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A €100,000 price tag didn't deter 42 players from entering the €100,000 Super-High-Roller tournament at the 2013 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final, not to mention eight players deciding that one entry wasn't enough and ...more

The revelations in the recently released tapes by Travis Makar have brought the Super-User scandal that occurred at Ultimate Bet during the poker boom back into the spotlight, showing precisely how groundbreaking, heart-wrenching, and do...more

It was the summer of 2011 when the poker world was officially introduced to a talented young tournament player named Steve O'Dwyer after he won the Bellagio Cup VII Main Event. Now, O'Dwyer wasn't an unknown at this point in his career, ...more

The Ultimate Bet Super-User scandal that rocked the online poker world back in the midst of the poker boom is back in the news as a series of secretly recorded audio-tapes (allegedly recorded by Russ Hamilton) have been released by Ultim...more

Every year I put together a list of poker players to watch at the World Series of Poker, so before I get into this year's 10 selections let me recap the performance of the players that were chosen by me in 2012 and see if any of them cam...more

The €25,000 buy-in High-Roller tournament at the 2013 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final allowed for each player to rebuy a singled time if they so desired, and after multiple players did decide that €50,000 was a reaso...more

It appears that the poker world is not averse to recycling, considering two very high-profile entities (one a person and the other a software company/provider) involved with now-defunct Ultimate Bet/Absolute Poker have landed key roles i...more

From the outset the Season 9 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final has seen the cream rise right to the top, and now heading into Day 5 of one of the most prestigious events in poker the final 16 players in the EPT Grand Final Main ...more

You'll probably never see a stronger assemblage of players atop a leader-board than the Top Eight chip-leaders at the end of Day 2 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Main Event. Out in front at the end of the day is ...more

In August of 2012 the poker world discovered that Phil Ivey runs even better than we thought, as he booked a £7.3 - £7.8 million (about $12 million) win playing Punto Banco Baccarat at the London casino Crockfords. However, it also tur...more