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The first Caesars Cup did not go so well for Team Americas in 2009.  Losing four matches to one was not exactly the way that year’s Team Americas captain, Daniel Negreanu, wanted to represent his side of the Atlantic.  And while it might have been tou

The 2011 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) completed its third day on Tuesday and with just 25 players remaining, the finish line is now in sight.  Topping the leader board is London’s Max Silver, sitting behind a 1,780,000 chip stack.  Hot on his

Caesars Interactive Entertainment, owner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), announced this weekend that it has tweaked the schedule for the upcoming November Nine slightly in order to improve its television coverage. The original schedule for the Main E

Day 2 of a big live tournament is often the one where many players change their mindset from “let’s survive the day” to “let’s get to work.”  Day 1 at the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event, as was the case for the traditional WS

Black Friday has claimed another victim.  Originally reported by Wicked Chops Poker late last week, the popular NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) has been cancelled indefinitely.  The annual invitational tournament had been a highlight of

Regardless of how it works out, you have to admit that the Merge Gaming Network has some guts. The small online poker network is looking to fill the gaping void in the poker market by re-opening its doors to United States customers.  The network laid out

An online poker player from the United Kingdom will be serving jail time following his ill-advised threats against the support staff of an online poker room. An article in the Darlington & Stockton Times details out the story of Michael Gallagher, a 3

As the €10,000 Championship Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe enters its second Day One on Sunday, poker pros Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and Philippe Boucher captured the final two preliminary bracelets awarded on Saturday. In the �

The players have gathered in Cannes, France, for the €10,000 Championship Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe, but there is a bit of unfinished business in two of the preliminary events to take care of as the Championship Event begins. In the

Less than a month from now, the World Series of Poker Championship Event “November Nine” will play out in front of a packed Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas. Over the past few years, the “November Nine” has also been the moment th

On the eve of the Championship Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe, there are still two bracelets left to be awarded. During yesterday’s action, the relatively unknown Tristan Wade defeated a stacked final table in the €3000 No Limit Hold�

While the World Series of Poker Europe continues in its city, details are emerging as to a card marking scandal that has occurred in a Cannes casino. Fox News and Expatica.com are reporting about the scandal, which involved the usage of infrared ink marke

With the €10,000 Championship Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe looming on the horizon, Steve “MrSmokey1” Billirakis etched his name into the annals of WSOP history on Wednesday by taking down his second gold bracelet, while a stacked f

Hoping to find a niche on the live tournament circuit and attract young players looking for a game after the obliteration of online poker in the United States, Card Player magazine has announced that it is launching a new poker tour, the Native American C

The second event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) concluded Tuesday with Aussie Andrew Hinrichsen emerging victorious, the sixth Australian in history to win a World Series of Poker gold bracelet.  The €1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’

CalShark.com, a new free-to-play online poker room, opened yesterday, an event that would not normally be big news, especially because the games are all for play money.  What is interesting about this poker room, however, is that it is run by California

ESPN.com’s monthly ranking of the top ten poker players in the world, called “The Nuts,” has been released and for September, the top five has remained unchanged.  In fact, of the ten players on the list, only one was new, meaning that one player h

The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) kicked off Friday with the first of seven official bracelet events as the Series moves to Cannes, France after four years in London, England.  In another first, Guillaume Humbert became the first Swiss national to

The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. The saving grace that came last week with the announcement of the long-awaited deal for the sale of Full Tilt Poker to the French investment co

Riding a wave of knockouts at the final table, Germany’s Benny Spindler cruised to the championship at the European Poker Tour’s stop in London, while Philipp Gruissem made EPT history by winning the High Roller event at the Hilton Metropole Hotel. In