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2011 WCOOP Main Event down as expected
The 2011 WCOOP Main Event attracted 1,627 players, and will be offering almost $5 million total to the top finishers. But while this is one huge online poker tournament, it doesn’t quite measure up to the 2010 WCOOP Main Event. After all, the 2010 WCOOP ME set records for an online poker tournament when over $12.2…
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Full Tilt Poker the Ponzi Scheme
Those of you who thought that Full Tilt Poker had even the slimmest chance of surviving the loss of their gaming license and the US DoJ actions may want to rethink your position. Major news outlets throughout the world have been reporting that Full Tilt Poker is being labeled a Ponzi scheme by the New York US…
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Starting a Poker Bankroll
It’s always fun to play free online poker games against other players since you’re not risking any real money, and it’s an entertaining way to pass the time. But even with this being said, many players get the itch to play real money poker games eventually, which means they’ll need a bankroll to get started.…
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DOJ really after Merge Network?
One of the biggest poker stories to surface in the month of September is how the US Department of Justice is supposedly targeting the Merge Gaming Network, which includes Lock Poker, Carbon Poker, RPM Poker and others. The story broke from a website called Subject Poker as the writer, Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, said that a source gave…
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Mike McDonald wins Lackluster Epic Poker League
The second ever Epic Poker League Main Event wasn’t exactly a resounding success since just 97 of the 200 invited poker pros joined the tournament. Seeing as how invited players are given a free $20,000 Main Event seat, and hotel/travel costs are covered, you have to wonder about the future of this organization. In any…
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PokerStars Software goes Down
One of the chief reasons for PokerStars’ perch above the online poker world is that they are such a reliable company. Unfortunately, this reliability was put in some serious jeopardy after the software crashed last night. The PokerStars software stopped working around 18:30 ET, and the nearly 50,000 players online were puzzled about what to…
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Jake Cody named Poker Player of the Year
Jake Cody started the 2011 WSOP off with a bang after winning the $25k No-Limit Hold’em Heads-up Championship. And his reward for winning was a massive $851,192 prize and a WSOP gold bracelet. Perhaps even bigger than the bracelet though was the fact that Cody became only the fourth person ever to win poker’s triple crown,…
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Poker Backing Industry suffering
The once thriving poker backing industry seems to have taken a major hit following Black Friday, where several of the world’s largest poker sites were forced to stop offering services to US players. With this being said, many online poker pros still have lots of money wrapped up on these sites (especially Full Tilt Poker),…
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Daniel Negreanu back in Online Poker
Like many people who live in the United States, Daniel Negreanu has not been able to play online poker at PokerStars. After all, the world’s largest online poker site pulled out of the American market following the US Department of Justice’s crackdown. Fortunately though, Negreanu was only kept out of the online games at PokerStars…
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Legalized US Online Poker to help the Game?
There’s a lot of talk about legalized online poker in the United States. In fact, the New York Post recently ran an article on the matter. You can check the article out yourself, but the jest of it is that there are several signs legalization could be coming such as the following: – Las Vegas…