Articles by: Lance Bradley

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 [...]

Phil Ivey just wants his money Phil Ivey is hoping to score another $12 million win, but rather than a Macau cash game or high roller event this big score came from a casino in London where Ivey had been playing Punto Banco and wound up winning over eight figures over two days in August [...]

Just a little over two years ago Black Friday took online poker out of the United States. On Tuesday morning UltimatePoker.com takes a gigantic leap forward in bringing online poker back to the masses. On Tuesday morning, shortly after 9 am PT, UltimatePoker.com will become the first regulated online poker site in the United States [...]

PokerStars apparently turned down the chance to purchase the WSOP. According to a report on Forbes.com, in February Caesars Entertainment approached PokerStars.com in an attempt to sell the World Series of Poker and the Rio Hotel & Casino, the host of the U.S. WSOP events, to the online poker giant. The acquisition presumably would have made [...]

Mervin Chan: 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event Champion. It’s every poker players dream to enter their first major tournament and walk away with millions. On Sunday 29-year-old Mervin Chan lived that dream, winning the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event, $1.3 Million, a gold bracelet and a brand new car. “I don’t know what to say, I’m [...]

After nearly 15 hours of play on Saturday in the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event, tournament organizers called a halt to the action with three players, including Patrik Antonius, remaining in pursuit of the title. Play is set to resume Sunday at 4 pm. Final Three Chip Counts Joseph Cabret – 7,720,000 Mervin Chan - 5,670,000 [...]

Patrik Antonius has a shot at the Aussie Millions title after making the final table. The final table of the Aussie Millions Main Event traditionally includes one or two big names from the world of poker and 2013 is no different. Dan Shak leads the seven-handed final table but Patrik Antonius is not far behind. Shak finished the penultimate [...]

Sam Trickett continues to dominate the high roller poker tournament scene. It was just two years ago that the legend of Sam Trickett began to grow. On Friday Trickett added to that legend by taking down the 2013 Aussie Millions LK Jewelry $250,000 Challenge and adding $2,000,000 to his lifetime earnings. In late 2010 Trickett cleaned up [...]

Igor Kurganov could cash in a high roller event for the second time in a week. Tobias Reinkemeier has six players between himself and a $2,000,000 score at the 2013 Aussie Millions. Reinkemeier has a comfortable lead on top of the final table of the $250,000 Challenge event. The German poker pro finished Day 1 with 1,237,000 [...]

Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin is one of four women still in the Aussie Millions Main Event. The final 36 in the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event is star-studded with Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, Brandon Adams and Dan Shak all in contention for the $1.6 million first place prize money following a short day of [...]

James Obst is looking to become the fifth straight Australian winner of the Aussie Millions Main Event. Only 68 players stand between Australian James Obst and his first major live tournament win. Obst finished Day 2 of the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event with the chip lead after bagging up 1,061,000 chips. Obst, who would become [...]

Clayton Fletcher makes an annual trip to the Aussie Millions to tell some jokes and see some flops. By now everybody is more than familiar with the story of how an amateur poker player turned his a $39 buy-in in a satellite into lifechanging riches. Clayton Fletcher’s story is a little different from Chris Moneymaker‘s though. Five [...]

Phil Ivey looks to improve upon his 12th place Main Event finish from 2012. The final starting day of the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event drew the largest field and after seven levels of play Tuesday Patrik Antonius finished atop the leaderboard. Antonius ended the day with 204,800 and was the only Day 1C player [...]

Nate Silver doesn’t think federal online poker legislation is a sure thing. This past November Nate Silver became a media darling after correctly predicting the results of the U.S. Presidential election in all 50 states on his FiveThirtyEight blog. As Barack Obama was basking in the glow of a second term, Silver found himself on [...]