Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 21, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Series of Poker Circuit Series was in Biloxi, Mississippi for the IP Biloxi WSOPC Main Event this past weekend, and 300 players registered for the tournament, creating a prize-pool of over $400,000 with the winner of the WSOPCIP Biloxi Main Event pocketing over $100,000. In theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 21, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There are a lot of poker tournaments currently taking place; A LOT. It seems like every poker Google Alert I receive is about some tournament taking place that I wasn’t even aware of, which was precisely the case when it came to the BLUFF Magazine Mid-Stakes Poker TourRead Full Article

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

There is quite a bit of news on the Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet Poker front, and I’m not even referring to the liquidation of the sites in order to repay their players a small percentage of what they are owed by the sites after Black Friday. No,Read Full Article

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

With 64 total entries the prize-pool for the inaugural €50k High-Roller tournament on Season 9 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) reached over €3 million, guaranteeing the winner of the event one of the biggest 1st place prizes of the year, €1,075,500. Heading nito the final dayRead Full Article

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

The world of tournament poker is back in full swing with major tournaments taking place in locales across the globe. In Los Angeles the Bicycle Casino is hosting the Legends of poker tournament series; in Barcelona the PokerStars led Estrellas Poker Tour and EPT are teaming up forRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 19, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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Overall it was a pretty slow in the world of poker, but there were still plenty of interesting side-stories unraveling. Here is a look at some of the bigger moments and more interesting stories over the past week or so. Isildur1 and PokerStars call it a day It’sRead Full Article

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

 The final table of the €50,000 buy-in High Roller event at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona has eight players, but essentially it is a three-man race between Dan Smith, Mike McDonald, and JC Alvarado, considering the three players control nearly 13 million of the 16 millionRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 18, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 2 Comments »

As Nevada draws nearer to being the first locale in the United States with legalized online poker, and other states move forward with their own online poker legislation, it’s important to not overlook the recent “problems” the world of online poker has gone through in order to insureRead Full Article

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

With three outlets now handing out Player of the Year awards, tournament poker players have even more opportunities to promote themselves within the poker world, and should a player manage to capture two, or possibly all three Player of the Year awards, they would surely become one ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 17, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

We’re now in the middle of August and with the 2012 World Series of Poker now firmly behind us the other tours are getting rolling, and this week and the next we have two of the biggest tournaments of the year virtually going to head-to-head in the PokerStarsRead Full Article