Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 13, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Down in Medellin, Columbia the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) was hosting the Colombian National Poker Championship and the event attracted a fairly international field, including some big names poker players. The tournament was the third stop on Season 5 of the PokerStars LAPT, and the turnoutRead Full Article

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

One of the few assets held by the failed Federated Sports + Gaming that people assigned any value to was the Global Poker Index, a patent-pending formula for ranking the best tournament poker players in the world. The Global poker Index (GPI), along with the Heartland Poker TourRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Series of Poker Circuit Series is entering its ninth season, and even though the tour looks far different than it did when it was first launched, with $5k and $10k Man Events built up around mini-WSOP tournament series, but the WSOPC is still one of theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 11, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Win 1 of 100 seats to the $100k Guaranteed Pro Bounty Tournament this Sunday on Lock Poker! Have you ever wanted to play in one of the huge weekly guaranteed tournaments that take place every Sunday but simply didn’t have the buy-in amount needed? Or perhaps you areRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In 2010 Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi turned his WSOP career around (and his life for that matter) when he won the $50k Poker Players Championship, which was astonishingly Mizrachi’s first WSOP bracelet. Mizrachi then went on to final table the 2010 WSOP Main Event, finishing 5th, etching hisRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 25, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Another weekend at the World Series of Poker means plenty to talk about, as the usual Sunday $1k NLHE event got underway as well as the $50 Poker Players Championship. There were also several tournaments winding down, including the $3k NLHE which will pit Jackie Glazier against GregRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 14, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Last night Phil Ivey made his third final table of the 2012 World Series of Poker, and his fourth cash overall. Now a serious contender for the 2012 WSOP Player of the Year award (for both the WSOP and for Cardplayer Magazine, Bluff Magazine and the Global PokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 10, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

For the third timed in the past three years Matt Matros has won a World Series of Poker bracelet, after winning the $1,500 No Limit Holdem 6-Max tournament on Saturday. Matros is a longtime tournament poker player who burst onto the poker scene in the early years ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 07, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There was a lot of tournament action on Wednesday at the WSOP, and just a day after Viktor Blom made his WSOP debut, Doyle Brunson did the same, playing in his first 2012 WSOP event on Wednesday. Here is a look at what was going on at theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 06, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

A pair of double bracelet winners, Brian Rast and Greg Mueller, advanced to the final table of Event #9, the $1,500 NLHE tournament with reentries. In addition to Rast and Mueller, Amanda Musumeci continued the good run of women at the 2012 WSOP, as she enters the finalRead Full Article