Jonathan Little heads into this week’s WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic with a legitimate shot at back-to-back POY titles.The man they call FieryJustice is headed to the forests of Connecticut this week with even more than a WPT title and millions of dollars on the line.
In fact, WPT Season 6 Player of the Year Jonathan Little will enter this week’s Foxwoods Poker Classic within striking distance of a repeat performance here in Season 7.
Little sits tied for third on the World Poker Tour’s Player of the Year leaderboard, his 1,000 POY points just behind John Phan (1,400) and Kathy Liebert (1,300) with only two events left on the schedule.
Players earn points for finishing in the top seven at WPT events, with seventh taking 200 points and first a cool 1,000.
“I’m well aware of [the standings] and getting a fourth-place or higher will put me in the lead,” Little told PokerListings.com.
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The former home of the World Series of Poker will once again host their Annual Binion’s Poker Classic, designed to run in conjunction with the WSOP in Las Vegas. The idea behind Binion’s Poker Classic is to ape the events offered over at the Rio, owned by the WSOP’s new owners, Harrah’s Entertainment, but at a discounted price. Held at Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel, the events will run from May 25 to finish with a two-day No Limit Hold’em main event July 7 and 8; a total of 45 events over as many days.
Once heads-up for poker’s biggest prize, Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov are now Team PokerStars Pro teammates.The two young men who went heads-up for the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event title this past November are now on the same team.
Danish 2008 WSOP Main Event champ Peter Eastgate and Russian runner-up Ivan Demidov, who also made the final table of the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2008, have joined Team PokerStars Pro.
“It feels great to finally be part of the team,” Demidov, 27, told PokerListings Thursday.
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Scotty Nguyen concludes his three-part interview with Adam Schoenfeld and Diego Cordovez on this week’s episode of the The Scoop on Card Player TV (sponsored by Full Tilt).
Nguyen is the only poker player to win bother the main event and the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. world championship at the World Series.
The Prince of Poker even followed it up with an impressive encore performance with a victory in the L.A. Poker Classic’s $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. event last month.
In this week’s episode, Nguyen doesn’t hold anything back while discussing the personal details of his life and his move from Vietnam.
Following a 12-month investigation, the European Commission has found that the United States’ attempts to block European online gambling sites from accepting American customers violate World Trade Organization rules for international trade. The Commission stated that while the matter could be pursued via a formal complaint at the WTO, the European Union is more interested in seeking a negotiated solution with the current U.S. administration.
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Tom Dwan likes to play for the highest stakes in the world, as many of you know from the Durrrr Challenge. Dwan is currently facing off against Patrik Antonius, who was one of the first players to accept the challenge, and Dwan just regained the lead this week. Before these two began their epic high-stakes match online, they faced off at the Aussie Millions Million Dollar Cash Game in January.
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This week PokerStars announced the signing of poker pro Johnny Lodden, making him the first Norwegian Team PokerStars Pro. The signing tops off a terrific year for the 24-year-old from Jørpeland, highlighted by a 17th-place finish at the EPT Grand Finale in Monte Carlo last April and an 11th place at last fall’s World Series of Poker Main Event in London. Those finishes, along with several other significant cashes, led to Lodden being named Norway’s best poker player in January.
“This signing is fantastic for PokerStars.com, Johnny Lodden, and the Norwegian poker community,” said an enthusiastic Thomas Udness, Marketing Manager for PokerStars.com in Norway. Read full
Players and Pros combine forces in Full Tilt Poker’s newest tournament series: Friday Night Fights. On March 20th at 21:00 ET, Gus Hansen and Andy Bloch will face off in a winner-take-all heads-up match. Players can choose sides and earn a piece of the action by playing in the Friday Night Fights Main Event $ 5K Sweat Tournament in support of their chosen pro.
- Full Tilt Poker’s first Friday Night Fights Main Event $ 5K Sweat Tournament begins on Friday, March 20th at 20:05 ET. Players who win the Sweat Tournament of the winning pro receive free entry to the next week’s $ 500 + $ 35 Friday Night Fights Knockout Tournament.
- The Friday Night Fights $ 500 Knockout Tournament takes place every Friday at 21:00 ET with a guaranteed prize pool of $ 75K. P
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The Bay 101 World Poker Tour stop in San Jose is always one of the most exciting for fans and players alike. Each table includes at least one professional poker player with a bounty on his or her head, and the fans come out in droves to get autographs from said pros as well as see them in poker tournament action. The Season 7 Bay 101 “Shooting Stars” event was no different.
Many pro players enjoy the attention from the fans, who gather in droves around the casino and the tournament area to watch players like Daniel Negreanu and Chris Ferguson make a great play or bust out of a $10,000 buy-in event, but the bounties on their heads makes it more difficult for them to play their best game, as others are gunning for them and the $5,000 they receive, along with autographed tee shirts, by knocking them out of the tournament. I Read full
Sure TonyG Poker has big name recognition, but did you know they are a premier tournament destination for playing poker online too? From the welcome page on TonyG Poker you will see Tony G himself pointing at you, challenging you to play. Take up the “no guts no glory” challenge on TonyG Poker and you will be in Freeroll heaven, with the $500 Freeroll Series happening now!
The TonyG Poker $500 Cash Freeroll Series is running now for a limited time, and to play, all you need to do is Download TonyG Poker through PokerWorks, create an account and make a minimum deposit! Yes it really is that easy to get a seat and grab your share of the $500 prize pools! P Read full
