Professional poker player Marty Smyth played his cards right to win almost $900,000 at the World Series tournament in Las Vegas.
The Belfast man, who now lives in Greenisland, was flushed with success after scooping the prize in the Pot Limit Omaha World Championship at the world-famous Rio Casino.
The 32-year-old beat around 380 people to pick […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Celebrities turned out Wednesday to donate to Darfur charities — and to show their fellow stars just who the real card sharks were.
“I’m looking forward to whipping a lot of celebrity rear end,” talk show host Montel Williams said before beginning play in a charity Texas Hold ‘em tournament at the […]
It’s easily the biggest spectacle in all of poker, with thousands of amateurs and pros happily forking over $10,000 apiece for a shot at poker immortality. It has literally made the poker careers of Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Jamie Gold, Jerry Yang and countless others, and will do the same for this year’s […]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, Jul 3, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) —-CryptoLogic Limited. (TSX:CRY)(TSX:CXY)(NASDAQ:CRYP)(LSE:CRP), a leading software developer to the global Internet gaming market, today introduced two unique features to its Internet poker software line-up: the ability for players to host their own tournaments, and a new advanced sorting and filtering tool that allows players to customize their […]
He is a convicted rapist and former heavy weight boxing champion who once bit an opponent’s ear off in the ring.
Now Mike Tyson wants to come to Australia to try his hand at poker.
A News Limited paper has reported that the American plans to attend Crown Casino’s poker championships in Melbourne early next year, but […]
The first ever poker-themed musical will make its world debut 4 and 5 July at the Masquerade Theatre in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. All In: The Poker Musical will also do a special preview concert 3 July, the first day of the World Series of Poker Main Event, for media […]
Four more events saw action on Wednesday at the 2008 World Series of Poker, including Event #45, the much-anticipated $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship, which drew the game’s biggest players and a deep crowd of spectators to the Amazon Room. On the opposite side of the hall a retired police detective claimed the day’s only bracelet, […]
In Week 4 of the World Series of Poker, the pros continue to dominate as they show the world the skill that exists in tournament play.
In the last week or so, young gun John Phan picked up his second bracelet of 2008, Layne “Back-to-Back” Flack won his sixth bracelet, Barry Greenstein won his third […]
John Pahn has been hot at this year’s World Series of Poker thus far. The Vietnamese-American professional poker player based in Long Beach, California has managed to win his second bracelet.
“Going into a World Series, I don’t expect to win a bracelet, but it would be nice to win one. The […]
Some players are so afraid of getting bluffed out of a pot that they will call you on every street. Against these calling stations, you will have to show down the best hand.
So, if you’re going to pick a spot to bluff, you need to pick an opponent who is capable of laying down a […]