Online poker tournament payouts have been steadily increasing over the last few years with some of the biggest ones topping the $1 million mark. In fact, Yevgeniy Timoshenko earned the largest payout ever at $1.715 million last year in the 2009 PokerStars WCOOP Main Event. So it’s no surprise that the WCOOP Main Event was […]
The ever-expanding World Series of Poker Europe recently concluded play with the Main Event final. In all, 346 players paid the hefty ₤10,000 entry fee to create a prize pool of ₤3,460,000 ($5,468,876). Obviously this isn’t quite up to par with the WSOP Main Event, but chances are that it’s more money than both you […]
Only three months have passed since the poker endurance record was broken by Phil Laak. He broke the record by playing poker for 115 hours straight at the Bellagio Casino thus smashing the previous record of 72 hours set by Paul Zimbler. For someone to beat the record of most time spent at the poker […]
I thought that some of the WPT and WSOP events were getting a little crazy by charging $25,000 and $50,000 buy-ins. Obviously there are still interested parties since people buy into these events, but I think they’re only created for poker’s elite. I guess I should have held my thoughts though after seeing the $250,000 […]
Players in the running for the 2010 WSOP Hall of Fame include some very well known names. The lucky nominees are Phill Ivey, Barry Greenstein, Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Dan Harrington, Jennifer Harman- Traniello, Scotty Nguyen, Linda Johnson, and Tom McEvoy. The list was formed by fan votes from July 1st to August […]
It’s no secret among poker insiders that Annie Duke isn’t exactly one of the most liked players (or rather personalities since she doesn’t do much playing anymore). Duke has always been known as somewhat cold, and her boasting of being the world’s best female poker player (even though she isn’t really) hasn’t sat well with […]
At the age of 7, most kids who grow up to become poker pros are merely hanging around their father’s poker table while the grownups play. 7 year-old Alexa Fisher, on the other hand, is busy refining her strategy in all of the poker disciplines, which she has already learned by the way. Fisher knows […]
Just for the record, I hate scam artists and anybody whose main goal in life is to defraud people out of their money. That being said, I don’t really like Samuel McMaster Jr. who made off with a reported $440,000 after scamming elderly and retired people out of their hard-earned money. On the other hand, […]
Phil Hellmuth has already made several big entrances to the WSOP Main Event. So far, Phil has been Julius Caesar, an army general with sexy recruits, and a NASCAR driver. So what did Hellmuth do to top all of that off? He came as a boxer this year along with world-famous boxing announcer Bruce Buffer. […]
As if it wasn’t already shocking enough when 20 year-old Michael McDonald retired from poker after making millions of dollars, Peter Eastgate added more shock when he recently announced that he would be retiring from poker. The 24 year-old pro from Denmark first gained poker stardom after he won the 2008 WSOP Main Event at […]