World Poker Tour London Event Results

The World Poker Tour London has now conclude.  The event took place at Mayfair’s Palm Beach Casino, and clashed with several other European tournaments, so the turn out this year was just 171 players, a smaller pool than expected, making the prize pool £820,800, with the winner getting £273,783.
The tournament was especially interesting for one [...]

ESPN WSOP Viewing Figures Down

ESPN have noticed reduced interest in their coverage of the World Series of Poker.
The first phase of the tournament aired six weeks ago, and the viewing statistics indicate that fewer people watched the tournament this year compared to last year’s figures.  The show scored an index of 0.67,  meaning roughly 737,000 thousand people tuned in [...]

World Poker Tour London Classic Day 2

The World Poker Tour London Classic Day 2 has concluded.  There was lots of action in day two, including some surpise exits, and an interesting confrontation.
Phil Ivey and Luke Schwarz faced off during the day.  Rising poker star Luke Schwarz bested Erik Seidel, sparking the following exchange:
Shwarz asks Seidel:  “What did you have”
Ivey laughs.
Shwarz asks [...]

Poker Machine Pre Commitment System Discussion

Len Ainsworth has spoken out about the proposed national pre-commitment system under which poker machines would allow players to pre-set their spending limits.  Ainsworth believes that the system would be incredibly expensive to set up, and would not reduce problem gambling.
Ainsworth’s company is one of many that is likely to feel the effect of the [...]

Trapped Miners Playing Poker

Last week, a group of miners who had been trapped in a gold mine in Chile were found alive.  It is going to take several months before the miners can be rescued - there are currently two small tunnels leading from the mine to the surface - big enough for air and supplies to be [...]

Pro Poker Player Opens a Brewery

New Zealand poker champ Dane Soren Eriksen has hatched a plan to launch his own micro-brewed beer label.  Eriksen, who is living in Blenheim, has won $160,000 in poker tournaments in the last two years.
Eriksen invested some of the winnings in launching the brewing label, 8 Wired Brewing, last year.  He has already sold 20,000 [...]

College Footballer Suspended Over Football Debts

Dwight Dasher, a college football quaterback at Middle Tennessee State, has been suspended after he broke the rules and accepted a loan of $1,500 from an 80 year old man that he used to play poker with.
Dasher lost all the money he borrowed.  The suspension, however, came not because he lost a lot of money, [...]

Online Poker Banned in South Africa

South Africa has become one of the first countries to completely ban all forms of online gambling, including online poker. The move is similar to the attempt made by the United States, however their attempt, under President Bush, proved difficult to police and enforce.
The new legislation makes it illegal to play online poker, or [...]

World Poker Tour Legends of Poker Final Table

The final table of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker Main Event Tournament has been decided. The Main Event features some great players, and the top three chip holders have a strong lead. The chip leader is Andrew Frankenberger, with 3,015,000 chips. Next up is Tom Lee, with 2,915,000 chips. Third on the leaderboards [...]

WPT Legends of Poker No Limit Hold’em Day 2 Rundown

The second day of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker $5,000 no-limit hold’em main event took place yesterday.  Play began at 1pm on Sunday 22nd August.  There were 241 players present at the start of the day, and by the end of the evening just 60 players remained.
The chip leader at the end of [...]

Risk Wins at UK and Ireland Poker Tour Main Event

An online poker player who goes by the name of N A Risk has won the UK and Ireland Poker Tour Edinburgh Main Event, and took home £50,000 for his efforts.
N A Risk is a Canadian poker player, he qualified for the tournament via an online satellite.  He dominated the event, which was held at [...]

Victory Poker to Change Networks?

Victory Poker appeared on the poker scene last year and made a splash by signing some of the world’s top poker players.  The company was powered by Everleaf, but according to some reports the site is considering moving from Everleaf to Cake.
The site enjoyed rapit growth, but quickly hit the limitations of the Everleaf network.  [...]

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