When doctors gave Jon Matthews 6 months to live after he was diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer known as mesothelioma, the 58-year-old native of Milton Keynes, UK made a bet. The former car dealer went to famed sportsbook William Hill and made a £100 bet at 50-1 that he would beat the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | June 3, 2008

Mr_Daydream took home the monster first prize for Party Poker’s Million May Madness Finale late Saturday night. In a return to what was once the most popular non-freeroll tournament in all of online Poker, three different players took home more than $100,000 each in Party Poker’s newest $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool extravaganza. Here are the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 2, 2008

Full Tilt Poker just keeps the World Series of Poker promotions rolling.The newest one is a bit different than the traditional contests to win seats in the Main Event or other WSOP tournaments, though: the Mini Series of Poker (MSOP) is for people who generally have no intention of going to Las Vegas to play [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 2, 2008

The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) will be held at Caesars in Las Vegas through 2012, according to an announcement made by NBC this week.
The NHUPC debuted at the Golden Nugget in 2002, but the following year it moved to Caesars, where it has remained since.
Poker fans were not sure what to make of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | June 2, 2008

Many sit-and-go grinders at PokerStars need to change the way they play now that the online poker room has edited its rules to outlaw a category of software.In an effort to make sure all play is made by humans and not machines, PokerStars has banned the use of independent chip model calculators.
Independent chip model calculators, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | June 1, 2008