After a record-setting field of 1,312 entrants, and top names like Vanessa Selbst, David Williams, Jeff Madsen, and recent WPT Legends of Poker champ Will Failla emerging as serious contenders, it seemed the 2012 WPT Borgata Poker Open was on its way to a star-studded final table. Unfortunately,Read Full Article

During 2011 Erik Seidel has been no stranger at major final tables, and has won more than his fair share of tournaments as well. So even though the fact that the hottest player in poker reached his second straight Epic Poker League Main Event final table would beRead Full Article

With the Epic Poker League’s debut now come and gone I thought I’d take a look at the pros and cons that I’ve noticed about the league from two different perspectives: The League and The Players. First I’ll take a look at the pros and cons from theRead Full Article

Former November Nine member Chino Rheem came under fire last week in a thread on 2+2 created by poker pro Will Molson, and after more poker pros came forward detailing their frustrations with Chino’s failure to repay loans and debts the story picked up even more steam asRead Full Article

A total of 422 players showed up on Thursday with $2,500 in hand to take part in the PokerStars.net Punte Del Este Main Event in Brazil, and amongst the entrants were notable names like Jose “Nacho” Barbero (last year’s Punte Del Este winner), Greg Debora, Angel Guillen andRead Full Article

Over the last decade or so at the World Series of Poker many players have reached the final table of the WSOP Main Event; some have been well-known players, some are anonymous poker pros making their first big run in a major tournament, some are young online pros,Read Full Article

If the final 14 players of the $10k No Limit 2-7 Lowball Championship was considered one of the finest collections of poker talent ever assembled than the final 14 in the $10k Seven Card Stud Championship is not very far behind! With names like Chad Brown, Sorel Mizzi,Read Full Article

Two of the first five tournaments at this year’s World Series of Poker have already fell victim to the new rule that was implemented in an effort to keep tournaments from running into the morning hours, known as the Hard-Stop Rule. The first tournament that saw an additionalRead Full Article

I know, I thought I had misread this when I first heard about it, but it’s true: The $400 Deep-Stack tournament at the Foxwoods World Poker Finals ended with 23 players agreeing to divide up the remaining prize-pool –I’m not sure who’s idea it was to float theRead Full Article