Yesterday, Austria launched their own state-run online poker room, www.win2day.at. Player registration began yesterday morning, and the Austrian site is planning several €5,000 freerolls to kick things off. With the launch of their site, Austria became only the second country in the world to run a state-run online poker room. The other country is Sweden. Austria accepted help from Sweden’s state-run online poker site, Svenska Spel, in the development and ...
After a six-hour long final table, the World Series of Poker Circuit event at Harrah’s Rincon Resort & Casino has come to an end, with Michael Pickett taking the victory after starting out in seventh place at the final table. A total of 148 players had begun the event and Michael Pickett outlasted 147 of them to win the event.
Joe Eaton was the short stack to start the final table and ...
Wednesday marked the beginning of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII, with the first event, $750,000 guaranteed no limit holdem, which started at 9:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday. The Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII is a 20-event series of online poker tournaments with guaranteed prize pools ranging from $100,000 to the $2 million that is guaranteed in the main event which will take place on February 17 at 6:00 p.m. EST.
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The second-ever event of the World Poker Tour Ladies took place at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, where Vanessa Selbst walked away as the winner after defeating Full Tilt Poker Pro Erica Schoenberg in heads-up play. Crystal Osgood, founder of the Ladies Poker Association, would finish in third place. The inaugural tournament of the WPTL took place on January 20th in Atlantic City. The buy-in for this event ...
David Pham is not content to have just won the 2007 Player of the Year Award, his second Player of the Year award. He wants to do it again by continuing to play excellent poker and winning whenever he plays. David Pham took another step in the right direction after finishing in second place at Event #11 of the LA Poker Classic, $1,000 No Limit Holdem.
In January, David “The Dragon” ...
Gavin Griffin won the 2008 WPT Borgata Poker Classic, and by doing so, became the only poker player in history to win a World Series of Poker bracelet, a World Poker Tour title, and a European Poker Tour Title. Griffin won a WSOP bracelet in 2004 while playing pot limit holdem, and his EPT title came at the 2007 EPT Grand Final. Like his other accomplishments, Griffin’s WPT title did not come ...
The final table of the European Poker Tour’s Dortmund event has drawn to conclusion, with Canadian Michael McDonald taking our Andreas Gülünay of Germany in heads-up play. Six hours after play began, including a dinner break, seven of the eight players at the final table had been eliminated, leaving only Michael McDonald Standing.
Michael McDonald is a young 18-year old from Canada. In his first major live tournament appearance, he was eliminated ...
The task on Day 3 of the European Poker Tour’s Dortmund event was simple; Survive to make it to the final table and not be one of the 24 players destined to be eliminated on Day 3. For some it was a long, hard journey to the final table while others rode their large chip stacks throughout the day to make it to the final table as a force to be ...
Day 2 of the European Poker Tour’s Dortmund event began with 153 players hoping to win the title and the €933,600 first prize that went with it. Day 2 would continue for 131 eliminations until only 32 players remained, which brought the player field into the money as the top 40 players would be paid out.
Daniel Negreanu started Day 2 in good shape with nearly 60,000 in chips. Once again, though, ...
The European Union has taken the first step in the long process of taking legal action against Germany and Sweden, two countries that have come under fire recently for their legislative efforts to ban foreign-based online gaming companies in efforts to assist their state-run monopolies by preventing competing companies from taking a part of their domestic markets. By attempting to prevent foreign-based online gaming companies from bringing their services to the ...
