Last year, a poker player was the victim of a brutal kidnap and torture in Salford, a borough of Manchester, England, and this morning, the last of his attackers was sentenced to a lengthy jail term. The gang of thugs had kidnapped Thai Binh Dong at gunpoint and tortured him for seven hours. The event started off hopefully: the thugs,
The Bovada Black Diamond Poker Openis in full swing and the tournament series that gives online poker players more is waiting for you! Players with any size bankroll can compete for their share of prize pools totaling $750,000 thanks to satellites that start at just $1. On top of the huge cash prizes up for grabs, Bovada’s offering players a chance
Every week, Bovada hosts thousands ofonline poker tournaments, ranging from single table events to their massive $100,000 guaranteed events There’s really no way we can cover all of them, but we do want to make sure you keep up with who won the biggest of the big games so you know how hot the action is there. So, who took
The final week of Bovada’s Cash PerSuit program is upon us and it’s your final chance to get big prizes just for playing poker like you normally do! Starting February 20th and running through February 26th, players that score a flush during Spades week automatically get entry into an exclusive $5,000 freeroll tournament, even if they don’t win the hand
He’s a professional online poker player and has earned a World Series of Poker bracelet, but but his greatest achievement may have happened earlier this week when Jason Somerville came out of the closet, making him perhaps the only openly gay male poker pro. In a blog post on the Bad Beats Crew site, Somerville wrote at length about the
Every week, Bovada hosts thousands of poker tournaments, ranging from single table events to their massive $100,000 guaranteed tournaments There’s really no way we can cover all of them, but we do want to make sure you keep up with who won the biggest of the big games so you know how hot the action is there. So, who took
Week #3 of Bovada’s Cash PerSuit program continues to offer players more bang for their poker buck and getting in on the action is as easy as just playing poker like you normally would. Starting February 13th and running through February 19th, players that score a Hearts Flush (because Valentine’s day, don’t you know) get entry to into an exclusive
The winner of the WPT Venice Grand prix hasn’t been announced yet but the organization moves fast. Starting this Friday, the World Poker Tour returns to Florida for the debut of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open. It goes down at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood. The $3,500 buy-in tournament runs through the 14th and features
And that’s Blair Thein’s decided to name it: Pool, Poker & Pain (or, if multiple syllables aren’t your thing, PPP.) It looks like it’s trying to replace some of the programs that got canceled in 2011, including High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark and NBC’s National Heads-Up Championship with a…we’ll call it uniqueblend of events inside of a single program. The concept of PPP is definitely different:
Every week, Bovada hosts thousands of poker tournaments, ranging from single table events to their massive $100,000 guaranteed tournaments There’s really no way we can cover all of them, but we do want to make sure you keep up with who won the biggest of the big games so you know how hot the action is there. So, who took




