2011 April 14 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Ever wondered who online high-stakes poker player Kagome Kagome is? We’ll tell you, plus get you up-to-speed on Washington D.C.’s poker hot spots, and more.
Not since Dwyte Pilgrim has a player found such success on the WSOP-Circuit as Kyle Cartwright has in the past two months. It all began back in February when Cartwright, decided to play his first major live tournament.
Mike Scarborough claimed his first World Poker Tour title at the Hollywood Poker Open and $273,664 after denying Erik Seidel his second WPT title.
It took 182 hands for Cincinnati resident Mike Scarborough to take down the title at the Hollywood Poker Open, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), on Wednesday night. The path to victory was far from easy, as Scarborough tangled with poker’s all-time money leader, Erik Seidel, heads-up. In the end, the Full Tilt Poker pro’s reign of terror ended with a second place finish.
Most players view the recent move by Full Tilt Poker to block the ability of online poker tracking sites such as SharkScope and PokerTableRatings (PTR) from receiving data favorably.
Lynn Gilmartin shares her discoveries from around Miraflores in Lima, Peru while she’s in town for the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour.
The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) has only been around for 15 months, but it has already played host to an achievement most tours have yet to witness in years of existence. Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst pulled off the unthinkable on Wednesday evening by winning her second straight title in the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event, earning $450,000 and solidifying her position as poker’s newest superstar.
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