Just how good has Lock Poker Pro Chris Moorman been over the course of 2011? Thanks to his second place finish in the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event the online phenom has now vaulted into the overall lead on the Card Player Magazine Player ofRead Full Article

After scoring his first major win at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, tournament poker pro Matt Waxman vaulted up the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year leader-board. Waxman has been a consistent tournament player over the past few years, but without a major tournament victory it’s hardRead Full Article

The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicked off this week with a two-day $200 NLHE tournament, as well as the much anticipated $10k buy-in High-Roller tournament, and both tournaments managed to easily surpassed the guaranteed prize-pools PokerStars had set prior to the WCOOP. The $200 NLHERead Full Article

A stacked final table returned to the poker tables on Thursday to crown a champion in the largest poker tournament ever held in Spain, the 2011 PokerStars EPT Barcelona Main Event.  A total of 811 entered the tournament at the beginning of the week, and the final eightRead Full Article

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

In the aftermath of Black Friday US online poker players were faced with many difficult decisions: move overseas or to Canada, switch to live poker, or look for new work. Some saw the 2011 World Series of Poker as their chance to strike it big and make theRead Full Article

The amazing streak of first-time bracelet winners continued on Thursday as Mark Radoja captured his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $5k NLHE Shootout tournament, defeating a very tough final table in the process.–of the 24 winners at the 2011 WSOP only five-time bracelet winner JohnRead Full Article

In order to have a full final table of 10 players the World Series of Poker altered the format for Day 2 of the $5k No Limit Holdem Shootout, moving from four tables of 10, to 10 tables of four players. The short-handed format would seem to benefitRead Full Article

The final table for the $25k World Poker Tour Championship is set, and leading the way is 2011 PCA Champion Galen Hall, who after making the final table told Card Player Magazine about his unusual trek to the WPT Championship which began in Madrid, Spain. Hall flew homeRead Full Article

In a recent roundup of the latest high stakes poker news, Card Player Magazine dropped an interesting quote from Gus Hansen regarding Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies towards the end of the article where the Danish poker pro –who has had his own high-stakes poker troubles in the past– offeredRead Full Article