WPT Forms Partnerships With Amateur Poker League and Classic Gaming Cruises The World Poker Tour has recently agreed to five-year contracts with the Amateur Poker League and Classic Gaming Cruises to provide even more fun WPT opportunities to a wide range of poker players. The WPT partnered with the Amateur Poker League, to form the […]
Eric Crips Wins $324,815 at California State Poker Championship Main Event The $2,500 buy-in California State Poker Championship Main Event ended Sunday night with a win by the relatively anonymous Eric Crisp of Arlington, Virginia. Eric Crisp had cashed in his first major tournament at the sixth event of this year’s California State Poker Championship, […]
Youngest WSOP Bracelet Winner Ever! History was made yesterday at the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event. Norwegian teenager Annette Obrestad defeated a player field of 362 players to become the youngest winner of a World Series of Poker bracelet and the first female to win a WSOP Main Event. This accomplishment was only […]
World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Update Day 3 of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event has brought the player field down to final 36, the players who will be heading home with money in their pockets. Day 3 has been a hard-fought battle, with several players losing most of their stacks […]
23 Year Old Captures Title at World Series of Poker Circuit Event in Tunica Mississippi Jordan Morgan, a twenty-three year old poker player from Oklahoma, won the WSOP Circuit Event in Tunica, Mississippi to win his first major live poker event. Morgan has been playing poker since he was 18. He would play against his […]
Battle Over the US Online Poker Ban Heats Up The battle over the US poker ban or as it’s better know Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) is heating up. The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association filed a lawsuit against that hopes to get rid of the UIGEA, and oral arguments are scheduled to […]
Smokers now out of luck in 5 Atlantic City Casinos 5 Atlantic City Casinos will be making their entire gambling floor smoke-free in response to a law passed in February which required gambling floors of casinos to be at least 75% smoke-free. Harrah’s Entertainment, which owns four Atlantic City casinos including Harrah’s Atlantic City, The […]
Pro Poker Players Chis Bell and Michael Gracz Part of Police Raid Poker players had gathered together for a private poker tournament in a Johnston County, a rural area about 50 miles south of Raleigh, North Carolina, but their game would never be completed as twenty police officers from North Carolina’s Alcohol Law Enforcement agency […]
Dario Alioto Takes Pot Limit Omaha Title at WSOP Europe The second event at the World Series of Poker Europe is over. Dario Alioto emerged victorious from the fray to win the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event. It is Alioto’s first WSOP bracelet, although he did come very close earlier in 2007 when he finished […]
Chip and a Chair Comebacks Down in Biloxi, Mississippi, at the Gulf Coast Poker Championship, Bill Edler had one foot out the door with 17 players left, as his chip stack consisted of 2 measly $1,000 chips. The blinds were $4000-$8000, and there was an ante of $1000. After posting his ante and using his […]
