entertainment - "international poker"

On June 1st, Full Tilt poker signed Patrik Antonius to Team Full Tilt, which already had a stellar lineup including the likes of Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, and Jennifer Harman. It didn't take long for Antonius to begin feeling comfortable on the site, as he seems to have already set up four of his own high stakes cash game tables. read more in pokerworks.com

Annie Duke has long been associated with Ultimate Bet. For years, Annie has gone from being very involved in the running the poker part of UB, to simply representing the brand at live events. During Annie's involvement in UB...

Action at the 2008 World Series of poker on Thursday centered around continuing action in Event #45, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. The elite field in this one narrowed significantly as the blinds came into play...

It was only the second day of a five-day tournament, the only one of its kind at the 2008 World Series of poker. In fact, the $50,000 buy-in makes it the most unique tournament in the world, which is evidenced by the throngs of reporters and journalists who have come from all over the globe to cover it. read more in pokerworks.com

Nick Binger had the sort of final table performance that just about every poker player dreams of. He was unstoppable, of the nine players that started the day, he was personally responsible for sending six of them to the rail. Yes it was an impressive run, the sort that allows writers to break out the really good adjectives like 'overpowering', 'amazing', and 'dominating'. When it got down to three-handed play, it all went suddenly wrong and we had to start thinking of other words to use like 'bewildered', 'stunned', and 'choke'.

There are certain things about poker rooms that just really drive players crazy. One of those things is when a room does not have the software available to allow table resizing. It is very frustrating for people who think the table is either too big or too small and can drive a person from playing at certain rooms. read more in pokerworks.com

720 players took part in the $1,500 WSOP PLO8 tournament and after two days of intense poker filled with bad beats, missed draws, and river suck outs, 9 players remained. Erik Seidel came into the final table looking to get his 9th bracelet and he would be the lone star taking a shot at the $216,249 first place prize. The final nine, their seating assignments, and chip counts were as follows: read more in pokerworks.com

John Phan added a World Series of poker bracelet to his resume when he was crowned the Event #29 Champion. Either he thought that having only one wrist decorated with WSOP gold threw off his personal aesthetic symmetry, or the weight of the jewelry was making him list too much to one side is unclear, but he felt the need to quickly add another one to his collection. About one week and eleven events later, Mr. Phan added some balance to his life by strapping the Event #40 bracelet around the other wrist.

Even in a Seniors event where someone can just look at the tables and see the people who are the foundation that the modern poker movement is built upon, new faces here can sometimes show up and have their first moment in the WSOP sun. Dan LaCourse is one of these late bloomers. During Day 2 of Event 42 Dan took control of this tournament, and didn't stop until he was strapping a World Series of poker World Championship bracelet around his wrist. Considering the fact that he was facing off against 2,218 opponents, a new WSOP record for this event, nobody can say his road was easy.

The Borgata Summer Open has wrapped up and a new champion has emerged. The last man standing out of 345 players is Allen Bari, a New Jersey native who picked up over $500,000, the biggest part of the $1.25 million prize pie. Bari is on something of a roll, having just cashed in a World Series of poker event just a few days before...