15 April 2011
US authorities charge top poker sites with fraud
Federal authorities in the USA have unsealed an indictment against the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker accusing them of a series of offences including bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling.
Jason Mercier wins NAPT Shootout
Anyone emerging from a coma could be forgiven for thinking that they'd woken up in 2010 rather than 2011. After Vanessa Selbst second NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event victory in two years comes news of Jason Mercier repeating the feat in the Shootout event.
Game of skill – the best repeat tournament performances [Friday Editorial]
Vanessa Selbst pulled off an amazing double this week by defending her crown at the PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event, defeating a field of 387 players a year after doing the same to a field of 716. When the hubbub from this had died down, all eyes were on Jason Mercier, the 2010 NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout champion. He was going to bed, having railed Selbst to a victory and now needing to sleep before his own repeat final table.
Gus Hansen and Daniel Cates crush online games
It won’t surprise anyone who has been following the nosebleed action in the past six months to learn that the biggest winners in the mid-week sessions on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars were Gus Hansen and Daniel “jungleman12” Cates respectively.
Irish Open to be webstreamed live
Viewers wanting to keep up to date with all the action from this year's Irish Open will be able to do so courtesy of paddypowerpoker.com which has revealed details of its extensive online coverage.
Danny Ball heads DTD Monte Carlo
The prospect of a £250,000 guaranteed prize pool attracted some of Britain's finest tournament players to Dusk Till Dawn yesterday for the first of two opening day flights of the £1,000 buy-in DTD Monte Carlo event.
14 April 2011
Vanessa Selbst makes it back-to-back NAPT Mohegan Sun wins
Even though she’s sick good at poker we never thought that PokerStars pro Vanessa Selbst would actually manage to pull off the feat of consecutive titles at the NAPT Mohegan Sun, a tournament that should surely be renamed the NAPT Mohegan Selbst since she has won all of them.
Mike Scarborough beats Erik Seidel to World Poker Tour title
Erik Seidel must be disappointed to not win the World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open title after reaching heads-up play. He runs so bad. Seidel finished second to Cincinnati kid Mike Scarborough, who put on a dominating show at the final table to emerge top of the 97-player field and take the $274,000 first prize.
Bodog launches WSOP satellites
Bodog Poker is the latest site to reveal details of its World Series of Poker qualification promotions.
£250k guaranteed DTD Monte Carlo starts today
Dusk Till Dawn will be the centre of the UK poker universe for the next days with a host of tournament and cash game action.