Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 23, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

It seems like just about every month or so PokerStars is hosting a special tournament for some milestone or another, and March 2012 will be no different as the site has announced its plans to hold the 6th Anniversary Sunday Million Tournament. The 6th Anniversary Sunday Million willRead 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 19, 2011 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

One of the first promotions PokerStars started hyping for its 10th Anniversary was the Sunday Million tournament scheduled for December 18th, 2011. Yesterday’s tournament touted an impressive $10 million guarantee as well as a $2 million guaranteed prize for the winner of the historic event. The undertaking wasRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 07, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

According to the website HHSmithy.com, the newly implemented Anonymous Tables at Bodog are not as anonymous as the site would have you believe. The site released a video on Tuesday demonstrating how they were able to exploit the Bodog code and gain access to each players Bodog ID#Read Full Article

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

Well before their attempt to break their own record for the largest online poker tournament in history PokerStars managed to hit the cap they placed on the $1 buy-in/$250k guaranteed tournament. In the end, the tournament saw an impressive field of 200,000 players compete in the historic event,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 25, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

According to the numbers that were thrown around on Andrew Robl’s Twitter last night, the big cash-games have once again sprung-up around the APT Macau tournament, and they could be even bigger than ever this year. According to a post on his Twitter account, the young poker star,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 13, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

For years the Cake Poker Network has been staunchly against allowing players to use Heads-Up Display’s (Known in the poker world as HUD’s) taking a number of steps to dissuade and disallow their usage at any of the network’s online poker tables. It now seems that the entireRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 29, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

For anyone watching the high-stakes tables at PokerStars this past weekend it may have seemed like they were watching the Full Tilt Poker tables in late 2009 when Viktor “Isildur1” Blom first made his appearance at the nosebleed poker tables. Although his weekend clash was with another FullRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After a horrible 2010 online poker campaign, at one point causing him to quit poker towards the end of the year and leave Full Tilt Poker in the process –which was probably a good thing considering what has happened post-Black Friday—Ilari Sahamies has finally gotten back into theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 23, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

We’ve seen some very solid online poker players make the WSOP Main Event final table –players like Joseph “Sublime” Cheong in 2010 as well as Joe Cada and James Akenhead in 2009—but none of these players were as well-known in the world of online poker as this year’sRead Full Article