Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 15, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »
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Pinnacle Entertainment, which happened to be one of the Epic Poker League’s largest creditors, put in the winning bids for both the heartland Poker Tour (at $4.2 million) as well as for the remaining assets of Federated Sports + Gaming including the Epic Poker League, the Global PokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 09, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Poker pots weren’t the only battles taking place at the WSOP on Friday, as there were two verbal confrontations at the tables yesterday; one involving Matt Stout and Erik Cloutier, and the other involving Jason DeWitt and Annie Duke. If controversy isn’t your thing than there was alsoRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 08, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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With the World Series of poker taking up most of the poker headlines these days this column should get you caught up on all of the other poker happenings going on around the world. In this installment of the Friday Wrap I’ll talk about Bruno Lopes big winRead Full Article

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

Last year Black Friday kept a number of players away from the World Series of Poker, including the likes of Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan. Even meek players like John Juanda were verbally accosted at the 2011 WSOP due to their Full Tilt poker ties. This year it’sRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 07, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

As the 2012 World Series of poker approaches I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the questions poker players and the poker media will have going into the nearly two-month long summer poker series in Las Vegas. In this installmentRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 20, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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Every week in the Friday Wrap we try to bring you a recap of the top stories from the world of poker, but occasionally we have to veer off-track and update our readers on some of the stories they may have missed over the course of the week.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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It was another busy week of headlines across the poker world, and in addition to the EPT Madrid tournament taking place in Europe, there was plenty of poker news coming in away from the tables. Here is a look at the top stories over the past week fromRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Tuesday the parent company of the Epic Poker league, Federated Sports + Gaming, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The move was announced on the company’s website by one of the principles involved in the Epic Poker League, Jeffrey Pollack. While not a shock to most of theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There was quite a bit of action in the world of tournament poker over the past week, with big names winning in both the live and online poker arenas, as well as some news on the fourth stop of the Epic Poker League’s inaugural season. Nicky Evans winsRead Full Article

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

Earlier this week Daniel Negreanu sat down for an interview with the website pokerplayer.co.uk, who somehow always manages to bring out the best and most controversial remarks in Daniel –you may recall it was the same outlet that Negreanu infamously referred to Annie Duke as a C***in aRead Full Article