Another week is in the books and we’ve got a brand new batch of snap judgments to get you ready for the sweet, sweet weekend. Three things are good, three not so much. Read on to see who has earned our begrudging respect and at whom we’ll be shooting dirty looks. Macau: In Macau is [...]

The LAPT Punta del Este main event is over and Uruguayan Alex Gustavo Komaromi is champion. Komaromi, a 21-year-old part-time poker player from Montevideo, was the only player from Uruguay at the final table. He took down $244,720, the biggest chunk of the more than $940,000 prize pool. This main event attracted 422, the biggest [...]

Ronny Kaiser’s EPT victory is just the start of a very promising career. 21-year-old Ronny Kaiser just became the first European Poker Tour champion from Switzerland. He defeated a field of 282 in Tallinn earlier today to pocket €275,000. Kaiser is a noted high-stakes Omaha player and had played around ten EPT main events prior [...]

Full Tilt Poker has paid the Alderney Gambling Control Commission its outstanding licensing fees, revealed in its recent hearing to be £250,000. In a statement published on the AGCC’s website under a red “Full Tilt Update Click Here” button and titled simply “Full Tilt Poker,” the AGCC said: “As a result of the AGCC’s investigations [...]

It took 10 seasons but the World Poker Tour will host a tournament in Ireland for the very first time this winter. Taking place in January 2012, the PKR.com WPT Ireland will feature a €2,500 buy-in (10% withheld) at the City West Hotel in Dublin. “We are excited to be join with our partner PKR.com [...]

Lebanese online player jclever16 earned a $207,195 payday by winning the PokerStars Sunday Million last night. Team PokerStars Pro Toni Judet Easily the biggest tournament on Sunday the event drew 6,811 players including Team PokerStars Pros Martin Hruby, Toni Judet and Joao Nunes. Judet lasted longer than other ‘Stars pros and eventually finished in 141st [...]

The PokerStar.com European Poker Tour has touched down in Tallinn for the first stop on its Season 8 schedule. 24-year-old Russian Maksim Kolosov leads in Tallinn. Day 1A of the season’s first event played out in Estonia’s capital today and it attracted 92 players, all of whom contributed their €4,000 buy-in to the prize pool. [...]

Labeled the “poster child” for how not to behave after a loss, Phil Hellmuth has earned himself a spot on a “Most Punchable Faces in Professional Sports” list. Coming in at a solid #12, the tongue-in-cheek list from bleacherreport.com puts Hellmuth in amongst such sports luminaries as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Terrell Owens, Manny Ramirez [...]