The festival, held in the North and East quadrants of Leicester Square in London and sponsored by online poker site PKR, features all things poker and is free to the public. Chris North, Director of Fox Club, says Poker in the Park is the perfect venue for the public to get to know the club.
"Not only is it in the heart of London close to where we will be opening our club, (but) it attracts thousands of poker players, many of whom will be keen to get their first real life poker...
Full Tilt pro Max Pescatori made a little history of his own, however, as he was the first host to make the money in his own event at FTOPS IX.
Pescatori didn't short-stack his way into the money either. The Italian Pirate overcame 900 players in Event 13, Half Pot-Limit Hold'em Half Pot-Limit Omaha, before finally busting out in 14th for $1,320. A very modest payout by his standards, but it's a lot more than any of the other hosts have made in their events during this edition of...
The previous record jackpot on the site was $922,000, but as players crowded the tables on Thursday in hopes of getting a bad beat worthy of the jackpot, the new record topped out at $1,013,381.63.
The win came on a 50¢/$1 table and the actual pot itself was only worth $24. However, with quad nines beat by a royal...
Starting today UltimateBet has set up a series of six poker tournaments to take place on the poker site for three days to raise money for the charity, which has a goal of helping the people affected by the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
The tournament series starts today with a $10+$10 event hosted by Phil Hellmuth at 8 p.m. At 9 p.m. a second charity tourney with a $20+$20 will start, hosted by Annie Duke.
On Saturday, action will begin again at 5 p.m. with a $20+$20 event hosted...