Today’s youth are very fascinated by the lifestyle of a professional poker player. As it’s about the young men, Washington Post follows them regularly. In July 2009, Post writer John Kelly followed the young poker pro Jon Urban, an engineer with Black & Decker in Maryland. Kelly detailed the story [...]
With the launch of FastForward Poker, the no. 1 online gaming company PartyPoker has joined the fast-fold poker party. Earlier, the new game was offered only for play money, but after the successful testing process the game took over its real money counterpart within just a couple days. The game [...]
Germany’s Marvin Rettenmaier has emerged as the champion of the World Poker Tour’s Season XI debut at the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic and got his name listed in the WPT record books for this achievement. Rettenmaier, who maintained his position near the top of the leaderboard throughout the event, came [...]
The British Poker Awards have announced the nominees for ten different awards for 2012 in which several prominent members of the British poker community are vying. This is the third consecutive year that the British Poker Awards have been sponsored by Genting Poker and the English Poker Open. They have [...]
As the tournament – the 2012 World poker Tour (WPT) Merit Cyprus Classic has almost reached to its final table with just a day closer, Day 2’s the two emerging chip leaders – Switzerland’s Sam El Sayed and Canadian Erik Cajelais, still have maintained their position in the top on [...]
The poker world witnessed a surprising move by Pinnacle Entertainment. It has sold its recently bought Global Poker Index (GPI) to Zokay Entertainment, a gaming company formed by former ChiliGaming CEO Alex Dreyfus. However, the resale price of the GPI has not been revealed so far. Pinnacle Entertainment a gaming [...]
After battling in the field of 132 players in the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Merit Cyprus Classic, the two survivors – Switzerland’s Sam El Sayed and Canadian Erik Cajelais, emerged for the WPT title. Out of the remaining 53 players after Day 2, Sayed jumped from the fourth largest [...]
After a lot of speculations and exchange of rumors on the online forums and otherwise over the last weekend of July 2012, it was officially declared that online poker website PokerStars will acquire the assets of Full Tilt Poker, another poker website on July 31, 2012. The declaration was jointly made by PokerStars [...]
As per reports that were published on internet, 28 year young Poker Pro Ryan Young died in a car accident yesterday afternoon. Though, the details confirming the accident and death of the Poker Pro are still insufficient, but the poker community has already fallen into sadness over the sad demise. [...]
The schedule for the WSOP Circuit for 2012-13 was announced by the World Series of Poker on Monday July 23, 2012. This would be the ninth season of the circuit and this time it will feature a record of 20 stops across North America which will include some new markets [...]
