Posted by Carolyn on Jan 17, 2018 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

A 27-year-old amateur poker player decided to play a live poker tournament for the first time in 2003 and ended up winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $2.5 million. That poker player was Chris Moneymaker who booked a seat at the Main Event fromRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Sep 21, 2017 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware are currently the only three states in America to have legalized online poker. New Jersey could see hundreds of poker players from different states heading over to take part in the New Jersey Championship of Online Poker (NJCOOP) which is a part ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 24, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Wednesday night the participants in the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship assembled at Caesar’s Palace for the “Draw Party”, where the 64 players found out who their first-round opponents will be, and what their path to the Final Four will look like. The tournament uses anRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 11, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The PCA is in full swing, the Main Event is winding its way down to the final table, and the side event action has been heating up. There are still a number of prelim events left to go, and below you’ll find some of the bigger names thatRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 04, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

At the time of writing the Ironman Podcast has been going strong for over 31 hours. After the first 24 hours of a planned 50-hour podcast the hosts of Filthy Limper Radio have set the bar very high for their second 48 hours, having interviewed such notable pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 30, 2012 Posted in PR | No Comments »

When you finish with all the cookouts and festivities this Labor Day Weekend there will be a great way to unwind each night as www.VegasPokerRadio.com will be running a 50+ hour poker podcast beginning at Midnight Sunday, to raise money and awareness for the 22Q.org Foundation. The podcastRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 2 Comments »

In the fall of 2003 the world (the world of young males in the United States anyway) had already caught poker fever; Chris Moneymaker, and his fated run to the World Series of Poker Main Event title was simply the tipping point; a culmination of events that leadRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 05, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Satellite tournaments have been the norm in the poker world since the 1980’s, and since that time players have been winning their way into tournaments like the World Series of Poker Main Event for a fraction of the buy-in amount –with Tom McEvoy being the first player toRead Full Article

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

If you’re not interested in one of the numerous World Series of Poker bracelets that have found their way to the online auction giant EBay, maybe another piece of WSOP history will tickle your fancy. Yesterday a seller listed one of the more interesting pieces of poker memorabiliaRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 29, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

As poker players from around the world begin to return home after a month and a half in Las Vegas for the 2011 World Series of Poker, the other major poker tours are also getting back into the swing of things, with the first tournament to get underwayRead Full Article