Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 09, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The PokerStars PCA is in full swing, with the $100k Super-High-Roller in the books, the PCA Main Event entering into Day 2, and a number of interesting moments and victories in the preliminary tournaments, which I will detail below. Open-Faced Chinese Tournament The first Open-Faced Chinese was heldRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 18, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With three outlets now handing out Player of the Year awards, tournament poker players have even more opportunities to promote themselves within the poker world, and should a player manage to capture two, or possibly all three Player of the Year awards, they would surely become one ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 06, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

This is usually the time of the year where the biggest shakeups in the Player of the Year standings occur, considering the EPT Grand Final just finished up, the World Poker Tour Championship will be held in a couple weeks, and the World Series of Poker is justRead Full Article

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

The Player of the Year race (now, like boxing, consisting of three separate titles) is heating up as the first three months of the tournament year is now behind us. With the poker world gearing up for some of the biggest events of the year, including the EPTRead Full Article

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

Last year the PokerStars European Poker Tour hosted the inaugural Champion of Champions tournament at the EPT Grand Final that took place in Madrid, Spain. The tournament invited all of the past winners on the EPT tour to compete for EPT Passport Packages with a total value ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 14, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There were plenty of big names sitting at the final table of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event, but by the end of the day it was stockbroker John Dibella who would hoist the trophy and walk away with the $2 million first-place prize-money. Dibella’s runRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 11, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Most people probably didn’t think Faraz Jaka could play any better, or run any hotter at the PokerStars PCA after he jumped out to the Day 1a chip-lead, and then seemingly cruised along on Day 2 of the tournament to once again holding the chip-lead at the endRead Full Article