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On Friday, four players filed a class-action lawsuit against WSOP bracelet winner Howard Lederer and former WSOP Main Event Champions Chris “Jesus” Ferguson in connection with their roles with Full Tilt Poker.
Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson named in class action lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed by Steve Segal, Todd Terry, Nick Hammer, and Robin »
Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu is well known for being highly outspoken regarding many things in the poker world. He is also known for being very critical and outspoken regarding Annie Duke whose brother Howard Lederer was one of the owners of Full Tilt Poker.
As you know, Full Tilt Poker owes close to $400 »
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 »
The 2000 WSOP Main Event was a year of first. For the first time in history, over 500 players took to the felts in search of the world title. Next, the 2000 Main Event would be the first time a player took more than $1 Million in prize money. The first place finisher received $1.5 »
Day 1b of the World Series of Poker Europ Main Event kicked off with 178 players looking to try and make their way to the final table in this last bracelet event of the year. Among those in the field were Carlos Mortensen, Jennifer Harman, Peter Eastgate, Robert Willimason III, Sorel Mizzi, Joe Sebok, »
Day 2 of the Event #1 of the World Series of Poker Europe, £1,000 No Limit Hold’em, kicked off Sunday with 89 players remaining from the initial 608 players that started the event. JP Kelly started the day with the chip lead with several strong players looking to make their move including Chris “Jesus” »
The opening days of the first event of the WSOP Europe have completed and one very noticeable trend is that several big name players have decided to skip this opening event. I find that strange considering that many players always raved how that the WSOP-E was great due to the smaller fields.
The »
Day 1b of Event #1, £1,000 No-Limit Holdem, kicked off with 313 players looking to take their shot at one of the last bracelets of the year. Apparently, the 254 players per day cap was ignored or some last minute tables were added as yesterday there were 295 players and today we exceeded 300 »
Event #4, the $1,000 Stimulus Special, kicked off on Saturday with a massive crowd of nearly 3,000 players taking their shot at what will certain be a field of around 6,000 players. Both amateurs and pros alike took their shot at this first “mega-donkament” event.
Among those in the field for the event »
Day 2 action from the Circuit Main Event at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Continues:
Two of the chips leaders were involved in a big pot that resulted in a new overall leader. Travis Erdman raised pre-flop to 10,000 and Jake Solis made the call. The flop fell 6d-3d-4s and Solis bet out 15,000. Erdman »
