Archive for September, 2009

Sunday’s No Limit Hold’em Main Event # 45 brought to an end three weeks of successful WCOOP tournaments on PokerStars having produced over $50 million in prize money. The $5,200 Main Event is the flag ship of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP)... 

Jeff Shulman will be utilising the advice of long term friend and 11 time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth to help steer him towards World Series Of Poker glory in November. Shulman is president of the hugely popular Card Player magazine which has a monthly circulation... 

Since the poker boom started in 2003, Poker traffic in Nevada has more than doubled and is now a serious money generator for the state. Nevada has 106 poker rooms which in 2008 produced $155.7 million in revenue which outweighed the $136 million generated from... 

J.P. Kelly (23) has won the WSOPE £1,000 NLHE event in London just months after winning his first WSOP bracelet in Las Vegas. He is now only the second man to complete a trans-Atlantic WSOP double in the same year and said of his £136,803 first place victory: “The... 

The producer of the popular show ‘High Stakes Poker’ has confirmed they will start filming Season 6 at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas on November 11th and hope to air the episodes come February 2010. Mori Eskandani said they will be putting together... 

Season 4 of Full Tilt Poker’s Million Dollar Cash Game has just been recorded and has already produced the biggest pot in television history between two of the game’s stars. Many high profile professionals were in London playing at the Full Tilt event which... 

Thursday heralded the beginning of WSOPE 2009 festivities when Anestis Metsas (23) from Greece beat 17 fellow online qualifiers to win Betfair’s Free Million Dollar game and the $1 million first prize. Following his win Metsas exclaimed: “It’s unbelievable... 

Week number 5 of the popular G4 poker reality show saw the guys suffer their worst loss yet with the team taking a collective hit of $128,000 to their bankroll. The beginning of the show saw Roberts consoling Rosenkrantz in the spa after his successive losses while... 

In an interesting departure from most poker literature, ‘The Poker Mindset’ sets out to delve into the attitude necessary to become a successful poker player instead of the strategy of playing the game itself. The book begins by outlining seven essential... 

The Poker Association of Hugary’s latest survey has revealed the extent to which poker has increased in popularity in the eastern European country. The report found that out of the 10 million population of Hungary, 50,000 play live poker and a further 200,000...