Full Tilt Poker is in the midst of one of the biggest falls from grace that many people would be able to remember, and they have decided to make a statement about the recent accusations that they are a Ponzi Scheme, instead of an actual online poker site. The statement was straight forward, and while [...]
One of the brand new casinos that opened in Pennsylvania recently, has brought in one of the bigger names in poker to to host a $25k poker tournament to open their brand new poker room. Chris Moneymaker was the winner of the 2003 World Series of Poker, and will host a single table tournament at [...]
The 2011 World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open is officially the largest WPT event in history, as it pulled in an impressive 1,313 players, and had a prize pool of over $4 million in total. The event also featured quite a few big names who made a deep run in the event, like David Williams, [...]
Will Failla has been on a hot streak lately, and he’s made that continue on through the 2011 World Poker Tour Borgata Open. Within the past month, Will “The Thrill” took down the 2011 Legends of Poker Championship, and also pulled in a 14th place finish at the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event. He also [...]
Preet Bahrara is the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and recently announced a major bit of information in the Full Tilt Poker case. According to the new motion that was put in place, the owners and co-owners of the online poker site have taken money from the deposits that players [...]
The World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open has officially broken the record for the largest World Poker Tour event in history, with 1,313 total players between Day’s 1a and 1b. The past record was 1,042 players, and this impressive number of entrants has brought a prize pool of over $4 million. The huge prize pool [...]
Day 1a of the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Open wound down over the weekend, and featured some big names near the top of the leaderboard. Players like Vanessa Selbst, Will Failla, and Darren Elias were all in the top 5 at the end of the opening day, with Abe Korotki holding down the top spot [...]
The Epic Poker League has done fairly well to this point, except when it comes to avoiding conflict. It kicked off with Chino Rheem’s issue of the debts that were owed to fellow poker players, which the EPL had to take action on. After that, Michael DiVita was then not allowed to participate in the [...]
It recently was reported that former World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Jamie Gold had decided to open his own online poker site which would be free to all players. In interesting news that was released today, Michael Gaughan, who is the owner of the South Point Hotel, Casino, and Spa out in Las [...]
The 2010 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event was one that featured an impressive €1.3 million first place prize, which was won by Vanessa Selbst; who is one of the top poker players in the game, and is also a Team PokerStars Pro. The real story behind last years’ event though was Ali Tekintamgac who was involved [...]
No American poker player had won the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris event in history, until this past week. Matt Waxman, from Florida made sure that stat was to last no longer, as he won the event and beat out 311 other players to take home the grand prize of $706,823. The event [...]
After Black Friday occurred, the US Department of Justice had seized multiple bank accounts from some of the largest names in online poker such as Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker. While it put each site in a bind, and left a ton of money that belonged to US based poker players; there was [...]
Michael DiVita may not be the most known name in poker today, but his name is definitely a bit more well-known after the Epic Poker League’s second Main Event kicked off. DiVita qualified for the Main Event through the Epic Poker League’s Pro-Am, as he finished in 8th place, and the top nine players advanced [...]
Many months have gone by since Black Friday way back on April 15th, but it was decided yesterday by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission that the public hearing about Full Tilt Poker’s gambling license finally has a set date. It will kick off on Monday, September 19th at 9:00am at the Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel [...]
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