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Party Poker – High Stakes' Top 5, $100K Championship Challenge, Fricke as Chief Wiggum and More
05-14-2012, Emilis Pakenas
With just a few weeks left until the 2012 UEFA European football championship, PartyPoker is getting football fever and you are the one who's going to benefit from it. The promo starts today, May 14th, with $100,000 as the top prize. To reach the...
Let's Talk Poker - $50 a Week!
05-07-2012, Rai$eThePot
The subject today is poker tournaments. Everyone loves them. You can be a tournament grinder just as easy as you can be a ring game grinder. Most tournament grinders play Sit N Go's, that's just an FYI. But if you're playing regularly, you already...
The Inside Shuffle – Full Tilt Tapie Deal Off? MS Online Poker Bill, Ivey Returns to L.A. Poker Classic and More!
02-27-2012, Emilis Pakenas
Starting the final week of winter 2012, once again it is news from the Full Tilt front line and again it's not good. Matt Glantz had some private conversations with FT bosses and found out that the deal between the site, U.S. Department of Justice...
Barry Greenstein Talks to PokerNews About Money Owed to Full Tilt Poker
02-05-2012, Linda R. Geenen
Last week PokerWorks published information regarding the debts of high-profile players and the effect those debts could have on Groupe Bernard Tapie's (GBT) impending deal with Full Tilt Poker (FTP). GBT's lawyer Behnam Dayanim indicated through a...
Benyamine, Ivey, Other Pros Owe Millions to Full Tilt Poker
02-02-2012, Linda R. Geenen
Gaming Intelligence released a statement from Behnam Dayanim, Groupe Bernard Tapie's attorney, which indicates that the debts of numerous high limit poker players owed to Full Tilt Poker (FTP) are the reason the pending deal between Group Bernard...
The Inside Shuffle – Speidel Wins Aussie Millions, Ferguson’s Money Withdrawals, Trickett European Player of the Year, and More
01-30-2012, Emilis Pakenas
Today on The Inside Shuffle: Oliver Speidel wins Aussie Millions Main Event and Phil Ivey collected the Super High Roller honors. Full Tilt news – Chris “Not so much of a “Jesus” anymore” Ferguson's bank account information shows huge...
2012 Aussie Millions $250,000 Super High Roller Won by Phil Ivey
01-28-2012, Linda R. Geenen
The 2012 Aussie Millions $250,000 Super High Roller had Phil Ivey's name on it. Ivey managed to disappear completely from live tournament poker, boycotting the 2011 WSOP, and every fan was hungry for a Phil Ivey sighting. The sighting turned...
The Inside Shuffle – Playtech Expands, Facebook Considers Real Money Gaming, Aussie Millions Down to 12, and More
01-27-2012, Emilis Pakenas
The poker world is buzzing with news from the New World – lawmakers, congressmen, members of the Senate, and state officials are all trying to figure out the online gaming puzzle. Should they go state-by-state? Will Congress outrun Nevada, Iowa...
The Inside Shuffle – PCA Reports, Poker in Macau, US Wire Act Clarification, and More
01-16-2012, Emilis Pakenas
In today's edition of The Inside Shuffle PokerWorks brings you all the latest poker news from around world – major live tournaments, gambling resorts, and the United States' fight with its online poker issues. The European Poker Tour's...
The United States Crimes Against Citizens and Online Poker
01-06-2012, Linda R. Geenen
Everyone knows that poker is a game of people played with cards. You have options all the way through the play of a hand that can change a winner to a loser and vice-versa. After looking at your cards (unless you are in the blind or forced to...
Ivey Responds to Ex-Wife's Divorce Petition
12-21-2011, Emilis Pakenas
While the latest divorce news in the world of sports and entertainment is the NBA superstar Kobe Bryant splitting up with his wife Vanessa, the poker world has its own story. Arguably the most recognized poker pro, an eight-time WSOP bracelet...
The Jamie Gold Poker Room Launches in Las Vegas Tropicana!
12-10-2011, PokerWorks Staff
Very few of the poker players of the world win gold bracelets at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) every year - let alone 'the' gold bracelet, the one that comes as the world's greatest poker trophy in the Main Event. Even fewer poker players ever...
Phil Ivey Divorce Case Back in Court
11-15-2011, PokerWorks Staff
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Luciaetta Ivey, ex-wife of eight-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey, recently filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court upon discovering Ivey had donated money to the judge that...
Phil Ivey Boycotts 2011 WSOP; Sues Tiltware
06-01-2011, PokerWorks Staff
April 15th, 2011, known as Black Friday to the poker world, started the earthquake that rocked the foundation of online poker. The ongoing news of more poker domain names being seized, frozen player funds, statements from poker sites and silence...