20 July 2011
Cash giveaway as PokerStars celebrates 65 billionth hand
PokerStars will be dealing its 65 billionth hand in the near future and is giving players the opportunity to win plenty of cash in celebration.
19 July 2011
81 left at WPT Slovenia – Hirvonen leads
While the World Series of Poker is drawing to a close the action on the World Poker Tour is just starting up again with Slovenia's Casino Portoroz the venue for the opening event on the season ten calendar.
English Deepstack Poker Championship announced
Players who like their starting stacks deeps and their clock long (try saying that after a few beers) will be heading to Birmingham for the English Deepstack Poker Championship which will be held at the city's Broadway Casino this September.
Actor hails restorative powers of poker
Actor Bill Maynard is well known for playing characters looking to make a fast buck, either as scheming Greengrass in Sunday evening snoozefest Heartbeat or as the eponymous Gaffer from the 1980s sitcom.
18 July 2011
WSOP 2011 – a Who’s Who of the Main Event survivors [Editorial]
We’ve reached a pretty exciting time at the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event. Less than one per cent of the field remains in contention for the $8.7m first prize – and the bracelet, natch – with Ryan Lenaghan’s beard leading the field into Day 7 after amassing a frankly so-incredible-it’s-almost-arousing 12,865,000 in chips.
Chris O'Donnell wins UKIPT Brighton
When asked what his strategy at final table of UKIPT Brighton would be Chris O'Donnell jokingly replied, “I don't really have one to be honest. I'm just going to see what happens. Basically I'm gonna wing it.” Well winging it could be the new poker style of choice after O'Donnell took the honours in the south coast showpiece.
London Poker Championship starts today
Tournament junkies in London will be heading to The Vic this week for the London Poker Championship which gets under way this evening.
15 July 2011
WSOP 2011 – is live broadcasting poker's next big thing? [Editorial]
Last night saw the remaining 1,864 survivors that had battled through an opening flight and a second day return to The Rio for Day 3 – actually the seventh day of the Main Event after the six it took to narrow down a field of 6,865. Now just 852 remain in contention and with the money bubble bursting at 693 players we can expect to see that happen within the next twenty-four hours.
Federated Sports and Gaming launches tournament ranking system
Tennis and golf have their own ranking systems and now tournament poker will too after Federated Sports and Gaming (the people behind the Epic Poker League) launched the Global Poker Index.
Have you got what it takes to beat Goliath?
A massive £100,000 guaranteed prize pool is up for grabs at Coventry's Ricoh Arena next month, all for the princely sum of £100+£20.