Gus Hansen Is The Biggest Winner At Full Tilt With $4.2 Million
Gus Hansen has reigned as the supreme king of online poker for nearly 7 months, with his current bankroll being $2 million more than that of Matt Hawrinlenko, his rival at Full Tilt Poker. After...
View ArticleNegreanu Beats Blom at PokerStars SuperStar Showdown Rematch
Viktor “isildur1” Blom’s latest PokerStars SuperStar Showdown, a non-limit heads-up Texas Hold’em tournament played against legendary poker player Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu in two phases of 2,500...
View ArticleGalfond Beats Hansen And Emerges Top Poker Winner In March
In the month of March, Phil Galfond’s earnings went up higher than those of Gus Hansen’s. Since Hansen has been doing fairly well in 2011, this news might come as a surprise for everyone who has been...
View ArticleIvey Is Currently Ranked Number One Poker Player
In a recent report by ‘The Nuts’, a monthly magazine dedicated to poker and the top poker players all over the world, Phil Ivey has been given the number one ranking for poker players in the month of...
View ArticleNew Poker League Started Exclusively For Poker Pros
After the recent events of Black Friday, the US online poker community has been floundering looking for a reliable online poker room to play in. The loss of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker has left US...
View ArticleViktor Blom Wins $1.7 Million in Six Hours
Poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom won a large amount of $1,703,125 within just six hours while playing with Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene. This week, the action at the high-stakes tables on PokerStars and...
View ArticlePoker Player Accidentally Sells Wife’s $23k Ring for $10
Eric Cloutier, the noted professional poker player, attracted the attention of the poker media when he accidentally sold his wife’s wedding ring worth $23k for $10 at a garage sale held in the...
View ArticleJason Duval Becomes Seventh Canadian Player to Win WSOP Bracelet
Jason Duval, a young poker player hailing from Montreal, Canada, won his first WSOP gold bracelet when he became the champion of the WSOP Event #28, a $1,500 buy-in NL Hold’em tournament. Duval, who is...
View ArticleNormandie Casino to Hold $10k Guaranteed Poker Tournament on July 4
Normandie Casino will organize a $10k Guaranteed Poker Tournament as part of its Independence Day celebrations. The event will be held at 1:00 p.m. on July 4, which happens to be a Thursday. The event...
View ArticleViktor Blom Wins $284,642 Playing High Stakes Poker
HighstakesDB says that Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has been very lucky at online poker rooms this week, as a result of which he has raked in poker profits in seven figures. Blom was playing a heads-up NL...
View ArticleDaniel Colman Wins $15.3 Million Playing Big One for One Drop
Daniel Colman won $15.3 million in the World Series of Poker’s (WSOP) charity tournament Big One for One Drop. The 23-year-old professional poker player defeated Daniel Negreanu in a heads-up match to...
View ArticleBilly Chattaway Now Occupies Seventh Rank in UK Top 10 List
Billy Chattaway is once again one of the top 10 poker players on PocketFives.com’s online poker rankings for UK. He is currently occupying the seventh rank and aiming at one of the top five positions....
View ArticleSchedule Released for 18th Aussie Millions
The Aussie Millions Poker Championship of 2016 will be played from January 13 to February 1, 2016. This event is being held at Crown Melbourne for the past 17 years and the next year is going to be the...
View ArticleZinno May Win Third WPT Main Event Title
Anthony Zinno, a 33-year-old professional poker player from Cranston in Rhode Island, has already won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event championship title twice. Now he is on the verge of winning...
View ArticleTakahiro Nakai Becomes Second Japanese Player to Win WSOP Bracelet
A Japanese poker player has won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet for the first time in WSOP history. The lucky player, Takahiro Nakai, beat a 2,497-strong field to emerge as the champion of...
View ArticleBrian Rast Wins Inaugural $500k Super High Roller Bowl
The 43-strong player field of the inaugural $500k Super High Roller Bowl had boiled down to seven finalists who played for the $21.5 million prize pool on Sunday. The final table action lasted 10...
View ArticleJoe McKeehen Beats Close Friend Josh Beckley To Win 2015 WSOP Main Event
Philadelphia’s Joe McKeehen and New Jersey’s Josh Beckley both play poker for a living and inevitably end up playing a number of the same tournaments on the east coast. These two poker pros entered the...
View ArticleGlobal Poker League Draft Day To Take Place On 26th Feb 2016
Mediarex Sports & Entertainment, the company which owns the Global Poker Index (GPI) is preparing to launch the first ever Global Poker League (GPL) in 2016 with the objective of creating something...
View ArticlePartyPoker Management Keen On Rebuilding Brand And Player Database
PartyPoker’s reputation has suffered over the past few years as the brand went from being one of the top online poker providers in the world to a brand that no longer featured in the top three list of...
View ArticleWynn Resorts Opens New Poker Room At Encore Las Vegas
The surge in Las Vegas’s casino market over the last 12 months has boosted the revenue of gaming operators in the region. Wynn Resorts recently opened a new poker room at the Wynn Encore and believes...
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