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Poker Thrill of the Week

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Kicking off on Tuesday is the coverage of the World Series of Poker main event that will be aired in ESPN. The airing will start at 9:00pm. It would be two hours coverage. Poker pros that will be featured includes, ? Jeff Shulman, Dan Harrington and Josh Arieh. Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson. [...]

Entering its sixth season is the Arizona State Poker Championship that will be staged at the Casino Arizona.  The tournament is expected to come up with $1 million guaranteed prize pool. A total of 900 players take part and hit the same objective and that is to take home the prize. The event will feature [...]

All eyes are on Full Tilt Poker Phil Ivey this week. He rushed around the Rio, from the $10k Heads Up to the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha, to the $3k H.O.R.S.E. Ivey grabbed his second cash of the series in the $1,500 Stud-8 event. Later on the third day, he finished 12th in the Pot-Limit mixed [...]

Ivey: Full Tilt Poker Pro Fever Re-Ignited

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Phil Ivey fever re-ignited at the 22nd day of the 2010 WSOP one more time. The Full Tilt Poker pro made it through the first day of the heads-up championship event, and survived all the way to the final day of the $2,500 PL Holdem/Omaha event, to set the rail-birding community on fire. For the [...]

Taking action through AmericaSpeakingOut.com is Poker Players Alliance (PPA) who pleads for the legalization of the online poker in the United States. Embodying the said organization is the 2004World Series of Poker Main Event champion Greg Raymer. PPA is seeking for the public’s support in order to present result to the governing body of the [...]

Another First in The Online Poker Room

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

For the first in history of online poker to be joined by a Finnish player. Completing the Team PokerStars is Ville Wahlbeck.  He is going to play with other team members such as Daniel Negreanu and Vanessa Rousso. His first stuff would be the PokerStars Baltic Festival that will be held in Tallinn, Estonia. He [...]

Poker pros Henrik Gwinner and David Steicke top the pack right after the second of the three opening games at the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event. In Day 1b there were 84 runners that fill the luxurious Grand Lisboa hotel and casino. Only 36 players were left after the seven levels. For Day 2 they [...]

World Team Poker Will be Aired on FSN

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Outsourced from the breaking news, World Team Poker officially announced that they have chosen Fox Sports Net for their event that will cover a total of 13 episodes, the said inauguration was held at the Golden Nugget. On the other hand, team poker isn’t totally in new concept, gathering the best players all over the [...]

An explosive Monday evening show up $12 million as prize money for the three Main Event tournaments at the 2010 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). After the event, it was clear that poker pro Ryan “toetagu” Fair was the latest millionaire, so with other participants who marked scores for their entire poker career. [...]

Recently, the debut of the PokerStatic.com was introduced to the public by Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond. The said site shows poker-related video interviews, an audio podcasts of Eric “EB” Bickel and Bret Oliverio. To give a review of the said launching, PokerNewsDaily made an interview with Galfond. The conversation started as PND asked about the site’s [...]