Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Since winning the Cardplayer Magazine Player of the Year award in 2012, Tom Marchese has been fairly quiet on the tournament trail; that was until last night when he took down the $100k Super-High-Roller tournament at the 2012 World Poker Tour Championship. The win added over $1.3 millionRead Full Article

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

The poker world has some more fodder to speculate and ponder, as news came down Friday that Churchill Downs inc. had purchased Bluff Media’s US operations, including both the online and print versions of Bluff Magazine, as well as the company’s blogs, BLUFF POY rankings, and other assetsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 06, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It seems like the Super-High-Roller tournaments may be here to stay as the $100k buy-in tournament that kicked off the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) came very close to last year’s mark of 38 entrants on Thursday, with a total of 34 players registering for the event. AsRead Full Article

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

After two full days of play the inaugural World Poker Tour Prague Main Event is down to just 63 players from the original record-setting starting field of 568. All 63 players have made the money in the tournament, and now the players’ focus will shift to the €450,000Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 30, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

While the total attendance is a far cry from the numbers Foxwoods used to attract in the glory days of the World Poker Tour, the 189 player field that made its way to the Connecticut woods for the 10th running of the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals hadRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One week ago we were in the midst of the third of four starting Days for the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event which attracted a total of 6,865 total entries, and now that number has been trimmed down to just 378 players heading into Day 5Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With High buy-in, rake-free, money-added, tournaments the Epic Poker League is trying to do things differently when it comes to tournament poker, and now it seems they are also trying to shake up the ranking system which has been dominated by BLUFF Magazine and Card Player Magazine overRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 06, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

As is to be expected in a $50k buy-in tournament featuring an 8-game format the final table of the $50k Players Championship at the 2011 World Series of Poker is absolutely stacked with names like 2011 WSOP bracelet winner Brian Rast, Phil Hellmuth looking to improve upon twoRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With 23 players remaining in Event #25, a $1,500 Seven-Card-Stud hi/lo tournament, it would seem that the ladies have their best chance to win their first WSOP bracelet since 2008, considering four of the remaining players are female, and three of those players are very well-known poker pros.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 10, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Now that the $1,500 No Limit Holdem Shootout tournament is down to 16 players –after two rounds of play—the format will switch to what amounts to a 16 player tournament, with each player beginning with the same chip-stack (450,000). Amongst the remaining players who managed to win theirRead Full Article