At 8:49 pm EST, beukie555 put the final touches on a $60,000 payday in what was one of the longest Party Poker $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool Weekly No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament of the 2008 calendar year. Here are the rest of the top ten finishers, their respective countries of origin and prize monies [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | September 16, 2008

I hate naysayers.
Look, it’s my job to critique the play of poker players but when I’m actually at a table myself you’ll never catch me mocking the play of another player unless I’m A) really drunk or B) down a lot of money because of an idiot’s luck.
This was not the case in the September [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | September 16, 2008

Yesterday Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) introduced the Payments System Protection Act of 2008, which again intends to clarify and curb the UIGEA by determining exactly which gaming activities are to be considered legal.
Frank’s new bill – called HR 6870 – will require the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Department of Justice to collaborate [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | September 12, 2008

I received a lot of readers’ mail concerning a recent story on addiction and wanted to take the time to respond to some of the more… appropriate questions. I don’t know what it was about a story looking at a couple of old friends, one who turned out to be gay, focusing on a different [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | September 11, 2008

Cutting-edge online poker site PKR has a lot to celebrate: having recently reached the 2 million player mark, PKR is about to launch its first live poker event called PKR Live, which will take place in London’s Loose Cannon Club.
PKR.com has just announced the launch of PKR live, a 3-day poker festival that will be [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | September 10, 2008

Top poker training sites CardRunners and StoxPoker announced their merge today. However, both sites will remain separate, while the merger will mean easier flow of customers between both sites and lower fees for all members.
According to a statement by CardRunners,
StoxPoker will continue to emphasize small- and mid-stakes games instruction through classroom-style learning, StoxPoker University, and [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | September 9, 2008

At approximately 8:20 pm EST last night, Party Poker players I_FunmarZ_U, TheRenegadee and italia_06 agreed to a six-figure three-way deal to bring the September 7th edition of the Party Poker $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool Weekly No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament. Here are the rest of the top ten finishers, their respective countries of origin [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | September 8, 2008

Wait, that’s it?
At a mere 54 hands played, the final table for the September 7th Party Poker 300K proved to be the shortest final table played at the biggest regular tournament on Party Poker in more than 6 months.
Two things stuck out about this final table: 1, with 4 final table players running under its [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | September 8, 2008

The Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) starts today, with a 33-event program that features 9 new events and a guaranteed prize pool of $30,000,000.
The 33 events have buy-ins ranging from $200+15 to $25,000+500 in all possible poker variants – along with plenty of Hold’em events there are also 5-card draw, PL Omaha, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | September 5, 2008

So I was checking out this study done about what hands poker players most often bust out of tournaments on and it dawned on me how undiscriminating and ruthless the game of poker truly is. Apparently, the top 5 hands which players bust out most often with in tournaments are:
1. Ace – King2. Queen - Queen3. Ace [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | September 4, 2008