Despite Black Friday, which was suppose to decimate high-stakes poker tournaments, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship saw a total of 220 players register for the tournament over the course of Day 1 and during the first three levels of Day 2’s late registration period. Even though theRead Full Article

With attendance down virtually across the board at poker tournaments around the world since Black Friday, few people were expecting the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship to be able to match last year’s attendance mark of 195 players. But lo and behold, on Day 1 of the tournament 188Read Full Article

The full roster for the upcoming NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship was released today, and now that the entire 64 player field is known I thought I would take a look at some of the favorites amongst the field. First, here is a look at the complete 64Read Full Article

Never one to keep things bottled up, Team Full Tilt Poker pro Mike Matusow took his famous “Blowups” to his Twitter account yesterday after being slow-rolled on Full Tilt Poker while playing $1,000 Super-Turbo Sit and Go tournaments according to the AM Scramble over at www.Bluffmagazine.com. The incidentRead Full Article

The Game Show network is set to unveil a new type of poker game this Saturday at 9PM when the $50,000 buy-in Doubles Poker Championship is set to air. The format of the game has two partners playing a hand of poker against another team of two: OneRead Full Article

Full Tilt Poker and Deepstacks University Poker Pro Mike “The Mouth” Matusow was in Florida this week to host a DeepStacks Live poker training seminar, where he made a pretty non-controversial statement by his standards when he said: “In Florida, you’re dealing with a lot of raw players,Read Full Article

Chalk up another inexplicable prop bet win for Ted Forrest, as the Full Tilt Poker blog reports Forrest won his prop bet with Mike Matusow where Matusow claimed Forrest could not lose 50lbs by by July 14th –the bet began in May. For anyone that doesn’t know, ForrestRead Full Article

Perhaps channeling Frank the Tank from the movie Old School, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow told the Poker2Nite gang the following when asked if he thought about Ty Stewart’s prediction that three women win World Series of Poker bracelets:  “I’m going to tell you right now. If three womenRead Full Article