The Asian Poker Tour 2010

The 2010 APT Macau kicks off on Saturday 6th November 2010 at the City of Dreams in Macau.The world’s finest poker stars will be in attendance. Here’s the latest scoop on the APT 2010. Come Saturday November 6th at the City of Dreams in Macau, poker fans are in for a field day. It’s the [...]

Daniel Negreanu Leading EPT Vienna

The World Series of poker Circuit Regional Championship may be getting most of the media attention at the moment, but it’s not the only event happening.  There’s another big event taking place this week – the European Poker Tour Vienna. The EPT Vienna Tournament is a 5,300 Euro event, and this year it attracted 587 [...]

ESPN Prepares for the November Nine.

The final table of the World Series of poker is just one week away, and ESPN is getting ready to present poker fans with bigger and better Main Event coverage than ever before. The November Nine will resume play at the Penn and Teller Theatre in the Rio All Suites Hotel in Las Vegas at [...]

World Series of Poker Circuit Records

Earlier this year, the World Series of poker tried a new format for its circuit events.  The move was met with concern from many poker analysts, who were uncertain if the new circuit format, and the introduction of the $10,000 regional championship tournament, was a good idea. The circuit events have been running for some [...]

World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event Day 2

The World Series of poker Circuit Main Event is still underway.  Day 2 of the Event, which is taking place in Hammond, Indiana, has just concluded.  The day started with 162 players.  The money bubble was at 90 players, and it took three hours for the bubble to burst. The player with the unfortunate honour [...]

High Stakes Poker Season 7 Confirmed

GSN will be shooting Season 7 of HighStakes poker next month.  The show will feature Gab Kaplan as the primary host, and Kara Scott will be back for her second season as co-host. High Stakes Poker Season 7 will be filmed between the 18th and 20th November, and is expected to air starting February 1th [...]

Brett Schwertley Wins WSOP Circuit Event

Brett Shwertley, of Nebraska, won the largest World Series of poker Circuit event in history this weekend.  Schwertley, aged 27, bested a field of 1,611 to win Event Number 1, the $350 No-Limit Hold’em event at the Regional Championship which was held in the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind. For his efforts, Schwertley took away [...]

Randal Flowers Wins WPT Festa Al Lago

Randal Flowers made history yesterday when he became the youngest poker player to win multiple World Poker Tour titles.  The 22 year old took down a field of 335 players to earn $831,500 for first place at the WPT Festa Al Lago Main Event, bringing his total tournament earnings to $1.7 million. As well as [...]

Poker Hall of Fame Votes Due Soon

The inductees for the poker Hall of Fame class of 2010 are due to be announced soon.  The inductees will be voted upon by the 16 living members of the Poker Hall of Fame, along with 17 members of the poker media. The ten finallists are: <ul><li>Chris Ferguson <li>Barry Greenstein <li>Jennifer Harman <li>Dan Harrington <li>Phil [...]

South Carolina Judges To Debate Nature of Poker

The South Carolina Supreme Court will shortly be hearing arguments as to whether poker is a game of luck, or a game of skill.  The arguments will be put forward on Tuesday as an appeal of a local judge’s ruling stating that Texas Hold’em is a game of skill, not chance. The ruling, made by [...]

Facebook Poker Usernames Leaked

Facebook has attracted some unwelcome attention again.  This time because two of the most popular applications on the site – Texas Holdem poker and Farmville – leaked the names of their users to outside companies. According to a Wall Street Journal investigation report, “A Facebook User ID may be inadvertently shared by a user’s Internet [...]

888 Offering $400 Signup Bonus

888 poker are running a new promotion to encourage palyers to try out the 3D version of their online poker site.  The bonus is worth up to $400.  You’ll recieve 25% of the bonus instantly, and you can look forward to the remaining 75% being paid shortly afterwards. As well as the welcome bonus, there’s [...]

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