Yes it’s true – you could win your seat in one of Australia’s largest poker tournaments – The PokerNews Cup – for as little as just TWO dollars!The 2009 PokerNews Cup will be taking place at the beautiful Crown Casino in Melbourne this September and you could be there to play among some of the [...]
A 2009 champion has yet to be crowned, but that hasn’t stopped Bodog from giving away a seat to the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. The Bodog Mini Poker Series wrapped up last week awarding a $12,000 prize package that includes the $10,000 Main Event buy-in for next summer. John “Getn_Outa_MI” Ormsby took [...]
5 Griffin vs Van der Burg, EPT Season 3 Monte Carlo WHAT HAPPENED? On day three of the EPT Grand Final, with the blinds at 8,000/16,000 and a 2,000 ante, Gavin Griffin, one of the chip leaders, raised to 45,000 from mid-position with 4c-4h. Eric Van der Burg called from the small blind with [...]
It was months ago that the idea of Face the Ace was presented to the poker community as a prime time NBC television show to be broadcast in the fall of 2009. And the time has finally come for the show to begin airing on Saturday, August 1. All accounts from poker pros who participated [...]
Team PokerStrategy.com member Daniel ‘Allanon’ Drescher had a good Day 2 and finished the day with the 12th largest chip stack. Jonathan Little and Fabstinho also remain in the hunt. 221 players on Day 2 of WPT Bellagio Cup V, and 93 players remain at the end of second play day. Alec Torelli held on [...]
A poker player and former pro golfer has been told he can not compete in golf at the amateur level despite a former ruling by the USGA thanks to a million dollar poker and golf challenge that he issued. Dusty Schmidt, who stopped his pro golf career after a heart attack at a very young [...]
Online poker room Party Poker will have a new site for their Italian players, as their parent company, Party Gaming, sees their agreement with Intralot SA made three months ago come to fruition. The Intralot poker service as passed certification from the Italian regulator, AAMS. While cash games are not yet available on the site, [...]
Online poker room PokerStars has announced the schedule for the 2009 WCOOP with millions of dollars in guaranteed prize pools. The WCOOP is the World Championship of Online Poker, and consists of 45 events of all sorts, from Badugi to HORSE to Razz and Stud and the ubiquitous No Limit Texas Hold’em. PokerStars prso such [...]
The third annual Ante Up for Africa tournament has concluded for the 2009 World Series of Poker, and it is the last tournament before the Main Event starts. The tournament is designed to raise awareness about the atrocities and crisis that is happening in Darfur. The buy in for the tournament is $5,000 and players [...]
The winner of Event 55 at the 2009 World Series of Poker is Abe Mosseri, who defeated the crowd to win the gold bracelet for the $2,500 buy in Limit Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Event. The tournament was a 2 day affair, which pulled in 257 players, 24 of which made money in the [...]
