some of these players manage to hit their stride right out of the gate, while others struggle to theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With late registration open until the start of Day 2 on Saturday the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic saw the total number of entrants jump from the 523 players who registered on Friday to 549 by the time the tournament recommenced on Saturday. At the end ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It seems like every week I’m writing an article on some new poker pro that is now representing Lock Poker, so I was very happy to see that this would not be the case this week: Instead Lock Poker signed not one but two more poker pros toRead 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 Jan 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The past week’s headlines have been dominated by the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) but there were plenty of other tournaments taking place around the globe, including the inaugural stop at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California for the World Series of Poker Circuit Series, as wellRead Full Article