Archive for the ‘Live Poker News’ Category

It took over a week for Absolute Poker or UB Poker to issue a statement regarding Black Friday, and with the site losing over 75% of its players despite still allowing US players at the table, the poker world’s faith in the company was shaken even more, having only heard from the site that one time.

Today the “Annie Duke” poker league –which is still unnamed, and still without a TV deal—announced both the 218 players that made the cut, as well as the criteria they used in determining the players who would be eligible. Details are in this post.

“Grinders” tracks the lives of a number of small stakes poker pros and it also looks into the day-to-day operations of the game at these illegal card clubs and Gallagher’s journey from outsider to part of the underground poker culture.

The poker world was expecting the 22% drop in online poker traffic reported buy pokerscout.com, and virtually everyone in the industry is in agreement that the World Series of Poker numbers will take a major hit thanks to the DOJ’s crackdown on online poker in the US.

With Black Friday and all of its developments beginning to die down, the poker world is now looking toward the future –well about a month into the future as the World Series of Poker and its May 31, 2011 start date fast approaches.

The regulatory agencies for the three seized online poker sites responded to the US government’s online poker crackdown with statements on their websites Tuesday. See their responses and our analysis by reading this blog post.

While some online poker players from the US are looking at Canada, Costa Rica, Thailand, Holland, and other locales around the world as new homes, others are pondering a switch to live poker –a switch we have seen many players make and few succeed at.

After a number of states have flirted with becoming the “first” state to pass online poker legislation, the District of Columbia surprised us all by quickly moving a measure through their budget bill that makes the nation’s capital the first jurisdiction to offer its residents intrastate online poker!

The NAPT, after a grand total of just four poker tournaments, has crowned its first repeat winner in the form of Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, as she captured the NAPT Mohegan Sun title for the second straight year.

It was an interesting theme for this week’s episodes of Poker After Dark, one of the longest running poker programs in TV. Dubbed, Idols Week, PAD pitted 5 young guns in the poker world against Doyle Brunson in a $50,000 buy-in, winner-take-all Sit and Go style tournament.