Despite the World Series of Poker still being in full swing, yesterday was a momentous and memorable day for online poker. The Poker Stars Turbo Takedown was back, while Poker Stars added a huge buy-in yesterday. On top of all of that, not one, not two, but three players each made two final tables of [...]

Well, I have been playing a lot of poker lately, this means that I have been playing well. I have also been to a home game last saturday-morning. Live poker is pretty boring imo. Just fold hand after hand, or loosen up and jump in there. I came out of that one, ahead too. I [...]

With all the excitement emanating from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, it can be difficult to pay attention to much else – especially in the realm of online poker. It has been a while since our last PokerStars Leaderboard update and a lot has happened. Despite the time elapsed without an update, [...]

Event #43 of the WSOP drew a surprisingly decent number of players for a Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better tournament. In all, 720 players paid $1,500 to get into the tournament that had a prize pool just under one million dollars. Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Lee Watkinson, Tom Schneider, and Joe Hachem all took [...]

The 2008 WSOP continued its trend of offering something for nearly everyone in the Seniors No Limit Hold’em World Championship. 2,218 seniors came calling with their $1,000 bets upfront and their buy-ins created a prize pool of $2,018,380. Even though this was a seniors event, that didn’t mean there was any lack of talent in [...]

This has been a pretty exciting week over at PKR Poker. The usual suspects are all in the top ten, but things are a little different which lends to an interesting situation as we wrap up the month. There could be some upsets in the top three which hasn’t happened since we started covering the [...]

Casino files lawsuit against NBA. Wynn Las Vegas is attempting to force the payment of a $50,000 bill that was created back in 2007 for an NBA All-Star game. During the All-Star weekend that year, NBA Properties, NBA Entertainment, and Alonzo Mourning Charities all used meeting space and convention space, but they never paid their [...]

Event 46 of this years World Series of Poker was the largest buy-in 6-max No Limit Hold’Em tournament of the series. The $5,000 tournament drew 805 entrants for a total prize pool of $3,783,500. 6-max No Limit Hold’Em is a different beast than full-ring and most consider it more conducive to the styles of better [...]

Among the myriad hold’em events at this years world series was Event 44, the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em w/Rebuys. 879 potential champions turned out and, in a practically unprecedented occurrence, the victor was not an established pro. In fact there wasn’t a recognizable face at the final table, a statistic that won’t be worrying Max [...]

In last week’s look at the Ladbrokes Leaderboard race, the champion from May in SOXxxxxx took the lead away from wildrick and increased it to a decent margin.  226 points to be exact. But there was still plenty of time for wildrick to make a move on SOXxxxxx with a week and a half left [...]