Robert Williamson III “Poker a day to learn and a lifetime to master.”
Paul Newman “If you are playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can not tell who the sucker is, its you.”
According to a report in the Financial Times of London, US federal prosecutors have convened a grand jury to investigate charges of money laundering and illegal gambling against Full Tilt Poker, the second-biggest online poker site. If the grand jury issues indictments, some of the best players on the poker tournament circuit could face criminal [...]
UNCASVILLE, Connecticut — Vanessa Selbst is in a familiar position heading into the final table at the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun Main Event.For the third day in a row, the Yale Law School student ended play in the top three in chips. And for much of Day 4, she had a massive [...]
UNCASVILLE, Connecticut — In a tournament sponsored by an online poker room, and in a field that was filled with baby-faced youngsters, it was ironic that three of the top five finishers in the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun Main Event were in their teens and twenties before the Internet phenoms were even [...]
The World Poker Tour made its first visit to Eastern Europe this week for its inaugural event in Bucharest, Romania. The Main Event, a tournament with a €3,000 (US$3,750) buy-in featured more than one hundred sixty players, for a total prize pool of €449,450 (US$562,000) and a top prize of over €125,000 (US$156,250). The field [...]
UNCASVILLE, Connecticut — Minutes before the final table began Sunday at the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun Main Event, final tableist Alistar Melville asked me how long these final tables usually take.”It varies,” I told him. “Sometimes it takes just a couple of hours. Sometimes it takes 16 or 17 hours.””Oh…
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