PokerStars is invading Ireland and Andy Black will be there to defend.PokerStars is putting its weight behind yet another international poker tournament with the start of a brand new tour.
The online giant will be sponsoring the Irish Poker Championship in a partnership with Eglinton Casino as part of the new PokerStars.com UK and Ireland Poker Tour.
The five-day festival will take place in Galway, Ireland at the Radisson Hotel from Dec.
One of the nonexecutive directors of Party Gaming’s Board of Directors recently quit is role. The Board of Directors has achieved a balance between executive and nonexecutive members now that Emilio Gomez stepped down, according to the official statement of Gomez’s departure from Party Gaming. The news did not include a mention of a replacement for Gomez, which leads to speculation that Party Gaming’s Board of Directors wishes to maintain a parity. Party Gaming is in the midst of a deal with World Poker Tour Enterprises to purchase that company’s brand and assets.
One of the men who were responsible for Las Vegas becoming the gambling mecca of the world has passed away at the age of 67. Bob Stupak, the builder of the Stratospher and a poker and gambling legend, passed away after fighting a battle with leukemia. Stupak was taught poker by Puggy Pearson and used those skills to win a WSOP bracelet in 1989 in the $5,000 Deuce-to-Seven event. He also took a turn on the High Stakes Poker show and made the final table of the 2003 WPT L.A. Poker Classic
The man they call the Professor of Poker has made the final table of WSOPE Event Three. A member of online poker room Full Tilt Poker’s pro team, Howard “the Professor” Lederer showed he still has it when he sat down at the final table of the Pot Limit Omaha tournament as part of the World Series of Poker Europe, running now in London. Lederer is the only American at the table, the rest coming from various countries in Europe, appropriately. Only one more event remains in this year’s WSOPE.
Olivier Busquet made one of the most dramatic comebacks in WPT history to win the 2009 WPT Borgata Poker Open on Thursday.
The 28-year-old online poker player entered the final table as the commanding chip leader but soon found himself in trouble when opponent Jeremy Brown started busting player after player.
Brown eliminated three players and by the time they were down to heads-up play Brown held a 3-1 chip lead over Busquet. The situation went from bad to worse for Busquet, who by the 18th hand had only 1.5 million chips to Brown’s 29 million.
Somehow Busquet found a way to battle back and, after a few lucky hands, finally landed the knockout blow to eliminate Brown and claim the $925,514 for first place.
“I’m a little bit overwhelmed by the whole thing,” said Busquet shortly after his victory.
22-year-old Andrew Feldman is quickly becoming the new face of British poker.In just eight months, a fresh-faced Andrew Feldman spun a few hundred pounds into a $100,000 bankroll playing poker online.
It took less than 24 hours to make it all disappear.
“One night, I was coming home from the casino where’d I’d lost quite a bit of money, £2000 on 3-card poker, so I was a bit steamed up,” he said. “I thought yeah, whatever, I’ll go and get it back from poker. So I played out of my bankroll at $25/$50.
The very first WPT Cyprus event is done and has its champion. The first annual World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic ended at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus with 32 years old French pro Thomas Bichon claiming the top prize. He won the cash prize and a bracelet to go along with the title, and the honor of being the first player to ever win a WPT title in Greece. His $579,165 pay out dwarfed the second place payout of $380,645, which went to Uri Keidar, and matched that plus third place pay of $216,275 to Steven Fung.
The 2008 bill in the California state legislature proposing a study of intrastate online poker looks to be on perpetual hold again. After having new life breathed into it only one month prior when the Morongo Band of Mission Indians expressed its support and intended advocacy for the bill, the tribe quickly discovered that the staunch opposition of other California tribes could not be overcome. Thus, Morongo has put on indefinite hold its support of intrastate online poker. And again, the bill has little support or ability to gain ground in the legislature.
AB 2026 has not had an easy road since being introduced by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys) in the early months of 2008. Read full
Online poker room PokerStars is offering up freerolls to female players from the UK. The reason the United Kingdom poker ladies get a free ride is that PokerStars is trying to drum up interest in the Ladies Tourney taking place during the upcoming European Poker Tour London event. Qualifying women can play each day to be one of the top nine finishers, who will all play in a finale on September 26. The top ten winners there will get a chance to play in the Ladies Event of the EPT London.
Marc Goodwin has a shot at his first major title heading into the PokerStars EPT Barcelona final table Wednesday.The PokerStars EPT Barcelona final table is set and when the remaining eight players sit down to decide a champion Wednesday, Europe’s top player from 2008 will be looking for his first major tournament victory.
“I really want to win an EPT; it’s really important to me,” said veteran UK pro Marc Goodwin.
“I won European player of the year last year and all the rankings, but I didn’t win a major competition along the way.
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