Yesterday the 39 remaining players (from a starting field of 157) took to the tables at the Rio to play down to the final table of the World Series of Poker Circuit Series National Championship. The WSOPC National Championship is a $1,000,000 freeroll for the 14 winners andRead Full Article
After a flurry of activity on Tuesday, as the first whispers of a deal that would see PokerStars buy Full Tilt Poker turned into roars, poker players are once again waiting for the news that they will receive their now-frozen Full Tilt poker funds. There has been littleRead Full Article
The title of the article basically says it all, so here are my choices for the 15 craziest, zaniest, mind-boggling stories from the world of poker over the past year. So in no particular order here are #’s 11-15: Andrew Li hits Supernova Elite in February! 2011 startedRead Full Article
On Monday, November 28th, Titan Poker will launch its iPoker Online Poker Series (iPOPS) with $1,000,000 up for grabs over the course of the four tournament series. The Main Event of the iPOPS will be a $125 buy-in NLHE Freezeout tournament with a massive guaranteed prize-pool of $500,000.Read Full Article
Adam Schwartz, one of the hosts of the 2+2 Poker Podcast, dropped a bombshell via Twitter on Tuesday when he posted: “Heard a rumor that the FTP sale to French investors was done,” Of course Schwartz received a number of responses to this news, but failed to giveRead Full Article
After two days of play, and with around $4 million in prize-money still to be decided, the final five players in the 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) were in the dealing mood. The final table deal saw eventual winner, Thomas ‘Kallllle’ Pedersen, lock-up the lion’sRead Full Article
On Tuesday, I published an article that was very critical of Subject:Poker and their report that the U.S. Department of Justice was going after Merge. Some of you liked it, and some of you don’t. However, the most interesting development from this came this morning in the formRead Full Article
In a very short statement issued on Monday September 5th, 2011, the Aldernay Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) announced they would be moving the date for the public Full Tilt Poker hearing from September 15th to September 19th. Due to the brevity of the statement no reason or evenRead Full Article
After months of silence Full Tilt Poker finally came out from under the rock they were hiding last week and issued a statement on the ongoing talks with potential investors the site is currently engaged in. While the statement was short, and lacking any specifics, this first stepRead 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