To say this year’s World Championship of Online Poker will be bigger than ever might be an understatement. This year the prestigious online series will offer a total of 45 events and a guaranteed prize pool of $40 million. The WCOOP main event alone will have a $10 million guarantee. “I don’t [...]
‘He’s been following me pretty closely and knows what I’ve been doing.’Someone has been impersonating Patrik Antonius on Twitter and the Finnish poker pro is clearly concerned. It’s unknown who is behind the Twitter account (#patrik_antonius), but Antonius released a media alert through Coinflip.com that claimed he is also worried the impersonator may [...]
A super Sunday, indeed. Sure, millions of dollars were at stake, but the biggest crowd in quite some time showed up for the PokerStars Sunday Million, wherein the short stack during a five-way deal at the final table came back to capture the title. Numerous big names in online poker, like apestyles, JBlaze20, THAY3R, [...]
‘May all your cards be live, and your pots be monsters.’The dates for the PartyPoker.com World Open V have been released. The event will take place from Sunday Oct. 11 to Thursday Oct. 15 at the Palm Beach Casino in London, England and some of the best players in the game will be [...]
Extracting maximum value is earning as much money as possible from hands where you have a positive expectation. Whenever you win a hand and fail to get the maximum reward possible, you are theoretically losing money.
Of course, this is not a precise science, so we have to judge how much money we can squeeze [...]
Five years ago the world’s richest cash game was spoken in almost mystical terms. The Big Game at the Bellagio was an exclusive game, designed to protect the identities of the rich fish and preserve the edge of the big name pros. Its multiple limit games, and hushed private club atmosphere made it the stuff [...]
The start of the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe is only weeks away, and that means the first ever Caesars Cup is also on the horizon. And as the Europe vs. the Americas competition nears, the teams are taking shape, most recently with picks like Phil Hellmuth and Bertrand Grospellier chosen to participate.The [...]
With the ESPN coverage of the 2009 World Series of Poker in full broadcast swing on the network, it seemed like as good a time as any to come to an agreement on a long-term deal. A relationship that began in 2003 has now been solidified for seven years – on top of the [...]
If David Steicke owns High Rollers Events, then James “Andy McLEOD” Obst is the lord of the major online tournament. Obst reaffirmed his status as one of Australia’s top online poker players on Monday by running deep in the FTOPS XIII Main Event. Playing under his Full Tilt Poker screen name “TheFatFISH”, Obst rode [...]
The Thursday Jamie Gold Charity Poker Tournament was a sold out success. The event, well advertised in advance and held during London’s Poker in the Park, was hosted by both Jamie Gold, the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champ, and his contemporary and current WSOP champ Peter Eastgate, the youngest champ of [...]
