The $1,000 No Limit Holdem tournament looked to be on pace to rival last year’s in terms of entrants after a whopping 2,601 players showed up for day 1a, but day 1b saw only 1,742 players register for the event. Still, an impressive 4,345 players have created a prize pool of just under $4 [...]
Over the course of the weekend in the Twitterverse, poker players were naturally discussing the start of the World Series of Poker. With the $50,000 Players’ Championship starting on Friday for the high rollers and the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament picking up action on Saturday, the top pros on Twitter kept their fans [...]
A game of poker is under way between a U.K. insurer, its shareholders and the U.S. federal government. There’s little doubt who’s holding aces, and it’s not Uncle Sam.In March, Prudential PLC Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam struck a deal to buy American International Group Inc.’s main Asian unit for $35.5 billion. This was welcome news [...]
EXCLUSIVE June Cash Race Begins Tomorrow Our exclusive June Cash Race starts from 00:01 Sun Poker time on June 1st. If you want to make the most of your online play (cash or tournaments!) during the month of June then you need to get your account set up as soon as possible.Our cash race [...]
While today is Memorial Day in the United States, poker players at the World Series of Poker will not be taking the day off as Event 5, the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament is scheduled to begin. This event will likely be quite popular and joins Events 2, 3 and 4 ($50K Players Championship, [...]
Twenty-one players remain in the $50,000 Player’s Championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Leading the field is a familiar face, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, who owns a stack of 1.48 million chips entering Day 4. Hot on his heels with 1.43 million is Russia’s Vladimir Schmelev. Also appearing in the top [...]
