You are here

Poker

Bovadas Cash PerSuit Promo Offers Cash, $5K Freerolls & Trips to Vegas

Starting this week, Bovada’s offering up another killer poker promo: Cash PerSuit You can get cold, hard cash in your bankroll just for playing poker like you normally would. On top of throwing money your way, Bovada is giving players entry into special $5,000 freerolls if they make the weekly flush and they’ve got four special prize packages that can get you to Las Vegas.  Get started at Bovada and get an online poker deposit bonus of up to $1000!   How does it work? Play poker during...

Bovada Online Poker Tournament Report: January 31, 2012

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 the top spot in this past Sunday's $100,000 guaranteed online poker tournament? Claude F took first place this week, earning $20,416.50 for his victory. He was followed by...

Winner Of Peter Eastgate's 2008 WSOP Bracelet Looking To Help Charities With It

You might remember back in November of 2010, when 2008 World Series of Poker main event winner Peter Eastgate auctioned off his bracelet, raising over $140,000 for charity. The winner of that auction, William Haughey, talked to a poker news website to discuss the bracelet and revealed how he wants to work with the WSOP organization to arrange a charity event where he'd match any money raised, up to $1,000,000. Haughey's got a history of such generousness: the British businessman (who has made...

World Poker Tour Announces Expanded TV Coverage In 2012

If you enjoy watching poker as much as you like playing it, then Fox Sports Net has some good news for you. They'll be extending their television coverage of Season X when the show returns in February. This expansion comes after the increased success of Season IX, which saw a 30% rise in audience share compared to previous seasons. The new season will premiere on February 12 at 8pm and 11pm local time on the network. To provide a better look at the events, Season X will see each tournament...

Unassuming Abraham Araya Takes World Series of Poker Circuit Stop in Coctaw

We're big fans of the World Series of Poker Circuit here in the Gambling Beat offices: they're a perfect microcosm of poker scenes across America and they give players who might be blown out of the water in Vegas a chance to shine. The most recent event, which just wrapped up in Durant, OK, had one of those heartwarming stories where the best man truly did get the ring. East African native Abraham Araya was recently laid off from his job as flight mechanic after the company for which he worked...

Bovada's Online Poker Tournament Report: January 24, 2012

Every week, Bovada hosts thousands of poker tournaments, ranging from single table events to their massive $100,000 guaranteed tournaments - and that includes the holidays! 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 top spot in this past Sunday's $100,000 guaranteed online poker tournament? Brian K took first place this week, earning $21,411.00 for his...

Trickett Looking For Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge Repeat

2011 was a good year of UK poker pro Sam Trickett and 2012 looks like it might already by on track to make good again. It was last year's $100,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions that got him started and it looks like it may all be happening again as the gregarious pro is sitting at the final table of this year's Challenge, once again. This year's tournament attracted 16 fewer players than 2011's, but that still means there were 22 of the best poker players in the world in attendance,...

Dutch Poker Pro Van der Sloot Receives Maximum Sentence For Stephany Flores Murder

It's official: Dutch poker player Joran van der Sloot has been sentenced to 28 years in a Peruvian jail for the murder of Stephany Flores, the 21-year-old woman whose body was discovered in van der Sloot's hotel room in Lima in June, 2010. In addition to this sentence, he may also be facing extradition to the United States in connection with the investigation of Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance. He was arrested on suspicion of his involvement on the island of Aruba but later released for...

Lockwood Doubles Up In Minutes, Wins WSOPC Event Like A Machine

It's the sort of story that poker players that were there will be talking about for years to come: Harold "Buddy" Lockwood overcame a 2-to-1 chip deficit in heads-up play to beat Raja Kattamuri to win event #6 at the World Series of Poker stop at the Choctaw Casino Resort. His play was relentless and his focus was admirable over the two-day 372-person tournament. However, everyone observing thought that there was no way he could take on six-time WSOP casher Kattamuri in heads-up. But he...

Bovada Poker Tourney Sends Player To Super Bowl XLVI...For Free

Seventeen online poker players made it to Bovada's Super Bowl Freeroll Finale and after a mere four hours of play, Adam Greear of Riverview, MI took the top spot and earned himself an expenses-paid trip to Indanapolis's Lucas Oil stadium for Super Bowl XLVI. How'd he get there? By sticking to his guns and waiting to strike. After three and a half hours of play, the tension was understandably high: the winner was getting the most coveted seats in the game. One hand in particular seemed to tilt...

Pages

Follow Poker Follow Poker