Famous Stud Poker Player

5-Card Stud Poker enjoys a rich history. It is one of first poker varieties has been around a long while. Today, it is still one of the more popular of the varieties of poker played. There are many varieties such as fixed limit, spread limit, no limit pot limit and yet other varieties containing a [...]

Irishman Niall Smyth overwhelmed UK legend Surinder Sunar heads-up in Dublin and became the new Irish Open champion. In front of a packed rail from his home county of Care, he won €550,000 and the prominent title. The veteran Sunar, to his $4 million in career winnings, added €290,000. Smyth bagged the rewarding Sole Survivor [...]

The final table of the 2011 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event was held at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, California. Two former WPT title champions in Carlos Mortensen and Vivek Rajkumar were featured in the final table. Even before cards got into the air, Mortensen was the most flourishing [...]

Natalia Nikitina, a 23-year-old Russian beauty collected €243,830 ($330,500) as first place prize in the WPT National Series, held at Paris. She defeated 188 players and made her way to the top. For the first time a woman won a WPT National Series tournament. The event is much respected in the lower buy-in-spin off. It [...]

The Ho-Chunk Nation and the State regulators are battling over the use of electronic poker tables at the tribe’s Dejope bingo hall in Madison. Under law, the state says the poker games are prohibited because they are much like blackjack or slots. The Ho-Chunk said that, as the players bet against each other, which are [...]

In the process of watching poker became such a world attention grabber, the World Series of Poker in 1992 was a great step. Online poker was not quite popular among the masses. The sport really started to show its worldwide draw in 1992. From early on, there were tons of players that started to play [...]

Zynga poker launch its beta version of Zynga Texas Poker this week in Taiwan and Hong Kong, making it the first Zynga game to be released in Asia (the game will not be available in mainland China). I am sure Asia will enjoy the game as much as the almost 100 other countries already do. [...]

On Wednesday, June 2nd, players folded, bet, and rose as the action surrounding the 2010 World Series of Poker continued. 3 events had already concluded and 3 bracelets awarded, five days after the popular event started at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Including pros like Patrik Antonius and Doyle Brunson, Michael [...]

It has two starting days (Day 1A and Day 1B) and may take four playing days and five calendar days to complete, given the large number of expected participants. In Tournament Chips, players begin with 3,000. The field will play ten levels and it will be split between Days 1A and 1B. On Day 2, [...]

On Saturday, May 29, the $50,000 buy-in Player’s Championship will be held at Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It is the second event of the 2010 World Series of Poker and the first open event. The $50,000 buy-in tournament was first held in 2006 and up until this year it has [...]