Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 31, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Amid all the World Series of Poker headlines and the hype about the upcoming relaunch of Full Tilt Poker — with the special promotions and poker bonuses that the site will offer—there was other news coming out of Las Vegas on Tuesday, as Brian “Sailor” Roberts and EricRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 05, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Satellite tournaments have been the norm in the poker world since the 1980’s, and since that time players have been winning their way into tournaments like the World Series of Poker Main Event for a fraction of the buy-in amount –with Tom McEvoy being the first player toRead Full Article

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

The recently launched free-play online poker site Game Face has just added their second sponsored player to their roster, adding the very polarizing Men “The Master” Nguyen to their marketing campaign. Nguyen joins former WSOP Main Event Champion and poker author Tom McEvoy as representatives of the onlineRead Full Article

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

The public voting stage of the 2011 Poker Hall of Fame induction process is now complete, and it is now on to the next step; where the Top 10, eligible, vote-getters will be voted on by a select group of 17 men and women from the poker mediaRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 14, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Just days after parting ways with three long-time members of Team PokerStars –Tom McEvoy, Dennis Phillips, and Bill Chen—PokerStars has now added a fresher face on the poker scene, signing online poker tournament legend Mickey “Mement_Mori” Petersen to their Team Online roster. The signing comes just a dayRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 23, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After implementing a fan voting system last year –a process that saw Mike Sexton end up as the lone inductee– the Poker Hall of Fame once again opened up the nomination process to the fans. After the initial nomination period a whopping 181 poker players have been nominatedRead Full Article