Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 22, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

If you are a no frills, I just want to get in as many hands as possible in the shortest amount of time; you can stop reading this article right now. Ok, for the rest of you that made it past the first sentence, PKR Poker has justRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 22, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There was a lot going on at the 2012 World Series of Poker. From the controversies and complaints, to David “ODB” Baker’s Ben Lambish performance, to the Big One for One Drop tournament, to Phil Hellmuth’s 12th bracelet, to Phil Ivey’s five final tables in two weeks: ItRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 21, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
PokerStars versus Full Tilt

April 15, 2011 seems like a lifetime ago for most poker players, but for a small percentage of players who have a considerable amount of money trapped on Full Tilt Poker, Black Friday is not simply a distant memory, it invades their thoughts every day. We’ve now passedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 20, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

***RUMOR ALERT*** According to Twitter rumors (no official statement has been released at this point) former PokerRoad.com Radio Host, UB sponsored pro and spokesman, and man with 1,000,000 Twitter followers Joe Sebok has inked a deal with the World Poker Tour. The first hint of Sebok’s signing withRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 20, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Back in early June the 10 finalists for the 2012 Class of the Women in Poker Hall of Fame were announced, and this past weekend two deserving players were announced as having met the induction criterion and will be honored at a soirée at the Golden Nugget CasinoRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 20, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Wednesday PokerStars announced the preliminary schedule for the biggest online poker series in the world the World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP for short. The 2012 WCOOP will feature a total of 62 events, played in 22 days. So far PokerStars has only announced one guaranteeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 19, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

You may have noticed a new clothing line, 3Bet, around the Rio during the 2012 World Series of Poker, with perhaps the most exposure coming during Antonio Esfandiari’s and Brian Rast’s final table run in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament. Rast is one ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 19, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

* 89% The percentage of American poker layers at the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event final table (8 out of the 9 players are from the US). * $222,000,000 –the total prize-pool for the 2012 WSOP tournament series. * 15.6% — the percentage increase year-over-year forRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 18, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Party Poker has made a stunning move this week, eliminating all high-stakes games from the site. Without warning the site simply eliminated all stakes above $5/$10 No Limit and $30/$60 Limit games. While the move is sure to draw the ire of the sites high-stakes/high-volume players, in theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 18, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Similar to the way an online poker bill was born out of thin air in the Senate during the “lame-duck” session of Congress in 2010, it seems another online poker bill may be following a similar trajectory; hopefully with better results than the 2010 version. The new billRead Full Article