In a huge announcement that could bring televised poker into a new era, ESPN has announced expanded coverage for the 2011 World Series of Poker, including 34 additional hours of Main Event coverage that will be broadcast nearly live, with a 30-minute delay mainly on ESPN 2. TheRead Full Article

It’s always difficult to speculate on how a tournament will do attendance-wise from Day 1a results –Day 1b is usually produces the much higher attendance number—but with just 438 players registering for Day 1a of the EPT San Remo tournament it doesn’t look like any records will fallRead Full Article

The recently concluded PokerStars North American Poker Tour series held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut was a can’t miss event if you won a title there last year considering the two biggest tournaments of the series were won by the same players who triumphed in themRead Full Article

For the second straight year Vanessa Selbst has found her way to the final table of the PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun final table. The Team PokerStars Pro will enter the final table second in chips, trailing only Tyler Kenney as she continues her quest to repeat as theRead Full Article

Vanessa Selbst has proven to be one of the top tournament poker players in the world over the past couple of years and despite a WSOP brace let in 2008, her coming out party was at last year’s inaugural PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event where the YaleRead Full Article

Last year Vanessa Selbst won the inaugural PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event in April, and went on to have one of the best years on the tournament trail in recent memory, winning around $4 million total. Now Selbst is back where it all began, and after twoRead Full Article

Although it’s unlikely Tony Hachem will ever be able to get out from his Brother Joe’s shadow, the “Other Hachem” has been having a ton of success on the PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour over the past two years. It was recently announced that Tony Hachem hasRead Full Article

According to the tour’s website, The Russian Poker Tour and 888Poker will enter into a deal that will see 888Poker sponsor the remaining stop on the RPT in 2010. The Main Event of the Grand Final of the Russian Poker Tour is set to take place on NovemberRead Full Article

It was an interesting week in the world of poker, first was the induction of Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington into the Poker Hall of Fame, which was followed by two records fall by the wayside –and like most poker records they had to do with age andRead Full Article

Earlier this month the opening tournament at the World Series of Poker Circuit Series in Hammond, Indiana set the record for the most entrants in a WSOP Circuit Series tournament drawing an impressive 1,611 players for the $350 tournament. Yesterday it was the $,500 Main Event that brokeRead Full Article