Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Vienna Main Event is in the books, and with just 66 players remaining in the field there are a slew of top young players amongst the chip-leaders looking to make a splash in a WPT championship event. Perhaps the biggest nameRead Full Article

The past week saw a full docket of big tournaments taking place all over the world, and in virtually every one of these tournaments it was a well-known name in the poker world that came out on top. Scott Stanko wins the WSOPC Council Bluffs Scott Stanko isRead Full Article

Earlier this year the World Series of Poker announced that the Big One for OneDrop million-dollar buy-in tournament had reached the 22 player threshold that was set to make the event a certified WSOP bracelet tournament. Now it appears the Big One for OneDrop is gaining even moreRead Full Article

With a number of big names pros in Europe for big events like the iSeries Live and in Vienna itself for the Party Poker Big Game and Premier League, the World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament in Vienna, Austria had a larger than usual number of big-name US pokerRead Full Article

This week Carbon Poker, one of the flagship poker rooms on the Merge Gaming Network, announced the launch of the Carbon Calculator, a poker odds calculator designed to help players understand and implement everything from hand matches to winning percentages of specific hands vs. and opponent’s range, asRead Full Article

Scott Seiver started the eight-man final table of the Party Poker Premier League V final table as one of the shortest stacks in the field, starting with 300,000 chips. Seiver’s tally was 100,000 less than chip-leader Mathew Frankland, but by the end of the day it would beRead Full Article

This past weekend may go down as Invitational Tournament Week in the annals of poker history, with both the inaugural iSeries Live event and the Party Poker Premier League taking place between Friday and Sunday. In addition to the invitational events that were taking place the PokerStars EPTRead Full Article

The Party Poker Premier League preliminary heats are no complete, and eight lucky players have earned their place at the final table. Among the players that have secured seats at the eight-person final table are Daniel Cates and Matthew Frankland who both won their respective groups, as wellRead Full Article

It’s been a good year for the man known as “Flushy”. James Dempsey may not be the most well-known when it comes to the influx of top tournament players from the UK, but he is quickly racking up a number of career accomplishments that would make any tournamentRead Full Article

File this one under “Unconfirmed but possible”. Last week a poster on the 2+2 poker forums started an interesting thread where he described an encounter between himself and a pair of Secret Service agents investigating a pair of payment processors. The thread written by “bmorganonnap” was met withRead Full Article