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MS Society to Benefit from WSOP Main Event Chip Leader

The November Nine. Remember them? Yes, the final nine players from the 2008 World Series of Poker's Main Event are coming soon to the televison screen near you to play out the remaining hands and this year's World Champion. Among the final nine, six of them signed with PokerStars.n...

Jason Mercier Wins Again at Million Pound Showdown

image from PokerStarsBlog.com If anyone knows the secret to Jason Mercier's and John Juanda's recent strings of success please let me know before my miniscule bankroll ends up in Sweden via Full Tilt and PokerStars playing Pot Limit Omaha. First Juanda's success over seas starte...

Michael Martin Claims EPT London

image from PokerStarsBlog.com John Daly won the 1991 PGA Championship while the ninth alternate. While not a "major" an European Poker Tour victory is a large boa-sized feather in anyone's cap. Michael Martin took his 105th alternate card to even enter the London EPT event, and ...

JJ is Dynomite: Juanda Take Down WSOPE Main Event

22 hours. You could do a lot within that time span: watch Rounders about 13 times, run a marathon in world record setting time 11 times, or win the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event. Sure you'd get plenty of Teddy KGB quotes to impress your friends or bragging rights at your next ru...

Bloch On Top: WSOPE Main Event Day 2

The World Series of Poker did not officially end when everyone cleared out of the Amazon room this summer after the 10th place finisher of the Main Event final table was named. Currently, the continuation of the WSOP brand is in London as Day two of their Main Event just wrapped up. The £10,00...

Russ Busted: Hamilton Named Behind UB Super-User Scandal

$6.1 million It's a nice sum of money. This pile of cash will grab you a Eurocentric sports car or two, a house near people you see in movies, and maybe a few million left over for a decent lawn mower . The amount noted above is the current sum of money that has been refunded to high...

Million Dollar Men Freerolls at Stars

image from parttimepoker.com As the time table creeps forward towards the "live" showing of the 2008 World Series Main Event final table, poker fans are awaiting the crowning of a new champion. Last year's champ was Jerry Yang by the way, if you didn't see him sporting Full ...

Bodog Open II Starts Sunday

image from poker.com Despite all the lashing at Bodog Poker lately, they are going forward with the second installment of the Bodog Open . Starting on Sunday September 28th, Bodog will be hosting several Hold Em' tournaments (and only Hold Em') over the course of next week with buy-i...

PokerStars 2009 PCA Announced

image from PokerStarsBlog.com The best never rest. This applies to athletes and businesses, as online poker players have branded PokerStars to be the best in the business from their customer service down to the games they offer. Just a few days after their record breaking World Championship ...

WCOOP High Rolling Weekend

image from parttimepoker.com 64 players, $25,500 buy-in, head-to-head competition. The biggest buy-in for the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker took place last night at PokerStars, which is also the biggest buy-in the tournament series has ever placed. There were over 64 entries but sin...

WCOOP Half-Way Done, Moneymaker Cashes Big

image from pokerallstar.com All eyes of the online poker world have been gathering at the largest site, PokerStars, for the past week. The 2008 installment of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) has been crushing the guarantees left and right, then left again. Tonight events #17 an...

Joost Brings the WSOP and More For Free

image from journal.paul.querna.org Not sure if I have mentioned this little nugget for the poker junkies out there looking for more poker content on TV and video. Joost.com has three different links dedicated in bringing some unknown and known poker shows to you. Just simply download the Joos...

APPT Macau's Starting Lineup Looks Impressive

image from PokerStarsBlog.com Season one of the Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) enjoy some great success in introducing high stakes poker tournaments to places where none adventured before. Season two of the APPT is kicking off September 1st with some marquee players dropping by the Grand Wa...

Full Tilt Pros TV Viewing Page

image from FullTiltPoker.com If you're a fanboi of Full Tilt poker and love to watch them during the regular ESPN poker nights on Tuesday, their website is happy to plug their pros appearances. The "Full Tilt Poker on TV Poker Show Guide" will assist your viewing pleasure of Er...

FTOPS IX: Two Day Event Brings the Cash

image from bodoglife .com More from the ninth edition of Full Tilt's Online Poker Series (FTOPS)... Right now the successful two day $2,500+$120 NLHE Event #22 hosted by Patrik Antonius is nearing its completion . 942 runners assured the two million dollar guarantee was well met, K...

PokerStars Alphabet Soup of Poker

Hopefully it's possible to fit all the updates coming from PokerStars on one page, but the recent slew of activity there goes to show why they are the biggest and the best. The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) is currently in Punta del Este, Uruguay for the inaugural LAPT event and has yo...

WSOP Event #1 on ESPN Tonight

Think of tonight as the season premier of your favorite show which last left off with the single dad finding his lost love from college who happens to have an 17 old kid that might be his, while the daughter runs away with Cody the mysterious tattoo'd biker, and younger sibling Ryan is left...

WPT Moves to FSN

image from gemsen.com Whew. As a poker fanboi, but with little time to indulge in watching poker on TV, my DVR needed a new fix when Game Show Network shot down the newest season of the World Poker Tour and continuing the highly rated High Stakes Poker show. Poker After Dark on NBC is on track...

Hottie vs. The "G"

image from Pokerpages.com Tiffany Michelle, 17th place finisher in the 2008 World Series of Poker in one corner. The other corner Tony G, all-around professional poker player, owner of Pokernews.com and Tiffany's employer (might be past tense now). The bout for the public's opin...

19 Year Old Poker Star

Most of us have a dream of doing or becoming something when we are growing up; but few of us ever realize that dream. But 19-year-old Annette Obrestad of Norway not only realized her dream and is living it; she made it happen, almost as soon as the idea formed in her head. Annette has beco...

PokerStars Will Be Seen at the Final Table

The online poker giant made its presence known in the 2008 World Series of Poker long before the "November Nine" was named. Also with bracelets won by Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Dario Minieri and Barry Greenstein, they will be representing 2/3rds of the Main Event final tab...

WSOP Main Event: Final Nine Set

"The November Nine" they will be known as for the next three plus months. Lives under a microscope of 2+2 message boards about who's getting coached by whom, what the major endorsement deals the online sites will be offering and most of all who is the favorite to win. The 2008 Wor...

Pre-Flop Poker Odds

The 2008 Las Vegas world series of poker tournament is coming to a close and what a tournament it has been. With a top prize of about $10 million bucks and nearly 7K players competing for it there should be some Poker playing tips and tricks coming from the World Series Of Poker Tournam...

Las Vegas World Series Of Poker Side Betting Heating Up

Pete Rose bet on himself and got banned from Major League Baseball as a result; but that's not the way it works at the Las Vegas world series of poker . At the World Series Of Poker a player who has confidence in his or her ability to win can prove it by placing side bets and increase...

WSOP Main Event Day 3

image from poker-king.com world series of poker Updates: Erick Lindgren while getting off the "best player without a bracelet" snide, also managed enough impressive finishes to take the 2008 World Series of Poker Player of the Year award. No word if Lindgren would receive a y...

Inside The World Series Of Poker Lounges

Anyone engaged in a competition of any sort, whether it's a sport or an intellectual pursuit, needs a time out every now and then to rest either muscles or mind. For me, a refreshing cold drink, and a bit of a lie down or at least sitting in a semi reclining position, in a quiet place, eyes...

PokerStars.TV is Born

image from poquer-red.com Remember watching Hevad Khan aka Rainkhan go three degrees of nuts on ESPN a few times during the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event? Maybe a couple of times? Now, catch the Team PokerStars Pro in a little more calm light with the launch PokerStars.TV bringing so...

Calm Before the Storm: WSOP 2008 Main Event Coming Soon

Bouncing around the Amazon room before the big day: Well-known pro doesn't always equate well-funded pro as the case of Jean-Robert Bellande. His final table for Event #53's $1,500 Limit Hold Em' shootout and 2nd place finish for $173,564 might only net him a couple of Krispy K...

Poker Pro John Bonetti Dies at Age 80

Well known poker pro John Bonetti recently passed away at the age of 80. Its tough to come up with nice things to say about a person who was anything but to his fellow players, but even worst towards dealers. Away from the lights, Bonetti was known to the dealers as one of the worse abusers...

Professional Poker Coaches Helping The Ladies At The WSOP

These days there seems to be a coach or advisor for nearly everything. Every sport is loaded with coaches, and there are exercise coaches, tennis and golf coaches, diet coaches, and recently, I learned that actress denise richards even has a "suntan" advisor! So, it comes as n...

WSOP $50K H.O.R.S.E. : Onto Day 4 Team PokerStars Looking Solid at the Top

image from Pokernews.com What will hold more prestige in poker's hierarchy: Winning the World Series of Poker Main Event or the winner of the current event #45's $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E tourney? If you were to poll random people the answer would be the main event of course, since w...

Seidel Short in Quest of #9, Berman Leads HORSE

After Updates from the greatest show on green felt with advertisements, the World Series of Poker! Let's bounce around the interwebs for the latest bracelet holders and those who can finally pay their backers back: The big $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. tourneys is on to Day 2 and finds World Poker To...

Las Vegas World Series Of Poker Headquarters

Summer has just started, and while some parts of the country still have coolish weather, here in Las Vegas the temperature has been in triple digits for weeks. But it's not just the heat outside the casinos that has everyone's attention, it's just as sizzling hot inside the Poker r...

David Benyamine Shows Tournament Chops in WSOP O8 Win

If you play at Full Tilt and love to watch the high stakes games like I do, one name is constantly shown across the board in all games. David Benyamine is a fixture among those who constantly put a house on the line with a flush draw but he's the only one who will do it across five differen...

Dario and Greenstein Bring Bracelets to PokerStars Team

Its been called the "year of the pro" by writers and bloggers alike when describing the current installment of the World Series of Poker. With the exception of many of the weekend $1,500 no limit hold em' events, the name pros from Full Tilt and PokerStars have been cashing in on ...

Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu Wins First Bracelet for PokerStars in 2008 WSOP

After watching the Full Tilt pros pile up the World Series of Poker bracelets at the beginning of this grueling poker tournament series, Team PokerStars' newest and biggest name min raised his way to his fourth bracelet. Daniel Negreanu took home first place in Event #20's $2,000 Limit ...

Fischman Solves 6-max SnG's

For those poker players who play mostly live poker in a full ring game, the adjustments to six-handed play is vast. Add on the speed of the online game and you have the potential of turning a previously big winner on the felt, to a tilting donkey that the online sharks are circling in at...

BBT3 Ends Loretta and OMGItsPokerFool Heading to the WSOP ME

A little late to the party, but the Battle of the Blogger Tournament number Drei finished its great give away sponsored generously by the Full Tilt team. For three grueling months poker bloggers and readers/fans of their sites dropped in on the weekly set of blogger tournaments to accumulat...

PokerStars Hits the Amazon Room Running

(photo from Pokernews.com) PokerStars determined once again to line the Amazon room at the Rio with the most players for the World Series of Poker Main Event has a few media releases about their Team PokerStars Pros and the army of the red spade forthcoming: PokerStars Sets New Records with ...

Glum to Glam? WSOP 2008 Event #15 and #16

Bouncing around the World Series of Poker with a few updates: "Glum Girl" svetlana Gromenkova (as coined by Wicked Chops Poker and pictured above) cracked her first smile of the tournament as she took the bracelet in Event #15 $1,000 No Limit Hold Em'Ladies World Champio...

Performance Enhancing Drugs Used At The World Series Of Poker

Are Poker players athletes? I guess if you consider the endurance factor, playing for many hours non stop while under tremendous mental stress, they just might be intellectual athletes. So, performance enhancing drugs have been introduced to the world of professional Poker, and it will be inter...

Bodog Blogger Tournament of Champions Tonight

Tonight is the night for the end of a four month long blogger series at Bodog resulting in one skilled (lucky?) blogger going to play in the World Series of Poker Main Event on Bodog's dime. The Bodog Poker Blogger Tournament Series consisted of several weekly $11 buy no limit hold em...

2008 WSOP: Event #5 and #6

(photo credit to pokerpages.com) Bracelets, bracelets, who's got the newly minted bracelets at the 2008 World Series of Poker? Lets gander across the inter-waves and find out! From Pokernews.com: michael Banducci spent enough $1,000 rebuys in Event #5's $1,000 No Limit Hold Em...

5 More World Series Of Poker Seats Available At Bodog

If you want a free seat at the world series Of Poker you better act fast because Bodog is offering 5 more seats today and today only. The prize package includes the $10.000.00 buy in, and an additional 2 grand for travel expenses. Bodog is looking for exposure at the WSOP and they want ...

Back-to-Back for Full Tilt, Lindgren Gets His First WSOP Bracelet in Event #4

Full Tilt must be enjoying their day in the sun as David Singer won Event #3. But, just like in baseball, back-to-back home runs can tilt the score heavily in your favor. Erick Lindgren, Full Tilt pro, known for his golf prop betting skills (head to Tao of Poker if you haven't heard the...

David Singer Notches First WSOP Bracelet in Event #3

Professional poker players are allowed to call themselves as such because generally they are better then your basic $.25/$.50 game with the guys after hitting up Dave and Buster's on a Friday night. Some of these have sponsorship deals and backing deals simply because their talent allows fo...

WSOP Notes: Ferguson Close to Final Table in Event #2

"Luckat" at PokerStars a future pro? Kathy Liebert had a final table deal with the online juggernaut during Event #1 of the World Series of Poker's $10,000 Pot Limit Hold Em' Championship. Coming from behind, she managed a fourth place finish. From Pokerlistings.com's li...

Birthday Boy Gets Runner-Up Prize: Medic Tops Bloch in Event #1

(image from Cardplayer.com ) Nenad Medic decided he wasn't in the gifting mood at the final table as he defeated birthday boy Andy Bloch for the first and his first 2008 World Series of Poker bracelet. As described yesterday here, the final table was a huge mix of known big name pros wh...

WSOP 2008 Event #1: Get Your All-Star Game Jerseys Out

(image from Pokernews.com ) The Minnesota Twins are currently coming up short each night in their first series of the year with the superstars of the New York Yankees. I suppose there's a reason why the ballplayers from the Bronx are paid a little more as their ability to come from behind ...

When You Can't Do, You Pimp: WSOP 2008 Reading Guide

Since I am not currently huddled behind my laptop in the Rio's conference room where thousands of players have huddled together to strike first blood, I'll pimp those who are ready to bring the armchair poker fanbois at home a little taste of the World Series of Poker. Pauly over a...

Ultimate Cheating Uncovered at 2+2

Most of what I write here is to encourage poker players who play live or those who maybe don't have the bankroll to play live and want to get the feel of the action for the cost of a few value meals at Arby's. But, sadly money begets greed and some of those on the inside over at Ultimat...

PokerStars Announces 200 Seat Guarantee Satellite for WSOP Main Event

The fight to be the biggest of the online sites represented at the World Series of Poker this year is on. Full Tilt is offering their 150 seat guarantee tourney on June 15th. Which is nice, but PokerStars flexed its considerable muscles and decided to come over the top if a poker-ism may be use...

Grand Waldo Hotel to Host PokerStars-managed Poker Room

The Asian Pacific Poker Tour, sponsored by PokerStars, introduced texas hold em ' to many gamblers in the Asian gambling mecca of Macau with last year's APPT Macau tourney. The successful run of the APPT has rolled up into a new venture at the beautiful Grand Waldo Hotel (picture ...

Daniel Negreanu Backs His Play With Prop Bets

I have been a reader of Full Contact Poker's forums for quite some time after seeing one of the best all-around poker players, Daniel Negreanu, open the doors to his blog and website. The poker site didn't last long thanks to the wonderful Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that...

BBT3: The Straightaway Remains

The bankroll busting Battle of the Blogger Tournaments III at Full Tilt Poker is finally hitting the home stretch. For some it's been a haven, with piles of money going towards moving up poker's ladder to higher stakes. To me, it's been a nightly reason to rant about the pitfall...

Layla Leaves, Is High Stakes Poker and WPT Far Behind?

Layla Kayleigh leaves the World Poker Tour, but does anyone hear? The beautiful co-hostess of the WPT showed herself to the door (story as broken by Wicked Chops Poker ) after just one season with the declining poker tour who's very own existence is in jeopardy as we'll get to ...

WSOP Main Event Final Nine To Finish After Halloween

The reports are out from Harrah's announcement on the internet about the changes to their prime event. The World Series of Poker's Main Event final table will be delayed for 117 days from the conclusion of the two month long poker circus that dominates the Rio Hotel and Casino in La...

Full Tilt WSOP Dreams

All the major poker sites are clamoring to get as many t-shirts, hats, bottle openers, and g-strings with their logos embossed in visible places for the cameras at the World Series of Poker. Yes, the smattering of online freerolls, satellites, super-satellites, and giveaways to get playe...

Chiu Overcomes Hansen at WPT Championship

Putting your money in the middle while a favorite proved to be a fatal flaw at the final table of the World Poker Tour WPT Championship. Had no diamond come, the headline might read "Cory Carroll triumph at Bellagio". Instead he received 4th place money and story told by BJ Nemeth :...

Nancy Todd Political Activist or Card Player Wins WPT Ladies Championship

I was checking out the conclusion of the World Poker Tour's WPT Championship this morning, and instead got the final update of a women's tournament. Not that this blogger has anything against ladies exclusive poker tourneys but there hasn't been any notices on the WPT web site until...

Amir Vahedi Leading WPT Championship (right this second)

I was watching the 2007 Aussie Millions yesterday while picking my daughter from daycare (thank goodness for grandparents that live close by) and two huge figures in that tournament were down to the final 18 of the 2008 World Poker Tour WPT Championship at the Bellagio . Andy Black who came ...

WPT Championship Day 2: Mizrachi, Robert not Michael Leads

From one major championship to the next, as some players went straight from the riches of Monte Carlo to the nightlife of Las Vegas and the World Poker Tour's WPT Championship being held at the Bellagio. With the European Poker Tour's Grand Finale finishing up just a few days ago, all...

BBT3 Thoughts From a Losing Player

The writing on the wall has shouted loud and clear about my participation in the Battle of the Blogger Tournaments part trey sponsored by Full Tilt Poker . "Thanks for the donations" "Money down the drain" As we closed another fun filled week of getting my money bad, or...

Chorny Crowned EPT 2008 Grand Finale Champ

Having the most chips entering the final table helps, but only if you're holding all of those chips at the end does it matter what you started the table with. Glen Chorny, a PokerStars Qualifier, outlasted Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, and int...

BBT3 and EPT Grand Finale Update: "Magician" Is Out

webcast here or live blogging from PokerNews.com here . As for slightly smaller stakes tourneys, the Battle of the Blogger Tournaments at Full Tilt is finishing up another week with the Thursday night "Riverchasers" $10+$1 tournament tonight at 8pm CST. With a small point grab on...

Hachem Bubbles Final Table of EPT Grand Finale

When last viewing the European Poker Tour's Monte Carlo Grand Finale , I saw Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem and Antonio Esfandiari battling it out when Hachem made a button raise only to be popped by "The Magician" in the big blind. Neither would show their cards as Antonio, the ...

PokerStars.net Inks a Player of the Year and Triple Crown Winner (not a horse)

PokerStars brought two new players into its stable of resident pros recently. Anyone else think a PokerStars vs. Full Tilt heads up battle royale is on the horizon? Made for TV, promotions, brackets, name-brand players... c'mon someone out there had to think of this (if not I'll take di...

Stars and Full Tilt Happenings

The two "major" internet poker sites have some exciting things forthcoming (I hope of which will be an increase to my balances at those sites). First off is PokerStars with their current "Battle of the Planets" which gives those players that prefer SnGs versus the len...

Is It Live or Is It the WSOP Main Event?

There has been a few instances where an online poker tournament ended when the final table was reached then the remainder of the tourney was played out several weeks/months later at a live locale ( Paradise Poker Million Dollar freeroll was one of them ). It's a great idea that you work har...

BBT3: Month One Ends "Big"

First month, done. Bankroll, screaming for mercy. The Battle of the Blogger Tournaments number three just concluded its first month of ego stretching tourney and thanks to FullTilt.com for their support and all these extra goodies going down the pipeline for a bunch of internet scribes and ...