Online poker tournament payouts have been steadily increasing over the last few years with some of the biggest ones topping the $1 million mark. In fact, Yevgeniy Timoshenko earned the largest payout ever at $1.715 million last year in the 2009 PokerStars WCOOP Main Event. So it’s no surprise that the WCOOP Main Event was […]
The ever-expanding World Series of Poker Europe recently concluded play with the Main Event final. In all, 346 players paid the hefty ₤10,000 entry fee to create a prize pool of ₤3,460,000 ($5,468,876). Obviously this isn’t quite up to par with the WSOP Main Event, but chances are that it’s more money than both you […]
Only three months have passed since the poker endurance record was broken by Phil Laak. He broke the record by playing poker for 115 hours straight at the Bellagio Casino thus smashing the previous record of 72 hours set by Paul Zimbler. For someone to beat the record of most time spent at the poker […]
Be careful of what you post on Facebook! This is what Scott Montgomery has learned after his post about his girlfriend’s gift made their relationship public. The innocent post simply said “Getting ready to celebrate my gf’s birthday. hope she likes my gift!” This came as a shock to everyone because there was no update […]
Everyone knows that heads-up play is extremely important in any poker tournament. That being said, here are a just few of many things you can do to improve your chances of winning in the last part of a tournament. Pocket Pairs are Great Hands Usually when you’re given pocket 2’s you’re going to fold; in […]
As 2010 draws to a close, lots of online poker sites are salivating over the prospect of legalized poker in the United States. And while online poker isn’t necessarily illegal in the US, there are plenty of hurdles and barriers facing sites wanting to operate in the United States. For this reason, many companies have […]
I thought that some of the WPT and WSOP events were getting a little crazy by charging $25,000 and $50,000 buy-ins. Obviously there are still interested parties since people buy into these events, but I think they’re only created for poker’s elite. I guess I should have held my thoughts though after seeing the $250,000 […]
It’s almost like every poker site you visit, you see something about selecting cash games. All of the sites are offering tips on locating soft cash games…but what about tournament selection? We have to search through millions of websites in order to find any useful information on tournament selection. Hopefully your search ends here with […]