Archive for March, 2010

LA Lakers basketball team owner Jerry Buss has announced he intends to turn poker pro at the ripe age of 77 years old. Buss made most of his money in the property market but many of his investments in the past have strong links to sports and have included becoming... 

Victory Poker has continued to gain ground since it was first launched on February 1st 2009 and has now added top tournament pro James ‘Andy McLEOD’ Obst to boost its nineteen member strong Team Victory. Despite being 20 years-old, Obst is already a seasoned... 

Fresh on the heels of PokerStars’ new television show the “Big Game,” main competitors Full Tilt have announced a new show of their own called “The Poker Lounge,” which is due to air on the UK’s Channel 4 on June 21st. The show will follow a ‘sit... 

Romanian politician and businessman George Becali is no stranger to controversy with his extreme views and fiery temperament ruffling feathers wherever he goes. The Member of the European Parliament and Steaua Bucharest Football Club owner earned his nickname “Ioan... 

A US woman is recovering from shock after being told that her $42m win on a poker machine at the Fortune Valley Casino in Central City, Colorado was due to a computer malfunction and consequently she had won nothing. Louise Chavez was playing on the poker machine... 

The 3-D online poker site PKR has announced the addition of their first female player to Team PKR Pro, in the guise of stunning 20 year old poker pro Sofia ‘wellbet’ Lovgren from Gothenburg, Sweden. A few days ago, PKR would only reveal that the new recruit... 

It is well known in poker that tournament players get away with gambling more because the limited amount of time and options available to each player forces them to make plays that they wouldn’t make during a cash game. The feast or famine nature of tournaments... 

Cuong Tran has won the GUKPT London 2010 after beating a field of 318 players over four days to take down the title and the £127,000 first place prize. The £1,500 buy-in event managed to attract a top tier of poker pros to the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London,... 

A gang of 10 men dressed in black clothes and ski-masks succeeded in stealing several hundred thousand Swiss francs from the Grand Casino Basel in Switzerland, before making good their escape across the French border 200 metres away. Following the armed robbery,... 

Season six of the popular TV programme ‘High Stakes Poker’ got off to a shaky start this year, after loyal viewers took time to settle into the new format of the show. Now, however, the show seems to be enjoying a resurgence in interest with viewer...