24 August 2010
Bluff Europe Poker Academy returns next month
The Bluff Europe Poker Academy makes a very welcome return to London's Victoria Casino next month. Once again top pros from BlackBeltPoker.com will be on hand this time dissecting the topic of “Poker Psychology: Tells and Tilt”
Victory Poker to move to Cake Poker network
There have been rumours for a while that Victory Poker would be moving from the Everleaf network. Victory Poker CEO Dan Fleyshman has confirmed the move, which will become official on September 1.
Kensington Close Hotel the new venue for British Poker Awards
There is a new venue for the inaugural British Poker Awards ceremony. The Kensington Close Hotel will host the prestigious event on 13th September with some of the biggest names in the poker world set to be honoured by their peers and the public.
Mac-compatible online poker is more popular than ever
Back in the day if you were sensible enough (or pretentious enough, depending on who is asking) to own an Apple Mac then you were well out of luck when it came to playing online poker with it being a rarity for sites to offer Mac OSX compatible software.
23 August 2010
Risk reaps rewards at UKIPT Edinburgh
A total of 401 players bought in for the latest leg of the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour. There were plenty of big names amongst that throng including the likes of Neil Channing, Julian Thew, Vicky Coren and Liv Boeree but none could match Nick Abou Risk.
PKR Live returns this November
PKR Live will be back for a fifth year this November. The popular live festival will have a new home too with the Fox Poker Club in Shaftesbury Avenue in London playing host to proceedings from 12th to 14th November.
WPT Legends of Poker attracts record 462 players
How can a tournament attract more players than its last run and yet have a lower prize pool? Easy, just halve the buy-in. Last year’s World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles received a little under 300 entrants; this year has 462 but with a $5,000 buy-in as opposed to 2009’s $10,000.
BLOG - Less is More
On Friday night one of my friends had a 21st birthday party. It was fancy dress with a Hollywood theme which lead to Woody, GI Joe, Sister Maria (a 6'5" 200lb man) and Lara Croft getting their boogie on with Dorothy and Cleopatra.
Perica Bukara wins Cyprus Merit Classic $25k High Roller
Perica Bukara went into the final day of the Full Tilt Merit Cyprus Classic holding most of the chips in play and when the action eventually came to a close as dawn approached he was in possession of all of them.
181 players nominated for Poker Hall of Fame
Nominees for the 2010 Poker Hall of Fame admissions are underway at Harrah’s with a confirmed 181 names put forward by the poker public. Last year, Mike Sexton was given poker immortality for having a 75% portion of the vote; this year only 50% is required.