The Epic Poker League is not only interested in revolutionizing live poker tournaments, since with the creation of the Global Poker Index (GPI) it appears they are also interested in revolutionizing live poker tournament rankings! The GPI is a rankings system of live tournament results over a 36-monthRead Full Article

The amazing streak of first-time bracelet winners continued on Thursday as Mark Radoja captured his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $5k NLHE Shootout tournament, defeating a very tough final table in the process.–of the 24 winners at the 2011 WSOP only five-time bracelet winner JohnRead Full Article

In order to have a full final table of 10 players the World Series of Poker altered the format for Day 2 of the $5k No Limit Holdem Shootout, moving from four tables of 10, to 10 tables of four players. The short-handed format would seem to benefitRead Full Article

Prior to the 2011 World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open taking place in Indiana; Mike Scarborough had a grand total of four live cashes –two of which came in last year’s Hollywood Poker Open series—but after this year’s tournament series Scarborough has now doubled his total cashes andRead Full Article

The final table of the World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Open was a lesson in extremes: On the one hand you had poker superstars like Tom Marchese, Mohsin Charania, and Keven Stammen, and seated amongst these three poker millionaires were three virtually unknown players, Dave Inselberg, NikolaiRead Full Article

This week’s headlines were all about the tournaments! Major tournaments from three separate poker tours were taking place this past week, and all of them created some major headlines. In Hammond, Indiana the World Series of Poker Circuit Series was busy with their first Regional Championship: Up inRead Full Article

With 28 players remaining in the hunt for the World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Finals championship there are a number of big-name poker pros still alive and kicking. Attendance was markedly down at Foxwoods this year –no doubt because of the EPT Vienna tournament running at theRead 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

With the Bellagio’s late registration structure, that allows players to register up until level 8 on Day 2, as well as the tournament buy-in dropping from $15,000 to $10,000, the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago drew an impressive 335 entrants compared to the 275 entrants the WPTRead Full Article

When it comes to top-lists about poker they usually contain names like Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, durrrr, and Ziigmund. Where this article differs is that it looks into the future, in an attempt to find the five online poker players ready to breakout in 2011, and go fromRead Full Article