03 July 2008
WSOP Event #52, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: Daneshgar Triumphs
Event #52, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em saw 2,693 players try to capture
the last no limit hold’em bracelet that wouldn’t set them back
$10,000. With a final table of nine having been whittled down, it
was for pro David Daneshgar to claim his first bracel
'Rizen' Leaves UltimateBet
On the back of a recent superuser scandal which is breaking at
UltimateBet, Eric ‘Rizen’ Lynch was brought on board to represent
the poker room. Only moments after he had signed, Lynch was
revealed in his blog that he is leaving UltimateBet almost as
WCOOP ‘Winner’ Telscher Appealing to Courts
PokerStars.com has been appearing in the High Court on the Isle of
Man this week following a complaint by online player Natalie
Telscher that the site owes her $1.228 million.
The court in Douglas has been hearing evidence that Telscher had
a P
02 July 2008
WSOP Event #51, $1,500 H.O.R.S.E: Schaaf the Champion as Hellmuth
Finishes Third
By day, James Schaaf works with databases and coding to build
navigations software. Last night he managed to steer his way around
seven others all after their place on the 2008 winner’s roster.
Double Up With PokerStars in July Promotion
PokerStars has released details of their new promotion for July.
This month you can get twice as much as before with ‘PokerStars
2X’. What’s more is promotions are being offered across many
different events, meaning everyone can get in on the deal.
01 July 2008
Bluff Europe Announce WSOPE Satellite Promotion
With the WSOP soon winding up in Las Vegas, attention will turn
back to London, home of the
World Series of Poker Europe.
WSOP Event #49, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: J.C. Tran Pockets His
First Bracelet
J.C. Tran is just a very, very good poker player. Having already
won one WPT title, made five WPT final tables and taken down a
PokerStars WCOOP Main Event, the only thing that was missing from
his poker CV was his first bracelet.
PokerStars Announce the 2008 WCOOP Schedule
While the brick and mortar warfare wages in Las Vegas, PokerStars
has released the schedule for the 2008 World Championship of Online
Poker (WCOOP). One of the richest poker tournament schedules in the
online poker world, the 2008 WCOOP will feature
30 June 2008
WSOP Event #45, $50,000 H.O.R.S.E.: Scotty Nguyen Is The Champ,
Baby!
The final table of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event had it all: star
players, tons of action, and a lot of beer. While Scotty Nguyen
ploughed through Michelob and poker players hand-in-hand, the rest
of us remembered just how good it is when Scotty wins
John Bonetti Passes Away
In the words of Phil Hellmuth, John Bonetti would have been a huge
star if the television cameras came five years earlier. The man who
won his first of three bracelets back in 1990 was one of the most
fiery characters in poker, and was as tough a pla