Archive for September, 2010

Online poker history was made this week after the largest ever pay-out for an online tournament worth $2,278,097 was won by a poker pro from Montana. Tyson ‘potterpoker’ Marks took down the PokerStars $5,200 WCOOP Main Event, after defeating a field... 

US poker players are already anticipating the worst after the Obama administration proposed the recording of all international electronic fund transfers, and not just those over $10,000. If the new proposal comes to fruition then it would make it practically impossible... 

An online poker processor free on a bond has been sent back to Lee County jail, Florida after increasing concerns that he may try fleeing the country. German citizen, Michael Olaf Schuett aka Olaf Brand was accused of illegally processing around $70 million in... 

UK pro Liv Boeree joined Ultimate Bet in August last year but her UB logos were visibly missing during the later part of her WSOP 2010 campaign. Now the mystery has been solved after it was announced Boeree has just been named as the newest recruit to Team PokerStars... 

UK’s James Bord has just won the £10k WSOP Europe 2010 Main Event after overcoming a tough final table and a tense heads-up battle to win a WSOP winners bracelet, and collect the £830,401 ($1.3 million) first place prize. As the final table got underway... 

Compared to his incredible $9 million winning year at Full Tilt in 2009, Patrik Antonius has had quite a struggle on his hands in 2010 where his bankroll hit a downswing right from the start. In fact, Antonius’ was stuck $3.61 million by February and was... 

The NagaWorld casino in Phnom Penh, Cambodia has started reviewing its baccarat game policy, after a gang of fraudsters managed to exploit a loophole in the dealer’s shuffle to the tune of US$1.3 Million. Despite using an auto-shuffler at the casino to shuffle... 

The starting field of 346 hopefuls who entered the WSOP Europe Main Event 2010 has now been reduced to just 9 players, each hoping to claim the prestigious WSOP bracelet and the £830,401 ($1.31m) first place prize as their own. Yesterday poker fans were still... 

Martin Sansour has just won the PokerStars sponsored Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Rosario, after defeating a field of 254 players over four days to take down the tournament, as well as the $322,280 first-place prize. By the end of Day 1 of the event the starting... 

At the start of Day 3 of the 2010 WSOPE Main Event 66 players returned intent on advancing their WSOP aspirations but by the end of play just 22 hopefuls remained. Among those players not even making the  £21,206 minimum cash bubble reserved for the top 36 places...