The Ashes

I have been talking a lot about the Million Dollar Challenge as of late.  I spoke of the priest and the war veteran who have had the chance to play for some serious money but now it’s your turn.  The Million Dollar Challenge is offering daily freerolls for your shot to go and play in [...]

By now I’m sure we have all heard Lady Gaga’s song entitled ‘Poker Face’ (the song that is well overplayed by radio stations).  Ireland’s Poker Festival sent an invite to Lady Gaga to play in their upcoming tournament in which the guaranteed prize pool for first place is over $350,000.  The tournament is set to [...]

PKR.com just released information featuring an online series of tournaments (much like a FTOPS or a WCOOP) to begin on October 15th in celebration of Oktoberfest.  They will be the host of ten tournaments to last over the course of ten days.  They will feature tournaments such as Double Chance, Deep Stack, and the Terminator [...]

The world’s largest poker site is only getting bigger according to recent numbers.  On Sunday, September 6th a record 307,016 were playing on the site on a combined 42,814 tables.  This quite an accomplishment for any poker website and it gained worldwide recognition by being certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.  In my [...]

With WCOOP coming to a close Jovial Gent captures the 1st place prize of a ridiculous $1.7 million from PokerStars $5,200 No Limit Hold’em 2 day Main Event.  One may get the feel with the 1st place prize being what it is that this would have been a live event but in fact this just [...]