Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 07, 2011 Posted in WSOP News | No Comments »
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If concern started to grow after the $1k No Limit Holdem came in slightly under last year’s attendance numbers these fears were quickly squashed when the $1,500 NLHE 6-Max tournament shattered last year’s attendance number by 257 entrants! A total of 1,920 players registered for the tournament onRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 24, 2011 Posted in Tournament News | No Comments »
National Heads-Up Poker Championship

The full roster for the upcoming NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship was released today, and now that the entire 64 player field is known I thought I would take a look at some of the favorites amongst the field. First, here is a look at the complete 64Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 23, 2010 Posted in World Poker News | No Comments »
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After implementing a fan voting system last year –a process that saw Mike Sexton end up as the lone inductee– the Poker Hall of Fame once again opened up the nomination process to the fans. After the initial nomination period a whopping 181 poker players have been nominatedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 24, 2010 Posted in WPT News | No Comments »

The final 10 players in the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship came into day 6 of the poker tournament knowing four of them would fall just shy of the televised final table, not to mention the $1.5 million first-place prize-money. Heading into day 6 it was crystal-clear thatRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 07, 2010 Posted in Tournament News | No Comments »

The elite eight is set to return to the poker tables at Caesars Palace on Sunday, and headlining the remaining field will be the 76 year-old 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Doyle Brunson. Along the way Doyle has defeated Brock Parker, who won back-to-back bracelets at the 2009 WSOP;Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 09, 2009 Posted in Poker Player News | No Comments »

In some odd version of strip poker, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, and Jen Harman all shed their clothes for a photo-shoot for ESPN the Magazine’s “The Body” issue. The four players appear seated around a poker table where everything seems normal –except that they have noRead Full Article