Archive for October, 2009

The 7-Game Poker mix offered on Full Tilt Poker has become a popular choice amongst high stakes professionals to the extent that it continues attracting a growing proportion of the action on the site. For those of you not familiar with this particular form of poker,... 

Almost three weeks after their last encounter, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan decided to take up their challenge once more, this time playing heads-up on four $200/$400 pot-limit Omaha tables between 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday until 1 a.m. Wednesday. Their latest encounter,... 

The Absolute Poker College Challenge is back and students are getting ready to show off their playing strategy at the felts.  The Absolute Poker College Challenge Main Event is going to be held on November 30th and will award $10,000 dollars for tuition. Now more... 

One of the next players scheduled to appear on the 6th season of High Stakes Poker is Full Tilt Poker Pro Andrew Feldman.  He is going to the be the first Full Tilt Poker pro from the United Kingdom to appear on the show. The episode of High Stakes Poker with... 

The 2007 WSOP Ladies No-Limit Hold’em World Championship winner is suing Harrah’s and the World Series of Poker Academy for using her name to sell their products without her consent. Named in the lawsuit, which Sally Anne Boyer filed Monday, are WSOP... 

It was deja-vu for one unfortunate player at a Cleveland poker game on Monday as he found himself once more staring down the barrel of a gun whilst being parted of his poker bankroll. The player commented: “I thought, ‘Here we go again.’ It’s been quite... 

Poker is alive and well in Asia as the attendance figures from this year’s Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon Main Event demonstrate. The HKD $10,000 buy-in tournament took place at the Grand Lisboa in Macau, China at China’s first-ever live poker room and... 

Many of us are out buying costumes, flash lights and other Halloween necessities to take the kids trick or treating. But if you’re planning to stay in and maybe hand out some treats you can still get quite a treat at Absolute Poker. On Saturday, October 31st... 

CardPlayer Magazine CEO Barry Shulman may have let his World Series of Poker Europe triumph go to his head if reports from the Two Plus Two Poker Forum are to be believed. One forum member posted the unpleasant details of an encounter he had with Barry Shulman... 

The poker gods must have been shinning on New Yorker Tommy Vedes as he dodged many a bullet on his way to victory at the $15,000 buy-in WPT Festa al Lago Classic. Even though numbers were a little down at 275 players, the high buy in assured there would be a pot...