Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 13, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With the 2012 PCA Main Event playing down to the final table, the numerous poker superstars who failed to reach the penultimate day of the Main Event found another tournament in the Bahamas where the final table participants would all receive at least a six-figure payday, the $25kRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 22, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Every year I like to take a look at a few of the tournament grinders who have been quite successful over the past few years, but have yet to “breakout” as poker superstars — had a few cards fallen differently they would already be household names in theRead Full Article

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

Every year I like to take a look at a few of the tournament grinders who have been quite successful over the past few years, but have yet to “breakout” as poker superstars — had a few cards fallen differently they would already be household names in theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 09, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After three full days of play the World poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic is down to just 49 players (after starting with 411 players) and there is no shortage of poker superstars in the hunt for the prestigious title. Amongst the remaining field of 49Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

For the six players that will return for the final table of the inaugural World Poker Tour Prague Main Event on Monday, Sunday would prove to be a trying test of stamina and focus, as play creeped into the early morning hours, ending at nearly 5AM with theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 28, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Poker Tour crowned its latest winner this past weekend, and despite a final table that boasted some of poker’s biggest names it was a local player, with an all-too familiar name who would take home the WPT Marrakech title. Oddly enough, one of the poker superstarsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 08, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Friday the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe tournament series got underway with the first of seven bracelet events, a €2,500 buy-in Six-Handed NLHE tournament. The stars were out in full force for the first-ever WSOPE to take place in Cannes, France (having moved from its long-timeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 04, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One of the most discussed statistics prior to the 2011 WSOP kicking-off was the size of the fields that would take part in the different events, with many people under the impression that the higher buy-in non-NLHE events would suffer the most from Black Friday. So far thisRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 04, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
jefff forrest wins wpt foxwoods

The final table of the World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Open was a lesson in extremes: On the one hand you had poker superstars like Tom Marchese, Mohsin Charania, and Keven Stammen, and seated amongst these three poker millionaires were three virtually unknown players, Dave Inselberg, NikolaiRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 15, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The online poker screen-names ‘SpiritRock’ and ‘Mahatma’ will likely go down in poker lore as the first online poker superstars; while the man behind both of those names, Prahlad Friedman, has had his share of controversy, success, and failure in the course of his poker career. Now FriedmanRead Full Article