Headlining the final 10 players in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem Triple Chance tournament at the 2011 World Series of Poker is longtime poker player, and math whiz, Bill Chen, who will enter Thursday’s action fifth in chips with 610,000. Chen, who already owns two WSOP bracelets andRead Full Article

With the US nosebleed crowd MIA since Black Friday hit, a number of foreign-based high-stakes online poker pros have now been getting the attention they deserve, and without some of the stiffest competition at the tables they have also been cleaning up quite nicely. This week we alsoRead Full Article

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier kicked off the EPT Grand Finale tournament series with a win in the €25,000 high-roller tournament, where he picked-up the €525,000 first-place prize-money. Another high-roller tournament closed out the EPT Grand Finale tournament series –this time a €10,000 6-handed NLHE event—and onceRead Full Article

The final table chip-leader at the 2011 PokerStars EPT Grand Finale was the self described poker pro from Venezuela, Ivan Freitez, who despite his solid chip-lead was not the betting-man’s choice to take home the €1.5 million first-place prize-money. But win he did, and Freitez did it onRead Full Article

The 2011 EPT Grand Finale may have seen a 20% drop in attendance –thanks a lot US government—but the field is as star-studded as ever – thanks European poker sites -, and with a €1.5 million first-place prize on the line you can bet that every player remainingRead Full Article

It only took about 6 hours for the 24 players that returned for Day 5 of the EPT San Remo Main Event to play down to the final table of 8 players, and it was two players in particular, Rupert Elder and Max Heinzelmann, who would benefit theRead Full Article

Gus Hansen starting to rebound on Full Tilt Poker After being down $3.6 million for 2010 Gus Hansen has gone on a massive heater over the past two weeks winning over $1.25 million in that time-frame. Still confronted with $2.2 million in losses on the year, Hansen hasRead Full Article

Great news for Tom Dwan fans.  The 22 year old Full Tilt Poker Pro, who had been suffering a torrid time at the cash tables in recent weeks, is now up $1,500,000 after a few sessions of $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha against Power Poker frontman Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies.Read Full Article

After one of the sickiest high stakes heads up games in history on Full Tilt poker, the question everyone is asking. Who is Isildur1? Tom Dwan, or his more common name – Durrrr, has just finished a monster high stakes heads up session with Isildur1. In the sessionRead Full Article