Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 10, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Despite not having the NAPT logo attached to the tournament the tournament series that was supposed to be the PokerStars.net NAPT Los Angeles event will still host a $10,000 Bounty Shootout tournament as was originally scheduled before losing PokerStars –and therefore the NAPT brand—as an official sponsor. TheRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 10, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker is coming up fast, and today PokerStars released the schedule for the tournament series that will begin on May 8th, 2011. Once again each day a specific tournament will be played at three different stakes, Low, Medium, and High –and it’sRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 09, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After having a day poker players only dream about on Day 2, Victor Ramdin will be taking a massive chip-lead into Day 3 of the NAPT Los Angeles The Big Event taking place at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Ramdin soared to 1,050,000 chips –more than doubleRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 09, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

OnlineBlackjack.com is pleased to announce that the popular online blackjack portal is now offering players the chance to play blackjack on the site for free! With the fastest registration process you’ll find anywhere, players can sign-up to play free online blackjack using their Facebook account –it literally takesRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 09, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Erik Seidel is an 8-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, owner of a World Poker Tour championship, and a Poker Hall of Famer, but in 2011 Seidel is angling to move from the poker elite into the realm of poker legend. Seidel has absolutely owned the tournamentRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 08, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Last year the first ever PokerStars.net NAPT stop in Los Angeles drew just over 700 players, a number eclipsed by every other NAPT stop during season 1 of the tour. So as Season 2 of the NAPT gets underway most in the industry were expecting an even largerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 08, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

We knew it was going to be big, but nobody could have imagined just how big the 5th anniversary Sunday Million poker tournament would become this past Sunday at PokerStars. The Sunday Million typically guarantees $1.5 million, and the average first-place prize-money is generally around $200,000: For theRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 06, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The final eight of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship is set, and although most of the field is considered among the top poker talent in the world, outside of 2003 WSOP Champion Chris Moneymaker, and Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel, the field is likely not veryRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

When news of the split between Greg Raymer and PokerStars trickled in last month –which was eventually confirmed by Raymer—few people in the poker industry thought the 2004 WSOP Main Event Champion, and PPA spokesman, would go very long without a new deal. And it seems Raymer hasRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With a lineup that included a former WPT champion, a three-time WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner including the 2001 WSOP Main Event, as well as a former Online Poker Player of the Year winner, nobody was probably more shocked that Gregory Brooks won the 2011 World PokerRead Full Article