Peter Vilandos won the second WSOP gold bracelet of his poker career the other day, when he came out on top of a $1,500 No Limit Holdem tournament, Event #24 of the 2009 World Series of Poker. With 2,506 players entering, it brought the total prize pool to $3.5 million, with the top 270 finishers [...]
Who will be inducted this year in the esteemed Poker Hall of Fame? That’s very much up to you, apparently. You see, the WSOP, the organization that runs the Poker Hall of Fame (yes, the same WSOP that runs the World Series of Poker) has opened up to the public the ability to nominate those [...]
When a poker site runs a Guaranteed Tournament, the money in that guaranteed prize pool is typically expected to come from the buy-ins of the players entering the competition. But when not enough entrants sign up for a tournament, the poker site doesn’t have enough buy-in money to cover the entire guaranteed prize pool amount, [...]
Well that was fast! Jamie Gold, winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, had barely gotten his feet wet as the latest Aced Poker celebrity endorser and already the sponsorship deal between the two is kaput. Gold had only just signed with Aced Poker in February, making him one of the site’s [...]
Aced Poker has once again introduced a new way to gamble at the online poker table. Always innovative and never imitated, Aced Poker is proud to introduce its new Flipament and Blitzkrieg Sit N Go Tournaments. Flipaments are Heads up Sit n Go’s were each player goes all-in preflop on the first hand until a [...]
As the first ever running of PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker came to an end, and all 42 names on the winners list are announced (that’s 14 events with 3 stakes levels for each event), there was one more winner yet to be named, and it turned out to be Brett Richey (aka “get [...]
There’s a new addition to Team Ultimate Bet (currently headlined by Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth), and it’s Matt Graham, a World Series of Poker (WSOP) winner. Graham’s WSOP bracelet (and the $278,000 prize that came along with it) was earned in a grueling heads-up match against Jean-Robert Bellande (among other accomplishments a former contestant [...]
