The online poker giant PokerStars has spent the last month anticipating and promoting the upcoming deal of its 100-billionth hand. On Thursday, June 13, it finally happened.
The first legal US online poker site, Ultimate Poker, went live on April 30, 2013. Nevada’s pride and joy has been in operation, employing active real money poker tables for six weeks now. As such, we felt it was time to review the site’s overall success, and are pleasantly surprised to report exponential growth on the virtual felt.
American poker pro Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow added another quarter-million payday to his superlative career earnings last week with a win at the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #13, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better
As many of you will remember, a series of head executives from major online poker rooms were indicted on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud back in 2011 amidst the Black Friday debacle that saw Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars officially shut down by the US Department of Justice.
Tom Schneider is an acclaimed, 53-year-old professional poker player from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. He’s been playing poker, both live and online, for quite some time now.
Titan Poker, a leading online poker room on the iPoker Network, has announced the launch of a multifarious satellite series that will send countless players to the 2013 Irish Winter Festival poker tournament this October.
For the last decade (minus a brief stint in which the operator was offline due to the seizure of it domain name by the US Department of Justice), PokerStars has reigned as the world’s largest online poker room.
It was like a dreamscape for young poker pro Trevor Pope. Every card seemed to fall in his direction, every chip flowing atop his stack. Anyone who witnessed the final table of the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #2, $5k 8-handed NL Holdem, had no doubt as to the eventual winner of the bracelet.
Benny Chen, better known as “1Mastermind” to his high-stakes opponents on Full Tilt Poker, is often recognized for playing nosebleed cash games in the online poker community, but not so much for his live poker tournament play.
They say a good salesman can persuade anyone to buy just about anything, but Canadian real estate broker Charles Sylvestre won’t have a hard time convincing anyone of his dominating talents on the poker table.
A field of 1,069 posted the $1,500 buy-in to enter 2013 WSOP Event #4, a 6-handed NL Hold’em tournament, setting the stage for a massive $1.4 million prize pool wherein John Beauprez competed in one of the most fearsome final tables the World Series of Poker has seen this year.
The 2013 World Series of Poker has already gotten underway at the vast poker room of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, but it’s not too late to win a prize package with an all-expense paid trip to the City of Sin from European-based online poker room PKR.