If you were given the choice of any WPT tournament held in the US to win, the World Poker Tour stop in Jacksonville would be pretty low in the list. This isn’t because the WPT Jacksonville has a paltry prize-pool (first-place clocked in at $325k) or that theRead Full Article

As a new stop on the World Poker Tour –not to mention having the dubious honor of being the first WPT Main Event in the US that will not air on TV—the WPT treated the Jacksonville Championship with very low expectations, pinning a mere $500k guarantee to theRead Full Article

You can be forgiven if you were unaware that the World Poker Tour was currently in Jacksonville, Florida for a Main Event Championship, as this will be the first-ever WPT Championship in the US that will not be televised (which obviously has a dramatic impact on the overallRead Full Article

While the total attendance is a far cry from the numbers Foxwoods used to attract in the glory days of the World Poker Tour, the 189 player field that made its way to the Connecticut woods for the 10th running of the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals hadRead Full Article

In 2009 the Annette Obrestad led Team Europe dismantled the American Team captained by Daniel Negreanu at the inaugural Caesars Cup; a Rider Cup-esque series of matches pitting Europeans vs. Americans (including Canada). It took two years for the Caesars Cup match to return, and this time aroundRead Full Article

By the absolute slimmest of margins Erik Seidel was able to move to the top of the Global poker Index rankings, besting the previous #1, Jason Mercier, by less than a single point! Seidel ended the day with 2,604.55 points while Mercier’s total of 2,604.48 is now onlyRead Full Article

With a €4 million guarantee the 579 players who registered for the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event over the two starting days easily eclipsed that number, generating a total prize-pool of €4,342,500. However, this number is way off of last year’s pace, which saw 764 players ante-up theRead Full Article

After scoring his first major win at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, tournament poker pro Matt Waxman vaulted up the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year leader-board. Waxman has been a consistent tournament player over the past few years, but without a major tournament victory it’s hardRead Full Article

This past weekend the British Poker Awards were handed out at the Poker in the park festival and even though many of the players were busy plying their trade at major tournaments around the globe, the award winners were cheered, and a handful were on hand to pickRead Full Article

The Global Poker Index (GPI) has seen another shakeup at the top as Jason Mercier has reclaimed the #1 spot from Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier who fell to #3 on this week’s list, being bumped by Mercier as well as Erik Seidel. The GPI uses a rolling three-year formatRead Full Article