Poker News - Page 11

With both events whittling their fields down to the final players, the champions will be determined today at the European Poker Tour London Main Event and the High Roller championship. In the Main Event, play ended yesterday with the elimination of Adria

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced the ten nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2011 Tuesday after a public nomination process on WSOP.com, followed by a vetting of all nominations by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council. The criteria

Now we’re down to the nitty gritty.  Day 4 has wrapped up at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London with just 24 players – three tables – remaining and the title is virtually anyone’s for the taking at this point.  There is a virtual three-way tie

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Groupe Bernard Tapie, the French investment group that signed an “exclusive agreement” to purchase Full Tilt Poker and its assets, is considering offering an equity stake in the new company to certain

Day 3 was moving day at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London, as players were looking to make the money and position themselves for a potential run at the final table.  160 players started the day, and with 104 cashing, there was no doubt the money bubbl

One current and one former member of Team PokerStars are the targets of a lawsuit by Wynn Las Vegas, which is looking to recover $700,000 it says the two won at the casino by illegally cheating at craps. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Leo Fern

Oftentimes in large, multi-day poker tournaments, the chip leaders at the end of early days fall off the next day, never to be seen again in the event.  Not so this weekend at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London stop.  Germany’s Benny Spindler, who s

Day Two play at the European Poker Tour stop at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in London is in full swing, with the final numbers for the tournament exceeding expectations and bringing new faces to the top of the leaderboard. After 280 players stepped up on F

One of the most prestigious stops on the European Poker Tour, their annual trek to London, the United Kingdom, is currently underway, with several top professionals on the felt yesterday and for Day 1B action today. The £5000 buy in event started on Frid

Coming on the heels of the revocation of their gaming license by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission on Thursday, the inactive online site Full Tilt Poker reported Friday afternoon that a deal has been struck to sell the beleaguered company to a Fren

With the World Series of Poker Europe looming on the horizon, Team Americas captain Phil Hellmuth and Team Europe captain Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier have chosen their teams for the second-ever battle for the Caesars Cup. Grospellier is opting to go f

A series of articles in a top entertainment magazine trains the spotlight not on what some of the biggest players in the entertainment industry do in front of the cameras, but on what they do in their spare time with America’s original national pastime.

After almost ten days of silence following a hearing, the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has reportedly revoked the primary license for the online poker site Full Tilt Poker this morning, according to several reputable news outlets. The Wall

The Nevada Gaming Control Board held a public regulatory workshop on Monday to field questions and possible revisions to the new Regulation 5A, which lays out the framework for online gambling in the state.  According to several reports, the hearing went

The 10th annual PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) concluded this week and after two days of play and 1,626 eliminations, Thomas “Kallllle” Pedersen emerged victorious in the $5,200 Main Event, banking $1,260,018.50. The Dan

With the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) coming to end, most online poker players would normally be looking forward to the next Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) to find that next poker tournament series excitement.  But with Fu

Full Tilt Poker, once the second largest online poker room in the world, released another statement Monday to address last week’s assertion by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York that the online poker room was a “Ponzi sch

United States District Court Judge Leonard B. Sand of the Southern District of New York signed a warrant last week, authorizing the seizure of assets belonging to the Full Tilt Poker principals named in the amended civil complaint against the once high fl

Putting a plan in motion that was announced in February, Bodog Poker is beginning to prevent online poker data collecting sites from accessing both general and individual player statistics and plans to have everything entirely blocked by the end of the ye

In what is quickly becoming a potential new gaming Mecca, former World Champion Chris Moneymaker will be the host of a large tournament in the new poker room of a Pennsylvania casino. Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker Championship Event winner, w