PokerStars EPT London kicked off Wednesday in the city’s Hilton Metropole hotel with two well-attended side events. The £5,250 EPT 7 London Heads-Up event got things rolling selling out the 64 spots available. Names like Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Praz Bansi, Scott Seiver, Melanie Weisner, and Sorel Mizzi all got in… [more]

This Friday, Oct. 1, Cake Poker will begin offering satellites to the Aussie Millions main event in January. The Aussie Millions, which is hosted by the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, features world class poker spread across 17 days and 20 events. This year’s main event is expected to surpass 1,000 players. Cake Poker is… [more]

In the case of most poker players, the closer it gets to the prize money, the less they know about strategy. This is particularly true about heads-up play where many people are stumped when it comes to making the right plays. And while you won’t learn every little detail you need to know about playing… [more]

Gus Hansen won his first WSOP bracelet by taking down the 2010 WSOP Europe High Roller event. Event #4 of the 2010 WSOP Europe was the £10,350 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Heads-Up Event. 103 player turned out to take their shot at the first ever WSOP-E heads-up bracelet and a grand prize of £288,409. Several… [more]

Did you know that people are cheating in online poker and that likely is the real reason behind you getting bad beats? This article reveals the inside information on how poker sites attempt to stop poker cheats and what it does to the true game of poker. Poker is a competitive game and it should… [more]

Gus Hansen and Jim Collopy will have to return to the Casino at the Empire venue to complete the match. The thrilling finale to a London poker tournament was suspended at 03:35 BST yesterday morning (September 23rd) with the score at 1-1. Poker players Gus Hansen and Jim Collopy reached the business end of a… [more]

Gus Hansen has had a rough year on Full Tilt but last night he took the first step in reversing his fortunes. Not only did Hansen make the final four of the prestigious £10k WSOPE Heads-Up in London he went back to his hotel room and annihilated the competition in the high stakes online games…. [more]

The relatively deep structure and small field concentrated with some of the biggest names in the game has turned the World Series of Poker Europe’s main event one of the toughest tournaments on the planet. But after making the final table the past two years, finishing fifth in 2008 and runner-up last year, Daniel Negreanu… [more]

Tournament organizers were chatting yesterday about their worry over the forthcoming £10,350 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Heads-Up. Sixty-four players was the number they were hoping for, but some pessimistic voices were saying it was more likely to be somewhere in the mid-fifties. Still not a bad turnout, though, for a high buy-in high-variance tournament in… [more]

from the Daniel Negreanu Poker Newsletter If someone describes your playing style as weak, you’re in lots of trouble. You’d better make changes to your game quickly to shed that reputation. If you want to win at the poker table, focus on the weak players. Rather than duke it out with stronger, aggressive players, you’ll… [more]