With a large number of players being in Las Vegas for the 2010 World Series of Poker and thousands of English players all crying into their beer after England’s humiliation at the hands of Germany in the World Cup, there was a slightly smaller field of 72 for Sunday’s $500+$10 HOT! $40k GTD Freezeout meaning Betfair Poker, being the nice guys they are, made up the shortfall in the guaranteed prizepool. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin .

British poker pro Neil “Bad Beat” Channing narrowly missed out on his first World Series of Poker bracelet after losing heads up to Joshua Tieman in the $5,000 No-limit Hold’em Shootout. No related posts

Poker players love to gamble. Be it on the colour of the next flop, what hand one of their opponents held or who will last longer in a particular tournament. These are standard bets placed by a large percentage of the poker community but it is rare for bets to reach the magnitude of $2,000,000, which is the amount Mike Matusow sets to lose to Ted Forrest if the latter can lose 49lbs in weight before July 15

The World Poker Tour has announced that they will stop at a new venue in their upcoming ninth season due to kick off in May. The new destination will be France where players will battle it out for the title of WPT Amneville Champion

Poker and the “Big Screen” simply do not mix, or at least they have not done in the past.