Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 31, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With Philipp Gruissem’s victory in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Alha8 tournament in London it’s pretty safe to say that $100k buy-in Super-High-Roller tournaments are the domain of German poker players, and Gruissem has been particularly successful in High Roller tournaments. The Alpha8 London win marks Gruissem’s thirdRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 26, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
Poker News Boy

Every Thursday PokerNewsBoy.com brings you the latest gossip, debates, and disputes from the world of Poker Blogs, Forums, Editorials, and Social Media in what we are calling The Poker Buzz. If it’s an interesting story or idea you’ll find it here every Thursday (or sometimes on Saturday whenRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 26, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There have been seven World Series of Poker Europe Main Events played and for the second time a teenager has won the tournament. In 2007 it was 18 year-old Annette Obrestad who captured the title, and this year it was 19 year-old Adrian Mateos of Spain who tookRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 25, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Thursday Daniel Negreanu won his 6th World Series of Poker bracelet, and locked-up the 2013 World Series of Poker Player of the Year award, with a win in the €25k High-roller tournament at the WSOP Europe tournament series. It all started with a deep, but not deepRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 24, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Thursday the winner of the €25k High-Roller tournament will be crowned, and while any High-Roller event in the poker world will generally draw quite a bit of attention –especially when it comes with a WSOP bracelet—this one has even more at stake. The tournament was one ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 22, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Series of Poker Main Event began over the weekend, and after two starting flights the final tally came in at 375 players, creating a prize-pool of €3.6 million. First place in the tournament is worth a cool €1 million, and a total of 40 players willRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 20, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

We already knew that the Big One for One Drop $1 million buy-in tournament would be returning to the World Series of Poker tournament series, but details about the tournament were scant; that was until the WSOP issued a press release this past week. The 2012 Big OneRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 20, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The 2013 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event is now upon us, which means all of the preliminary tournaments have come to a close. In this column we’ll take a look at the results of each of the bracelet tournaments (Events #1-#6), as well as any importantRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 19, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
poker hall of fame

The Poker Hall of Fame induction panel had 10 good choices to pick from (not the 10 players I would specifically choose, but 10 very good choices) and in the end the collection of living Hall of Fame members and select members of the poker media settled onRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 18, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

When the subject of Phil Hellmuth comes up it always makes for some lively conversation. The debate over the “Poker Brat’s” career is often heated, and there are several schools of thought on his place in the poker pantheon that are in dispute: * The greatest poker playerRead Full Article