Only six players are left in the 2011 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic Main Event. Leading the official WPT final table is three-time WPT champion Carlos Mortensen. He’s going for number four while Vivek Rajkumar is looking for his second WPT…
ESPN has released its February rankings for the Nuts and you won’t be surprised by who is still at number one. Also, NAPT LA has been rebranded as The Big Event. Read on to find out about both of these stories and more.
In breaking news from California, the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) has pulled its branding from this weekend’s event at the Bicycle Casino. A representative of the world’s largest online poker site posted on TwoPlusTwo earlier today, “The North American Poker Tour L.A. event scheduled for March 5th to 12th at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California will proceed as planned, but not as an NAPT event. The NAPT and the Bicycle Casino reached the voluntary decision to hold the event without branding after constructive discussions with California gaming regulators.”
A look at the high-stakes cash game action on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars from the last few days, featuring Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates as the biggest winners.
A noticeably different “High Stakes Poker” kicked off its seventh season on GSN over the weekend. With longtime announcers Gabe Kaplan and A.J. Benza officially out of the picture, GSN welcomed former “Saturday Night Live” funny man Norm Macdonald as the series’ new host, with PartyPoker pro Kara Scott conducting interviews from the sidelines. New episodes air on Saturday nights at 8:00pm ET and 11:00pm ET. Read our interview with Macdonald.
In a recent interview conducted during the World Poker Tour’s L.A. Poker Classic Main Event, the industry’s most notable free agent, former UB.com front man Phil Hellmuth, filled the community in on his current activities.
Only eighteen poker players are left at the WPT LA Poker Classic. Poker pro Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar is in the lead. Rajkumar is a poker pro for online poker room Full Tilt Poker. The World Poker Tour Los Angeles Poker Classic will be the second WPT event at which he has final talbed should he make it that far and potentiall the second he would win. His first victory came in Season VII of the WPT at the Borgata Poker Open where he won $1.4 million for coming in first place.
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