Professional Players

Things appear to be quiet on the tournament front, but looming in the distance is the monster known as the World Series of Poker. The 39th Annual World Series of Poker is set to kick off on May 30th – three weeks from now – with a $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold ‘Em event. In […]

Yesterday, the WSOP Circuit Event in at Caesars Las Vegas came to an end, as an extremely tough final table convened. The $5k buy in event attracted 334 total entries, with 36 players getting paid. Here were the stack sizes going into the final table.
Ben Fineman: 828,000
Thomas Hover: 407,000
Kelly Samson: 385,000
Blair Hinkle: 382,000
Doug Lee: 324,000
Ralph […]

Ladbrokes poker have recently announced a new recruit to their team with the signing of British poker pro, Jonathan Kalmar, also known as ‘Skalie’.
Kalmar is best known for his heroics at last years WSOP Main Event, coming in 5th, making him an instant millionaire, taking home a cool $1.25m. Following his success, Kalmar became […]

Victoria Coren, a professional poker player out of Britian, has been signed by Team PokerStars. Coren is currently holding down the tenth most earnings all-time for women. She also serves as a commentator for “Celebrity Poker Club” run out of England.
“I’m genuinely proud and happy to be an ambassador for PokerStars, I have […]

World Poker Tour Enterprise Inc have announced that they have finally settled the lawsuit filed against them by several well known professional poker players in July 2006.
 
The case concerned the player release form which the WPT used, where the players claimed that the terms and conditions of the player release violated their rights to manage […]

With 15 WPT cashes to his name, Erik Seidel finally his first WPT title after winning the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic. Seidel outlasted a field of 345 players and entered the 6 handed final table with a commanding chip.
The action on the final table last nearly 12 hours, one of the longest in WPT […]

Relative unknown, Jason Mercier from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, captured the title of the European Poker Tour San Remo on Saturday, outlasting 700 other players for the biggest win of his young career.
In the biggest poker tournament to be ever held in Italy, each contestant paid €5,000 to enter, with the prize pool totaling over €3,200,000.
Online […]

This has been a simply huge couple of days in the tournament scene, with big names frequenting the high buy in preliminary events at the Five-Star World Poker Classic at the Bellagio, while we near the end of the road at the Foxwoods Poker Classic.
The EPT San Remo just wrapped up this past weekend, with […]

In recent years, we’ve seen various successful sports stars try their hand at poker with mixed success. Most notably we’ve seen former World No. 1 tennis player, Yevgeny Kafelnikov switch to poker, who made a series of impressive finishes at the World Series of Poker 2005. And more recently, Australian cricket legend, Shane […]

English professional poker player, Neil Channing, managed to outlast a field of 667 players as he blitzed his way to winning the 2008 Irish Open held at Dublin’s City West Hotel, taking home Euros 801,400 ($1,260,000 USD). 
Channing was rampant, as he entered the final table as a massive chip leader with $2.75 million chips out […]