In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Crown Casino hosting the Aussie Million tournament series the casino decided to honor the previous nine winners of the Aussie Millions over that time period with an invitation to play in the Aussie Millions Tournament of Champions. The Tournament of Champions winner would receive a very lucrative prize, as they would be the recipient of freeRead Full Article

I guess when you run good, you just run good! Via his Twitter account Huck Seed informed the world just how good he runs by posting a picture of a $670,665.60 Royal Flush payout on a Video Poker machine! Attached with the picture was the following text: “Internet poker is down in the US, but I’m still pressing buttons!” Of course once the creatorsRead Full Article

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier kicked off the EPT Grand Finale tournament series with a win in the €25,000 high-roller tournament, where he picked-up the €525,000 first-place prize-money. Another high-roller tournament closed out the EPT Grand Finale tournament series –this time a €10,000 6-handed NLHE event—and once again the winner was ElkY, as he rolled to his second win of the series. ElkYRead Full Article

As much as I was disappointed by ESPN’s broadcast of the $50k Players Championship it didn’t stop me from sitting down to watch the Tournament of Champions which aired last night. And either ESPN reads my work –which I doubt—or they have received a lot of complaints along the same lines –much more likely—because the TOC coverage was much, much better, and included someRead Full Article

In the opening week of their 2010 World Series of Poker coverage ESPN focused on the $50,000 Players Championship, which was eventually won by one of the two Mizrachi brothers that made the final table, Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi. This week attention will shift to the highly exclusive Tournament of Champions, which took a three year hiatus before the decision was made to bringRead Full Article

The 27 player Tournament of Champions was designed for a number of reasons, and one of the major issues was how to run the tournament without interfering with the rest of the World Series of Poker schedule. The idea tournament officials settled upon was to have two 4-hour days of play. This would create the final table of 9 players and then reconvene onRead Full Article

In addition to the usual festivities at the World Series of Poker tomorrow, poker fans will also be able to see who will fill the final seat in the Tournament of Champions. 9 players have been named to compete in the invitation only freezeout tournament. Mike Mizrachi, Tom Dwan, Andy Bloch, Bertrand Grospellier, Gus Hansen, Sorel Mizzi, Liv Boeree, Paul Wasicka and Don CheadleRead Full Article

2010 will see the return of the Tournament of Champions at the World Series of Poker and this time around poker fans will have a direct impact on the lineup. Fans can vote for their favorite poker players on the WSOP website, and the top 20 vote-getters will get their ticket punched for the 2010 Tournament of Champions. At this point over 180,000 votesRead Full Article

has announced they will once again be running an invitation-only tournament at the 2010 World Series of Poker. This will mark the first time since 2006 that the WSOP will feature the Tournament of Champions, but unlike the three previous TOC’s the 2010 version will take place in the midst of the World Series of Poker festivities. Harrah’s is putting up the entire $1Read Full Article