Full Tilt Poker’s quarterly poker series, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is just getting ready to kick off for the 17th time and as such, the poker room has released this summer’s schedule.  Running August 4th through August 15th, FTOPS XVII will consist of 34 events, four more than last time, and will [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | July 15, 2010

Though the focus of the poker world was on the start of the World Series of Poker Main Event last week, there is life after the Rio.  One of the events players look forward to each year is the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), hosted by PokerStars.  Essentially the online WSOP, the WCOOP has [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | July 14, 2010

Starting this coming weekend, Full Tilt Poker is resurrecting its Big Little Tournament, offering players the chance to win a lot for, well, a little.
Each of the eight Big Little Tournaments will cost just $2.20 to enter, but will feature a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.  First place in each event will be at least $9,000.  [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | July 13, 2010

Sunday was a scheduled day off at the Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP), giving the more than 2,500 remaining players a much needed break.  Amongst the hoard are four members of Team PartyPoker: Dragan Galic, Felipe Ramos, Tyron Krost, and Kara Scott.
Galic started Day 2 with about 60,000 chips, double [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | July 12, 2010

The four flights of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1 came to a close on Thursday and as the dust settled, Team Party Poker emerged almost unscathed as the tournament moves on to Day 2.
Leading the way for Team Party Poker is one of its newest members, Tyron Krost.  The Aussie [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | July 9, 2010

One of the things I always like to watch at the World Series of Poker Main Event is how past champions, particularly the defending champion, fare. Johnny Chan put on the best repeat show, winning the whole thing in 1987 and 1988 and then finishing second in 1989. More recently, Dan Harrington finished [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | July 8, 2010

PartyGaming, parent company of PartyPoker, released advance guidance for its second quarter financials this week, forecasting slightly lower revenues versus the previous quarter.
Now reporting results in Euros instead of the United States Dollar, PartyGaming expects total revenues across all of its business units for the quarter comprised of April, May, and June to be down [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | July 7, 2010

For poker players around the world, it is like Christmas in the summer.  Like kids counting the minutes until they can run downstairs to see what Santa left them under the tree, poker enthusiasts have been counting the days until the start of the Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker.  Well, boys [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | July 6, 2010

Already the 1996 World Series of Poker Main Event champion and the winner of the 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Championship, Huck Seed made it a trifecta of sorts this past weekend, winning the 2010 WSOP Tournament of Champions (TOC) in what was a comedy of scheduling errors.
Let’s review.  The TOC began on Sunday, June 27th, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | July 5, 2010

There may eventually prove to be many good things about PartyPoker’s purchase of the World Poker Tour (WPT), but right now, it is pretty obvious that one of them is the multitude of opportunities that Party customers will have to win seats in WPT events.  The latest promotion gives players a full month to play [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | July 2, 2010