28 April 2010
Aston Martin to be won from PartyPoker
PartyPoker yesterday announced that Formula One racing driver Jaime Alguersuari had become a brand ambassador for the site. They're keeping up with the driving theme in their latest promotion too with a top of the range Aston Martin DB9 on offer for the winner.
Classic poker movie Rounders on BBC1 tonight
As far as poker movies go you'd be hard pushed to find anything better than Rounders. If you haven't seen it before (and if not, why not?) then take the trouble of flicking on to BBC1 tonight.
27 April 2010
Over 400 players for Day 2 of EPT Monte Carlo
Day 1b saw the total amount of players registered to compete in the PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo grand final soar to 848; creating a prize pool of over €8,000,000 and a first prize of seven figures.
Englishman Paul Alterman wins WSOP Circuit event
All eyes may have been on the Bellagio for the WPT Championship these past few days but there was another big tournament in Las Vegas taking place over the weekend and there's some British success to report.
PokerStars announces WSOP qualifiers
The 2010 WSOP is fast approaching and PokerStars has released details of how to qualify for the big one via the site as well as some impressive bonus possibilities.
New additions to Team PartyPoker
PartyPoker has boosted the ranks of its pro team with a couple of high profile additions.
26 April 2010
BLOG – durrrr unleashed; up $8.2m since December.
Tom Dwan is an incredible man; easily as awesome as Phil Ivey. There, I’ve said it. In November 2009, just six months ago, Tom Dwan had lost over five million dollars to Isildur1 and semi-disappeared from online poker for a short period of time. The king was dead and the haters came out of the woodwork to tell everybody how they knew that spewy LAG would stop running hot one day.
Channing challenges at EPT Monte Carlo
After Liv Boeree made her presence felt to the tune of €1.25m at the EPT San Remo last week, fellow Brit Neil Channing is climbing high in the chip counts in Monte Carlo after Day 1a of PokerStars’ EPT €10,000 Grand Final.
Rounders star Matt Damon confirmed at WSOP
Rounders star Matt Damon and his Good Will Hunting co-star Ben Affleck have confirmed their attendance at the Ante Up for Africa charity tournament at the 2010 World Series of Poker.
Kuljinder Sidhu wins GUKPT Manchester
Numbers were down substantially for the latest leg of the GUKPT in Manchester (192 this year compared to 296 in 2009) but Kuljinder Sidhu won't be complaining after his biggest tournament victory to date.