Chiu Overtakes Gus Hansen For WPT Championship Haley Hintze     Another huge poker payday was the feature of the week, this time in the World Poker Tour’s biggest event, its $25,000 buy-in World Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. A power-packed final table and an unexpected finish will make this one of the most anticipated WPT broadcasts in recent history when it eventually airs. Legislative and business happenings also speckled the poker landscape in the latest edition of the Weekly Poker Net: Read The Rest

Chorny Takes Down $3M EPT Monte Carlo Event Haley Hintze     A $3 million prize in the spring’s richest poker event highlighted the news in a very slow stretch of poker days. Glen Chorny’s triumph at the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final was the biggest win of the year to date, even as another major event, the WPT World Championship, began play this week at the Bellagio. Elsewhere, a few poker-business items worked their way into public view, and the untimely death of a poker diva reminded us all that the poker world is a place of both dreams and demons: Read The Rest

Poker Player Stabbed Outside Taj In Atlantic City Haley Hintze     Strange days, indeed. This edition of the Weekly Poker Net brought stories both unusual and sad, from the widely rumored delay of the World Series of Poker Main Event final table to a poker-related death (and manslaughter charges) at a New Jersey casino. It wasn’t a busy week, as news from poker goes, but it was an interesting one. Here are the most important items from the week: Read The Rest