On her blog this week, poker writer Haley Hintze reported that she has signed a deal with Dimat Publishing to produce a comprehensive book detailing the Super-User scandals from Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet Poker. Since her days as PokerNews.com editor, Hintze has been at the forefront ofRead Full Article
After both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker quickly came to an agreement with the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York that saw the two online poker sites returned their domain names in order to begin returning US players funds, the poker world was leftRead Full Article
Day 3 of the 2011 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Finale saw 104 players return to the poker tables in Madrid, Spain knowing that only 24 players would be proceeding to Day 4 of the tournament with the hopes of taking down the EPT Grand Finale title andRead Full Article
After a disappointing turnout that saw attendance shrink from the 848 players who registered in 2010, all the way down to 686 players for the 2011 PokerStars EPT Grand Finale, the poker world (whether live or play poker online; in Europe or the United States) is definitely stillRead Full Article
Live poker is rigged! Or, probably closer to the truth is the fact that there are cheating scandals to be uncovered; which is precisely what happened leading up to the Partouche Poker Tour’s Season 3 Grand Finale set to take place in Cannes, France this weekend. After reviewingRead Full Article
Poker fans can expect to hear the now expected intro of “The World Series of Poker Presented by Jack Link’s Beef Jerky” whenever they watch the World Series of Poker on ESPN through 2012. According to the Wall Street Journal, the two companies have announced they will continueRead Full Article
Heading into the final table of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour, Daniel Negreanu has a huge chip-lead over the rest of the remaining 8 players. Only Konstantinos Nanos has over half of Negreanu’s 5,070,000 chip-stack with 3,635,000; the remainder of the field has roughly 9,000,000 chips combined, almostRead Full Article
With 28 players remaining in the hunt for the World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Finals championship there are a number of big-name poker pros still alive and kicking. Attendance was markedly down at Foxwoods this year –no doubt because of the EPT Vienna tournament running at theRead Full Article
The largest online team poker event is well under way with Pokerspace crews battling it out on UB.com and Absolute Poker over the past two Sundays this October in their Crew Cup competition that has a 5-night trip to Las Vegas on the line. The first two crewsRead Full Article
It was an interesting week in the world of poker, first was the induction of Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington into the Poker Hall of Fame, which was followed by two records fall by the wayside –and like most poker records they had to do with age andRead Full Article