Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 14, 2013 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

It’s no secret that I feel the poker food chain has grown unbalanced in recent years (Evidence 1 and Evidence 2), and it’s safe to say that the online poker world is finally catching on to this problem and making the necessary changes. The latest poker site thatRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 03, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After two full days of action the Big One for One Drop, $1,000,000 buy-in, final table is set, and it’s two well-know poker pros leading the way: Sam Trickett and Antonio Esfandiari. The two chip-leaders currently control nearly half of the chips in play, with the top 3Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 12, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

An online duel between two of the best heads-up poker players in the world, Isaac Haxton and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, was abruptly called short yesterday when Isaac Haxton started experiencing Internet problems due to bad weather! The two had played roughly 1,000 hands of their scheduled 5,000 handRead Full Article

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

PKR Poker is one of the very few online poker rooms in the world that has never accepted US customers. The site was launched in 2006, just as UIGEA was being drafted, which caused the company to make the difficult decision of not allowing US players. All thatRead Full Article

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

Before we get into the meat of the reporting, let’s keep in mind that this story is coming from Page Six of the New York Post, which amounts to the same type of fact-checking as the National Enquirer. With that “warning” out of the way let’s take aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
party poker software update

With online poker players raising their hands in frustration as poker sites are being shutdown and having their licenses pulled, Party Poker has come up with an innovative reason to join one of the most popular, and 100% legal, online poker rooms in the world by eliminating allRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 17, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Mike Sexton is perhaps best known as being the commentator for the World Poker Tour (WPT), or even for being a Party Poker spokesman, but he also plays poker, and over his long career has played poker at the highest level. Now Sexton finds himself in a heads-upRead Full Article

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

On a recent episode of the Hardcore Poker Show, Party Poker spokesman and all-around poker magnate Tony G called on the members of Team Full Tilt Poker to guarantee player deposits which he estimated at $100 million. Tony G first spoke on the podcast about the April 15thRead Full Article