POKER NEWS

03 July 2008

WSOP Event #52, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: Daneshgar Triumphs
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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