Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 11, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

You could just feel that the something special was going to happen throughout the entire World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic main event, as the big names kept surviving, and the story-lines began to develop. Now with just six players remaining for the coveted title,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 09, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After three full days of play the World poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic is down to just 49 players (after starting with 411 players) and there is no shortage of poker superstars in the hunt for the prestigious title. Amongst the remaining field of 49Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 09, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamonds Poker Classic taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada the center of the US poker world at the moment, nearly halfway across the world it’s the European Poker Tour’s annual stop in Prague, Czech Republic that is headlining the European poker scene.Read Full Article

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

The 10th anniversary of the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic may not have set any records (like the recent WPT Prague and concurrently running EPT Prague) but the field that turned out for the $10,000 buy-in Main Event is chock-full with some of theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 14, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With a €4 million guarantee the 579 players who registered for the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event over the two starting days easily eclipsed that number, generating a total prize-pool of €4,342,500. However, this number is way off of last year’s pace, which saw 764 players ante-up theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 20, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

1. Olivier Busquet is AWESOME in the broadcast booth, and Antonio Esfandiari is only slightly inferior The 2011 WSOP Live Stream on ESPN 2 and ESPN 3 seems to be the wave of the future, and this is only possible because of the fantastic job done by pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 28, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One of the more sinister prop bets in poker history occurred during the $1k No Limit Holdem on Sunday courtesy of Antonio Esfandiari –one of the more prolific pro bettors in poker to begin with—but unlike the usual side-bet between poker players this time around it was aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 12, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

From the outset of the final day of play in the $1.500 Pot Limit Holdem tournament at the 2011 World Series of Poker it seemed as though Brian Rast and Allen Kessler were on a collision course to meet for the bracelet, and this is precisely what happenedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 24, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The full roster for the upcoming NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship was released today, and now that the entire 64 player field is known I thought I would take a look at some of the favorites amongst the field. First, here is a look at the complete 64Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 06, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It’s been a topsy-turvy first season for Party Gaming, the new owners of the World Poker Tour, with attendance numbers all over the map. There is no better illustration of this than the tour’s last two stops which include the recently concluded WPT Marrakech tournament which saw anRead Full Article