06 December 2010
Marc Foggin wins Dusk Till Dawn Deepstack for over £30,000
Those of us not sitting pretty (ish) in London and the South of England have been able to move about without strapping tennis racquets to our trainers but those of us up t’North(ish) haven’t been so lucky with several inches of snow immobilising parts of Britain.
04 December 2010
Ivey among WPT Five Diamond leaders
The field at Day 1 of the WPT Five Diamond at Bellagio was a veritable who's who of top class poker talent with Chau Giang, Vanessa Rousso, Jason Mercier, Scotty Nguyen, Erik Seidel, Barry Greenstein and Freddy Deeb among the 391 starters in the $10,000 buy-in event.
Huge Bad Beat Jackpot at the Empire
222 may be an unlucky number in cricket but poker players at the Empire Casino in Leicester Square had no such worries after they shared £222k when the venue's Bad Beat Jackpot was finally struck.
Xmas giveaway from PokerStars
Christmas is the time of giving and PokerStars are getting into the festive mood by hosting a series of Festive Giveaways throughout December.
03 December 2010
UKIPT Galway finally under way
The terrible weather conditions may have delayed the start of proceedings but play has finally got under way at the opening leg of the new season of the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour .
BLOG – what is in store for US poker in 2011?
Let old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind, says Peter Eastgate as he ships his WSOP bracelet off to someone with too much money and writes a big cheque to UNICEF. The rest of us don’t have solid gold diamond-encrusted jewels and six-figure cheques to worry about so when we look to the New Year in a poker sense, what do we see?
Eskimo Clark’s 1999 Razz bracelet sells for $4,050 on eBay
The hubbub around Peter Eastgate’s six-figure auction for the charity UNICEF, fetching $147,500 for his 2008 Main Event winner’s bracelet, has taken the lustre off the Eskimo Clark Razz bracelet bid which closed on Wednesday with a winner paying $4,050 for the jewellery.
Global Gaming Events showdown for UB pros
Global Gaming Events has thrown down the gauntlet to UB.com's team of pros by challenging them to a special freeroll tournament.
Side games come to PKR.com
Players at PKR.com can now enjoy 20 new instant-play miniature and side games after the three-dimensional site finalised a licensing agreement with interactive gaming software and services provider GTECH G2.
Darvin Moon to host Foxwoods Mega Stack XVIII
You don’t quit poker, the old saying goes: poker quits you. It seems to be the case for Darvin Moon, who declared famously that he would return to his logging job and community in Maryland even after his multi-million dollar win at the World Series of Poker 2009 where he finished runner up to Joe Cada.