The poker news website Subject: Poker, headed by 2+2 moderator Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (NoahSD), has been breaking a lot of Full Tilt Poker news since Black Friday –thanks to an inside source at the site—and there latest bombshell has sent the poker world into a tizzy. The latest breakingRead Full Article

According to the website SubjectPoker.com, after some internal bookkeeping it has come to light that Phil Ivey and David Benyamine have received millions of dollars in loans from Full Tilt Poker, with Ivey reportedly on the receiving end of some $11 million in “advances” of which over $6Read Full Article

The 2011 running of the $50k Players Championship saw a dramatic increase in attendance for the second straight year, but still well below the tournaments heydays of the mid 2000’s when attendance often flirted with 150 players. With a total of 128 entrants –12 more than in 2010—theRead Full Article

The second running of the $10k HORSE Championship saw practically no change in attendance from last year when 241 players entered the tournament –this time around 240 players registered for the tournament. As with all mixed-games and $10k Championship events the field was basically made up of pokerRead Full Article

For Phil Hellmuth, the last of his 11 World Series of Poker bracelets won came all the way back in 2007, and for the second time at the 2011 WSOP the “Poker Brat” came up just short of bracelet #12 after finishing as the bridesmaid for the secondRead Full Article

What happened to Seven-Card-Stud? The once popular poker format has been steadily declining over the last decade in terms of popularity, and at the 2011 World Series of Poker this was on full display as the $10k Seven-Card-Stud Championship drew an identical number of participants as the $10kRead Full Article

In 2008 Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in a $5k PLO tournament that featured a final table many consider to be the toughest of all-time. In addition to Galfond the players battling for the $5k PLO championship included Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu,Read Full Article

With two tournaments on the docket the 2011 World Series of Poker kicked-off on Tuesday at the Rio in Las Vegas with some of the best known poker players in attendance to play on Day 1 of Event #2, the $25k Heads-Up Championship. Before the $25k Heads-Up ChampionshipRead Full Article

The final eight of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship is set, and although most of the field is considered among the top poker talent in the world, outside of 2003 WSOP Champion Chris Moneymaker, and Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel, the field is likely not veryRead Full Article

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