Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 02, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With super-deep-stacks, top-tier poker players and amateurs, and an $18 million first-place prize we were all expecting big things from the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament that kicked off at 1:11 PM on Sunday, but few could have predicted just how exciting, mesmerizing, and wildRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 04, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

When I wrote yesterday “get ready for a wild Sunday” I was speaking more about the action at the Rio, but as it turns out Sunday was indeed a wild one, with controversies in multiple events including a massive fail on the part of the WSOP. Here isRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 27, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

German poker pro Marvin Rettenmaier had a very good week at the WPT Championship. Not only was Rettenmaier announced as the latest sponsored pro of Party Poker (the company that just happens to own the World Poker Tour) but the young poker pro managed to dominate during theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 09, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Team PokerStars Pro Viktor Blom is best known for his ultra-high-stakes cash-game exploits, but after his run in the SCOOP tournament series at PokerStars early this week, Blom may suddenly find his tournament skills the talk of the online poker forums. Blom, who plays under his infamous screen-nameRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 05, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Granted, the list of poker fails is a pretty lengthy one (after all, this is the game that gave us the terms robusto and busto); you have everything from dormant online poker rooms, to one of the wildest forum posts to ever hit 2+2, to the failed ideaRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 04, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It was the kind of poker trip that most people can only dream about, but rising tournament star Steve O’Dwyer put the finishing touches on a trip to Denmark that saw him final table the EPT Copenhagen Main Event and then win the WPT National Main Event, theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 07, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With a final table of five Frenchmen and Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano it’s easy to see why Belarussian poker pro Vadzim Kursevich was overlooked heading into the final day of the 2012 PokerStars PT Deauville Main Event, despite entering the day second in chips. By the endRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Phil Ivey is back! Since last April the world’s best poker player in many people’s minds has been MIA in the poker world, but after being spotted at the APT Macau tournament he showed up for the 2012 Aussie Millions , and it’s safe to say that heRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With a final table that included established poker pros like Tony G, Sam Trickett, Gus Hansen, Joe Hachem, and Sorel Mizzi, it was young gun Dan Smith who would come away victorious in the $100k Challenge tournament at the 2012 Aussie Millions. The $100k buy-in event saw aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 21, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

When the 335th player was eliminated from the PokerStars EPT Loutraki tournament only one man remained, the UK’s Zimnan Ziyard. Ziyard entered the final day of the tournament with a solid chip-lead over the rest of the field, and the young UK poker pro managed to use hisRead Full Article