Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 17, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Not only did the WSOP decide to bring back the invitation-only Tournament of Champions for 2010, they decided to add a little twist, and let the fans vote on who would appear at 20 of the 27 available seats! After 350,000+ votes were cast the results for theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 17, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The fourth stop on the PokerStars North American Poker Tour has been announced, and the latest addition to the highly successful poker tour will be The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, affectionately referred to as The Bike. It will be interesting to see how many stops are addedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 17, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In all a total of six suspects were arrested in connection with the brazen robbery that occurred in Berlin at a European Poker Tour event back on March 6th. Four of those suspects recently appeared before a German court and admitted to a litany of crimes, but declinedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 15, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

High-stakes poker pro Sammy Farha was able to hold off two players looking for their second World Series of Poker win in 2010, James Dempsey and Michael Chow, to capture his third career WSOP bracelet. Farha took down the $10,000 buy-in Omaha 8 or better World Championship, andRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 15, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There is no love lost between two of the biggest names in poker: Daniel Negreanu and Annie Duke have a long history of disagreeing that stems from one of their first meetings at a poker table way back in 1996! The poker industry was first made aware ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 14, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The oft-maligned poker pro Russ “Dutch” Boyd claimed his second World Series of Poker victory yesterday in the $2,500 6-Max Limit Holdem tournament. Boyd is often a center of controversy wherever he turns up originally because of his involvement in PokerSpot, the first online poker site to goRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 14, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Lacey Jones wasn’t a poker free agent for very long; after parting ways with Absolute Poker last month the poker pro and hostess has signed with Full Tilt Poker. Jones’s departure from Absolute Poker seemed to be on very good terms, considering she has spent a number ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 13, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

A variety of reasons were given by the half a dozen or so who registered for the $1,000 Ladies Tournament yesterday, and regardless of the reason given tournament officials were not buying it, and many openly expressed their anger with the crashers. Tournament officials were even threatening bansRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 13, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
2010 wsop

The 2010 World Series of Poker has seen a number of longtime poker pros breakthrough and win their first WSOP bracelet, and yesterday the ranks of bracelet winners was swelled by two, with both David Baker and Eric Buchman collecting their 1st WSOP victories. Baker took down theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 13, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With four World Series of Poker bracelets, 53 cashes, and over $3.75 million in career WSOP earnings John Juanda has set the bar pretty high for what constitutes a big WSOP. Well, with three final tables thus far, all in Championship Events, and over $600k in winnings I’dRead Full Article