Hoyt Corkins was away on vacation for a month when his Las Vegas home located in an upscale, gated Spanish Trails community was broken into by thieves who took their sweet time searching through his belongings and stealing his valuables. Poker fans would be interested to know that some of the things stolen from Hoyt [...]

Are you sick of bad beat stories? Along with the rest of the world, of course. Party Poker, however, has one bad beat story that even the most jaded poker player would want to hear. Particularly, since it involved the biggest bad beat jackpot in history.
Judith75 was playing in a $0.50/$1 Limit table. Yes, those [...]

Former business investor Alexander Kravchenko started playing poker in 1997 and you can say he’s made a good use of his time on the felt. He made a name of himself when he made it in the money a more-than-impressive six times during the 2007 World Series of Poker. Kravchenko even went so far as [...]

Bodog Poker hosted its biggest-ever guaranteed tournament on Sunday, promising a $250,000 prize pool. The value drew in 816 participants for the online tourney, but it was KILL_BILL who topped them all for the biggest payday.
“We’d like to congratulate KILL_BILL for his win against such a talent-rich field that included some of the biggest names [...]

Natalie “TheV0id” Teltscher thought she was seeing a major payday after her account won $1,228,330.50 for first place in PokerStars’ 2007 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event. Her dreams were burned to the ground, however, when PokerStars disqualified her after discovering that she never played in the event herself. What’s a girl to [...]

Talk about making a name for yourself. Jose Miguel Espinar wanted to prove his poker prowess despite being a newbie in the community. Well, do that he just did. Espinar came out on top at the end of PokerStars.net Latin America Poker Tour Punte del Este championship. This may have proven that despite starting his [...]

What happens when you offer a $1.5 Million Guaranteed Pot on a Sunday tournament online? If the PokerStars Sunday Million is any indication, you’ll find yourself with 8,431 entrants and a massive $1,686,200.00 total prize pool. This ensured a cool $204,198.82 to the winner and with that kind of prize money, you can be certain this tournament is taken seriously.

With such a monstrous field, did the online poker wizards stand a chance? Once again proving that poker is a game of skill, online phenoms Andy McLEOD and Zach “nofingclue11” Clark emerged as chip leaders going into the final table despite the sheer number of poker wannabes in their midst. Unfortunately for both, despite their strong showings, Andy McLEOD and nofingclue11 ended up in 4th and 5th place respectively. Hey, don’t feel too bad for them. That was $75,879.00 for 4th place and a very respectable $59,017.00 for 5th.

The final three saw RProps, betofetus and Fred_Brink battling for glory with Fred_Brink dead last with only 13,553 in chips. The three discussed a possible deal and luckily for Fred_Brink, the deal was never agreed upon.

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Online Poker site UltimateBet announced the addition of 24-year-old Hollywood actress Tiffany Michelle to its Star Players Team. The actress and singer/songwriter is one of the newest addition in UltimateBet’s already impressive lineup of pro poker players.

The cameras were rolling at this year’s World Series of Poker when Tiffany Michelle, the last female player left standing in the Main Event, outperformed her way to an impressive 17th place finish, beating the largest field to date by a woman.

The Hollywood actress walked away with $334,534 in cash and was sporting UltimateBet gear as part of the online poker site’s much-talked-about UB Army program.

Tiffany Michelle, who can be found playing online poker at UltimateBet under the username “Tiffany M”, has appeared in variety of films and television series, including appearances on Nip/Tuck and E.R. As a way to supplement income between her acting and songwriting career, Michelle began playing online poker at UltimateBet.

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Bodog Poker recently awarded the very first seats into the 2009 World Series of Poker main event. The seats were awarded to three players, “pokerfanx789,” “dudix,” and “Boswan,” as a result of a promotion involving the site’s Bodog Poker Mini Series final event.

Bodog Poker hosted a Mini Series this year, a 25-tournament series that mirrored the Hold’em events at the 2008 WSOP with buy-ins equal to 1% of the actual WSOP event buy-in.

The final event was a 27-player tournament consisting of the top four players on the Mini Series tournament leaderboard, 18 players from the semifinal qualifier and five selected through wild-card drawings of players who entered at least three Mini Series events.

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Among the World Series of Poker Day 2A casualties was poker pro Scotty Nguyen. The “Prince of Poker” had been short-stacked most of the day.

Some may remember how Scotty Nguyen blew a huge chip lead coming up to the final table in last year’s WSOP, leaving him to bust out in 11th place. Apparently, this failure to capitalize on his lead left him distraught for months and barely able to eat.

Part of Nguyen’s rehabilitation was promising himself that he would win either the HORSE Championship or the Main Event in 2008. Hopefully, he’ll have his appetite back after taking down the most prestigious victory in poker as well as the $2 million that went with it.

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