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 Jan 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Throughout the entire Black Friday debacle the Merge Gaming Network’s flagship online poker room, Lock Poker, has continued to add to their talented roster of poker pros, known as Team ELITE, and this weekend they picked-up yet another of poker’s rising stars, Melanie “Callisto” Weisner. Weisner is theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 06, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The first stop on the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) schedule marks the tour’s first foray into the Emerald Isle, as the inaugural WPT Ireland Main Event began on Thursday. Despite running concurrently with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) many of the top UK and European poker playersRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 15, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

On November 10th Betfair announced it had finished its search for the company’s next CEO, and the group has decided on Breon Corcoran. Corcoran, the former Paddy Power COO and long-time board member is considered one of the rising stars in the industry, and at just 40 years-oldRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 11, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After three days of play at the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne Australia we were left with an Aussie final table that included two female players, in addition to one of poker’s young guns, James Obst. As players began to be eliminated the tournament came down to justRead Full Article