Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 24, 2010 Posted in Poker Industry News | 1 Comment »

How successful has the migration of Sportsbook.com, PlayersOnly.com, and SuperBook.com been for the Merge Poker Network? Well, the network has jumped from 20th to 17th in just 1 week! The 160% increase in traffic reported by pokerscout.com has other Merge network poker rooms in ecstasy, as the networkRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 25, 2010 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

As of April 15th, both Sportsbook and Players Only Poker will officially absolve their relationship with the Cake Poker network, and join the Merge Gaming Network. No explanation has been given for the change, or why the sites would choose to move from the 10th to the 20thRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 18, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The Granddaddy of poker Doyle Brunson is rumoured to be attending the Irish Open this year. Doyle Brunson is a very high profile celeb and also endorses the popular poker room Doyles Room. Doyle has been playing the game for over 50 years now and is no strangerRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Feb 25, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The Brunson 10 is back up to five members, after the departure of Alec Torelli in January. Taking his sopt in the lineup is online poker sensation Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis, who will join Dani “Ansky” Stern, Chris Moorman, Amit Makhija, and Zachery Clark as special representatives of theRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Jan 22, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In 2009 Doyle Brunson announced he would be creating a team of internet poker players to travel around the world representing DoylesRoom.com for him. So far there have been 5 players announced, with one of them leaving already – Alec Torelli. Here is some information on the otherRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 18, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Doyles Room is now looking for six more members to complete their Brunson 10 –a group of poker pros handpicked by Doyle Brunson to represent the site—after Alec “traheho” Torelli announced he would be leaving the site to take on a new project –rumored to be a newRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 20, 2009 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Despite being a top pro, Daniel Alaei comes in a distant third behind the other two poker pros at the Doyle Brunson Classic final table, Scotty Nguyen and Josh Arieh, in terms of fame in the poker world. However, the power rankings may have shifted slightly after AlaeiRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Nov 12, 2009 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

According to their website, DoylesRoom.com is actively picking 10 young poker superstars for sponsorship deals: Known as the “Brunson 10” Doyle himself is supposedly hand-picking the players –which currently number 5. The newest addition to the team is 2 Months 2 Million star Dani “Ansky” Stern, who willRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Sep 24, 2009 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Doyle Brunson’s team of elite poker legends in the making grows to four with addition of 24-year-old online poker prodigy. He’s only 24 years old but in online card rooms across the globe, Chris Moorman is already known as nothing short of a legend. With career winnings totalingRead Full Article