Ville Wahlbeck is having quite a year. Such a year, in fact, that he’s decided it’s his last, as far as professional poker is concerned, at least. In a clear case of knowing when to hold ‘em, when to fold ‘em, when to walk away, and when to run, this Finnish wunderkind is quitting while [...]
Former Magic card game champion Brock Parker has taken the 2009 WSOP bracelet for Event #14, $2,500 6-handed Limit Holdem, snagging it from favorite Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu who was hoping to make this his third WSOP Limit Holdem bracelet, tying the record Phil Hellmuth holds for the most WSOP bracelets held in Limit Holdem. [...]
According to the odds placers, the man to beat at the WSOP Champions Invitational, a special 2009 World Series of Poker event open solely to previous Main Event winners, is Phil Hellmuth, representative of Ultimate Bet Poker, renowned bad attitude poker brat, and the youngest player to have ever won a WSOP Main Event (this [...]
Sunday, May 3, Bodog Poker finished up another weeklong Bodog Poker Open, and this time around (the event’s third incarnation now) the big winner was one “Biffsworld”. The Bodog Poker Open II Main Event had a player pool of 279, a buy-in of $500, and a $161,130 prize pool that included an added $30,000 from [...]
Poker Stars has introduced a new event into its famed European Poker Tour Grand Final Week, and it’s a charity tournament no less. The charity is the current crisis in Darfur, and the event is the Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament. The event, a EUR 4,000 buy-in, No Limit Texas Holdem [...]
Thanks to two great poker sites–Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars–Mac users can now get in on all the best poker action, including satellites and qualifiers into the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, and the World Series of Poker. Both Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker have downloadable poker [...]
Now that the 2009 WSOP (World Series of Poker) is nearing, most of the top poker sites are holding some sort of satellites and/or qualifiers awarding players free entry into the Main Event. But most poker sites stop there. Not Full Tilt Poker, though. As you surely already know, each year’s is made up of many [...]
Titan Poker has just released a version of its software in Dutch, exapnding its reach to our global neighbors in Belgium, Suriname, and let’s not forget the Netherlands. A little Amsterdam action, anyone? This makes 15 languages now that TitanPoker supports–allowing players from all over those regions to compete against others across the world in […]
Until now, poker lovers who only owned Mac computers were out of luck when it came to experiencing the fully featured downloadable poker software their Windows PC using peers enjoyed. All a Mac user wanting to join in the online poker fun could hope for from a poker site was a No Download Instant Play version [...]
Titan Poker is revving up to be the poker site of the year–at least if this month is any indication. First there was the announcement of a March Madness inspired (or at leat that’s my guess) Spring Poker Madness in which players can earn double the rewards points throughout the entire month. What’s more, it appears [...]