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Imagine you receive a phone call telling you that you’ve just been selected to receive two free flights and hotel stays across Europe for the next four weeks. Pretty sweet phone call right! While, most of us would jump at the chance to go on a four week European vacation, imagine if you are afraid […]

With even more action than yesterday taking place at the Rio let’s get down to business shall we. Event #2: $25k Heads-Up Championship, Day 4 Jake Cody managed to steal Gus Hansen’s thunder when he knocked the Dane out in the semi-finals, and then Cody would go on to become the first big story of […]

After speaking out for the first time since Black Friday, Phil Ivey lashed out at Full Tilt Poker through his Facebook Fan Page with a series of status updates where he derided the way Full Tilt Poker has handled US player withdrawals, going so far as to announce he is suing Full Tilt Poker, and […]

No room for an introduction today so let’s get right down to the action at the tables! Event #1 $500 Casino Employee tournament, Day 3 Day 3 saw the final four players return to the tables to crown the first WSOP winner of 2011 and it was Sean Drake, a poker dealer from Sacramento, CA […]

Day 1 of the 2011 World Series of Poker was definitely going to be a difficult act to follow -especially with the Juanda vs. Bord dust-up and the Facebook announcement by Phil Ivey– but there was still plenty of action taking place at the poker tables at the Rio in Las Vegas. With a third […]

The 2011 World Series of Poker officially began around 12PM on Tuesday when the first cards were dealt in the $500 Casino Employee event, which was just a tease for the night’s festivities that included one of the most high-profile events of the entire WSOP, the $25k buy-in NLHE Heads-Up Championship. In addition to the […]

A small, but vocal, group of about 50-75 pro-poker advocates descending on Washington DC Tuesday according to USA Today article to attend a rally organized the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) in light of the recent crackdown on online poker in the United States by the DOJ and the FBI. Amongst the people who addressed the […]

Since the advent of online poker the industry has always been operating in somewhat of a legal gray area, and after UIGEA legislation was introduced in the middle of the night, attached to the Safe Ports Act, our gray area became a dark and ominous cloud hanging over the online poker industry. And for the […]

What a way for the WPT to wrap up Season 9 of the tour! The WPT Championship at the Bellagio had it all this year, including the first ever Super-High-Roller tournament in WPT history, as well as one of poker’s young stars capturing the $25k Championship, and even a down to the wire WPT Player […]

With a day off in between the final table being set and the final table being played, it gives me a chance to dig up some background information on the six remaining players who will be battling it out on Friday for the $1.6 million first-place prize-money at the 2011 WPT $25k Championship taking place […]