Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 08, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
PokerStars versus Full Tilt

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 31, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 27, 2011 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 28, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
fulltiltpoker sold

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
wcoop tournament

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

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Sep 15, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 3 Comments »

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 11, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

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