October 2009 - Poker Web Watch
Christophe Benzimra wins 2009 EPT Warsaw
The 2009 EPT Warsaw attracted 203 players, all of who were prepared to part with 25,000 Polish Zloty (PLN), creating a prize pool of 4,770,500 PLN or $1,683,509 in "real money!"...
Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond installs a slide INSIDE is apartment!
Poker players are well known for their extravagant spending habits, be it spending ridiculous amounts of money on meals in Vegas, buying dozens of bottle of Cristal Champagne on a night out or driving around...
UIGEA deadline looming
In just 43 days, on December 1 2009, all financial institutions in the United States of America will have to comply with the terms set out in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act or UIGEA...
AJ Benza axed from High Stakes Poker
Series six of the popular poker show High Stakes Poker is about to be filmed but a key man will be missing from action. Popular commentator, AJ Benza has been sensationally axed by the shows...
'durrrr' Challenge to move to Las Vegas
Towards the back end of July this year, it was reported that Tom 'durrrr' Dwan was going to take his million dollar challenge to London, in an extension to the online challenge he issued to...
Father Trapp wins $100,000 from a host of poker stars
The poker playing priest reported on Friday finally played his tournament in Los Angeles and is now even closer to the $1,000,000 first prize than ever before....
Holy Trapp! A poker playing priest!
When I think of a priest, I imagine a middle-aged balding man riding a bicycle through his parish. That image may have to be altered to a paintball-gun totting, poker playing twenty-something now that I...
Luke 'FullFlush' Schwartz and the case of the unpaid for sandwich
For some reason poker seems to create some amazing characters. If you read any stories by the old guard such as Doyle Brunson or TJ Cloutier, it seems Las Vegas was full colourful, often trash...