Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 02, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Poker Tour is making its first stop in the city of Prague this week, and the big name poker pros came out in full force (attendance was likely helped by the EPT coming to Prague on the fifth of December as well). Not only did aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 19, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 18, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It’s a small, select, group: Juha Helpi, Andy Black, JC Tran, David Benyamine, and now you can add Andy Frankenberger to that list after the reigning WPT Player of the Year captured the Party Poker Premiere League title on Thursday. Frankenberger navigated his way through the extremely talentedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 13, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

From November 13th to the 17th Party Poker will be at the Playboy Club London in Mayfair for the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship. The Premiere League is an invitation-only event featuring a hefty $25,000 buy-in that will appear on Sky Sports in the UK, andRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

While virtually all eyes are on the city of Las Vegas as the 2011 World Series of Poker final table gets set to play out this weekend there is another major tournament taking place, the World Poker Tour Amneville. A very respectable field of 379 players showed upRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It would seem that even Black Friday will not be able to slow down the appeal for online poker sites to sign a November Niner, as it was announced that PokerStars has added the young German Pius Heinz to their Team PokerStars Pro roster. Heinz is one ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 02, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event final table is fast approaching and in this column I want to explore what each particular November Niner would mean to poker should they win the WSOP Main Event. Good for poker: * Phil Collins Collins is the poster-child forRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 24, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

A familiar name sits atop the 144 players remaining in the 2011 EPT San Remo Main Event, as 2010 November Niner Joseph Cheong will head into Day 3 as the chip-leader, topping the charts with 632,000 in chips. Cheong has had a decent amount of success since hisRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One of the most consistent tournaments in terms of attendance over the past four years has been the World Series of poker Europe Main Event. The inaugural event in 2007 saw a total of 362 players (which is still the highest in the tournaments brief history) a numberRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 12, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One look at Sam Trickett’s tournament results over the past two years and it would be hard to argue that Trickett isn’t amongst the top tournament players in the world, and the young UK star is about to add to his growing list of accomplishments as he hasRead Full Article