22 April 2010
Hip hip Boeree - Liv wins EPT San Remo
UB pro Liv Boeree has won her first major tournament in the form of the 1,240-player PokerStars EPT San Remo event, making herself €1,250,000 richer after defeating Sweden's Jakob Carlsson heads-up.
Faraz Jaka leads WPT Championship with 18 players left
The money bubble has burst at the WPT Championship with 18 players still chasing the $1.5m first prize.
Student Poker Championship announced
Poker playing students whose loans are running out will have the chance to earn some cash in the ninth incarnation of The Oxford Cup.
Canadian TV network announces poker reality show.
Poker shows such as High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark and 2 Months, 2 Million have enjoyed some success and Canadian production company – the aptly named HeadsUp entertainment – have announced the launch of a new poker reality show.
21 April 2010
Liv Boeree win EPT San Remo
Liv Boeree has been crowned EPT San Remo champion and is better off to the tune of €1.25.
Mortensen and Hellmuth in the hunt at WPT $25k championship
Day 3 of the $25,000 World Poker Tour championship saw the field whittled down to just 35; the first prize established as a huge $1.5m and... a tsunami.
Ivey league casinos – Aria opens new Ivey Room
Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio is named after Bobby Baldwin and, to this day, high stakes poker players do battle in insanely high-limit games there – anyone else remember Tom Dwan talking about $10k/$20k limit Triple Draw and million-dollar-buy-in, $2,000/$4,000 PLO?
Final table set at EPT San Remo
Just eight of the original 1,240 entrants remain on the Italian Riviera and there are a pair of Britons still in the hunt for the €1.25m first prize.
Ivey and Lederer in $5m prop bet
What do high stakes pros do when they want to spice up the action? Why throw in a little prop bet action on the side of course. Nothing strange about that but the figures in Phil Ivey's latest heads up with Howard Lederer are mind boggling.
20 April 2010
Faraz Jaka leads $25k WPT Championship
The WPT's late registration policy attracted a number of top pros to the second day of the WPT Championship at the Bellagio overnight but not could match Faraz "The Toilet" Jaka.