09 December 2010
Poker Academy returns this Saturday
The Bluff Europe Poker Academy heads to the Fox Poker Club in London's West End this Saturday with a pre Christmas clinic centred on how to accumulate chips in tournaments with special consideration given to the bubble and the final table.
£20k guaranteed first prize at Debden Poker this weekend
The Only Way Is Essex according to the Sky TV show and poker players could be forgiven for thinking the same with news of a big two day spectacular in the county this weekend.
New pro for Team PKR
Isildur1 may have stolen the headlines recently but the enigmatic Swede isn't the only European player to ink a sponsorship deal this week.
08 December 2010
Vanessa Rousso leads WPT Five Diamond
When you think of the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,000 Main Event you think of two things – stacked final tables and ‘wow, that tournament has a really long name’. The 2010 edition didn’t disappoint with PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso enjoying a late run of cards to finish with almost a third of the chips in play.
Poker Million final table set
The line up for this Friday's live Poker Million final is now complete after online qualifier Gary Peniket won the last seat after winning a special freeroll at Full Tilt Poker.
Paul Valkenburg wins Unibet Open London
Paul Valkenburg has been crowned Unibet Open London champion. The Dutchman pocketed £109,950 after outrunning a 273 runner field that included such high profile luminaries as James Akenhead , Praz Bansi , Neil Channing , JP Kelly , Toby Lewis and Ludovic Lacay .
BLOG - Land of the Free, unless you just want a harmless game of poker
Yeah, didn't see this one coming. The good news is that the USA could be looking at legal, regulated poker online by the end of next week. The bad news is that the bill it's attached to was written by a man with no clue about online poker, nor does he care for the players.
What will Harry Reid’s Internet Poker bill mean for us?
By now you will have all heard about Harry Reid’s Internet Poker bill . Attached to a larger piece of legislation in the same way that the UIGEA snuck in alongside the Safe Port Act in 2006, it proposes a system of regulated and taxed online poker in the US – but at a price.
APPT Day 1b concludes, Daniel Neilson leads the field
The Grand Final of the Asian Pacific Poker Tour series saw the PokerStars crew land in Sydney for a $6,000 AUD event that attracted 75 players for Day 1a and 68 for Day 1b; we expect today’s Day 1c field to be the largest yet and bring us above maybe even 300 players.
07 December 2010
Isildur1 joins Team PokerStars
The most enigmatic figure in poker, the high stakes legend that is Isildur1 is the latest member of Team PokerStars pro.