After an interview by Groupe Bernard Tapie lawyer Behnam Dayanim to Gaming Intelligence the poker world was abuzz over the revelation that several high-profile members of Team Full Tilt Poker owed the company somewhere between $10 million and $20 million in unpaid loans. However, it was another playerRead Full Article
A lot of stories can fall through the cracks over the course of a week, and this past week was no exception. With eyes focused on Phil Ivey and the Aussie Millions, Super-High-Roller tournaments, and the European Poker Awards there were plenty of smaller stories that you haveRead Full Article
As quickly as the idea of six-figure buy-in poker tournaments came into fashion last year, it seems, like the latest fashion trend, that there shelf-life was no more than Season as they have just as quickly become passé in the poker world judging by the attendance numbers fromRead Full Article
After a return to the online poker tables following a significant absence, the identity of a particular online poker player at PokerStars is coming under scrutiny, with many people believing it is Phil Ivey. The 2+2 Poker Forum has long held the belief that the anonymous high-stakes player onRead Full Article
Victor “Isildur1” Blom returned to the online poker tables at PokerStars this past weekend, and in the process managed to win more in a single weekend than any other poker player at the site has won all year, save one, Ilari “Ilari_Fin” Sahamies. Overall Blom collected roughly $1.5Read Full Article
It’s been a while since the poker world caught wind of a high-stakes challenge match, but that changed on Thursday when Daniel “Jungleman12” Cates decided to throw out an open challenge to any player ready to take him on in a live, heads-up, match at the Prague PokerRead Full Article
The public voting stage of the 2011 Poker Hall of Fame induction process is now complete, and it is now on to the next step; where the Top 10, eligible, vote-getters will be voted on by a select group of 17 men and women from the poker mediaRead Full Article
It’s safe to say that Phil Galfond made the right decision by moving to Canada in order to continue his online poker career, and if he continues on the torrid pace he has been on during August he may just have enough money set aside to buy aRead Full Article
The allegations and admissions of guilt just keep piling up for Daniel “jungleman12” Cates. The once godlike online poker legend now finds himself in the middle of a firestorm –mostly of his own doing—where the truth is being uncovered little by little, and each time “jungleman” seems toRead Full Article
It appears that the initially reported high-stakes scam perpetrated by Jose “Girah” Macedo is far from reaching its final chapter. After shocking revelations by Haseeb Qureshi yesterday, and as the poker community eagerly awaits a transcription of a second interview of Daniel “jungleman12” Cates –this time performed byRead Full Article