With six of the November nine busting out the previous Sunday, the WSOP main event title was up for grabs Tuesday night airing on ESPN. The six players to exit Sunday and their respective winnings are: 4th Matt Giannetti $3,011,655 5th Phil Collins $2,268,909 6th Eoghan O’Dea $1,720,396 7th Badih Bounahra $1,313,851 8th Anton Makiievskyi [...]

The final nine players who will make up the 2011 WSOP main event final table have emerged from a field of 6,865 players. The chip leader, Martin Staszko (40.1 million in chips) — A professional poker player for about one year, is 35 years old and admits that he plays much more online than live. [...]

Here’s the latest regarding the online poker challenge match between Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “Jungleman 12″ Cates that’s taking place on Full Tilt Poker.com The latest session finished March 29, 2011 with almost 1,100 hands being played. Jungleman 12 came out slightly ahead by about $40,000.  So far, 19,335 hands have been played out [...]

The final nine players who will make up the 2010 WSOP main event final table have emerged from a field of 7,319 players who began play back on July 5. The chip leader, Jonathan Duhamel (65.9 million in chips) is a 22-year-old from Montreal who finished 10th last December in EPT Prague. Next is John [...]

Here is an update on the “durrrr Challenge” where Tom “durrrr” Dwan is playing heads-up in Pot-Limit Omaha against Patrik Antonius. If you’re not familiar with the challenge, check out the “durrrr” online Poker Challenge that I posted previously that explains many of the rules and details of the challenge. As of today, there have [...]

Be sure to read below to find out about Pacific Poker’s $20,000 Guaranteed poker tournament that runs six days a week. Pacific Poker is another great place to play free online poker or for real money. If you’re trying to improve your poker game, Pacific Poker offers a lot of help. They have a complete [...]

Here are the answers to part four of my four part series on Hold ‘em poker hand nickname trivia. It covers some of the poker hand nicknames for hands without a face card. T 9   “Countdown” Because countdowns usually start at ten…nine… T 4   “Broderick Crawford” This comes from the television series Highway Patrol where [...]

This is the last post in the four part poker hand nickname trivia series. In this post I’m including starting hands that don’t include a face card. Poker hand nicknames for hands without face cards: T 9  “__________”    T 4  “_______  _______” or “______ _____ _____” or “____ _____” T 2  “_________  ___________” 9 8  [...]

Here are the answers to part three of my four part series on Hold ‘em poker hand nickname trivia. Hands with a queen: Q J  “Maverick” Taken from Maverick TV show theme song, “Livin’ on jacks and queens…” Q 9  “Quinine” Because queen 9 sounds like Quinine. Q 7  “Computer Hand” Calculations tell us that [...]

This is the third post in the four part poker hand nickname trivia series. In this post I’ll include hands with a queen or a jack in them. Hands with a queen: Q J  “___________”  Q 9  “___________”  Q 7  “___________ __________”  Q 3  “_____ __________ ________”  “______ ________” Q 3 suited “_____ _____ _____” [...]