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

The scandal involving the Portuguese Poker Prodigy came to a standstill yesterday when all of the main players involved declined to talk to the poker community. However, we also learned that both Daniel “jungleman12” Cates –who seems to be the least involved, but also the least willing toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With High buy-in, rake-free, money-added, tournaments the Epic Poker League is trying to do things differently when it comes to tournament poker, and now it seems they are also trying to shake up the ranking system which has been dominated by BLUFF Magazine and Card Player Magazine overRead Full Article

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

Most people would have assumed that the huge field on Day 1c –more than double Day 1a or Day 1b—of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event would make for some big end-of-day chip-counts, however, the chip-leader at the end of the day ended up being long-timeRead Full Article

Posted by Rich on Jul 02, 2011 Posted in Poker News | Comments Off on Jose Macedo Claims Bluff Pro Challenge

Over the last month there has cialis low income been a great innovative competition running at Lock Poker, the Bluff Pro Challenge, which has been run in conjunction with PokerNewsBoy, Bluff Magazine and Lock Poker. The prize on offer was a two year elite sponsorship deal to becomeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With over 40 of the 58 total tournaments now completes at the 2011 World Series of Poker the Player of the Year race is starting to take shape, and unlike in previous years where the winner was almost assuredly going to be a two-time bracelet winner at theRead Full Article

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

If it wasn’t for the incredible performance of UK poker players at the 2010 World Series of Poker one of the big storylines would have been the performances of Canadian poker players, who may not have won as many bracelets as the Brits, but they sure did makeRead Full Article

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

With just 18 players remaining in the $3k Limit Holdem tournament at the 2011 World Series of Poker there is some serious star-power vying for the bracelet and the $220,817 that will be headed for the winner’s bank account. Seated amongst the final two tables on Friday willRead Full Article

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

We are down to just three players in the $1k No Limit Holdem tournament at the 2011 World Series of Poker, and the final three combatants includes two UK residents and a lone American still in contention, Jon “PearlJammer” Turner. Even though Turner is by far the mostRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Despite Black Friday, which was suppose to decimate high-stakes poker tournaments, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship saw a total of 220 players register for the tournament over the course of Day 1 and during the first three levels of Day 2’s late registration period. Even though theRead Full Article

Posted by James Guill on May 10, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

When the April 15th indictments hit, many in the poker world agreed that PokerStars and Full Tilt would honor their commitments and return player’s bankrolls. However, just as many felt that player could kiss their money on Absolute Poker and UB goodbye. In recent weeks, a combination ofRead Full Article