10-23-2011
The 2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo Main Event is onto Day 2 after the completion of Day 1b on Saturday. The total field size grew to 837 players and first place is worth €800,000. Taylor Paur has the overall chip lead moving forward.
02-22-2011
Prop bets are the talk of the table these days, and we count down the Top Five prop bets in recent memory.
02-17-2011
Ashton Griffin ran 70 miles in 24 hours and won $300,000 this past week, but are prop bets good for the game? PokerNews' own Donnie Peters and Rich Ryan debate the issue.
08-11-2010
“Here we go again,” Lon McEarchern announced as ESPN began its coverage of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. Although 7,319 players entered this year’s “Big One” and created a prize pool of $68,798,600, this week’s...
07-14-2010
The World Poker Tour's Bellagio Cup VI is rolling right along and some of the late entrants yesterday didn't let a shorter chip stack hinder the situation, Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow, and Justin Smith were involved in a prop bet that started in May...
01-15-2010
Wednesday night saw the $2,000/4,000 7-Game action roar back to life on Full Tilt Poker as Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Ivey, Cole South, Brian Townsend, Ted “profbackwards” Forrest, Chau “La Key U” Giang, and Ilari “
01-06-2010
The first week of 2010 was far more subdued than usual at Full Tilt Poker's high-stakes cash game tables. Six-figure pots were few and far between as the majority of the action shifted back over to the 7-Game tables and the nosebleed-stakes...
07-12-2009
This week brought some of the lightest high-stakes action since we began tracking the nosebleed-stakes online poker games… and for good reason...
07-05-2009
Continued heavy live cash-game action at the Bellagio and the five-day long $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at the World Series of Poker resulted...
06-28-2009
As the start of the WSOP’s $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event approached and the live cash games continued to thrive, the online action dropped off...
06-01-2009
After surviving a star-studded field and an epic heads-up battle, Vitaly Lunkin became the winner of the biggest...
03-07-2009
The fifth edition of NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship kicked off yesterday at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, with its typically stacked 64-player field. Along with a few online and live qualifiers, all four previous...
07-05-2008
While most Americans were firing up their grills and gazing skyward at Independence Day fireworks, 1,158 players filtered into the Amazon Room for Day 1B of the WSOP Championship event. In honor of the occasion, country singer Andy...
06-20-2008
48 players returned for Day 2 of Event #34, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys at the Amazon Room on Wednesday. By the time play halted for the evening, only nine remained, with Kyle Kloeckner leading a field that includes some...
06-11-2008
And then there were three… three bracelets awarded in a single day's play at the Rio. The 2008 World Series of Poker on Tuesday showcased the final tables of three different events, spanning the spectrum of the game, while the one...
06-11-2008
After a long Day 2, 18 players returned to the Amazon Room for Day 3 of Event #16, $2,000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo. It's hard to imagine a greater disparity from the top to the bottom of the chip stacks, as Soheil Shamseddin led the field...
06-10-2008
169 players returned to the Amazon Ballroom to battle for a spot at the final table in Event #16, $2,000 Omaha Hi/Lo, with Josh Arieh, David Williams and Scott Clements all near the top of the leader board to begin Day 2. When...
06-03-2008
Event #4 of the 2008 World Series of Poker drew a star-studded field of 332 players, including Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer and Event #1 winner Nenad Medic, trying to become the first double bracelet winner of 2008...
04-22-2008
Fresh off the April 18th wrap of filming for the upcoming season's episodes, the popular program "Poker After Dark" has released the highlights for the fourth season of the series, which will consist of ten new episodes...
12-14-2007
Another book that I believe is a must-read for the serious all-around poker player is the Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide, edited by Michael Craig and published by Warner Books of New York, 2007. In reviewing this, I had to go...