
McLean Karr won the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star. The great tournament took place in San Jose, California. The final six started Friday afternoon. The 11-time WSOP bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth, who began the day second in chips was the first to exit this last stage. He was knocked out by Andy Seth. Matt Keikoan [...]
A number of 27 players entered Day 3 of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star. Andy “BKiCe” Seth finished out the day as the chip leader. He will take that lead into the televised final table of six which will take place on Friday. Phil Hellmuth began Day 3 having the biggest stack. He [...]
In Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament competed 126 players. When the day came to an end 27 remained. They will return today for Day 3 play. Notable eliminations came in the form of Mike Sexton, Scott Seiver, Phil Laak, Tyler Reiman, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Steve Gross, Mike Matusow, Daniel [...]
Patrik Antonius lost another session in the “durrrr” Challenge. The battle between Tom Dwan and Antonius lasted an hour. They played a total of 364 hands. Unfortunately for the Finn he ended the short session with a massive loss. He dropped $342,157. With the great result that Dwan obtained, he extended the lead to $1,755,708 in the [...]
The World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament takes place in San Jose, California. This is one of the most unique events on the WPT calendar. There are placed $5,000 bounties on the heads of well known poker pros. In Day 1A of the tournament, of all the 17 poker pros with Shooting Star bounties [...]
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Posted on 12 March 2010
The rumor is that Aashish Nanak, an 8 year old boy from Chandigarh, India, won approximately $500,000 (22,912,500.38 Indian Rupees) in an online poker tournament. But the gambling website, which at this moment is unknown, where Nanak won the big amount is refusing to payout the money as it states that the boy was not legally [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 12 March 2010
In Michigan a poker room which has seen tens of thousands of dollars raised for the state’s charities has been close down after the authorities accused the owners for taxing more than it’s permitted by law the charity groups. An investigation was started by the Michigan Lottery regarding this matter after complaints were received that the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 11 March 2010
Anthon-Pieter Wink finished first in the last weekend’s Unibet Open which took place in Budapest, Hungary. For the great performance he took home a big check worth €170,000. The €1,650 buy-in main event saw a total number of 460 players. Wink after great efforts outlasted the competition and reached the final table. He faced top poker players [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 11 March 2010
Isildur1 earlier this week won at Full Tilt over $2 million. With this fantastic result it seemed that the mystery Swede was back on the winning line. But unfortunately for him on Wednesday the situation changed dramatically. Being encouraged by the massive result that he obtained, Isildur1 decided to battle with Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 11 March 2010
ESPN recently released the March version of “The Nuts,” its ranking of the top ten poker players in the world. The list includes players who are currently playing the best poker. All variations of poker are taken into consideration: live and online, tournaments and cash games. The top spot is occupied by Phil Ivey. In the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 10 March 2010
The fifth event of the WSOP circuit, which runs at Caesars Atlantic City, was won by Alexandru Masek. He took home a nice check of $39,372 and a gold ring. This is his second WSOP Circuit gold ring. The first one Masek won last year after he finished in first place in the $230 No-Limit [...] Continue Reading