The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit $10,000 Western Regional Championship is well underway, and featured player Daniel Negreanu has made it down to the final 18, finding himself in eighth place. The tournament, being played in San Diego, has a prize pool just short of $1 million. With a $10,000 buy-in, it attracted 98 [...]

Down on your poker luck, who doesn’t think of the famous Jack Straus maxim “a chip and a chair”? Twenty-nine years ago, in the 1982 World Series of Poker tournament, Jack Strauss was reduced to nothing but a $500 chip and his chair. Days later, creating the legend of one of the most amazing comebacks [...]

The Canadian player, who goes by the screen name XWINK on FullTiltPoker, is widely known in the online world as a risk taker. Back in late 2009, he went on a tear in the Ultimate Bet Pot-Limit Omaha games under “XBLINK” after winning an $11 buy-in entry tournament for $750. Through the next few weeks [...]

Full Tilt’s Mini FTOPS Series is definitely a place for recreational players to make a big, career-changing score, and usually these events meet or at least come close to meeting their guaranteed prize pools.  What they usually don’t do, however, is nearly double their guarantees. If any event was set-up to do it, it was [...]

Nearly a year after his last big cash, Ylaan emerged as the winner of Full Tilt’s MiniFTOPS Event 10.

For poker pro Eric Seidel, 2011 will be a year to remember. Seidel is famous in the poker world for his competitive card skills, and just as famous outside poker for his appearance in the 1998 cult classic “Rounders.” Unlike the 1988 WSOP clip which played in “Rounders,” however, Seidel isn’t losing any tournaments. Seidel [...]

Last November, Tom Dwan was rumored to have pulled in a massive $8 to $9 million from the most recent Macau Big Game. The current Big Game going in Macau has been running for more than a week now, but this time, the game has a different set of faces to match the new winners [...]

Besting 6,581 of his fellows, “A Caveman Can” defied the odds to capture the crown in Friday’s Event 37 of the 19th running of FTOPS.

Since January 1, 2011, Hansen has already won $3 million total in online poker. Presently, this makes him 2011’s biggest winner by far

This past Valentine’s Day saw many considerable winners, one of the most exciting (and difficult to pronounce) of which hails from the shores of Finland. His name is Artuu Pitkakangas, and his winnings topped £7,000 during Betfair’s Poker Live event in London.