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

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 in poker, including Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, Daniel Cates, and even Phil Ivey, all of whom haveRead 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

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

I can’t say that I’m surprised that nobody decided to accept the heads-up challenge issued by Daniel “jungleman12” Cates that would have pitted the young poker phenom in a live heads-up €200/€400 No Limit Holdem game, with a minimum buy-in of $100,000 (the match was slated to take place during the EPT Prague tournament series). With no incentive other than a little Internet exposureRead 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

It’s no surprise that Phil Ivey’s first poker tournament since Black Friday would take place at the APT Macau, since the big games that have historically sprung up around the tournament have seen some of the biggest pots in the history of the game, and attracts some biggest names in poker and the business world. Ivey took part in Day 1a of the APTRead Full Article

Even as poker, and online poker in particular, has garnered a lot of mainstream media attention since Black Friday, for the first time (to my knowledge) a major network has decided to look at the fallout from the US shutdown of online poker sites and the subsequent problems created at Full Tilt Poker from the players’ perspective. In a 4-minute segment on Monday titled,Read Full Article

One of the many charges added on Tuesday by the US Attorney’s office –sought after amendment in their civil case against Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, and PokerStars– in addition to the already numerous charges leveled against Full Tilt Poker on Black Friday, was that Full Tilt Poker continued accepting US player deposits when it was impossible for them to process the payment. WhenRead Full Article

In 2009 the Annette Obrestad led squad from Europe was able to defeat Daniel Negreanu’s America’s team in the inaugural Caesar’s Cup held at the 2009World Series of Poker Europe. In 2011 the second Caesar’s Cup competition will be held at the new home of the World Series of Poker Europe, Cannes, France, and this time around the captains will be Phil Hellmuth forRead Full Article