Hellmuth Denied Tenth Gold Bracelet Day 13 of the World Series of Poker proved unlucky for poker superstar Phil Hellmuth as his quest for a record-tying tenth gold bracelet ended with a fickle river. Competing heads up against Jeff Cabanillas at the WSOP $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Event #9, Hellmuth’s 5h-4s looked good when the […]
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Even if you’re not planning on playing in one the featured events of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), there’s still a chance to face a familiar professional if you decide to play in the satellites or cash games. Poised around the rails of those tables are televised pros, eager to grab the buy-in money […]
The Winner of Event # 8 – $2000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB Zack Zwerner, founder of the biggest bingo enterprise in America and former high-level casino executive, is the latest gold bracelet winner at the 2006 World Series of Poker, (WSOP) capturing $341,426 after three grueling days of Omaha High-Low 8/OB. The victory was the 59-year […]
As reported by the UK Times Online: “The world’s largest internet poker company, Party Gaming, is in talks to acquire Gamebookers, the online sports-betting company, for about £50m. “A deal would be the first acquisition for Party Gaming since it floated a year ago. An announcement could be made in the next two or three […]
Boyd Gaming Corporation and MGM Mirage (NYSE: MGM) today announced the opening of its public space expansion at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, located at Renaissance Pointe in Atlantic City. The newly opened expansion is anchored by three new signature restaurants led by Bobby Flay, Michael Mina and Wolfgang Puck and adds additional casino […]
paddypowerpoker.com has teamed up with Neteller, one of the world’s leading online funds transfer services, to offer its poker players a secure and convenient e-wallet service. The Neteller account allows customers to load, withdraw and transfer funds instantly to and from paddypowerpoker.com, as well as to and from other Neteller customers. The account takes just […]
For now, news from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has Phil Hellmuth as the all-time leader in cashes with 50 after he made the money in WSOP Event # 2 and received an appreciation ovation for his accomplishment. The announcement was made late on Tuesday in front of the player and spectators filling the […]
Three World Series of Poker events (WSOP) will run simultaneously today, a sign that the momentum is building here at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino as players gear towards the Main Event and poker immortality. The final table for Event # 2, the 3-day $1,500 No Limit Hold’Em tournament that began on Tuesday, will […]
The logistical nightmare of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) makes for an interesting scene that is best described with the word “zoo.” Basically, it’s a bunch of poker starved animals caged inside a box not equipped to handle them. It’s quite a hilarious picture, with grown men and women shouting about “fairness” and people […]
GWIN Inc. Chairman & CEO Wayne Allyn Root announced today the largest media sponsorship deal in company history. ThePIGPoker.net has signed to be a title sponsor of GWIN’s television and radio shows, “Wayne Allyn Root’s WinningEDGE(TM),” airing on Saturday mornings starting Sept. 9. ThePIGPoker.net is a newly launched informational poker Web site for fun, entertainment […]
What does it take to win big at the World Series of Poker (WSOP)? A lucky bluff? Great cards? What if it was just … wearing the right clothes? Fresh off Daniel Negreanu’s second place $325,000 cash at the 2006 WSOP Tournament of Champions, FullContactPoker.com (FCP) announced today the “WEAR THE NAME, SHARE THE FAME” […]
As reported by the Aristocrat Herald Sun: “Gaming machine company Aristocrat Leisure has completed the sale of a 28 per cent interest in its African operations to a local partner. “Aristocrat said it would record a net profit of about $6 million on the partial sale to Yabohle Investments — a consortium led by Matemeku […]
It took nearly four hours for Erick ‘E-Dog’ Lindgren and Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow to get heads up at the FullTiltPoker.Net Pro Showdown at Red Rock Casino, but just one hand for Lindgren to claim the victory and the $600,000 first-place prize. On June 22, Lindgren and Matusow outlasted five other Team Full Tilt members, […]
PartyGaming Plc (LSE: PRTY), operators of PartyPoker.com, The World’s Largest Poker Room(TM), today announces the launch of its new backgammon product, PartyGammon.com. Known as “the game of kings” and requiring skills of timing and calculation, backgammon is one of the world’s most popular games and one of its oldest, with variants dating back more than […]