Dwan and Ivey’s Vegetarian Prop Bet

Poker has had it’s fair share of crazy prop’ bets down the years. Everything, from racing a racehorse to growing facial hear, has been on the agenda for some of the more fun-loving poker players. The latest prop’ bet is certainly a new one on us here at Poker News Headlines.

The bet in question came up on the latest edition of High Stakes Poker. Tom Dwan suggested to meat loving Phil Ivey that if he didn’t eat any meat (including fish) for the next year then he would pay him $1 million.

PartyGaming Posts $26.5 Million Loss for 2009

PartyGaming PLC, the company behind Party Poker, have announced a net loss of $26.5 million for 2009. Despite the apparently poor figures, the group remains positive about their future.

PartyGaming CEO, Jim Ryan, was quick to put a positive outlook on the results. He said; “Whilst the macroeconomic environment remains uncertain, we remain focused on executing our stated strategy and are confident about the Group’s prospects.”

Company revenues were down 6% from 2008 to $446.2 million in a turbulent year for the business. In the previous year PartyGaming posted a profit of $66.9 million.

Jeff Madsen Wins Borgata Winter Poker Open

24 year old poker pro’, Jeff Madsen, has won the main event of the 2010 Borgata Winter Poker Open. Madsen, from Las Vegas, added the Borgata title to his already impressive poker C.V. earlier this month bringing his lifetime tournament earnings to over $3.1 million.

Although the Borgata Open is no longer a WPT event, the $3,300 main event still attracts some of the biggest names in US poker. 766 players stumped up the buy-in to build a total prize pool over close to $2.5 million. It was Madsen who took control of the event at an early stage, though, and he never looked back from there.

US Court Prevents Lawsuit Against Full Tilt Poker

A court in the United States has stopped a lawsuit filed against one of the largest online poker room, Full Tilt Poker. Former Full Tilt pro’, Clonie Gowen, claimed the room owed her $40 million (or 1% of the company) following a verbal agreement between her and owners in 2004. Gowen was suing Full Tilt for breach of contract but the case was quickly thrown out of court late last week.

The case was the third time Gowen had brought the lawsuit before a court. The residing judges all dismissed the cases, stating the Gowen could not provide substantial evidence to back her claim.

Full Tilt’s Million Dollar Cash Game sees Record Pot

You might expect the occassional large pot in a cash game title “Million Dollar” but rarely do you see a pot exceed the one million mark in Full Tilt’s flagship televised cash game.

$1,108,500 found it’s way into the middle of the table when two old rivals, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan, locked horns. Fellow Full Tilt Poker pro’ Patrik Antonius was also involved in the action but the savvy Finn had step aside from this particular hand before both players held monster hands.

When the turn fell both players held a straight but it was Phil Ivey who was in big trouble…

Hold’em Manager Now Supports Rush Poker

Full Tilt Poker’s Rush Poker has taken the poker industry by storm in the past week. The ability to fold quickly and then be moved to another table to instantly play a new hand has attracted players in their thousands to FTP.

Instead of playing around 80 hands an hour some players are reporting 250 – 300 hands being banked. That amount of action can’t be ignored and now tracking software company “Hold’em Manager” have launched a new version of their popular software to cater for the new games on Rush Poker.

The traditional Hold’em Manager HUD won’t work with Rush Poker so some tweaks have been made to the latest version.

Phil Ivey Tops All Time Money List

It’s been an interesting start to 2010 for Phil Ivey. The “Tiger Woods of poker” had his own marital problems in late 2009 which resulted in a divorce from his wife but, if the the single life is anything to judge by, keep away ladies! because Ivey appears to be in better form than ever before.

Yesterday, Ivey claimed 2nd place in the $100,000 buy-in challenge event at the Aussie Millions, a result which was good enough to move him into top spot on the all time money list. Ivey sat just a few hundred thousand dollars behind Daniel Negreanu before the weekend started. His 2nd place in Melbourne earned him $544,219 – enough to move him ahead.

Rush Poker at Full Tilt

The buzz around the online poker community right now surrounds the latest innovation from Full Tilt Poker. Rush Poker was launched earlier this week and the new style of playing has already caused quite a stir on forums and social networking sites. So, what is Rush Poker exactly?

“Unlike a standard ring game, when you play Rush Poker you’ll join a large player pool and face a different table of opponents every hand you play. When you fold your hand, you’ll immediately be moved to a new table for your next hand.” said Full Tilt.

Phil Ivey Divorces Wife

The poker world was in shock yesterday as news was leaked that Phil Ivey had divorced his wife of seven years, Luciaetta.

Ivey, dubbed “the Tiger Woods of Poker” by many, has enjoyed a successful 2009 both in online poker at Full Tilt and in live events. Two WSOP bracelets and a WSOP main event final table added more notable results to Ivey’s ever increasing list of honours in the last year. Financially, the tournament successes were eclipsed by his superb run online as several million dollars were banked from his high stakes play.