Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 25, 2012 Posted in TV Poker, WPT News | No Comments »
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It’s hard for some of us to fathom, but the World Poker Tour has been on the airwaves for a decade now, with the premiere episode from Season X of the popular poker tour scheduled to air on FOX Sports Net beginning February 12 at its regular timeslot of 8 PM EDT, with a re-airing at 11 PM EDT. What began as an experimentRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 24, 2012 Posted in Tournament News | No Comments »
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There is a lot going on in the world of tournament poker this past week, as the Aussie Millions is now in full swing, the World Series of Poker Circuit Series was in Choctaw Oklahoma, the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi hosted the Million Dollar Heater, and both the WPT LA Poker Classic and the Borgata Winter Poker Open tournament seriesRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 13, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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The 2012 PokerStars PCA Main Event is down to the final day of play, as just eight of the original 1,071 players are still in the hunt for the title. While the fin al table didn’t produce any big-names, there are two young players who have the chance to breakthrough with a good showing at Friday’s final table. The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA)Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 07, 2012 Posted in Op-Ed | No Comments »
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It’s that time of year again; time to pull out my crystal ball for a little poker prognostication, and for 2012 the predictions are very bold! 2012 will finally be the Year of the Woman For the past two years I’ve predicted that a woman would win an open WSOP tournament, so this year I’m going to up the ante despite the cold-spell womenRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 06, 2012 Posted in Tournament News, WPT News | No Comments »
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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 players decided to skip the Bahamian island’s first few tournaments –including the $100k Super-High-Roller tournament—in favor ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 05, 2012 Posted in Tournament News | No Comments »
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There hasn’t been a major live poker tournament since before the Christmas weekend, when the World Poker Tour wrapped-up their 2011 schedule with the WPT Venice and the Epic Poker League hosted their 3rd Main Event of the year. Now that the holidays and festivities of ringing in the New Year are over, the poker world is ready to get back at it, andRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 27, 2011 Posted in PNB News | No Comments »
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The final ballots have been cast by our hand-picked panel of poker experts, and after a little bit of deliberation we were able to settle upon a winner in each if the 10 categories we selected this time around. Congratulations to all of the winners and the deserving nominees. Here is a look at the winners as well as all of the nominees forRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 19, 2011 Posted in Tournament News, WPT News | No Comments »
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While we try to provide you with comprehensive coverage from a number of major tournaments around the world, sometimes there is simply too much going on in the world of tournament poker to cover each and every event, and this is precisely what has taken place over the past week or so. While we were busy keeping you abreast on the latest chip countsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 19, 2011 Posted in Epic Poker League News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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Despite a five-handed final table, it took nearly 15 hours of play on Sunday for the Epic Poker League to crown its third champion of Season 1, and in the end it came down to two poker pros searching for their first major tournament title of their career. The final table began with a lineup of Scott Clements, Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Chris Klodnicki,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 18, 2011 Posted in Epic Poker League News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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Fresh off a final table at the WPT Five Diamond Poker Classic, Internet phenom turned live tournament grinder Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger is on the precipice of winning his first major tournament title as he takes the chip-lead into the final table of the Epic Poker League Main Event. Lichtenberger has been a regular on the tournament trail since late-2008, and although he has managedRead Full Article