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NBC National Heads Up Tourney

James — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:02:51 +0000

The 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship has begun play today in Las Vegas, Nevada. The poker tournament is invite only with 64 of the top poker professionals and celebrity players taking part in the tournament. The tournament is being played in the Caesars Palace Poker Tournament Room and will continue through March 2nd.

The tournament will be aired on NBC on April 13, 2008. The prize pool for the tournament is $500,000. Past heads up winners will compete: Paul Wasicka, Ted Forrest and Phil Hellmuth against celebrity players including Jason Alexander and Shannon Elizabeth.

Source: FoxBusiness

Gavin Griffin Borgata Classic Winner

James — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:25:20 +0000

The 2008 Borgata Classic came to an end today and the winner was Gavin Griffin who took home $1,375,609 and $25,500 seat in WPT Championship! Gavin Griffen bested a field of over 500 players and won in heads up play against David Tran.

The final hand of the poker tournament was Griffen with Jc-Qs against Tran’s Ks-8s. The flop was 9d-Ac-8d. Which Tran was in the lead but for a short time as the turn was a Qd. The river was a 10d and was no help to Tran who took second place and received $737,685.

The final 9 players at the final table in order of their finish was: Gavin Griffin, David Tran, Thomas Hare,Noah Schwartz,Lee Watkinson,Ervin Prifiti,Shane LaBounty,Justin Bonomo and Scott Blackman.

This is not the first big score for Gavin Griffen has also won events at the World Series of Poker and the European Poker Tour.

2008 Borgota Poker Classic

James — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:46:31 +0000

The 2008 Borgota Poker Classic part of the World Poker Tour tournament series began on the 27th and will be played through January 31, 2008. The buy-in to the event is $10,000 and is being played at the Borgota Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. The event started with 501 players with 1st place taking home a $1.4 million dollars.

Notables that have been eliminated are: Mike Matusow, Jamie Gold, Ted Forrest, Barry Greinstein and Steven Dannenmann.

Cricket Player Plays at Aussie Millions and gets penalty

James — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:00:33 +0000

Shane Warne, an australian cricket player who has retired from the sport is currently trying a new game, poker. He is currently playing in the 2008 Aussie Million main event and is sponsored by 888.com. I don’t know much about him playing cricket but it seems like he doesn’t get the rules of poker because on his first day of tournament play he received a penalty. He got penalized for 5 minutes because he sent a text message during play which is prohibited at the table. Not the best start to his new career…

Source: UK Reuters

Aussie Millions 2008 Main Event

James — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:15:32 +0000

The Aussie Millions Main Event is currently being played in Australia at the Crowne Casino. The main event has more then a million dollars in prize money with some of the biggest names taking part including Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Hachem and other poker pros. The tournament is a week long and today was the second day of players starting because of the large amount of entries (most large tournaments now have multiple first days to accommodate all poker players looking to participate). Look for more updates in a couple days on the Aussie Millions 2008 action.

PE Teacher Wins $1 Million Dollars Playing Poker

James — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:12:50 +0000

Grant Levy, 28, won the Asia Pacific Poker Tour at Star City Casino beating 561 players who entered the poker tournament. Levy is a Physical Education teacher from Kingswood who has been playing poker for only 2 1/2 years! He is mainly an online poker player and the APPT tournament was only his 3rd live tournament.

His wife cheered him on during the tournament and after said,”The last few hours of the tournament were torture to watch”. It took about 2 hours after the tournament went heads up but Grant Levy came out victorious and took first place. The tournament was sponsored by Poker Stars and they had players from team poker stars in the tournament including: Chris Moneymaker , Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer.

Source: SMH

2008 WSOP Schedule Announced

James — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:33:36 +0000

Harrah’s has just released the schedule for the 2008 WSOP. The 2008 WSOP will have 55 events and will begin on May 30 and run through July 16th. The World Series of Poker is the largest poker tournament in the world and has been running annually for 39 years.

Harrah’s has announced that they will not be hosting any of the WSOP tables in their casino tent. This was a hot topic in the 2007 WSOP because players were unhappy with the conditions in the WSOP tent. Jeffrey Pollack (WSOP commisioner) was quick to point out in the press release that they heard players concerns and will make sure no tables are played outside a casino.

Check out the recently released 2008 WSOP Schedule. This schedule has been known to change, we will make to sure to keep the page up to date with all the changes or additions to the 2008 WSOP.

The countdown to the 2008 WSOP begins: A little over 6 months!

Poker a True Sport? WSOP 11th Place

James — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:35:58 +0000

The World Series of Poker was voted the 11th most popular sport in the USA by 12,000 sports fans. This is a huge accomplishment and is very telling on how popular poker has become. I think another factor is the constant airing it gets on ESPN the most popular sports network in the world.

Poker ranked ahead of popular sports such as the Arena Football League, PBA, LPGA and more! The research was done by the marketing company Turnkey Sports & Entertainment.

Source: CNN

Poker Blast in Australian Poker Room

James — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:12:19 +0000

In the Cessnock’s Wentworth Hotel in Australia there was a blast in the poker room from what looks like a bomb. No one was hurt from the explosion but police and bomb experts think that someone may have been trying to blast open a poker machine to try to get money out. This was cited as a very unusual situation and they are still looking into how this could have happened but they were able to find the explosive device that was used.

Source: Daily Telegraph

Final Table of the North American Poker Championship

James — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:30:00 +0000

The North American Poker championship has been running since October 25th. The buy in was $ 10,000 CAD and was hosted at the Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Ontario. It is a world poker tour event that will be shown on TV in the upcoming months. The final table was set yesterday and the final table has yet to play but will include popular poker pro John Juanda who sits last in the chip count with 425,000.

Final Table:

Seat 1: Jim Worth 1,305,000
Seat 2: Marc Karam 1,290,000
Seat 3: Jason Sagle 2,970,000
Seat 4: John Lam 2,285,000
Seat 5: Soren Turkewitsch 1,690,000
Seat 6: John Juanda 425,000