After battling through a difficult field of 659 players at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, the final table has been determined in the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event, with Bjorn Li holding a slightly more than 1.3 million chip lead over Oliver Speidel. Saturday’s play brought back the final twelve men in the event, [...]
If you are going to win a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, you might as well do it on a whim. Such was essentially the case for James “Flushy” Dempsey Sunday night, as he won the 2011 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The Brit was not in Las Vegas specifically to play [...]
With just 13 players remaining in the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Championship –the 10th Anniversary of the tournament—some of poker’s biggest names are looking to win the historic tournament, including 2010 WT Five Diamond champion Antonio Esfandiari, looking to pull off the rare “repeat win”. There were six former champions in [...]
The traditional tenth anniversary gift is tin or aluminum. We don’t know about you, but when talking about the tenth anniversary of the first World Poker Tour (WPT) event, referring to it as a recyclable doesn’t sound quite right. Good thing there are “modern” anniversary gifts. Therefore, this week’s running of the Doyle Brunson Five [...]
It was revealed late yesterday that, beginning at the end of this month, the Entraction Network will no longer allow players from five different countries to play on their family of sites. The announcement was made by Donkr.com, who revealed the information that they had received from their affiliate contacts. In the statement, Donkr.com writes, [...]
The hype behind the legalization of online poker in the U.S. continues as many companies stand at the ready in hopes of entering the U.S. market. I’ve been one that has said since April 15th that legalization is a lot farther off than anyone is anticipating. Here are five things that I think you will [...]
Last week, Congressman Joe Barton’s (R – Texas) online poker bill, H.R. 2366, gained five more co-sponsors. The haul upped the number of co-sponsors 25 percent to, coincidentally, a total of 25, and included Representatives from both sides of the aisle. Representative Howard Berman (D – Calif.), sometimes referred to as “the representative from Hollywood” [...]
Players at Party Poker now have the chance to win ,000 every day during the month of December. All through December 2010, Party Poker is hosting their Five Star Poker Challenge. This contest is a new way for players to win chances to win big money throughout the entire month. Entering in the Challenge is [...]
It’s been a topsy-turvy first season for Party Gaming, the new owners of the World Poker Tour, with attendance numbers all over the map. There is no better illustration of this than the tour’s last two stops which include the recently concluded WPT Marrakech tournament which saw an abysmal turnout, and the WPT Five Diamonds [...]
One day of play is in the books in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Ryan “g0lfa” D’Angelo, who took fifth in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, leads the pack after Day 1 in Las Vegas with a chip stack of 192,500. The field numbered [...]
