Thanks to Black Friday, PokerStars has been forced to pull virtually all of their advertising from the US television market, and this means the loss of one of the most cutting edge poker shows since the advent of the hole-card camera, The PokerStars.net Big Game. The PokerStars.net BigRead Full Article

Late Tuesday night at the featured table at the Rio, what will be the final hand of the 2011 World Series of Poker until November was dealt, when John Hewitt’s pocket 33 was bested by Eoghan O’Dea’s KJ, eliminating Hewitt from the tournament and securing O’Dea and eightRead Full Article

Before we get into the meat of the reporting, let’s keep in mind that this story is coming from Page Six of the New York Post, which amounts to the same type of fact-checking as the National Enquirer. With that “warning” out of the way let’s take aRead Full Article

One lawsuit goes away and another one appears to take its place, so is the saga of Full Tilt Poker after Black Friday. Just when the beleaguered online poker room thought it was making some headway in resolving its problems in repaying US poker players who can noRead Full Article

The final table of Event #47 –yes the 2011 WSOP is nearing completion—a $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card-Stud hi/lo tournament, was one of the best of the 2011 WSOP with names like Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi, 1998 Main Event Champion Scotty Nguyen, and high-stakes poker pro Abe Mosseri. But in theRead Full Article

With the US nosebleed crowd MIA since Black Friday hit, a number of foreign-based high-stakes online poker pros have now been getting the attention they deserve, and without some of the stiffest competition at the tables they have also been cleaning up quite nicely. This week we alsoRead Full Article

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

In a recent Time article, a number of online poker players talked about the options they now face in a post-Black Friday poker world, a world in which the high-stakes action has dried up for US players. Amongst the players quoted in the article are good friends JustinRead Full Article

With the void created by the loss of the nosebleed regulars from the US like Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Daniel Cates, Scott Palmer, the Dang Brothers, and on and on, a number of European high-stakes players have decided to fill the void at the nosebleed tables on FullRead 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