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NASCAR Foundation Teams With Annie Duke to Create Charity Poker Tournament
In some interesting news to come out, it seems that Annie Duke has teamed up with the NASCAR Foundation to create a charity poker tournament which will fall four days before the Daytona 500. NASCAR is set to kick off its 2012 season, and this charity event will fall just before the start of their [...]
Official Schedule Released for 2012 World Series of Poker
It’s finally the time for poker players around the world to get excited about the biggest poker tournament series out there. Caesars Entertainment Corporation has officially released the schedule for the 2012 World Series of Poker, and it’s one that looks more than just a little bit interesting. For starters, when you look at the [...]
2012 Aussie Millions $100k Event Crowns Winner
The 2012 Aussie Millions $100k buy-in event drew in only 22 players, but it was some of the biggest names in all of poker who participated. We saw the likes of Jason Mercier, Phil Ivey, and Erik Seidel all eliminated before the final table was decided, but even the remaining eight had some power behind [...]
Three Poker Players Have $26k Confiscated by Customs in Bahamas
If you are flying from out of country back into the United States after a poker series, you should definitely take this story into account before making any final decisions about what to do with your winnings. This story relates to three poker players who were playing in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the [...]
Two Former World Champs Win Side Events at PCA
Currently in the Bahamas, the popular talks around town are about the current PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Whether it is the $100k entry High Roller event that drew in a first place prize of over $1 million, or the PCA Main Event which is nearly its way down to the final table, people are talking about [...]
PCA Main Event Down to 24 Players
The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has had some exciting poker to this point, and it started off with their $100k buy-in High Roller event. Now, the PCA Main Event is down to only 24 players at the end of Day 4, and one player finds himself at the top of the leaderboard and sitting pretty [...]
Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom Wins PCA High Roller Event
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller event featured an incredible $100k buy-in, which explains why there were only 34 total players who registered for the event. Regardless though, 34 players with a huge buy-in like that, makes up quite a nice prize pool in the end. While there were 34 players in the event, you [...]
PCA Super High Roller Event Draws 32 Players
The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) has one of the biggest poker tournament buy-ins that is offered on the board today. The Super High Roller event is a $100k entry tournament, that has a smaller field than the normal big time events, but it also draws in a nice prize pool, and some of the [...]
Ben Lamb Takes Down Two POY Awards
I don’t think there’s much of a doubt that most of the poker world feels that Ben Lamb was one of the best players in the world this past year. Lamb was absolutely incredible at the 2011 World Series of Poker, and for his efforts across the board, he has taken down not one, but [...]
Four People Arrested For Robbing Duhamel
Last week there was an interesting story released about the home invasion and robbery of a winner of one of the largest online poker tournaments out there, the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event. The report said that two men rang the doorbell of Duhamel’s home in Montreal, Quebec at about 9:15am on the [...]
Three Men Who Robbed Poker Game Indicted
There was an older report that came out about a poker game that was robbed in Ithaca, New York back on November 15th, and it seems that the three men who were involved with the robbery have finally been indicted for the incident. The game was being played at the Hair Graphics East salon, in [...]
WSOP Main Event Winner Gets Robbed
In some shocking news, a former World Series of Poker Main Event winner is in the middle of an alleged assault on Wednesday morning. Jonathan Duhamel is one of the best up and coming young stars in the poker world, and is best known for winning the 2010 WSOP Main Event, and taking home the [...]
Chris Klodnicki Wins EPLs Mix-Max Main Event
The Epic Poker League’s Mix-Max Main Event drew in some big names in poker, and also paid out a very nice first place prize to the eventual winner. It took a bit longer than many people expected to get to that winner though, as the fifth and final day of play took an incredible 15 [...]
Randy Lew to Attempt to Break World Record at PCA
Many people in both the online poker world and the live poker world know the popular name Randy “nanonoko” Lew. He is an online juggernaut and has brought in some incredibly impressive results in recent years. In a bit of interesting news, Lew will attempt to become a Guinness World Record holder, by breaking a [...]
Epic Poker League Grants Lifetime Exemption to Doyle Brunson
The Epic Poker League has been surrounded by scandal at a few of its events to this point, but this news about the EPL is what many would consider good news. While all players have to meet certain requirements to even earn entry into any EPL event, the news that came out today is that [...]
$1 Million WSOP Event Has 22 Confirmed
One of the most talked about events for the upcoming World Series of Poker is the $1 Million buy-in event, which will not only be a gold bracelet event, but it will give the winner a platinum bracelet when all is said and done. The talks of this event have became more and more in-depth [...]
Game Show Network Cuts High Stakes Poker
The Game Show Network offers many different types of shows, and one of the many includes different poker action. GSN definitely took notice of the boom that occurred from both live and online poker over the recent years, and they run a show called “High Stakes Poker”. This show has been running for six full [...]
Introducing The Deep Stack Poker Tour
There have been many new poker tours jumping into the mix since Black Friday sent the online poker world under, and many of them have aimed to hit different specific audiences. This one will give all different types of players the chance to compete in a tournament which should be incredibly popular from the word [...]
Doyle Brunson to Skip EPT and EPL for High Stakes Cash Game
We all know Doyle Brunson. The “Texas Dolly” is one of the most popular names in poker, and has some of the most impressive results among poker players today as well. His overall winnings in his lifetime of poker playing are astronomical, and he has won over $2.8 million JUST from the World Series of [...]
Ladies International Poker Series Releases New Ladies Poker Tour
Another live poker tour has been released, but this one has a twist to it. It is a Ladies Poker Tour, and has been set up by the same people who organized the Ladies International Poker Series. The tour is called the US Ladies Poker Championship Circuit Tour (USLPCC), and will feature 12 different events, [...]
