Category Archives: Poker News

If there was any doubt that online poker has plenty of money to go around, those doubts were erased on April 26th.  That’s because April 26th saw 10 different players win over $100,000 across several Internet poker tournaments. This day of big winning was headlined by the PokerStars Sunday Million tournament where Paul “147_star” Williams took first place and earned a prize of $258,194.  Williams wasn’t the only big winner in the Sunday Million holdem poker event though since “Benjamin89” and “the_blues57” also had 6-figure paydays.  Runner-up Benjamin89 cashed for $188,684 and the_blues57 made $131,640 for taking third place. And …

Why is online poker becoming so popular? Online poker games have many advantages over conventional games. You can’t play regular games 24/7, even in Vegas. Whereas if you wanted to, you could relieve yourself on the toilet while dominating a poker tournament online. There is no way you could do that playing poker with your buddies in person. You could wake up at 5am and start playing. Could you gather up your college friends on Sunday to play some poker at 5am? Good luck with that. Another great advantage of online poker is that there is a time constraint for …

Games modeled after professional poker players have found little success in the video game market due to the fact that people can just go to online poker rooms if they want to play free poker.  But UltimateBet pro Annie Duke thinks she can succeed where others have failed through her new iPhone application entitled Annie Duke Poker Tutor. As you may have guessed from the title, Annie Duke Poker Tutor is more than just a game where you play mindless hours of poker in an effort to build your play money bankroll.  Instead, it has the added element of teaching …

Unless you’re from another planet, by now you’ve probably heard about the Switzerland Casino robbery. For those who are from another planet, what happened was masked men carrying weapons stormed into the crowded casino of the Swiss border city Basel. The thieves made off with hundreds of thousands of francs. The managing director said there were 10 masked men that pulled into the casino in two cars and ran into the casino with machine guns and pistols. The gang was speaking French and ordered all the employees and guests to get on the floor while they emptied out all the …

The European Poker Tour rebounded quite well after robbers broke into the Berlin poker tournament and stole well over $300,000.  1,239 people made their way to the EPT San Remo event via direct buy-ins and online poker room satellites.  The 1,239 players broke a record for an EPT event held on European soil, and created a €6 million-plus prize pool. Of the 1,239 holdem poker players in attendance, RakeTheRake’s friend Liv Boeree ended up being the biggest winner of them all by taking first place and the €1.25 million prize pool.  The interesting thing about Boeree is that she had …

Few poker pros have come as far as UltimateBet player Tiffany Michelle has in the last year.  Michelle cemented her place as one of the best texas poker players in the world when she finished in 17th place in the World Series of Poker.  Her showing at the WSOP, and the fact that she is one of the more attractive players in the game today have made Tiffany Michelle a fast rising star. Now UltimateBet is giving people the chance to win a date with this poker hottie on April 28th in a free poker tournament.  That’s right…you don’t even …

Since blowing through an estimated $350 million in boxing winnings over his lifetime, former heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson is always looking for work.  Whether that means being the host of a WWE professional wrestling show, starring in the movie “The Hangover”, or playing at a poker tournament at the Aussie Millions, Tyson is always up for anything.  And while playing at the Aussie Millions didn’t tempt him to become an online poker pro, it did spark an interest in gambling that has carried over to his new reality TV show. The reality show that Mike Tyson is on is …

There are plenty of live and online poker players that have a problem with playing blackjack, and they lose lots of money because of this habit.  Unlike Internet poker, blackjack is not a game that can be beat since the house holds an advantage no matter how well a person plays……that is, unless they know how to count cards. And counting cards is exactly what former blackjack pro Josh Axelrad specialized in as he took casinos for over $700,000 in his short, 5 year career.  Sometimes Axelrad would do so good that he’d earn $18,000 in around 10 minutes of …

Luckily, the Gambling Act of 2005 hasn’t hurt the UK gambling industry too badly.  In fact, the law that was designed to keep gambling under control hasn’t been used much as opposed to say the UIGEA in the United States.  But just recently, we’ve seen the act rear its head in a case against a Cheshire pub that may have a whole lot of people wanting to stick to online poker from now on.  The UK Gambling Commission, which was created as a result of the Gambling Act of 2005, recently commissioned three men for running poker games out of …

Despite having success in its first five seasons, the super-popular poker show High Stakes Poker decided to make a big change by dropping the witty A.J. Benza from the commentator booth and replacing him with the sultry Kara Scott.  When the move was made, people immediately started criticizing the Game Show Network producers who made the decision, and some online poker rooms even considered pulling their advertising. Well it’s a good thing those Internet poker rooms didn’t make a hasty decision because High Stakes Poker’s ratings are actually up in Season 6.  In fact, they’ve soared above Season 5 with …