It’s almost time for the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event winner to be determined. ESPN has been running taped broadcasts of the main event leading up to the final table – exciting for sure, but we’ve already known the identity of the November Nine for several months now. What we want to see [...]
For the upcoming month of November, PartyPoker has revived its popular Gladiator promotion with The Gladiator Returns. In it, players stand to earn $5,000 and $10,000 freeroll entries, cash prizes from $10 to $3,000, and free seats at next year’s Aussie Millions. The way to play is simply…well, to play at real money games at [...]
As three-dimensional “virtual reality” poker site PKR wraps up its PKR Heads-Up Grand Slam with Russian poker pro Vladimir Geshkenbein taking down the $120,000 top prize, it opens its doors wide to new members with one of the largest welcome bonuses on the online poker circuit. While Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker court new [...]
Full Tilt Poker is introducing an amazing opportunity to turn Full Tilt Points (otherwise known as FTPs) into cold, hard cash. The site plans to give away $250,000 guaranteed in this FTP $250K Guaranteed promotion. The big game takes place on Sunday, October 18 at 2:15 pm ET. You can either buy your way in [...]
The big winner at PokerStars 2009 WCOOP this past weekend was a player that goes by the name of Sumpas, who took down the high-rollers event. The event, which had a $10,000 buy-in and a $2 million guaranteed prize pool, awarded Sumpas as first prize winner $611,455. Once the 299 entrants were registered, the total [...]
The next PartyPoker Monthly Million is almost upon us, set for this Sunday, September 6 at 12:45 pm ET. It has a $640 buy-in, but you can satellite in for much less through a plethora of methods. Throughout this month Party Poker runs daily $64 + $6 satellites guaranteeing 18 seats in the big event; [...]
A new online poker player has joined Poker Hall of Fame Nominee Mike Sexton and gang as the latest addition to the Party Poker “Grassroots Team” that also includes Remy Biechel of France, Felipe Ramos of Brazil, and Ian Frazer of the U.K. The newest member of the PartyPoker Grassroots Team is Bodo Sbrzesny, a [...]
With Full Tilt Poker‘s new software upgrade roll out last week is a feature that’s been getting a lot of attention in online poker tournament circles lately, which makes it worthy of mention here. It goes by many names – a deal-making option or facility, and tournament chops being just a few – but it [...]
The movie to which so many poker players online and off attribute their interest in the game is rumored to have a sequel in the works. “Rounders” might very well be the movie that put poker on the mainstream map. And star Matt Damon has been quoted as saying that he and costar Edward Norton [...]
Absolute Poker has just signed up poker commentator Lacey Jones to the team. Rather, it would be more accurate to say, they signed her up again. See AbsolutePoker first sponsored Lacey in 2005, but after the 2006 UIEGA got passed making funding online poker illegal for U.S. residents to play, they temporarily dropped that program. [...]