Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 02, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Beginning on March 4th, 2012 and running through March 25, 2012, the Merge Gaming Network will be hosting a massive 70-Event tournament series known as Poker Maximus. Over the course of thee 22-days of tournaments the Merge Gaming Network will be guaranteeing $1.5 million in prize-money, with theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 30, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The inaugural PokerStars Turbo Championships of Online Poker (TCOOP) came to a close on Sunday, culminating with the $700 buy-in Main Event, featuring a $1.5 million guaranteed prize-pool. A total of 3,667 players registered for the tournament, blasting through the guarantee, and nearly reaching a total prize-pool ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 20, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Thursday, January 19, 2012 marks the start of the inaugural Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) at the world’s #1 poker site, PokerStars. The tournament series will run for a total of 11 days, featuring a mind-numbing 50 tournaments with at least $10 million scheduled to be awarded.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 19, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Despite a five-handed final table, it took nearly 15 hours of play on Sunday for the Epic Poker League to crown its third champion of Season 1, and in the end it came down to two poker pros searching for their first major tournament title of their career.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 14, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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According to PokerNews.com the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia has confirmed that the Aussie Millions will once again host a $250,000 Super-High-Roller tournament. The first $250,000 Super-High-Roller took place at last year’s Aussie Millions, and despite being hastily created in the middle of the tournament series a respectableRead Full Article

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

Victor “Isildur1” Blom returned to the online poker tables at PokerStars this past weekend, and in the process managed to win more in a single weekend than any other poker player at the site has won all year, save one, Ilari “Ilari_Fin” Sahamies. Overall Blom collected roughly $1.5Read Full Article

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

With just one more day of poker left to be played in the European Poker Tour Prague Main Event it will be Martin Finger and Nicholas Levi who will take commanding chip-leads into Saturday’s final table action. The duo controls roughly 11.5 million of the roughly 22.5 millionRead Full Article

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

Going into the final table of the €5,300 buy-in PLO tournament at the World Series of Poker Europe the talk of the tournament was Sam Trickett, as the young UK star sought yet another big score, as well as his first WSOP bracelet. Trickett entered Wednesday’s final tableRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 06, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Apparently the possibility of taking over the struggling online poker website Full Tilt Poker wasn’t enough news for the Groupe Bernard Tapie this past week, as it was also revealed that the company is behind the recently announced International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT). The ISPT first came toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 22, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Will “The Thrill” Failla has been on quite the hot streak over the past month. The 2011 Legends of Poker Champion followed up his first major tournament victory with a 14th place showing in the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event, and now he has a chance to becomeRead Full Article