Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Online poker tournament legend Shaun Deeb has had very little success on the live tournament trail to date, with his biggest splash being dressing in drag for the 2010 WSOP ladies tournament, and catching flak on all sides for the incident. Deeb has the chance to help eraseRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 15, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

When you think about conservative pundits and commentators you usually don’t think they will be strong advocates of legalizing and regulating the online poker industry considering a strong percentage of the conservative base is vehemently opposed to gambling of any kind, but this is precisely what conservative commentatorRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 15, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Since its inception the Bounty Shootout style tournaments held at virtually every stop of the PokerStars NAPT tournament series have been wildly popular amongst poker’s elite, and the $5,000 6-Max tournament held at the PCA was no exception as 216 poker players registered for the tournament. Day 1Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 14, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In an interview with Swedish Newspaper Aftonblat, the newly minted Team PokerStars Pro Viktor Blom –better known as isildur1—talked about his recent history as a high-stakes poker player, and his roots as a poker player. According to Poker.org –who was kind enough to translate the Swedish from AftonblatRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Jan 14, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Chalk up yet another online poker pro to the multi-accounting list. Jay “pr1nnyraid”Rosenkrantz took to the 2+2 poker forums to address allegations by forum member ‘CrazyMan1122’ that Rosenkrantz –a top online poker player, star of the 2 Months 2 Million reality show, co-founder of DeucesCraked.com, and co-creator ofRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Jan 13, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With the PokerStars PCA wrapping up in the Caribbean it’s time for the next major poker tournament series to get started, and that tournament series, The Aussie Millions, will be taking place halfway around the globe from the PCA. While the Main Event of the Aussie Millions willRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 13, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

In its 5+ years on the online poker scene Full Tilt Poker has been one of the leading innovators in the industry, introducing such features as Rush Poker, and now their latest addition to the online poker world is the Multi-Entry Tournament. Multi-Entry Tournaments allow players to enterRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Jan 11, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

If you are a casino gambler, sports-bettor, or poker player you are likely very familiar with the term “juice”, and probably HATE the term as much as I do, so you would think the screen-name employed by the high-stakes Limit Holdem pro “IHateJuice” would be roundly applauded; alas,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 11, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

For the first time ever, the entire final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event will be appearing at the same event, and the casino that was able to pull off this achievement is none other than Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut. The “reunion” willRead Full Article

Posted by KevinG on Jan 09, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After PokerStars revealed isildur1’s identity at the PCA tournament last night, the young Swedish Pro now confirmed as Viktor Blom took on Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspelier and an online qualifier in two short heads-up battles before he answered five questions from the assembled media. Here are Viktor “isildur1” Blom’sRead Full Article