07 December 2010
Just 15 left at WPT Five Diamond – Esfandiari still leads
54 players started day four of the $10,000 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Classic at the Bellagio, including the great man himself. Just 15 were left at the close but sadly Doyle ended up just short, busting out in 18th place.
Cristiano Ronaldo at the Full Tilt Tables?
There are plenty of links between the football and poker worlds, just look at the success that Tony Cascarino has enjoyed and the long list of footballers now playing in high profile tournaments. If the online rumours are to believed it looks like another top player has made the move from grass to felt, none other than Cristiano Ronaldo .
Stupid donkeys! Send them to Oxfam with Cake Poker
When we say a Christmas promotion here, we’re not just talking about slapping a Santa hat and a candy cane graphic on a $500 deposit bonus. This is one of those genuine, charitable, help-your-fellow-man Christmas things that you don’t hear about too often. And it comes courtesy of online poker network Cake Poker.
Asian Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final begins tonight
The fourth season of the APPT sponsored by PokerStars is concluding after beginning way back when in March with the APPT Manila that broke records for the prize pools in the region. The event has gone on to Macau, Auckland and Cebu where we crowned the first female winner of the APPT.
06 December 2010
Aussie Millions satellites from PokerTime
PokerTime.eu is giving players the chance to escape the winter blues in Britain and head to the sun down under with qualifiers for next month's Aussie Millions now up and running.
Risk reaps double reward
Nick Abou Risk has gone into the record books after becoming the first player to win two events on the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) after taking the season two open in Galway last night.
Luke Fields is the GUKPT Champion of Champions
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, concluded the £2,500 Grand Final at London’s Victoria Casino recently but there was still one final event to play out – the £150,000 Champion of Champions freeroll in which the year's winners compete for a six-figure prize pool.
BLOG – CardRunners is five years old; old enough to start school itself
Read this. I wrote this three whole entire years ago when CardRunners was around 18 months old and people seriously worried that the slew of new online poker training sites were going to kill online poker by making everyone solid. Have a look:
Antonio Esfandiari leads WPT Five Diamond
After a third day of play the money bubble burst at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and just 54 players remain in the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,000 event. Unusually, of the 426 entrants a round 100 were paid which means that all the players remaining are in the money.
Training site CardRunners celebrates fifth anniversary
Defying their critics who claim that video training sites will kill online poker by making everyone a shark, online poker training site CardRunners are celebrating their fifth anniversary today.