Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 20, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The first Super-High-Roller tournament post-Black Friday tournament began yesterday and a very respectable field of 29 players showed up with the six-figure buy-in in hand creating a $2.9 million prize-pool. The top five players will be paid, with the winner receiving just over $1 million; the fifth placeRead 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 Steve Ruddock on May 15, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With attendance down virtually across the board at poker tournaments around the world since Black Friday, few people were expecting the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship to be able to match last year’s attendance mark of 195 players. But lo and behold, on Day 1 of the tournament 188Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 23, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The first of three Day 1 flights was played on Sunday at the Crown Casino for the 2011 Aussie Millions Main Event, and some of the biggest stars in the poker world were sitting at the poker tables. In all 238 players registered for Day 1a of theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 13, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The Game Show network is set to unveil a new type of poker game this Saturday at 9PM when the $50,000 buy-in Doubles Poker Championship is set to air. The format of the game has two partners playing a hand of poker against another team of two: OneRead Full Article