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This past summer, for the first time since I started playing on the live tournament circuit, I skipped the WSOP. I won’t go into why I didn’t attend, but I will say it was not due to bankroll considerations. However, there are several things that I miss about being out in Vegas during the summer.
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November Nine Matt Giannetti decided that November was too long to wait to win a major poker title. Instead, he took down the World Poker Tour event in Malta and took home $273,200 in prize money.
WSOP November Niner Matt Giannetti Wins WPT Malta
A total of 240 players turned out for the WPT Malta event »
The poker world has been abuzz since the announcement Tuesday that the DOJ was adding Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, and Rafe Furst to their complaint against Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, and UB. Furthermore, the DOJ claims that Full Tilt is a Ponzi scheme after evidence proved that in March of this year, Full Tilt had »
The U.S. Department of Justice dropped yet another bomb on the United States poker community on Tuesday when they added Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, and Rafe Furst to the civil complaint filed against Full Tilt, PokerStars, and UB. Furthermore, they revealed that Full Tilt Poker had not segregated player funds and actually used those funds »
Various news and tidbits regarding the upcoming WSOP Europe came out this week. The first was the renewal of the Caesars Cup event during the WSOP-E. This event was last held in 2009 where Team Europe “upset” Team America and captain Daniel Negreanu.
The WSOP Europe is less than a month away.
This is clearly a “made-for-TV” »
WSOP officials announced this past Friday that the Caesars Cup will once again be up for grabs at the 2011 WSOP Europe. The Caesars Cup is a Ryder Cup-style event where the best players from the United States battle against players from Europe.
Team Europe Won the Caesars Cup in 2009.
The event will be a »
A disturbing trend that I am noticing in many live poker tournaments are reentry events. A reentry poker tournament is one that allows you to reenter the event after you bust out of it. Usually, the player has to come back on a subsequent day to reenter. This means that if a tournament has four »
WSOP bracelet winner Annie Duke was a guest on Monday on the CBS talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The purpose of her visit was to hype her new book “Decide to Play Great Poker” as well as to talk about the Epic Poker League.
If not for one statement made, most »
In 2006, 46 bracelets were awarded at the 2006 World Series of Poker. Now, it appears that another bracelet from that year will be awarded almost five years after the fact. The Leaf Trading Card company has announced a series of new poker cards that will hit the market in October along with a promotion »
Jamie Gold, the 2006 WSOP Main Event Champion, has now launched an online poker site. The site, known as FreeGoldPoker.com is a free to play poker site that will service United States customers.
Jamie Gold hopes to make some online gold with new poker site.
The site is very similar in concept to Zynga Poker on Facebook »
