Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 24, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Wednesday night the participants in the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship assembled at Caesar’s Palace for the “Draw Party”, where the 64 players found out who their first-round opponents will be, and what their path to the Final Four will look like. The tournament uses anRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 19, 2013 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship will be making its return on January 24th, 2013, ending the one-year hiatus the popular “made-for-TV” poker tournament took after Black Friday left networks scrambling to determine if airing poker shows was 1) going to be worthwhile, and 2) going to getRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

After Daniel Negreanu tweeted out a link to a teaser video showing himself consulting with an astrologer for an episode of Millionaire Matchmaker, my mind was immediately drawn to the past “performances” by poker players on reality TV shows, and my hope is that Daniel (whom I greatlyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 03, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With the tournament down to just 24 players, some of the biggest names in poker are battling for one of the eight spots at the final table of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event final table. Among the players competing for a the chance toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

William Reynolds is one of Daniel Negreanu’s favorite poker players, and perhaps his close friendship with the outspoken poker legend was the impetus for Reynolds firing off on a number of current poker players during a recent interview with QuadJacks. Reynolds has been a regular guest on QuadJacks,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 08, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

We are now just a few weeks away from the biggest poker tournament in the history of the game (eat your heart out Brett Maverick!) and the World Series of Poker has updated the entrant list of the #1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament, which nowRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 07, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There was a lot of tournament action on Wednesday at the WSOP, and just a day after Viktor Blom made his WSOP debut, Doyle Brunson did the same, playing in his first 2012 WSOP event on Wednesday. Here is a look at what was going on at theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 13, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

It seems Ben Lamb is not going to simply concede the 2011 World Series of Poker Player of the Year award to Phil Hellmuth, considering Lamb will head into Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event on Thursday as the chip-leader with over 550,000 chips. Lamb will notRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 12, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

So much for Black Friday negatively impacting the attendance numbers at the 2011 World Series of Poker! Yet another tournament has broken a record in terms of attendance, this time the $1,500 No Limit Holdem event which bested the previous mark, set in 2007, by six entries. ARead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 12, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
Jean-Robert Bellande

Jean-Robert Bellande is considered one of the most prolific poker players in the world, well one of the prolific most poker players on Twitter that is! Bellande, who shot to fame with his appearance on the reality TV show Survivor, has a following of over 4,500 people onRead Full Article