Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 27, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Today we are going to stick with yesterday’s controversial hand in the $50k Poker Players Championship as the main topic of discussion, and look at some of the debate that has been raging since it first came to light (a sincere thanks to Donnie Peters from PokerNews.com forRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 08, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

We are now just a few weeks away from the biggest poker tournament in the history of the game (eat your heart out Brett Maverick!) and the World Series of Poker has updated the entrant list of the #1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament, which nowRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

There is a lot of talk regarding this tournament, with players and poker fans wanting to know all of the details, as well as speculating on the overall field-size, future of the tournament, and what this tournament may do to poker going forward. How many players will enter?Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In a recent interview Phil Hellmuth stated he is about 80% likely to add his name to the growing list of players that will be participating in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament that will be held during the 2012 World Series of Poker. TheRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 31, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The $1,000,000 buy-in poker tournament scheduled to take place at the 2012 World Series of Poker will feature some of the biggest names in the world of poker, as well as some titans of industry, and now we know precisely when the tournament will take place and whatRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 31, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The title of the article basically says it all, so here are my choices for the 15 craziest, zaniest, mind-boggling stories from the world of poker over the past year. So in no particular order here are #’s 11-15: Andrew Li hits Supernova Elite in February! 2011 startedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

When the idea of a special $1 million buy-in tournament (with some proceeds going to the OneDrop Charity, precisely $111,111 from every entry) during the 2012 WSOP was first announced during the World Series of Poker, many eyebrows were raised. Even more eyebrows went up when WSOP officialsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 08, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Before we get into the meat of the reporting, let’s keep in mind that this story is coming from Page Six of the New York Post, which amounts to the same type of fact-checking as the National Enquirer. With that “warning” out of the way let’s take aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 03, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

No, that is not a typo in the title! On Thursday the World Series of Poker announced it would be hosting a $1 million buy-in tournament where 11.11% of the prize-pool will be donated to One Drop, a charity created by Cirque de Soleil creator –and poker enthusiast—GuyRead Full Article