Feb
27
2009
11:35 am
For today’s professional poker player,there aren’t many options out there for steady, reliable income. One of the most popular ways to achieve this is by signing on to be a spokesperson or sponsored player for one of the many online poker sites.
Feb
25
2009
11:26 am
The lineup of 64 players participating in this year’s NBC National Heads up Poker Championship has recently been released and it is an impressive list made up of some of poker’s most well known players.
Feb
24
2009
10:02 am
The Poker Stars European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open finished up in much like the previous five days of play, in a fast, aggressive style. An impressive 462 players turned out for the tournament, all hoping they would be taking home the €878,057 top prize.
Feb
22
2009
6:19 pm
This week World Poker Tour Enterprises reported that its net loss during the fourth quarter totaled $3.2 million which brought their total loss for 2008 to $12.5 million. The World Poker Tour Enterprise's end of year report was "a result of a decrease in domestic television license fees, lower product licensing revenue and lower domestic sponsorship fees.
Feb
20
2009
10:51 am
The Durrr Challenge has officially begun on Full Tilt Poker. Tom Dwan is offering to pay $1.5 million as an incentive to any player who could beat him over a span of 50,000 hands at four simultaneous heads up online tables at minimum stakes of $200-$400 in the players' choice of either Pot Limit Omaha or No Limit Texas Hold'em. The player who accepts Dwan's challenge would only be expected to ante in for $500,000.
Feb
19
2009
11:07 am
The World Poker Tour has announced that cable station Fox Sports Net which broadcasted the WPT's seventh season, will also plans to air Season VIII. The new season is supposed to begin filming sometime during the middle of this year. The timeslot and schedule will be released at a later date.
Feb
18
2009
11:08 am
Last weekend saw several historical tournaments held during the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). The $535 buy-in Main Event was taken down by csimmsux and girlyhurly took home $144,000 for winning the $129 No Limit Hold’em Knockout Event, the largest FTOPS tourney ever held with 9,061 entrants.
Feb
17
2009
12:02 pm
PokerStars recently dealt its 25th billionth hand, and they were running the traditional promotion awarding money to players at tables with even numbers leading up to the landmark hand. The 25th billionth hand of PokerStars was going to dish out $200,000 prize money to the lucky players in that table, and that chase obviously showed up in PokerStars traffic numbers. As it turns out, the high traffic caused a server glitch that folded one player's cards when the paused hand was restarted.
Feb
17
2009
10:52 am
It was one of the biggest poker nights ever held at Rafferty's in Greeley, Colorado. Suddenly though, police officers swarmed the bar and were everywhere. Mary Paiz, one of the organizers of the game had a sinking feeling of dread, "When the police came in, I knew exactly what was going to happen."
Feb
12
2009
3:42 pm
25 Billion Bash - a series of events that gives all PokerStars players win massive cash prizes and bonuses. The Sunday Million guarantee will be boosted to $2,500,000; the Sunday Warm-Up prize pool has an increased guarantee of $1,250,000. Reload Bonus of 25% up to $250.
Feb
12
2009
10:22 am
In a major fete, after fighting his way through what was the largest one flight field in the history of the organization on Monday morning, an unemployed factory worker from Arkansas captured the first championship of the 2009 season of the Heartland Poker Tour at the Downstream Casino in Quapaw, OK.
Feb
11
2009
1:14 pm
Mike Sexton, the World Poker Tour announcer and poker pro who has morethan $3 million in lifetime tournament winnings is scheduled to appear in aCharleston, South Carolina courtroom Friday morning.
Feb
09
2009
5:51 pm
The second week of preliminary events of the LA Poker Classic held at Commerce Casino featured a $300 no limit hold'em rebuy event. The tourney brought in an impressive 623 entrants who between them purchased 933 rebuys and 356 add ons.
Feb
05
2009
3:57 pm
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XI has kicked off again and the Event#1 has been battled to a finish: Winner of $200+$16 NL Hold'em $1 Million Guaranteed is "muckducks" after playing for 12 hours and 43 minutes; muckducks receives the hefty $216,512.60 as prize money.
Feb
05
2009
2:25 pm
Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) revealed in an article with the Financial Times this week that he plans to reintroduce legislation that is favorable to internet gambling "in the next few weeks".
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