Special $5,000,000 GTD Edition of PokerStars Sunday Million 5r1v4i

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The PokerStars December Festival, the exclusive, month-long celebration, is currently in full swing, with a minimum of $15,000,000 in prizes up for grabs, but things are about to step up a notch with a special $5 Million Guaranteed Sunday Million, with a $500,000...

Action Set to Begin in the Garden State Super Series and It Continues in the Borgata Poker Open d446g

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Borgata will introduce its online poker tournament series, the Garden State Super Series in September, 2014, while it is hosting the Borgata Poker Open in its Atlantic City-based casino. Borgata will be streaming coverage of two events in the Borgata Poker Open for the first time.

tupac_srj wins 800 Million tournament, semaj2 clinches Sunday Million 6r35g

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Another exiting weekend in online poker as more and more players are settling into the grind that comes between summers and as a result, more and more players are filling up the biggest tournaments of the week at PokerStars and Full Tilt, creating some impressive...

Biggest score of the weekend goes to Argentina, Chris Moorman strikes again 25p67

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Another great weekend at PokerStars and Full Tilt as the Sunday majors see significant increases in players and thus in prize pools. As usual the weekend kicked off with the Sunday Warm-Up with a three-way deal being struck. Poland’s “BitterAce12” was on the short...

Weekly Tournament Recap: October 8th 3j576g

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Well, the WCOOP and MiniFTOPS have come and gone, one of the biggest prizes in online poker have been awarded and now it’s time for the regular Sunday majors to take over the spotlight once again! As usual Sunday kicked off with the Sunday Warm – Up as 3227 players...

PokerStars Weekly News – October 1 4fc3

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WCOOP 2013 Main Event Creates 3 New Millionaires After 26 hours of play the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event has finally ended, and three German-born players are now millionaires. The Main Event far exceeding the $8 million guarantee, growing all the way up to a staggering...

Weekly Tournament Recap: September 31th 6hzh

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Another WCOOP has come to an end and this one was better than ever! The Main Event saw a record breaking attendance of 2,133 players that created a prize pool of $10,665,500! But this was not the only WCOOP event of the weekend, so let’s take a look at some of the...

Weekly Tournament Recap: September 24th 345p63

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Another very exiting weekend is in the books and the action was as hot as ever! Perhaps the biggest event of the weekend was the conclusion of yet another MiniFTOPS series with the $750,000 Guaranteed Main Event being played out. Action at PokerStars was pretty good...

PokerStars Weekly News – September 21 j1o2o

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WCOOP A Massive Success The 12th annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is now past the halfway stage, and all signs point to a record-breaking success. The 66-event series offered a guaranteed $40M in prizes, including an $8M guaranteed Main Event, but it...

Weekly Tournament Recap: September 17th 1r7018

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With the WCOOP and MiniFTOPS in full swing, the excitement is bigger than ever! Just this Sunday more than $7 million in prizes were awarded across the two series! Once again, let’s take a look at this weekends’ biggest winners. Sundays’ WCOOP events were packed...

Weekly Tournament Recap (WCOOP and MiniFTOPS edition): September 10th 6c6r39

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Probably the biggest few weeks of this year in online poker have kicked off this weekend with the start of two popular tournament series. Full Till Poker has kicked off MiniFTOPS, one of the most popular series with affordable buy in’s and big prizes, most of which...

Weekly Tournament Recap: September 3rd 16n31

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Well, that’s it for summer, it’s back to school for kids and back to the grinding felt for pro’s with only fun summer memories to for the next 9 months… Even though the end of summer might be a bit depressing for some people, as usual, PokerStars and Full...

Weekly Tournament Recap: August 27th a750

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Another FTOPS has come and gone, but don’t worry, high stakes tournament action is far from over. Over the next month you can catch the MiniFTOPS on Full Tilt Poker and the mother of all online tournament series – WCOOP (World Championship Of Online Poker). WCOOP is...

Weekly Tournament Recap: August 19th 6675v

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With the FTOPS Main Event being played out over the weekend, the action was as good as ever on both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. The Main Event itself attracted 3,327 players, boosting the original $1.5m prizepool to just shy of $2m. But even though this was the...

Weekly Tournament Recap: August 12th 1p2252

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Unfortunately, summer is inching closer to the end with every ing day, but even though that means less fun outdoors and colder weather, it also means that more and more players will be steadily returning back to the virtual felt to play the best game in the world!...

Weekly Tournament Recap: August 5th 111017

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Despite August traditionally being the slowest month in online poker with many people preferring the outdoors to a good old poker game, this weekend saw an unexpected spike in attendance at the biggest tournament at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Perhaps this has...

Weekly Tournament Recap: July 29 g3756

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Just over a day ago the fifth Micro Millions series has crowned its last winner and is now officially in the books. Awarding millions of dollars across a 100 events, the Micro Millions series is quickly becoming one of the most dominant low stakes tournament series in...

Weekly Tournament Recap: July 22 b1q5y

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In the mid – summer heat big prizes have been dealt out left and right over the weekend on both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The Sunday Warm – Up and Sunday Million were both won by recently signed up players with less than 300 tournaments played between them....

Full Tilt Weekly Tournament Recap: July 6-7 1g6zz

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The WSOP Main Event is well under way in Vegas and more than 6,000 players have showed up looking for that one and only Main Event bracelet. But even though action is huge in Vegas, action online never dies as the Sunday Million got almost the same amount of entries...

Full Tilt Weekly Tournament Recap: June 29-30 15d70

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Another great weekend across the board on all the major sites with players steadily returning from the WSOP and numbers in the biggest weekend majors increasing just as steadily with their return. As usual action kicked off on Saturday with the first tournament in...

Full Tilt Weekly Tournament Recap: June 21-23 2k6861

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Another online poker Sunday is in the books at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The two leading online poker rooms were jam-packed with players this week, and several notables were awarded big paydays across the many major events on the schedule. Let start off with...

Jonathan Duhamel comes out on top in Day 1 of the GDAM 332i4r

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Jonathan Duhamel and Team PokerStars Lead the way  Watch the GDAM live on FTR here. The unique GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions event in Macau kicked off at 3pm (CST) with 71 players all paying HKD$1,000,000 for the privilege to play for the top prize of HKD$ 34,600,000...

MiniFTOPS Series XXII Week 2 Recap 4x2f6h

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Full Tilt Poker has finished the second and final week of events in MiniFTOPS Series XXII. In the end, over 120,000 players competed for over $4 million in prize money. Check out the results below to see the winners of each event. Event #21 PL Omaha Hi Rebuy ($10 +...

Ian Simpson Wins Irish Open, and gets Wife as an Extra Prize! 1l6543

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Ian Simpson took the title yesterday, beating the other 504 players at the €2,000+€250 event held in Dublin over the Easter Weekend. His reward for first place was a very tasty €265,000 for first place, to go with the Title and Trophy. In the future, it’s...

WBCOOP 2013 – An Experiment 1w4h56

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It’s that time of year again for the WBCOOP, and this time round, I’m going to be flying the FTR flag. I’ll also be recording the events for you guys to rip apart my play, and I’ll be setting up some threads in the forum for your responses....

Full Tilt Poker Weekend Tournament Recap 604460

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  Every weekend, Full Tilt Poker runs some of the largest and most exciting tournaments in online poker. With buy-ins beginning at $22, every player has a shot at earning some cash. Big Money Sundays begin with the Full Tilt Poker Sunday $500K Guaranteed...

FTOPS XXI: Results for Events #27 – #30 4a5o56

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FTOPS XXI, Days 12 and 13 The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XXI continued on Thursday and Friday, with exciting offerings in a number of formats. Despite the reduced docket for the two days, there were only four events total, some serious action took place...

Two Women are Making a Strong Showing in the WSOP Main Event 632g4b

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The World Series of Poker Main Event field has dwindled down to the final two tables, with not one but two women players remaining in the event. Gaelle Baumann of and Elisabeth Hille of Norway are both trying to make history as only the second female player to...

Two Women are Making a Strong Showing in the WSOP Main Event 632g4b

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The World Series of Poker Main Event field has dwindled down to the final two tables, with not one but two women players remaining in the event. Gaelle Baumann of and Elisabeth Hille of Norway are both trying to make history as only the second female player to...

Brandon Schafer Wins WSOP Bracelet in $1500 NL Shootout j604v

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Brandon Schaefer has won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event 14, the No-Limit Hold’em $1500 Shootout. Schaefer, a Seattle, WA resident, bested a field of more than 1,100 players to take down $311,174 for his efforts in his first WSOP win. A former professional...

Americans Dominate WSOP as Players Head into the Weekend 6c4n2r

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The 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is in full swing! In this first week, 13 of the coveted gold bracelets and millions of dollars in prize money have already been handed out to the few players who were skilled enough, and lucky enough, to cash. So far, Americans...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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With the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker in full swing, there has been plenty of action in the online poker world lately.  It seems all of the extra attention on the series has helped bring more players to PokerStars, and there has been a small trickle-down...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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This past weekend served as the proverbial “calm before the storm” that is the lead up to the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker. While Party Poker’s 2012 Poker Fest is in full swing, most other sites saw a bit of a drop-off in tournament...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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While the biggest news of the week might be PokerStars potential purchase of FullTilt Poker, there was still plenty of action on the felt, as Sunday tournaments continue to be on the rise. Taking the headlines this weekend was the start of Party Poker’s annual...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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This past weekend “celebrated” a big day in the history of online poker. Exactly one year removed from online poker’s Black Friday (April 15th, 2011), players from around the world entered big internet events with even bigger guarantees. While the...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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As we approach the one-year anniversary of online poker’s Black Friday, it is worth noting just how strong online tournaments are today. While the US government effectively shut out their citizens from playing online, the rest of the world has certainly picked...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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This weekend marked another strong showing for online poker tournaments, as most of the Sunday majors were well-attended events. Between Party Poker, iPoker, and Bwin, it seems the European sites are doing quite well for themselves. While they may never catch up to...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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The Tournament Report is back after a couple week hiatus. Online poker tournaments have continued to thrive in our absence, with prize pools and guarantees being upped across the board. There was also some big new this week as PokerStars announced the schedule for the...

Sunday Tournament Report 3/04/2012 6i1r20

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Online poker tournaments again saw an uptick in attendance, as some of the biggest fields of 2012 were amassed yesterday. With sites like PokerStars, Bwin, and iPoker all having great days, it seems online tournaments have fully recovered from last year’s...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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Another weekend of major poker tournaments is in the books, and once again, it seems tournament attendance and prize pools are on the rise. This past weekend there were two super-sized events, as Bwin bolstered their Sunday championship from $250k to $500k, and...

Ivey continues to dominate, ends Day 1 of WPT LA Classic near the top 2m2i5r

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Just one month after his $2 million win at the Aussie Millions High Roller event, Phil Ivey has continued his roll with his shrewd play at the WPT LA Classic. Thanks to a late surge, at the conclusion of day 1 he is sitting in 5th place with 116,300 chips. The chip...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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Another Sunday or major tournaments is in the books, and with it, another weekend of massive prize pools and huge first place payouts.  Tournament attendance was again up across the board, with sites like Party Poker and PokerStars benefiting the most from another...

Matt Juttelstad is the WPT Lucky Hearts Champ 5k4o4a

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After 9 hours and 300 hands of final table action, Matt Juttelstad defeated Gigi Gagne heads-up to become the champion of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Gagne, who started the evening as the chip...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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This past weekend marked another milestone for online poker tournaments.  For the first time since Black Friday, PokerStars upped the guarantee in a large amount of their Sunday events, including the Sunday500.  To celebrate, PokerStars ran two tournaments for each...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

by Poker News

This past weekend was another strong showing for online poker tournaments.  While some might have expected action to be down with the Super Bowl on TV, the opposite actually held true.  In fact, this past weekend was one of the biggest of the last few months that did...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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Another successful weekend of online poker tournaments is in the books. This past Sunday was highlighted by the finale of the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker, a new series that is comprised mainly of fast-paced tournaments.  The Main Event, a $1,500,000...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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Online poker tournaments saw a nice 2012 boost last weekend, as each major event flew past their respective guarantees. Unfortunately, it appears the new year excitement may have been short-lived as most events came back down to earth this past weekend.  While...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

by Poker News

Online poker tournaments continue to be on the rise as this past weekend another set of major tournaments concluded.  Even with Black Friday shocking the online poker world, it seems like it has taken less than a year to completely recover.  Even more good news could...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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With the past two Sundays falling on Christmas and New Years, it was easy to see why online tournament attendance had taken a bit of a dip. However, even the NFL playoffs this past Sunday could not keep players away from the Sunday majors.  Tournament attendance was...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

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The STR would like to wish everyone a happy New Year.  The past two weekends have been interesting as Sunday has landed on Christmas and January 1st.  This has led to some lower attendance figures on smaller sites like iPoker and BWin.  However, there has still been...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

by Poker News

Online poker tournaments were a bit down this past weekend as most of the world celebrated the holidays.  Sites like Bwin and iPoker both dropped the guarantees on their biggest majors, down to $100k from $200k.  While this allowed them to reach their guarantees, it...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

by Poker News

Online poker history was made this past weekend as PokerStars celebrated its 10th anniversary in fine fashion. A huge slew of events awaited those wanting to grind Sunday tournaments, including a beefed up Sunday Million with a $10,000,000 guarantee.  There was also a...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

by Poker News

This past weekend marked another strong period for online poker tournaments.  With millions of dollars on the line, some of the best online players in the world gathered to take part in events on Party Poker, iPoker, and PokerStars.  While Sunday saw a lot of action,...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 244i63

by Poker News

There was plenty of action in the world of online poker events this past weekend.  Taking the main stage was a special $1 buy-in event that looked to set the world record for number of entries in a poker tournament. Hosted by PokerStars, the $250,000 guaranteed...

Pokerstars breaks Guinness world record for largest poker tournament t5j53

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An astounding 200,000 people helped Pokerstars.com, the world’s largest poker site, to make history on Sunday December 4th by participating in the largest poker tournament ever. This event was part of Pokerstars’ ongoing 10th Anniversary celebrations. The...

Sunday Tournament Report 11/27/2011 2f3p6f

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Sunday tournaments continued to push onwards towards the end of 2011. It has been quite a rocky year for online poker.  With April 15th’s removal of American players from the market, a lot of sites have lost a good chunk of their MTT traffic.  On top of this,...

Weekend Tournament Report 11/22/2011 h5m1o

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The weekend tournament report comes at you on Tuesday this week. Instead of a full version, we’re going to go with a special Thanksgiving abbreviated write-up.  There wasn’t anything too interesting going on in online tournaments this weekend. The biggest...

Sunday Tournament Report 11/13/2011 536n45

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Without a major tournament series on the horizon, online poker events are back to their standard tricks.  Coming of a strong 2011 Poker Fest, Party Poker was looking to have a big weekend of online MTTs.  Their biggest major, the Sunday $200,000 guaranteed, certainly...

Sunday Tournament Report 11/06/2011 115l5g

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This week brings an abridged version of the Sunday tournament report. With the 2011 Party Poker PokerFest coming to an end, there was some decent action spread across a few online poker rooms. The $1,000,000 Main Event was the day’s second largest event, coming...

Sunday Tournament Report 10/30/2011 553t5z

by Poker News

There is much to be optimistic about lately when it comes to online poker tournaments. Coming off a successful WCOOP run by PokerStars, it seems other sites are now keen on getting a piece of the tournament series action. Currently, the world’s 2nd largest...

Sunday Tournament Report 10/23/2011 5w3l3x

by Poker News

There was a lot of action online this past weekend, highlighted by the start of the 2011 Party Poker Poker Fest. The tournament series kicked off on Sunday and runs all the way through November 6th. There will be plenty of big events with millions of dollars...

Sunday Tournament Report 10/16/2011 6nv2d

by Poker News

This weekend marked another big promotion from PokerStars as they run multiple majors under the “double vision” promo.  Tournaments like the Sunday Warm-Up and Million were actually run twice, with incredible results following.  As other online sites have...

Sunday Tournament Report 10/09/2011 535210

by Poker News

Online tournaments continued to roll on this past weekend, as millions of dollars were up for grabs at many popular poker rooms.  Sites like Party and PokerStars had strong showings while both the iPoker and Merge Poker Networks continue to struggle to fill their...

Sunday Tournament Report 10/02/2011 684e3y

by Poker News

The Sunday Tournament Report is back in full force. After three weeks of huge WCOOP events we return to our standard rotation of Sunday majors. It is always interesting to see how the first weekend goes after a major online tournament series. Will events see a nice...

Sunday Tournament Report 9/25/2011 3c4z1j

by Poker News

Once again the Sunday Tournament Report is a bit shortened this week as the 2011 WCOOP was coming to an end.  Be sure to check out the FTR News Section for updates on all the tournaments including the $5,000 Main Event.  With the WCOOP finally over, it will be...

Sunday Tournament Report 9/18/2011 5h2573

by Poker News

There is a lot going on in the poker world lately. Between the 2011 WCOOP, new developments with FullTilt, and the WSOPE just on the horizon, there is much to talk about.  This past weekend online tournaments continued to grow as both attendance and prize pools were...

Sunday Tournament Report 9/11/2011 2o655b

by Poker News

As the second weekend of the 2011 World Championship of Online Poker came to an end, so did a solid day of high-stakes online poker tournaments.  Not only was there a lot of action on PokerStars, but sites like Party Poker, iPoker, and Merge Poker had big events...

Mike McDonald Wins EPL Event 2 for $782k 1a4a63

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Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald just retired from poker, at age 20. McDonald made his name by winning the EPT Main Event for $1.3 million, and by earning himself a seven figure bankroll in online poker. But months later, he’s right back out of retirement,...

Sunday Tournament Report 9/4/2011 1r184b

by Poker News

The Sunday Tournament Report took the Labor Day holiday off, but we are back today with a recap of all the major happenings from the past weekend in online poker. The 2011 World Championship of Online Poker kicked off, and with it, a renewed interest in internet...

Sunday Tournament Report 8/29/2011 6j947

by Poker News

This past weekend proved to be a bit of a lull in online poker tournaments.  Attendance was down across the board, and really showed itself on the European-based sites like iPoker and Party Poker.  While PokerStars continues to roll on, the other rooms are showing an...

Sunday Tournament Report 8/21/2011 4o4459

by Poker News

It was another strong weekend for online poker tournaments as Sunday major attendance was up across the board. Sites like Party Poker, Titan, and the Merge Network continue to grow as more and more players return to online poker.   The past month has been a strong one...

Chino Rheem Wins $1 Million EPL Title Controversy Over Debt Ensues 6m52o

by Poker News

The Epic Poker League is a brand new event series, featuring an all-star cast of the world’s best tournament poker players. As their first event, the Epic Poker League went all out with promotions, including plastering signage all over the Palms Casino, and...

Sunday Tournament Report 8/14/2011 541g6z

by Poker News

We seem to have hit a bit of a lull in online poker tournaments.  With the 2011 World Championship of Online Poker three weeks away, and the WSOP squarely in our rear-view mirror, there just is not a lot of buzz around internet poker events.  Still, most of the events...

Sunday Tournament Report 8/7/2011 365s6v

by Poker News

Another weekend of big online tournaments is in the books.  With FullTilt still shut down, the WCOOP on the horizon, and no other major series running, it was up to the standard Sunday events to steal the show.  Party Poker was one site looking to do just that as they...

Full Tilt Poker Renews Secondary A with the KGC 6f571v

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It was recently released that Bovada Poker successfully renewed their Secondary Client Provider Authorization (A) with the Kahnawake Gaming Commision (KGC) for a period of two years. This is despite the fact that the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC)...

Sunday Tournament Report 7/31/2011 x3e5y

by Poker News

The online tournament scene is certainly on the upswing.  Over the past month online poker events have been growing like wildfire with tournaments rebounding nicely from the April 15th crackdown of American online poker. For a few months tournaments were struggling to...

Sunday Tournament Report 7/24/2011 4c1o20

by Poker News

Online tournaments looked to build off of last week’s success that saw nearly every major event sur their guarantees.  The only tournament on the docket that continues to fall short is the $100,000 guaranteed on the Merge Network.  Home to rooms such as...

Tournament Fish 711d

by Poker News

If you didn’t get the chance to watch ESPN’s coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event, you missed out. ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3 have been providing live (no hole cards), semi-live (hole cards), and produced coverage of the event (only the best...

Sunday Tournament Report 7/17/2011 2g71d

by Poker News

Online tournaments are rebounding nicely since Black Friday shook up the poker world back in April. For awhile tournaments had seen attendance decline steadily before leveling out.  Events such as the Party $200k, Bodog $100k, and even the PokerStars500 had been...

PokerStars Sunday Tournament Report 7/10/2011 3p282w

by Poker News

This weekend marked the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.  With more than 6,500 players entering the $10,000 buy-in championship it seems poker may not be dying as much as those in the US government would like.  Even with many of the world’s...

Sunday Tournament Report 7/3/2011 4z1y6p

by Poker News

Online poker tournaments continue to thrive even amidst all the recent turmoil. For those not keeping up with the game lately, FullTilt was shut down last week by the Alderney Gaming Control Commission for certain operational practices.  However, it appears FullTilt,...

Alex Rodriguez Revealed In Tobey Maguire’s Poker Ring 1m361r

by Poker News

Already owning a long history of gambling, and a string of warnings from Major League Baseball (MLB) to steer clear of poker, Alex Rodriguez has been implicated in the Tobey Maguire poker ring. Rodriguez s the A-list of big names involved in the high-stakes, and...

Ken Griffin Wins 2011 WSOP Event #45 43h5x

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Like all soldiers, Ken Griffin was ingrained with a relentless desire to win. In only his third event at the World Series of Poker, that's exactly what he did.

Sunday Tournament Report 6/26/2011 6c3k3c

by Poker News

Online poker tournaments have been in a bit of a holding pattern lately as the 2011 WSOP continues to grab headlines from Las Vegas.  However, just because these tournaments have not gotten any bigger, it does not mean there isn’t still millions to play for each...

Mikhail Lakhitov Wins 2011 WSOP Event 36 586v5x

by WSOP

After four days of raucous play, Mihail Lakhitov emerged as the eventual winner in the 36th event of the 2011 World Series of Poker. Overcoming a field of 1,734 players, Russian-born pro took home an incredible $749,610.

Sunday Tournament Report 6/19/2011 6v4j1x

by Poker News

Even with the World Series of Poker rolling on from Las Vegas online poker events continued their strong summer push this past weekend.  Sunday events were up across the board with FullTilt running a $1,000,000 guarantee highlighting the day’s schedule.  Those...

Oleksii Kovalchuk Wins WSOP Event 26 20435l

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Oleksii Kovalchuk wins Event 26 of the 2011 WSOP.

Mark Radoja Wins WSOP Event 24 g1a6q

by WSOP

Mark Rodoja has claimed the crown in the World Series of Poker's twenty-fourth event of 2011, taking home $436,568 for his efforts.

Sunday Tournament Report 6/12/2011 2f576w

by Poker News

As the 2011 World Series of Poker rolls on it would be understandable for online events to get lost in the shuffle.  However, with big guarantees and even bigger prize pools there was plenty of action going on this weekend for those busting out of WSOP events early. ...

Weekend Tournament Wrap Up 4t1a6u

by Poker News

A slightly delayed Sunday tournament report comes at you this week with online events from a handful of sites taking center stage.  As the 2011 World Series of Poker has gotten underway online events have slowed a bit with the majority of the professionals in Las...

Bwin Poker Offering Packages to GSOP Manchester 261r67

by Poker News

Poker players throughout the United Kingdom may be starting to find it difficult to sleep as their excitement mounts in face of the poker action. The Grand Series of Poker Live Tour Season Two is kicking off in under two months time in Manchester, and will be...

Sunday Tournament Report 5/22/2011 611i3j

by Poker News

The online tournament scene was abuzz this weekend with the completion of the 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker. While millions of dollars were up for grabs on PokerStars, there were still plenty of other big events on other rooms including the Merge Network,...

His Year Rolls On: Erik Seidel Wins the Five Star WPC High Roller Event 2s3e2v

by Poker News

If you are a golf fan, you have been privileged to watch Tiger Woods plying his craft from 1997 until now.  Granted, his last 18 months have been marred by personal problems, injuries, and a golf swing that seems to be in constant flux, but on the whole, you and I...

Antonius overtakes Hansen in winnings, Blom returns 3l285l

by Poker News

Gus Hansen has been the story of the 2011 winners. Through the first half of 2011, when it came to professional players’ earnings, he was the far and away the name on top. Black Friday’s repercussions haven’t helped any of the U.S. based players....

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up 5/15/2011 1y4g2t

by Poker News

Online tournament action has been quite strong lately as the 2011 Spring Championship rolls towards its final week.  With PokerStars running the SCOOP it seems all over sites have benefited from extra players being online.   Those looking for SCOOP results should...

Full Tilt Poker Updates Their Progress on Cashouts 5l3v2n

by Poker News

Full Tilt Poker Room Management had promised that they would update their US-Based customers on the current status of their cashouts and when they could expect to see their player funds returned.  This past Sunday, as promised, they released an update that answered...

PokerStars Sunday Tournament Report 5/08/2011 2xw6b

by Poker News

There is a lot of buzz in the tournament community this week as the 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker has finally gotten underway.  The 38-event, 114 tournament mega-series will have millions of dollars on the line on a daily basis.  The 2011 SCOOP runs from...

Win a WSOP 2011 Seat at Red Kings Poker 5d1zb

by Poker News

Play at Red Kings now for a chance to win a seat at the 2011 WSOP. From now until June 6th play Red Kings WSOP 2011 satellites for  your chance at the big show. Win one of the side event satellites for $300 entry, and you get a prize package worth $3,600 which...

PokerStars Sunday Tournament Report 5/01/2011 5g3y3v

by Poker News

The Sunday Tournament Report has received a necessary face lift since the April 15th crackdown by the US Government. With Americans no longer able to play on PokerStars and FullTilt we will begin focusing our attention on other rooms as well. New to the report this...

PokerStars Sunday Tournament Report 4/24/2011 3w441l

by Poker News

One week since the aftermath of Black Friday and it appears online tournaments will continue to roll on. With FTOPS XX off to a strong start and the 2011 SCOOP on the horizon there will be plenty of tournament action for those still able to play online.   Between...

Gus Hansen Still Thriving in a Post-US Online Environment l433m

by Poker News

It has been said often that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.  That might be true, but no one was prepared for the Black Friday shutdown of three of online poker’s largest sites, at least in of their US player bases.  In effect, the...

Sunday Tournament Report 4/17/2011 5u4y6g

by Poker News

Let’s start with the obvious. The online poker world was blindsided this past Friday when the US Department of Justice along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicted six owners of PokerStars, FullTilt, and Absolute/UB along with five parties involved...

Jason Mercier Goes Back to Back at Mohegan Sun 1i2e3v

by Poker News

Its tough to imagine a player repeating and winning back to back titles in a high buy-in event these days.  The fields are probably tougher than they’ve ever been, the players are busy and can’t always play the same schedules, and the events themselves...

Sunday Tournament Report 4/10/2011 1r6f2f

by Poker News

Online tournaments have hit a bit of a wall lately. After a huge start to 2011, events on both PokerStars and FullTilt have seen their player pools dwindle quite a bit over the past few weeks as promotions and various tournaments serious have come to an end. ...

Dwan Down Another $40k to Jungleman12 6c1lt

by Poker News

Two young phenoms, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12” Cates, were dueling again as part of the Durrrr Challenge 2 on March 29. This would mark the second time the two played in just a few days. Railbirds were informed via Dwan’s...

Jamie Gold Powers Activated (To Win a WSOP ME Seat) 4s4k1f

by Online Tournaments

(TL;DR cliff notes at bottom). On Friday I set my facebook pic to Jamie Gold and I to gain his special powers. And I’ll be damned, it worked. I binked a WSOP ME seat on Saturday and it was quite the ride. Back up to August. My friends and I decided to take a...

Isildur1 Quickly Defeats KidPoker in Round 1 of their SuperStar Showdown Challenge jj2z

by PokerStars

PokerStars was proud to announce that poker sensations Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom were to fight it out in Blom’s SuperStar Showdown. In fact, having Negreanu agree to this caused PokerStars to want to have them...

Sunday Tournament Report 4/03/2011 461b1v

by Poker News

It was a big weekend for FullTilt as their “Doubles Week” was supposed to boost the guarantee of their major events two-fold. Instead, FullTilt decided to go bigger and better, making each major tournament a multi-entry event which allows players to buy-in...

Winners and losers of first quarter 2011 4f4r5m

by Poker News

As March winds to a close, we are finishing up the first quarter of 2011. 3 months doesn’t seem like such a long time, but in the world of poker, 3 months is enough time to build or lose a fortune several times over. And that’s exactly what the pros have...

Negreanu goes deep at San Diego WSOP circuit event 301u1x

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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...

Sunday Tournament Report 3/27/2011 4k3k12

by Poker News

It was quite the interesting day in online tournaments yesterday as some records were broken and new tournaments were broken in.  The highlights of the day had to include the $216 $1,500,000 Guaranteed on FullTilt. A tournament which is sure to rival the Sunday...

Sunday Tournament Report 3/20/2011 374t21

by Poker News

While a lot of attention online yesterday was focused on the Daniel Negreanu, Viktor Blom heads-up match, there were still plenty of players entering major tournaments.  With MiniFTOPS XIX finishing up there was all kinds of action on both PokerStars and FullTilt.  If...

The 2011 Comeback Kids 5g452

by Poker News

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,...

XWINK’s Losses go Over $1 Million in One day 451o17

by Poker News

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...

Sunday Tournament Report 3/13/2011 4l142

by Poker News

Coming off a record breaking weekend last week, online tournaments continued their upward trend in 2011 as both FullTilt and PokerStars benefited from the previous weekend’s festivities. Coming off the heels of the Sunday Million 5th Year Anniversary...

Niki1515 wins Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS XIX Event #22 5h339

by Poker News

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...

Ylann Wins Full Tilt Mini FTOPS Event 10 322l

by Poker News

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

mimipouliot111 wins Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS XIX Event 3 5l6w6n

by Poker News

Nearly 16,000 players ed for the third event of MiniFTOPS XIX. The event was a $33 Rush Poker tournament. Oh, and you could have bought in multiple times thanks to Full Tilt Poker’s Multi Entry Tournaments. Essentially, it was pure madness as the $100k...

Sunday Tournament Report 3/06/2011 462h4o

by Poker News

This past Sunday marked perhaps the biggest day in online poker history. With the 5-year anniversary of the Sunday Million leading the charge there was a massive amount of money on the line throughout all poker sites. While each and every PokerStars major benefited...

Seidel Rips into 2011 to Make 1st on All Time Money List 5z462w

by Poker News

For poker pro Eric Seidel, 2011 will be a year to . 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...