From 2003 through 2006, we poker fans were spoiled.The number of entrants in the $10,000 Main Event of the World Series of Poker was increasing exponentially, as television and internet created a poker boom that we very well may never see again.Unfortunately, the UIGEA of 2006 hurt the online poker rooms and, in turn, the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | July 9, 2008

It was one of the last weekends to take advantage of the humongous overlays that have characterized major online poker tournaments over the past six weeks. With the 2008 World Series of Poker playing down to the final nine players within the week, the attention of the poker world will soon be turning back to [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | July 8, 2008

Party Poker player Ugga_chak dominated the July 6th Party Poker $300K Guaranteed Weekly and emerged a rare outright winner from the 1,372 entrant wide field. Here is the rest of the top ten:
1. Ugga_Chak - $60,000 USD2. ChipReloader - $33,000 USD3. wernitschg - $20,700 USD4. rsanco – $16,350 USD5. AceTorpedo - $13,800 USD6. Kaliningrad4 - $10,350 USD7. Winst999 - $7,950 USD8. jdshane - [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | July 7, 2008

There are times when a player bullies a table. There are times when a big stack is a card rack and the rest of the table is in trouble. There are times when people shoot themselves in the foot.
Then there’s the July 6th Party Poker $300K, which was chock-full of big stack eminence, Ugga_Chak dominance [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | July 7, 2008

Barely a month ago we announced Rizen’s Ultimate Bet signing as a resident pro, at which time the poker community voiced its doubts, wondering if it was whitewash for Ultimate Bet and a sell-out for Rizen. Now Rizen’s separation from Ultimate Bet raises a whole different set of questions.
Rizen posted a brief announcement on his [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | July 4, 2008

Andy “Mad Monk” Black was one of the best poker players never to win a large tournament, until now – 20 years into his poker career, Black may finally boast a major win in one of the most important tourney around, Party Poker’s Premier League.
As is to be imagined, Black is ecstatic – he burst [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | July 3, 2008

Party Poker people, we beat his own site. We beat the loudest, most blinged-out, most jheri-curled-manny-headed bit of Vietnamese-American awesomeness to ever win 5 WSOP bracelets to the punch. You see Party Poker players, as of July 1, 2008 at 8:53 pm EST – Scotty Nguyen’s own site did not yet make reference to his [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | July 2, 2008

Call him abrasive, call him rough, call him what you will, John Bonetti was as loved by his fellow poker players as he was feared by them at the tables.Bonetti, who won over $4 million in his tournament career even though he didn’t start playing poker until he was 57, passed away Saturday in his [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | July 1, 2008

Love poker?Love Broadway?Well, if you are in Las Vegas this weekend, you’ll have a chance to enjoy both in one sitting as “All In: The Poker Musical” will debut at the Rio.The show, created by Tim Molyneux with help from Phil Hellmuth and the World Series of Poker, will be performed for two nights only, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | July 1, 2008