Irish financial companies are having a tough time of it at the moment, but one Irish company riding high is Paddy Power. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the Irish bookmaker overtook the Bank of Ireland to become the eighth largest company in Ireland this week. Shares in Paddy Power have done well [...]
December sees the publication of one of the most amusingly-titled poker books ever, Don’t Listen To Phil Hellmuth: Correcting The 50 Worst Pieces Of Poker Advice You’ve Ever Heard. The book, written by DragtheBar.com poker coach Dusty Schmidt and Paul Hoppe aims to correct many of the most common pieces of bad advice given out [...]
Sweden’s Kent Lundmark lifted the EPT Barcelona trophy and took away the €825,000 first prize after five days of exciting action at the Casino de Barcelona in Spain. The 22-year old from Stockholm has been in great form in 2010, beginning by winning $66,000 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January then following that with [...]
The high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker have seen plenty of action over the past seven days, with Patrik Antonius emerging as the biggest winner, while battle as again been joined in the Durrrr Challenge, as Tom Dwan and Dan “jungleman12” Cates have played out a further 2000 hands of heads up hold’em. Antonius [...]
PKR has beaten off stiff competition to be named Poker Operator of the Year at the E-Gaming Review Awards in London this week. The next-generation operator defeated other sites including William Hill, 888.com and last year’s winners PartyGaming. The company has already won the 2010 IGA Poker Operator of the Year Award and the 2010 [...]
Peter Eastgate has sold his WSOP Main Event winner’s bracelet on eBay for $147,500, with the proceeds going to the charity UNICEF. The winning bid came 22 minutes before the end but it isn’t known who purchased it. What is clear, however, is that the winner isn’t poker legend Tony G, who had been hoping [...]
Giuseppe Pantaleo leads the EPT Barcelona after Day 3 with an impressive 2.3 million chips. The German qualifier made steady progress all day to finish more than half a million chips ahead of the second-placed player, Italy’s Alessandro Longobardi. The bubble burst at the end of Day 2, so everyone who returned on Day 3 [...]
399 players began Day 2 of the EPT Barcelona as the field played down to the money, which was reached when Koen de Visscher was sent to the rail in 113th position. Everyone left in the tournament is now guaranteed a pay day of at least €7,500. American Bryn Kenney, a PokerStars qualifier, seized the [...]
The million plus registered players at Victor Chandler Poker will be playing on a different poker network in December, as the site has announced that it is to move from iPoker to the Entraction network. Swedish-based Entraction has been providing VC Poker with service to restricted markets for some time, but now the company has [...]
The field for the Barcelona leg of the European Poker Tour eventually numbered 758, as 495 players registered for the second of two opening days, to add to the 263 who had rolled in on the first day. By the end of the opening days the field had been reduced to 399, but the Casino [...]
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