Poker Room: Redkings
Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: $5+$0.5 freezeout with $7,000 guaranteed prize sum. NoLimit TexasHoldem. Buy: 5. Fee: 0. Prize: 580. When: 2008-02-05 21:00
The Aruba Poker Classic, sponsored by online poker room Ultmate Bet poker, just wrapped up two days ago and the winner was pro poker player Matt Brady. Brady outlasted the 550 players to score the victory, worth $1 million to the poker pro. The final table started with Brady holding the second largest chip stack, and when he went into heads up play, he still had a significant lead…
Online poker room Doyles Room decided to offer a free ticket into a $250,000 Guaranteed event for new deposits by existing players, which wound up costing the poker room $50k. This was the overlay, the amount that they fell short in meeting the $250k guarantee, and so the funds had to come out of Doyle’s Room’s coffers. The total number of players in the event were just over 1,300, but many of them did not have to pay to enter, so the prize pool came up just under $200k…
Actress Jenny McCarthy hosted a poker tournament recently in order to help raise awareness and raise money in the fight against autism. Plenty of stars showed up to play in the Dana Point, California tournament, including Lance Armstrong and Tony Hawk. Taking a cue from the event started by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle called “Ante up for Africa”, this event was named “Ante up for Autism”…
After a year and a half the World Poker Tour Boot Camp will be returning to the Isles of Capri Casino and Racetrack at Pompano Park in South Florida on November 15th and 16th. The camp works on improving poker players’ skills in order to give them a chance at going deep in a World Poker Tour tournament. The skills that are to be focused include cash games, which are different from the tournament style play of the WPT events but are popular…
Four men who were charged with participating in a high stakes poker scam in Atlantic City have been indicted by New Jersey authorities. James Harrison, Joseph Ingargiola, Stephen Phillips and Steven Forte all faced charges of second-degree attempted theft by deception. Two hotel rooms at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa were rigged with surveillance cameras in order to spy on a man who was invited to play Chinese poker…
Online poker room Bodog Poker is holding the main event of their second Bodog Poker Open today. The Bodog Poker Open II wraps up with the main event, starting at 4pm ET, with a buy in of around $500 and a guarantee of $300k in prize pool payouts. Last year’s main event was won by Shawn Luman, taking home more than $76k for his victory…
The second annual World Series of Poker Europe has come to a close, and the winner of the coveted main event is an American poker pro, John Juanda. The buy in was 10,000 and 362 players took part, creating a prize pool of 3,620,000. Juanda, the first American to win a WSOP main event outside of the United States, took home 868,800 ($1,598,587) as his first place prize…
Online poker room Mansion Poker, established in 2004, recently announced they have switched networks, moving their operation over to the iPoker network. The move will be mostly transparent as far as their poker players are concerned, although it has been timed with a revamped poker loyalty points system. Those players with existing loyalty poker points will have their balance converted to the new system of Mansion Club Points…
While the specific evidence has yet to be forthcoming, Russ Hamilton has been named as a party in the cheating scandal that has involved online poker room UltimateBet. Hamilton won the 1994 World Series of Poker main event, which paid him a prize of $1 million. In addition that was the only year the WSOP paid the winner his weight in silver…
The US State of Kentucky had supported an effort to take control of 141 online gambling site URLs, including some of the more popular online poker sites like Full Tilt Poker and Pacific Poker, stating they encroach on the state’s own gambling businesses. Judge Thomas Wingate however defeated the move after allowing defense attorneys a continuance to build their case. The court ruling puts a temporary hold on any attempts to seize these URLs, which means the issue is not completely resolved but is a blow for the side of online poker players everywhere.
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