19 November 2012
Coren gets hitched to Mitchell
Victoria Coren bucked the trend of poker players marrying poker players over the weekend when she got hitched to comedian, David Mitchell.
Poker playing London cops fired
A group of work-shy cops has been sacked after an internal investigation by the Metropolitan Police found that they'd been playing poker rather than carrying out their duties.
Emil Olsson wins WPT Copenhagen
A Swede has been crowned Prince of Denmark. The Swede in question, Emil Olsson, outlasted a 229-runner field to take the WPT Copenhagen title over the weekend.
17 November 2012
Sahamies on huge heater
Ilari Sahamies is no stranger to the huge swings at the high stakes online tables but even he can rarely have experienced such highs and lows over the past three weeks.
Olsson heads WPT Copenhagen final table
Just six players are left in the hunt for the $229,938 first prize at WPT Copenhagen and its Emil Olsson who leads the way. The Swede will start the final table with 2,208,000 over 600,000 ahead of closest rival Stanislav Barshak who returns with 1,597,000.
PokerStars wins Spanish court case
PokerStars received a boost yesterday after a Barcelona court ruled that the world's largest poker site has operated legally in Spain since it began offering its services in 2001.
16 November 2012
Petition to ban Lederer from Aria
A few weeks ago Howard Lederer decided the time was right to reappear on the poker scene and start grinding the high stakes games at both the Aria and the Bellagio.
Micros attracts Millions
Anyone who feared that online poker might be suffering a dip in popularity need fear no more as the opening day of PokerStars' Micro Millions event certainly proved otherwise.
MGM on course for online poker
MGM Resorts International has become the latest Vegas operator to be granted a state online poker license.
18 left at WPT Copenhagen – Barshak leads
The 45 players who started Day 3 of WPT Copenhagen were whittled down to just 18 with Stanislav Barshak the man to beat heading into the penultimate day.