Poker pro Beth Shak has designed a pair of poker shoes. She will be showcasing the shoes during the WSOP. The World Series of Poker is a time of great visability for poker players, and Shak is using that time to show off her custom pair of luxurious Walter Steiger shoes. The pink high heals [...]
The shootout format is an interesting one, appealing to players of all levels of skill. Those who dominate sit n goes online and live one-table satellites feel that they have an edge, while those with a great deal of no-limit holdem live tournament experience enjoy shootouts as well. But Event 6 required a $5,000 buy-in, [...]
A British invasion has hit in the first week of the WSOP, with plenty of UK success stories to go around. Praz Bansi of the London-based Hit Squad added to his resume Wednesday with a win in the $1.5k No-Limit event, giving the 32-year-old his second career WSOP bracelet. Bansi’s bracelet win is just one [...]
Thousands bought into the first $1,000 buy-in event of the 2010 WSOP on Saturday with over 3,800 registered for the event and even more likely to join the party on Day 1b. It’s been over 10 years since a preliminary event at the WSOP drew more players than the Main Event and it’s a distinct [...]
All of the big names in poker were present at the start of the $50,000 Players Championship at the 41st World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, the list of big names would run almost the entire length of the registration sheet for the tournament. At the [...]
Online poker room Cake Poker recently joined forces with CTXM. CTXM is a European-based online casino software provider. The joint effort is around the management of online poker sites PowerPoker.com, AdamEvePoker.com, and Comeon.com, which has not been launched yet. CTXM is no stranger to the online casino market, as they provide end-to-end solutions for online [...]
The World Poker Tour is in the process of finding its newest poker champion at the Barcelona Spanish Championship. This event had two start days which proved to draw a record breaking crowd to this event. The buy in for this championship event was an affordable €3,200 + €300 buy-in. Tournament Director Thomas Kremser announced [...]
The last four players for the National Heads-Up Poker Championship are ready to fight it out. The last show will air on NBC on Sunday, May 23rd. The last four players are Annie Duke, Erik Seidel, Scotty Nguyen and Dennis Phillips. The National Heads-Up Poker Championship started with 64 players divided into four brackets, and [...]
Annie Duke is hosting a charity poker tournament in support of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nonprofit for at-risk youth group After-School All-Stars Thursday. The event will go off May 20th at 7:30 p.m. PT inside the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles and a host of celebrities and poker pros expected to attend. Actors Don Cheadle, [...]
Veteran Pro Freddy Deeb won the ACFpoker €20,000 No Limit Hold ‘em High Roller Freeze Out tournament at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris this weekend. Deeb came to the final table second in chips to perhaps the hottest player in poker right now, Sorel Mizzi. In the end, the two squared off heads-up for [...]
