Full Tilt Poker pro and CardRunners instructor Brian Hastings must love the mysterious Swedish online poker money machine “Isildur1.”  Having already taken a few million from Isildur1 last year, Hastings was back at it again Monday night, relieving his opponent of another large chunk of change.
The two six-tabled $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha heads-up against each other [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | March 17, 2010

Oates Media Group is looking forward to the first airing of its new poker game show, “Shuffle Up and Deal,” but before it can get to that point, it needs to film an episode first.  The problem: finding a sponsor for the program.
The show was originally slated to broadcast 13 episodes on the MyFamilyTV network, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | March 16, 2010

Last week, online poker room UB.com announced that its signature live poker tournament, the Aruba Poker Classic, will not be held this year. It is not necessarily gone for good, but rather put “on hold,” according to a statement released on UB.com’s website.

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | March 15, 2010

I like Party Poker.  I really do.  Solid software (although I do miss the old school client), good game variety, plenty of players, fun monthly promotions.  It has its quirks and annoyances like any poker room does, but overall, it’s a very good poker room.  But man, oh man, did I just find out something [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | March 12, 2010

On Tuesday, PartyPoker.com announced the dates and half the line-up for the PartyPoker.com Women’s World Open IV, which will be produced by Matchroom Sport, the same production company PartyPoker.com worked with on the PartyPoker.com Premier League.  The 24-player, $3,000 buy-in event will be held in London on March 23rd and 24th.
Headlining the field is Team [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | March 11, 2010

The Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XV kicks off Wednesday at Full Tilt Poker, offering players a chance to play in a large tournament series at affordable prices.  Following the exact same schedule as FTOPS XV (except for times), the buy-ins for MiniFTOPS are one-tenth the price of those of its older brother.  [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | March 10, 2010

PartyGaming PLC, the parent company of PartyPoker, reported its annual financial results for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009 last week. All told, PartyGaming brought in net revenues of $444.7 million, a 6 percent decrease from the $472.9 million in net revenue in 2008.
In the report on PartyGaming’s website, CEO Jim Ryan said, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | March 9, 2010

Annie Duke won the first and third matches in a best of three series against her good friend, Erik Seidel, to win the 6th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHPC) Sunday. On the same night that Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar (for The Hurt Locker), Duke became the first woman to win the NHPC.

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | March 8, 2010

On Thursday night, the pairings were drawn for the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship at PURE Nightclub at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.  The first round of the 64-player tournament will commence on Friday, March 5th at Caesars and will continue through Sunday, March 7th.
Many of the faces in the $20,000 buy-in competition are household [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | March 5, 2010

Achilleas Kallakis, a Greek property tycoon who has also appeared on poker television, was charged Monday in London with defrauding two European banks.  He was required to post £140,000 in bail and must report to Chelsea police station once per week in advance of a May 4th court appearance.
Kallakis has been one London’s biggest real [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | March 4, 2010