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Greenstein, Johnson Make Poker Hall of Fame

Greenstein and Johnson become the 41st and 42nd members of the Hall of Fame and Johnson only the second woman to be inducted alongside Barbara Enright. "I am extremely proud and humbled to be voted...

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Pateychuk Rides Sick Beat to EPT San Remo Title

Originally slated to win €800,000, Pateychuk takes home €680,000 to go with his title and trophy instead thanks to a deal the two players negotiated before heads-up play began. Both agreed to take...

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Freeroll Spotlight: PartyPoker PokerFest in Full Swing

Fortunately for avid online poker fans the series offers a total of 47 events so there’s still plenty of action to be had on the site. Some of the upcoming events include Event 23, a $350,000...

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Frankenberger, Liebert Top WPT Foxwoods Day 1

Andy Frankenberger, who won WPT Season 9 Player of the Year, amassed a stack of 90,200 chips by the time Day 1 drew to a close. Frankenberger, who also won a WSOP bracelet this summer, has nearly $2...

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Taking Chips: Top 10 Weekly Winners/Losers

After more than a month of non-stop huge live tournaments including the WSOPE and EPT London, the big name players returned to the high stakes online games in a big way this week.  Ilari Sahamies,...

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AP and UB Liquidating Assets to Pay Players?

Details in the release are somewhat vague, but it does outline the idea that AP and UB’s parent company, Blanca Games, is planning to liquidate Blanca’s assets and distribute the proceeds. It wasn’t...

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Frankenberger, Harder Make Moves at WPT Foxwoods

Just 66 players remain from the 189 who started the tournament with Frankenberger, after another very productive day to complement his strong Day 1, sitting second in chips with 239,600. Harder sits in...

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Frankenberger Builds Lead On Day 3 at WPT Foxwoods

While he was neck and neck for the lead at the end of play yesterday, he finished today with an almost 180,000-chip advantage over his closest competitor and the outright lead heading to Day 4. Day 3...

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Harder Leads Final 8 at WPT Foxwoods

Harder, who's been near the top of the counts for most of the tournament, had his most impressive day at the felt on Day 4 today adding over a million chips to his stack without any huge showdowns. The...

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The Sunday Scoop: Halloween Can't Scare Online Grinders

A four-way chop in the Sunday Million and smashed guarantees across the board highlighted this Sunday’s big buy-in online MTT offering. Here’s a rundown of all the action: PokerStars Sunday Million...

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Klodnicki, Little Bust to Set Final 6 at Foxwoods

Starting the day with just eight players, short stacks Bob Carbone and Eli Berg were the favorites to bust coming in but both managed to stave off elimination to make the final table. Season VI WPT...

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Takechip Towers in October High Stakes

The French Canadian pro took no prisoners as he smashed his way to a month-leading profit of $855k. Prior to October D’Auteuil was only up a little over $100k on the year but now finds himself as one...

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Bwin.Party Seal US Partnership Deal With MGM

All three companies put out press releases today to publicize the partnership and follow-up interviews with several news agencies have outlined how the agreement would work. According to a report on...

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$10m Sunday Million to Mark PokerStars' 10th Anniversary

Set for December 18, the prize pool will be pushed to a record-breaking $10 million for PokerStars' flagship online poker tournament but still offer the standard $215 buy-in. The $10 million guarantee...

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Gavz101, PepperoniF Rule High Stakes

Cochrane, who peaked earlier this year with nearly $2 million in profit, went into a tailspin towards the end of summer and seemed unable to put together a winning session. He finally turned it around...

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Bitar Email Says Full Tilt Deal Almost Done

As reported by Subject Poker, Bitar informed shareholders that the DOJ and BTG reached an agreement in principle that would see BTG take responsibility for repaying non-US players, while the DOJ would...

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Changes Coming for WSOP November Nine?

With the 2011 Main Event final table set to take place later this week, WSOP Communications Director told PokerListings there have already been talks about tweaking the format. Palansky pointed to the...

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Santoro Edges Harder for WPT Foxwoods Title

Santoro takes home $449,910 and a $25k seat at the WPT Championship in April for the win. Harder earns $248,962 for his runner-up finish. The decisive hand came exactly 200 hands into final-table play...

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Rafi Amit Closes In On $2 Million

Amit burned through 405 hands of Six-Max $50/$100 PLO against Davin “mTw-DaviN” Georgi, Ben “Ben86” Tollerene and Gavin “gavz101” Cochrane and walked away the biggest winner of the session. The Israeli...

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Freeroll Spotlight: Cake Poker Goes Down Under

Cake Poker is running a plethora of qualifiers for the gigantic Australian tournament throughout November. Players on the site will have a number of chances to win $16,000 packages to the 2012 Aussie...

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