The world of poker was buzzing again this week after Doyle Brunson tweeted he was going to retire from WSOP tournament play, maybe. Steve O’Dwyer won the EPT Grand Final Main Event in Monte Carlo in one of the best EPT final tables in the tour’s nine year history. The WSOP Circuit schedule was announced [...]
California, Nevada and New Jersey continue to dominate the stage in THE FIGHT to legalize online poker. This week California has the lead, with a new proposal from the tribes, long-time antagonists of all online gaming legislation. Nevada and New Jersey, with online gaming already legalized, pushed forward in their individual efforts to bring the [...]
On Friday evening Tiger Woods, the world’s top ranked golfer, will find himself surrounded by some of the world’s best poker players, all in the name of charity. Tiger’s Poker Night presented by the World Poker Tour is a key part of Tiger Jam 2013, a Tiger Woods Foundation charity event. Woods, sat down with [...]
The EPT Grand Final is over, closing out Season 9 of the tour, but the three biggest events of the series have left a lasting impact on both the BLUFF Power Rankings and the 2013 BLUFF Player of the Year race. The top four spots in the Power Rankings remain the same this week, but [...]
The World Series of Poker has announced the 2013/2014 WSOP Circuit schedule with 22 stops on the tour. The tour will return to many of the same popular locations from seasons’ past and have added two new stops in Ohio plus another stop north of the border in Montreal. Each stop will feature a 12 [...]
The third and final day of the €100,000 European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo has come to a close and Max Altergott walked away with the title after defeating Jason Mercier in heads up and more importantly, €1,746,000 ($2,244,543 USD). The event fielded 50 players that payed out the top seven finishers with a [...]
On Tuesday, May 14th Poker Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson sent a tweet stating that will not be playing anymore World Series of Poker tournaments due to his age. The 79 year-old ten-time gold bracelet winner has played less and less tournaments over the past couple years because of the long hours and toll it [...]
For the first time since March there was a player other than Paul Volpe leading the 2013 BLUFF Player of the Year race. On Monday afternoon Aaron Lim passed Volpe with a 21st place finish in the Italian Poker Tour Main Event in San Remo, becoming the first player to cross the 600 point mark [...]
Steve O’Dwyer has been one of the most consistent tournament players on the circuit over the last three years, crushing side events and winning a $5,000 event at Bellagio Cup event in 2011 and a WPT National title in 2012. O’Dwyer also made three EPT final tables and three WPT final tables in that time, [...]
This week’s Tournament Tracker sees action from all over the globe – San Remo, Monte Carlo, Cebu and beautiful Chester, Pennsylvania. Jason Mercier got back to his winning ways with an Open Face Chinese poker event and Chris Reslock won his record-setting seventh World Series of Poker Circuit ring just days after winning his sixth. [...]
There’s been a lot of money at stake over the last several days at the EPT Grand Final, with the Main Event set to award €1.2 million and a €500,000 buy-in cash game going late into the night Saturday. One of the biggest winners of the series was crowned Sunday afternoon in the €25,000 High [...]
It was a pretty big week in the poker-sphere this week that ended with a Travis Makar dropping on a bomb on Russ Hamilton. Makar released two separate audio recordings, screenshots and documents all releated to the UltimateBet cheating scandal. The tapes have Hamilton openly admitting the cheating, that Annie Duke had access to the [...]
The final table of the 2013 EPT Grand Final Main Event is set and it is, by almost any measurement available, the strongest final eight in the tour’s nine year history. Steve O’Dwyer made the biggest move of Day 5 and enters the final table with 4,452,000 and the chiplead. O’Dwyer has been close several [...]
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