Brett Bickes

PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker continues in full force and with the end in site many players are even more desperate to try and grab a SCOOP title as well as that PokerStars wristwatch. Event # 33 was a 1rebuy 1addon tournament that was jam packed full of action and, with a total prize [...]

PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker or SCOOP is in full swing with many players vying for the top prize and that wrist watch. Here is a recap of what went down in Event # 20. Event #20 was a two day event that featured a High ($2,100), Medium ($215) and a Low ($27) buy [...]

All In The Poker Movie was recently released. It’s amazing documentary with views from many seasoned TV pros. It details the journey poker has taken from the birth of internet age to where it is now. It basically begins with a short bit of Black Friday and from there continues from the beginning of the [...]

Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 has been absolutely dominating the PokerStars SCOOP tournaments so far. Isildur1 began this hot streak by first winning the SCOOP-02-M $215 9 max for $247,200. He beat out RaisingRay91 with AJ against Ray’s K8s to claim the title, besting out a field of 8,240 entrants in a two day event. As [...]

TwoPlusTwo’s poker forums were hacked today and shut down by the owners. The extent of the information obtained by the hacker is not fully known, but in the mean time NoahSD offers these tips and I thoroughly agree with them. 1.) If you use the same password for 2p2 for other things, change them immediately. [...]

Annette Obrestad, known as Annette_15 online, was recently named a Lock Pro for the Lock Poker site on the Merge Network. Annette who started her poker career at a very young age is mostly known for winning the PokerStars Sunday Quarter Million, and then being the youngest player ever to win the W.S.O.P.E. Main Event [...]

The Alderney Gaming Control Commission, or AGCC, has declared it will hold a public hearing pertaining to grant Full Tilt Poker a gaming license. This follows the news of the new company in Ireland founded by Tapie called New Full Tilt Limited, as well as Pocket Kings (a Full Tilt company) hiring new employees for [...]

PokerTableRatings recently received a cease and desist order from PokerStars, relating to their data mining and hand tracking activities of PokerStars’ hand histories. This was followed by GoDaddy.com (a web hosting service) dropping www.pokertableratings.com temporarily only to bring PTR back online shortly after. PokerStars claimed it had given PTR many opportunities to stop tracking all [...]

According to an article on CardPlayer.com, the confirmed number of players for the $1 million Big One for One Drop has now reached 30. The tournament, scheduled for July 1st to July 3rd, will feature some of the top names in poker as well as recreational players interested in playing the best in the world [...]

In the latest live streaming poker news, Party Poker’s Big Game is being streamed live as we speak. In a move seemingly to echo the IseriesLive, Party Poker made the decision a few days ago to stream the game live. Currently playing are famous pro’s such as Sam Trickett, Dan “Jungleman” Cates, Sorel Mizzi, Phil [...]