Visit from father puts $15,000 poker pac...

Today we are continuing profiling the winners of AussieMillions packages. BONANZA_007 (pictured above) tells you how a visit from his father almost made him lose the tournament, while Lakseprinsen explains how a lucky 4 on the river got him through. Lakseprinsen I qualified through the $70 satellite about a week earlier, and I have played only one. I was off to a bad start, playing a...

Aussie Millions Qualifiers Sequel...

Earlier in the week we brought you the thoughts of two of our twenty-seven online qualifiers for the Aussie Millions. ‘Carlton_hahn’ told us how he almost missed the final qualifier and ‘Kavinda111′ explained how he won his $12,000 package without depositing a cent. Today ‘ThundrXpress’ tells us about his hope of meeting Phil Ivey at the tables ,...

Ian Frazer at The Doyle Brunson Five Dia...

Ian Frazer has been at the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Classic this week.  Read on to see how the PartyPoker ambassador has progressed in the first two days at the Bellagio and a curious appearance from a hungover Devilfish! At the bottom of the post we have another edition of Ian’s video tutorial series. WPT Bellagio Las Vegas Day 1 Well I am here, my flight was only 5% full...

PartyPoker Players Will Be Out In Force ...

One of the great things about playing poker online is the opportunity it presents for the mere mortal to mix it with the great and the good of the poker world. Over the past month we have been running a series of satellite tournaments offering the chance to win a seat at the Aussie Millions, the most prestigious tournament Down Under and one of the biggest in the world. Yesterday saw...

Join The Action at The Frazer & Sty...

Back in November our grassroots ambassador Ian Frazer and his good friend Debbie Styles hosted a bounty tournament at PartyPoker.com with $150 going to the players who knocked out either of the two. Here’s Debbie’s review of the tournament. Talk about an adrenalin pumping, edge of your seat moment prior to the game commencing. With five minutes to go and only 14 players seated, my...

Denmark’s Albert Iversen Wins the Part...

After an incredible eleven hour session Dane Albert ‘ireadyoursoul’ Iversen was the last man standing in the PartyPoker Monthly Million.  Iversen took home a cool $200,000 for his troubles after fighting his way through a field of over 1500 players. Play got under way at 12:45 EST with 1573 hopefuls sitting down each having paid the $600 + $40 buy-in to the marquee poker...

Mike Sexton’s Induction into Poker...

The recent WSOP Main Event final was not only a memorable day for it’s youngest ever champion Joe Cada, during the closing stages the legendary Mike Sexton, PartyPoker’s global ambassador, was inducted into the prestigious WSOP Poker Hall Of Fame. As well as many years successfully playing the poker circuit Mike was also instrumental in the explosion of poker across the world in...

It’s finally official, the WPT joi...

As many of you are aware PartyGaming has been in takeover discussions with the WPTE for a few months now, well today we can announce that the deal is now official. We are really excited to be cementing our long standing relationship with the WPT, after all it was thanks our sponsorship of WPT shows that partypoker.com was catapulted to the heady heights of no.1 poker site in the...

Why the Bookies fear a Phil Ivey Win at ...

We all know that Phil Ivey is a remarkable poker player, after all this is a man that has total tournament poker earnings of over $8.5m and add on top of that the mind boggling sums he will have made in cash games you then begin to understand that we are talking about one of the all-time greats of this glorious game. Come November 7th and Ivey will face his greatest challenge to date,...

Rip his shirt off and call him Superman!...

With the PartyPoker.com World Open V about to air on UK TV this Wednesday (Channel Five 00:10 GMT)we thought we would treat you to a little taster of what’s in store with a classic clip from the World Open archives. We’ve sifted though the past four series of the high stakes poker tournament to bring you one of our favourite moments from World Open II. The play is down to the last...