A total of 1,066 hopeful poker players registered for the opening flight of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event on Saturday, a substantial increase over the 897 players that registered on Day 1a of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event in 2011. Even thoughRead Full Article

In less than 12 hours Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was able to best Isaac Haxton in the duo’s $1,000,000 Heads-Up No Limit Holdem Freezeout match at PokerStars. The two have been embroiled in the heads-up contest since Saturday, playing for four hours each day and not stopping until oneRead Full Article

The Merge Gaming Network will kick-off its first-ever major tournament series today, when it debuts the Poker Maximus tournament series; a 22-day long event featuring a mid-blowing 70 tournaments. All told the Poker Maximus series will award players with at least $1.5 million in guaranteed prize-money, including twoRead Full Article

The Aussie Millions schedule has a number of high-profile poker tournaments, but there is also a televised cash-game that is taking place and it has attracted some of the biggest names in the game. The $500/$1,000 half-NLHE/half-PLO game with a $100,000 minimum buy-in, dubbed The Million Dollar Cash-Game,Read Full Article

The $25k buy-in NLHE Heads-Up Championship got underway on the opening day of the 2011 World Series of Poker on Tuesday, and attracted a field of precisely 128 players –which likely had tournament officials doing cartwheels and back-flips as logistically this is the perfect number for a bracket-styleRead Full Article