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

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final will have a new addition to its schedule this year as the tournament series in Monte Carlo will host the first six-figure buy-in tournament in European poker history. The tournament will be a €100,000 buy-in Super-High-Roller event, and has already attractedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 31, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After four days of action at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Campione Main Event the final table is now set, and it’s two well-known poker pros who are leading the final eight players, Fabrice Soulier and Olivier Busquet. Both men are looking for their first EPT title,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 19, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »
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Last week saw a number of online gaming outlets posting stories about an imminent sale of Full Tilt Poker, possibly as soon as this past Friday. Well, Friday has come and gone, and there hasn’t been a single word of a deal or progress on a deal; whichRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

When play began on Friday at the latest stop on the PokerStars European Poker Tour’s (EPT) Season 8 schedule, the EPT Madrid Main Event was down to just 24 players, with a handful of well-known poker pros in the running for the title, and the nearly €550,000 first-placeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 01, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

If you thought the now defunct online poker room Victory Poker was simply an afterthought in the world of online poker you were wrong. Even though Victory Poker ceased offering online poker after Black Friday (initially withdrawing from the US market, before completely ending their poker room operations)Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 24, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Entering Day 3 the talk of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen Main event was chip-leader Melanie Weisner. Weisner was in search of her first major tournament title, but ran into a few coolers towards the end of Day 3 that saw her fall from the chip-leadRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 21, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

If a recent Twitter exchange is to be believed, there are apparently two more young poker pros who are trying to prove that the life of a professional poker player makes you tough. Daniel “jungleman12” Cates and high-stakes British poker pro Andrew Feldman are seemingly trying to arrangeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It seems like every week I’m writing an article on some new poker pro that is now representing Lock Poker, so I was very happy to see that this would not be the case this week: Instead Lock Poker signed not one but two more poker pros toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 12, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Back at the beginning of the year I made five somewhat bold predictions regarding the state of poker and what I expected to unfold in the world of poker during 2012. So, I figure, now is as good a time as any to check in on my predictionsRead Full Article

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

After four days of play the 2012 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville is down to just three tables, a total of just 24 competitors. Sitting in the driver’s seat heading into the penultimate day is Team PokerStars Pro and Italian poker legend Luca Pagano who amassed aRead Full Article