One can win a life-changing amount of cash in a brand new promotion called The Dream Team Collection on PokerStars. It's easy to particpate in the competition (August 17 - September 17)!
On Thursday, Amaya released the second quarter results for 2015. According to the report, revenues grew 10% to approximately $320 million compared to the same period last year. Online casino compromised about 11% of revenues, the rest of the revenues came almost entirely from poker.
Poker King Club President Winfred Yu revealed to PokerNews about a week ago that Phil Ivey and Daniel "jungleman12" Cates were in Manila for some high stakes cash games. Believe it or not but, according to Yu, some games had blinds of HK$20,000/$40,000/$80,000 (approx. $2,500/$5,000/$10,000).
The final episode of the Super High Roller Celebrity Shootout, an invite online freeroll that was played in June, aired on U.S. television last Wednesday. Five poker professionals (Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu and Vanessa Selbst) played against each other at one table while five celebrities (Hank Azaria, Kevin Pollak, Don Cheadle, Brad Garrett and Norm Macdonald) did the same at another table. The last survior from each table then played heads-up (best of 3 matches) for a $1 million first-place prize.
Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy ended up in trouble in a late-night poker game last month. The 28-year-old footballer, who has the nickname "the cannon" due to his explosive personality, went to a casino in Leicester on July 26 with some of his team-mates to play some cards.
On Sunday, season 9 of APPT Manila (an 11-day series) concluded with Aaron Lim, from Australia, as the champion of the Main Event. Lim, who now is the first two-time APPT champ, had to work hard for the title despite entering heads-up play with almost a four-to-one chip advantage against Douglas Olsson from Sweden.
Sofia Lövgren is a 24-year-old poker professional from Gothenburg, Sweden and an Ambassador for 888poker. Although she mainly plays cash games, she has also achieved an impressive live tournament record, including six WSOP cashes and deep runs in the Irish Open, EPT San Remo ME, WPT Cyprus ME and EPT London High Roller. According to Hendon Mob, she has earned $167,976 playing live tournaments.
Dominik Nitsche (born 1990), from Minden, Germany, started playing poker online in 2006 and live poker three years later. He has 3 WSOP bracelets and 1 WPT title under his belt and, according to Hendon Mob, his online and live earnings combined exceed $8.2 million!
A man has been fined $300 after pleading guilty to possessing 0.34 grams of cocaine at an Australian casino earlier this month. According to abc.net.au, Reza Passmore, dropped a small bag of suspicious white powder on a Skycity Darwin gambling table when he took out some cash from his wallet.
The World Poker Tour Choctaw Main Event in Durant, Oklahoma, drew a large field of 1,175 players, which boosted the original $2 million guarantee with almost the double.
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In 2009, Tom "durrrr" Dwan was at the top of his career playing high-stakes heads-up cash games online. The fact is that he was so confident in his game that he offered anyone 3-1 odds on $500k who could beat him in heads up after 50,000 hands. He posted the below message on a poker forum.
PokerStars might have gotten rid of several well-known pros since Amaya took over the company. However, one shouldn't forget that they also have signed some of the most famous people in the world, including football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar Jr.
After spending a couple of weeks in sunny Las Vegas for the 2015 World Series of Poker, Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov took his girlfriend, Anna, on a holiday to cooler latitudes. To be more precise, a helicopter ride to the top of a volcano in Iceland. Little did Anna know what her poker pro boyfriend had planned...
The 5th edition of the WSOP National Championship found its winner on Friday at Harrah's Cherokee in Cherokee, N.C. Loni Hardwood, who began the final table with a big chip lead, earned her second WSOP gold bracelet and $341,599 for her victory.
Loni Hardwood will lead the final seven players into today's WSOP National Championship final table at Harrah's Cherokee in North Carolina. Hardwood, a U.S. pro with close to $1.3 million in live tournament earnings, accumulated 1,340,000 in chips on Day 2.
The $2 Million Guaranteed WPT Man Event begins today at Choctaw Casino Resort in Oklahoma. Players will received 30,000 chips for a buy-in of $3,500 +$200, and registration (possible to re-enter if eliminated) will remain open until the start of Day 2. A large field of players is expected to show up for this tournament, which will crown a winner on Tuesday, August 4 (televised final table).
Check back on Monday morning for a brief recap on Day 1A & 1B and Day2.
There is currently a rumor that a very popular Las Vegas poker room has let go of at least one staff member due to theft. "Dan Druff", who broke the news on the alleged scandal, claimed in his first post that two unrelated sources had informed him that the poker room, widely considered to be one of the best run poker rooms in the world, fired a tournament director on suspicion of stealing tokes from the cash tips in a room with no witnesses.
A player under the alias EternallyYrs has been running pretty good at 888poker this month. The fact is that the player in question has made three final tables in three weeks in major Sunday tournaments, collecting a total of $28,302 in prize money!
The first day of the National Championship kicked off on Wednesday at Harrah's Cherokee in North Carolina. At the end of registration, 122 players had entered the tournament, including defending champion Dominik Nitsche, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, and 14-time WSOP winner Phil Hellmuth.
A €300 buy-in tournament was played last weekend at the casino Golden Vegas in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was advertised that a €100,000 prize pool (click on picture to enlarge) would be up for grabs - the biggest tournament in Slovak poker history - and many players decided to re-enter on Day 1B when there still was a great overlay.
As a part of a new strategy to, for example, bring in new players, Full Tilt has removed heads-up cash games tables; changed the highest stakes to $10/$20 for No-Limit Hold'em, $15/$30 for Fixed-Limit Hold'em, $10/$20 for Pot-Limit Omaha and $2/$5 for Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Low; removed all Stud, Draw and Mixed Games. In addition, players will now be randomly seated at a table after selecting preferred game and stakes, and tables will be moved together once short-handed.
The 11th edition of PokerStars' MicroMillions concluded on Sunday with the $1 million guarantee Main Event. The $22 buy-in tournament drew 55,524 entries, which boosted the $1 million guarantee with another $110,480!
In Global Betting and Gaming Consultancy's latest edition of its Global Gambling Report, one can read about the world's most successful casinos in 2014. The report showed that the overall global gambling market increased 3.2 percent last year to over $450 billion.
One can win a life-changing amount of cash in a brand new promotion called The Dream Team Collection on PokerStars. It's easy to particpate in the competition (August 17 - September 17)! 
On Thursday, Amaya released the second quarter results for 2015. According to the report, revenues grew 10% to approximately $320 million compared to the same period last year. Online casino compromised about 11% of revenues, the rest of the revenues came almost entirely from poker. 
Poker King Club President Winfred Yu revealed to PokerNews about a week ago that Phil Ivey and Daniel "jungleman12" Cates were in Manila for some high stakes cash games. Believe it or not but, according to Yu, some games had blinds of HK$20,000/$40,000/$80,000 (approx. $2,500/$5,000/$10,000).
The final episode of the Super High Roller Celebrity Shootout, an invite online freeroll that was played in June, aired on U.S. television last Wednesday. Five poker professionals (Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu and Vanessa Selbst) played against each other at one table while five celebrities (Hank Azaria, Kevin Pollak, Don Cheadle, Brad Garrett and Norm Macdonald) did the same at another table. The last survior from each table then played heads-up (best of 3 matches) for a $1 million first-place prize.
Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy ended up in trouble in a late-night poker game last month. The 28-year-old footballer, who has the nickname "the cannon" due to his explosive personality, went to a casino in Leicester on July 26 with some of his team-mates to play some cards.
Dominik Nitsche (born 1990), from Minden, Germany, started playing poker online in 2006 and live poker three years later. He has 3 WSOP bracelets and 1 WPT title under his belt and, according to Hendon Mob, his online and live earnings combined exceed $8.2 million! 
A man has been fined $300 after pleading guilty to possessing 0.34 grams of cocaine at an Australian casino earlier this month. According to abc.net.au, Reza Passmore, dropped a small bag of suspicious white powder on a Skycity Darwin gambling table when he took out some cash from his wallet.
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In 2009, Tom "durrrr" Dwan was at the top of his career playing high-stakes heads-up cash games online. The fact is that he was so confident in his game that he offered anyone 3-1 odds on $500k who could beat him in heads up after 50,000 hands. He posted the below message on a poker forum.
PokerStars might have gotten rid of several well-known pros since Amaya took over the company. However, one shouldn't forget that they also have signed some of the most famous people in the world, including football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar Jr.
After spending a couple of weeks in sunny Las Vegas for the 2015 World Series of Poker, Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov took his girlfriend, Anna, on a holiday to cooler latitudes. To be more precise, a helicopter ride to the top of a volcano in Iceland. Little did Anna know what her poker pro boyfriend had planned...
Loni Hardwood will lead the final seven players into today's WSOP National Championship final table at Harrah's Cherokee in North Carolina. Hardwood, a U.S. pro with close to $1.3 million in live tournament earnings, accumulated 1,340,000 in chips on Day 2.
The $2 Million Guaranteed WPT Man Event begins today at Choctaw Casino Resort in Oklahoma. Players will received 30,000 chips for a buy-in of $3,500 +$200, and registration (possible to re-enter if eliminated) will remain open until the start of Day 2. A large field of players is expected to show up for this tournament, which will crown a winner on Tuesday, August 4 (televised final table).
There is currently a rumor that a very popular Las Vegas poker room has let go of at least one staff member due to theft. "Dan Druff", who broke the news on the alleged scandal, claimed in his first post that two unrelated sources had informed him that the poker room, widely considered to be one of the best run poker rooms in the world, fired a tournament director on suspicion of stealing tokes from the cash tips in a room with no witnesses.
A player under the alias EternallyYrs has been running pretty good at 888poker this month. The fact is that the player in question has made three final tables in three weeks in major Sunday tournaments, collecting a total of $28,302 in prize money! 
The 11th edition of PokerStars' MicroMillions concluded on Sunday with the $1 million guarantee Main Event. The $22 buy-in tournament drew 55,524 entries, which boosted the $1 million guarantee with another $110,480!
In Global Betting and Gaming Consultancy's latest edition of its Global Gambling Report, one can read about the world's most successful casinos in 2014. The report showed that the overall global gambling market increased 3.2 percent last year to over $450 billion.
