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The 2010 WSOP has opened in stunning style for Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi. His photo is already sitting in the spot where the $50k Players Championship bracelet once sat, right in the center of the enormous WSOP bracelet display in the Pavilion Room. The winner of the Players Championship gets the center spot in the display, and it’s a fitting spot for Mizrachi, who’s at the center of the poker universe right now. With the Players Championship bracelet and Chip Reese Trophy already in the bag for the 2010 WSOP, Mizrachi is at it again in the $10k Seven-Card Stud  [ Read More ]

A recent study showed that coffee and energy drinks were the drug of choice among poker players looking for an edge. The study was conducted by the College of Pharmacy at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. The study shows that 80% of poker players around the world admit to using drugs during tournament and cash play. While coffee and energy drinks numbered in the majority some said they used other drugs like marijuana, cocaine or Valium. Most used the drugs to get an edge in clarity while some used them to relax during play. Be a Winner NOW! Start Here

The UK came close to its second WSOP bracelet in the early hours of this morning when Neil Channing finished as the runner-up to Joshua Tieman in event #6, $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Shootout. Channing collected $273,153 for the finish but missed out on what would have been his first WSOP bracelet, a prize that he has been chasing for years. Event champion Tieman collected $441,692. Channing remained upbeat after the tournament had ended, stating on his Facebook page, ‘second is not so bad really. I was basically card dead and just sat there. Every now and then I shook  [ Read More ]

You can’t win a five-day tournament on day 2, but you sure can lose. The finish line was nowhere in sight for the competitors in the World Series of Poker $50,000 Players Championship, but many were guilty of playing themselves right out of the tournament despite the relatively deep stacks in front of them. Day 1 saw slow, methodical and patient play which resulted in only six casualties, but many returned on day 2 with the itch to gamble. After another full day of play, a total of 56 players were eliminated, leaving just 54 to battle it out. Notables  [ Read More ]

It’s not the Main Event but to many poker pros the $50k Player’s Championship is an even bigger deal. Since it began in 2006, the tournament has only had 650 entrants but with elite fields and winners like the late Chip Reese, Freddy Deeb, Scotty Nguyen and David Bach the poker world has taken notice. “Of course you get all the crazy money and prestige with winning the Main Event but to me winning this tournament is actually more important and I think there are other players who feel the same way,” said last year’s winner Bach. Although tournaments tend  [ Read More ]

With the 2010 World Series of Poker just around the corner, the spotlight is already on some of the more exciting events on the schedule. The Rio in Las Vegas will be buzzing each day with poker tournaments, but only one will raise money for some very worthy charity, and that one is the fourth annual Ante Up for Africa Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament. Saturday, July 3 will be the day of the event, and the lineup of celebrities and poker pros confirmed to play is consistently growing. All will be playing the $5,000 buy-in Ante Up for Africa no-limit  [ Read More ]

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Thanks to Andrew Lichtenberger’s deep run in last year’s World Series of Poker main event — wherein he benefited from a lot of ESPN air time en route to his 18th-place finish — he is one of the few online pros who has made it into the mainstream poker public eye. Now, likely because of that high-profile finish along with a number of impressive scores in the last couple months, Lichtenberger has signed with Full Tilt Poker to become the site’s latest Red Pro. “I became a Full Tilt red pro today so now I stand out in the chat  [ Read More ]

The state of Florida has been struggling with gaming laws for many years, but 2010 marked a new day for its casinos and an expansion of poker therein. As the state still may consider the legalization of intrastate online poker, per a bill introduced by State Representative Joseph Abruzzo, Florida has the ability to set the standard for poker laws around the United States. The most recent development in Florida gaming laws involved a pact with the Seminole Tribe, which will allow them exclusive rights for their seven existing casinos, one of which is the very popular Seminole Hard Rock  [ Read More ]

Paul Liu took down the $500,000 Guaranteed series opener at the Commerce Casino’s Cal State Poker Championship this week. The innovative $220 No-Limit Hold’em event, which allowed players to buy-back in to all four starting day’s even after they busted out, was the biggest guarantee ever for a low-stakes poker tournament. With 3,220 entrants helping create a $611,800 prize pool, Liu, from nearby Irvine, California, managed to walk away with $125k in first-place cash. A regular at Commerce, Liu also won a NLHE event at the 2007 Cal State Championships for $131,024. He now has 100 cashes on his poker  [ Read More ]