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Erik Seidel moves top of all-time money list
Poker NewsMarch 7, 2011 Erik Seidel moved to the top of the all-time poker money list yesterday after winning the 2011 Heads-Up Poker Championship. The 51-year-old defeated Chris Moneymaker in Las Vegas to pocket the $750,000 winners cheque and overtake Daniel Negreanu in the all-time rankings. His career winnings are now an astonishing $14.6 million, comfortably ahead of of Daniel Negreanu with $14.2 million and... |
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High school dropout on brink of $2.3m payday
Poker NewsJanuary 14, 2011 Chris Oliver will take a staggering 42 per cent of the chips into tomorrow's final of the PokerStars Carribean Adventure in the Bahamas. The 21-year-old from Florida, who infuriated his parents when he dropped out of high school to play online poker, has a mammoth stack of 19,670,000 - 13 million more chips than his nearest challenger, San Francisco pro Galen Hall. 'ImDaNuts', as Oliver... |
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The big Chris Moneymaker comeback is on
Poker NewsJanuary 12, 2011 Chris Moneymaker - the man who sparked the online poker boom nearly a decade ago - is hunting down his biggest pay cheque for eight years. The 35-year-old, whose triumph in the 2003 World Series of Poker prompted the 'Moneymaker Effect' is in prime position to challenge for the PokerStars Carribean Adventure 2011 title - the first major silverware of the year. It would mean a payday of... |
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World Poker Champ Joe Cada hits the rail in Vegas
Poker NewsJuly 14, 2010 Reigning World Poker Champion Jo Cada has busted out of the WSOP 2010 Main Event. The 22-year-old had dreamt of being the first player to defend the WSOP Main Event title since 1988, when Johnny Chan recorded back-to-back victories. But Cada, who won $8.55 million last year as the youngest winner ever, was eliminated with around 1,800 players remaining when his ace-queen of spaces ran into... |
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WSOP 2010: Johnny Chan is just ridiculous
Poker NewsJuly 10, 2010 POKER legend Johnny Chan finished Day 2A of the World Series of Poker last night in a ludicrously brilliant 10th place. The 53-year-old double World Champion, who played so well on the opening day of this monster tournament, again turned in a masterclass to finish with 281,600 chips – just 60,000 behind overall chip leader Boulos Estafanous. A whopping 2,412 players sat down for the... |
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WSOP 2010 Main Event kicks off in Las Vegas
Poker NewsJuly 6, 2010 THE 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event is finally underway in Las Vegas - and Day 1A say some big guns fall at the Rio. Greg Raymer, the 2004 World Champion, asked players to "shuffle up and deal"...and was then promptly knocked out before the end of the first level. Raymer lost almost his entire chip stack within 10 hands including a huge pot when he missed a flush... |
