Bodog Poker Tourney Guarantees Five Main Event Seats

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Bodog Poker currently runs World Series of Poker main event semifinal tournaments almost every day for a buy-in of $250+$20. But on June 8, a special WSOP main event semifinal will offer a guaranteed five main-event seats. The special event will award at least five $12,000 main-event prize…

Asian Poker Tour Manila Attracts Pros

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The inaugural Asian Poker Tour (APT) began with its first stop in the Philippines at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel and successfully attracted a number of high-profile pros. Among the players who made it through day 1A are Huck Seed, Quinn Do, and Dan Schreiber. Karina Jett ended the day as chip…

UltimateBet Bounty Tournament Costs a Buck

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Every night at 9 p.m. ET, there is a a $5,000-guaranteed $1 rebuy tourney on UltimateBet with an added bonus: Knock out a UB pro that plays and win the amount they ended up spending on rebuys. The pros who will be playing include Scott Ian of the band Anthrax, Shawn Rice, and online pros Mark…

Win a World Series Seat This Sunday on SpadeClub

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SpadeClub.com, the innovative online poker community, offers a risk-free way to win at poker with no deposits and no buy-ins. Find out more. In two days, SpadeClub members will be turning on their computers to compete for two of four World Series main-event prize packages to be awarded by…

Online WSOP Main-Event-Seat Guarantees Get Bigger

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Sunday, June 15, is a huge day for players trying to get into the World Series of Poker main event through online qualifiers, because that's the day that both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars will hold tourneys where a combined guaranteed 350 main-event seats will be awarded. (That's the…

Bodog Poker Mini-SOP Tournament Series Starts Today

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Bodog Poker's World Series of Poker-mirroring series, the Mini-SOP, starts today with a $100+$9 pot-limit hold'em event, which mirrors the first event of the WSOP, the $10,000 World Championship of Pot-Limit Hold'em. Bodog's series will feature all 25 hold'em events of this…

The World Series of Poker is Back — Today

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Today, the 39th-Annual World Series of Poker starts its six-and-a-half-week long schedule of events with the three-day $10,000 World Championship of Pot-Limit Hold'em, and it will be interesting to see how many players show up for this big buy-in tourney, which is the most expensive one ever…

New Hampshire Lawmakers Want Piece of Poker Pie

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New Hampshire's legislators have ironed out the details of a proposed tax that would target charity poker tournaments and cash games in the state. The proposal also would raise the limits of cash games from $1-$2 to $2-$4. No-limit cash games would still be prohibited. If approved, 3 percent…

NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Inks Four-year Deal with Caesars

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The National Heads-Up Poker Championship will not go without a home. Caesars Palace will host the prestigious one-on-one poker tournament for the next four years, NBC announced in a news release Wednesday. Caesars has hosted…

Inside the Tour, Vol. #91: The San Jose LAPT

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Off to San Jose, Costa Rica I went for the May 22-24, 2008 LAPT (Latin American Poker Tour) event. The second one ever held, it had almost 400 runners and a first prize of $274,103. Victor Ramdin, Daniel Negreanu, Brian Green…

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