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WPT World Poker Challenge Winner Lee Markholt

Mar 29, 2008
The World Poker Challenge finished up in Reno on Friday with Lee Markholt being declared champion of the $7,500 buyin championship event.  The victory a...

Montel Williams Joins Team USA

Mar 28, 2008
Montel Williams has been named as a member of Team USA to play in PartyPoker.com's Poker Nati...

Hollywood Poker Offers Two Ways to the WSOP

Mar 28, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Hollywood Poker is offering their players several ways to win a seat at the 2008 World Series of Poker.   There are prize packages for the Main Event a...

Phil Hellmuth Released Black Belt Poker Course

Mar 27, 2008
Category: Poker Books

Phil Hellmuth has just released a new series of online poker videos that are known as the "Black Belt Poker Course".  The videos are aimed at help...

Titan Poker Sends Players to Asian Poker Tour

Mar 27, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Titan Poker will be sending players to the Asian Poker Tournaments for the first time.  They are going to start holding their Asian Poker Tour (APT) Manila ...

Titan Poker Gives Seat at EPT Monte Carlo

Mar 26, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Titan Poker has give forty three year old poker player Roland Shuster from Germany a seat at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo.  To get the seat he ...

US Players Rate Full Tilt Number One

Mar 26, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Full Tilt Poker have been voted number one for US players, the readers of a popular US poker blog have voted Full Tilt Poker as being the best choice for America...

World Poker Challenge Day One

Mar 25, 2008
The World Poker Challenge is in their first day in Reno, Nevada.  This is a $7,500 buy in tournament but since it didn't make the season VII schedul...

Merge Network Announces New Poker Room

Mar 25, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

The Merge network has added another poker room to their growing online poker network.  TexasHoldem.com announced that they have officially opened their door...

Pokerari Sending Players to WSOP Side Events

Mar 25, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Pokerari is one of the newer poker rooms and they are going to be the first ever cardroom to offer online qualifier tournaments to the World Series of Poker 2008...

Nautica Charity Poker Moving Inside

Mar 25, 2008

Weekend poker festivals will no longer have to be held just in the Spring and Summer.  They are going to be moving in doors so that poker can be dealt ...

WPT World Poker Challenge Starts Tomorrow

Mar 24, 2008
The World Poker Tour Poker Challenge Main Event is going to start tomorrow.  This is a $7,500 championship event and they winner of the tournament will ...

Neil Channing Wins Irish Poker Open

Mar 24, 2008

The 2008 Irish Poker Open is closed and Neil Channing is the winner. The €3 Million Guaranteed prize pool drew in 666 players for a chance at the cash. ...

PPA Launches Litigation Support Network

Mar 24, 2008

The Poker Player Alliance has announced the launch of a free Litigation Support Network (LSN) that will provide basic poker legal advice and it will also provide...

Yesterday's PokerStars Sunday Million

Mar 24, 2008
Yesterdays PokerStars Sunday Million had over 7,445 entrants and they generated a prize pool of $1,489,000 dollars.  This number was on par with last we...

Irish Poker Open Update

Mar 23, 2008

The first two days at the Irish Poker Open have been played and we are now nearing the final table.  A total of 52 players will be returning on Sunday at 2p...

WSOPE Debuting In April On Sky Poker

Mar 23, 2008

Fans of poker can now look forward to watching the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe in April, the series will be making an eight night appearance on Sky Sports....

Poker After Dark Has "Jam Up Week"

Mar 23, 2008
Another week of Poker After Dark brings another group of six unique players that be competing for a $140,000 winner take all first place prize in what the pr...

MA Bill To Criminalize Onling Gambling Defeateded

Mar 22, 2008

The controversial bill in Massachusetts that would have allowed three new resort style casinos while making online gambling illegal was defeated by a House vote ...

Bet365 Announces The 2008 ECOOP II Championship

Mar 18, 2008
With the success of last year's European Championship of Online Poker, it comes as no surprise that Be...

Titan Poker Send 2 Players to the Genting Stanley Champs.

Mar 18, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

The largest poker room on the iPoker Network, Titan Poker will be sending poker players Charles Micheletti from France and Jason Hussak from Canada to the Gentin...

Ladbrokes Proker Gives Over 100 WSOP Packages

Mar 18, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Ladbrokes Poker is offering up more seats to the World Series of Poker for their European players. They are going to be taking over 100 European players to Las V...

Ponker Donkey... Good or Bad

Mar 18, 2008
Do you play online poker?  Have you ever been called a Donkey and wasn't sure why or what it was supposed to mean, well a Donkey in poker is known for p...

Harvard Law Group Rallys Agains Gov.'s Plan

Mar 17, 2008
A Harvard Law professor and his poker playing students are going to stage a protest outside of the State House to rally against Governor Deval Patrick's casi...

Doyles Room Gives Vegas Poker Fantasy Packages

Mar 17, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Doyles Room is offering their players the chance to win a prize package that will give them the legendary Las Vegas experience that could be your best shot at po...

WPT New Season Kick Off On March 24th

Mar 17, 2008

The Grand Sierra Resort Hotels are going to host the VIP World Poker Tour Watch Party on March 24th.  This party is to celebrate the premiere of the World P...

EPT Polish Open is Over

Mar 17, 2008
The European Poker Tour Polish Open is over and now has a winner.  This wasn't an easy one to win, the players at the final table were in no hurry to go...

WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars Event

Mar 16, 2008

The World Poker Tour has made yet another millionaire.  The Bay 101 Shooting Stars event lasted for five days and at the end Brandon Cantu was the player th...

Anthrax Guitarist Scott Ian Joins UltimateBet

Mar 16, 2008
Category: Poker Players
There is going to be some entertainment coming to Ultimate Bet, Anthrax's guitarist, Scott Ian is now the new online pro for Ultimate Bet.  ...

CryptoLogic With World Poker Tour

Mar 16, 2008

CryptoLogic Limited has announced that today they have extended and expanded their relationship with World Poker Tour.  Under the new arrangement WPT Enterp...

Poker Room School Sends Player To Irish Open

Mar 16, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

The Poker Room School is sending one lucky pupil to the Irish Open.  The winner of the Irish Open Super Satellite will be going on an all expense paid trip ...

Pacific Poker Winner Off to EPT Event

Mar 15, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Canadian player Dave Moreau will be off to Europe later on this Spring courtesy of Pacific Poker after he won a freeroll event for a seat in the European Poker T...

Bill Edler Signs With Poker Royalty

Mar 15, 2008

Bill Edler has recently signed with Poker Royalty, they are going to be handling his worldwide management and marketing representation, this will also include sp...

Day 3 of EPT Polish Open

Mar 15, 2008

We are now at the third day of the PokerStars EPT Polish Open that is being held in Warsaw.  At the start of the day 26 players remained in the event and to...

Poker Reality Signs Patrik Antonius

Mar 14, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

One of the largest pros that was unrepresented until now has signed with Poker Reality as they announced the signing of Patrik Antonius for exclusive worldwide m...

World Series of Poker Academy

Mar 14, 2008
Category: WSOP

If your game is off do you practice online for smaller stakes, host poker nights with your buddies, well now you can go off to school.  People are signing u...

Annie Duke's Poker Career

Mar 14, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Some say that poker is a game of chance and not skill but if you ask any poker player they will not agree.  Annie Duke is one such poker player that thinks ...

Africa Poker Champs New Champion

Mar 14, 2008
United Kingdom's "craziest player" John Tabatabai, has just won the 12th All Africa Poker Champs.  The event was held in Piggs Peak, Swaziland...

Playboy Mansion Celebrity Tournament Starts May 17th

Mar 13, 2008

The dates for the Playboy Mansion Celebrity Poker Tournament have been set, this is the third annual Celebrity Poker Tournament and Casino Night for the Playboy ...

2008 World Series of Poker RuleBook Released

Mar 13, 2008
Category: WSOP
Harrah's Entertainment has released the 2008 World Series of Poker rule book that has updated rules...

EPT Polish Open Concludes Second Day

Mar 13, 2008
The second day of play at the European Poker Tour's Polish Open has finished for the day.  Juan Maceiras is currently the chip leader with 388,000, but ...

Titan Poker Sends 2 Players to EPT in Italy

Mar 12, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Titan Poker is sending two players, Heribert Prott from Australia and Stephanie Lemau from France to the European Poker Tour Event in San Remo, Italy.

...

Titan Poker Launches EuroCity Poker Tour

Mar 12, 2008

Titan Poker is no longer just online, they are now jumping into the land tournament market with the launch of the EuroCity Poker Tour that will start in May.&nbs...

New Mexico Election Decided By Hand of Poker

Mar 12, 2008
What do you do when you tally up all the votes and there's a tie, well in New Mexico you break out a deck of cards.  Josie Richards and Mic...

BetWin Poker Releases Spanish Website Version

Mar 12, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

With Poker growing all over the world online poker sites sometimes struggle to keep up.  Poker is gaining extreme popularity in different countries across t...

PokerStars EPT Polish Open Kick Off

Mar 11, 2008

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Polish Open got underway today, this is to be a five day event that is going to be bringing some of pokers greats. 

...

Yale University Playing Poker

Mar 11, 2008
Students around the campus of Yale University are still finding ways to enjoy a game of poker even if it's not exactly legal in the state of Connecticut.&nbs...

Ladbrokes Poker Pub League Winner

Mar 11, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

The Ladbrokes Poker Pub League has a winner, the Kiln Bar in Scalloway has beat out 500 other public houses that were all competing to join the league.  The...

Poker Player Set to Win $10,000 YouTube contest

Mar 11, 2008
A FlopTurnRiver.com poker regular is trying to win the PlayersOnlyVIP $10,000 video contest on YouTube.  All contestants have to be submit their video c...

Full Tilt Animal Lovers Charity Tournament

Mar 10, 2008

Full Tilt Team Pro Jennifer Harman will be hosting the "Animal Lovers" charity poker tournament on Sunday, March 16th at 9pm EDT.  This is going t...

Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship Kicks Off

Mar 10, 2008
The $10,000 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship kicks off today at the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, California.  Fifty of the world's...

Drew Lesofski Joins Poker Player Alliance

Mar 10, 2008

It was formally announced today that Drew Lesofski has joined the Poker Player Alliance (PPA) as their director of Grassroots and External Affairs.  Lesofsk...

UltiamateBet Cheating Scandal

Mar 10, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

It is a popular opinion that after the first case of cheating the Kahnawake Gambling Commission and online poker rooms handled the situation poorly.  In thi...

Trojan Programs Possibly Being Used to Cheat Poker

Mar 10, 2008
Category: Poker Software

A story was posted on Tech Radar that claims that Trojan programs are being used to help players steal anywhere up to a million dollars while cheating online pok...

PokerStars Launches LAPT

Mar 10, 2008

PokerStars has announced the launch of their first major Latin American poker tour the LAPT. This tour is set to make stops in some of the most exotic stops in L...

CakePoker Gold Card Daily Lottery Promotion

Mar 10, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

For players that are tired of playing in satellite qualifiers and never get anywhere CakePoker knows how you feel and they are doing something about the problem....

Absolute Poker Dream Package Kicks Off Today

Mar 10, 2008

The Absolute Poker Dream Package Eight starts today and players will have from now until April...

Bodog Poker Open is Now Closed

Mar 9, 2008
The first ever Bodog Poker Open has run it's course with all the events over and the winners announced.  The Bodog Poker Open saw nearly 2,000 players t...

Cardrunners Joins Team Full Tilt

Mar 9, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Team Cardrunners has earned themselves a reputation as some of the hottest young players and instructors that play online poker.  This team is going be play...

Judge Everest Poker Live the Dream Competition

Mar 9, 2008

Everest Poker has announced the 200 finalists that have been selected for their one of a kind interactive poker competition, the Judge Everest Poker Live the Dre...

Update on Tusk Investment Group

Mar 9, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

As I have already reported on the Tusk Investment Group located in Australia has their software license by Microgaming terminated because of their decision to li...

Poker Sites That Accept eChecks

Mar 9, 2008

Online poker eChecks are still fairly new to the players in the

IFC Heads Off to Play Poker

Mar 8, 2008

The International Fighting Championship (IFC) are going to be hosting their first celebrity poker tournament in May. 

Fighters are going to have...

WPTL Event Four

Mar 8, 2008

The World Poker Ladies Event is going to happen tomorrow at Bay 101 and the first place winner will get some cash and a seat at the World Poker Tour Ladies Champ...

North Carolina Raised 2 Much $$ For Charity

Mar 8, 2008

The North Carolina charity tournament is no longer as they have apparently tried to raise too much money.  One would think that raiseing a lot of money for ...

PurePlay Announces Thier World Series Tournament

Mar 8, 2008

PurePlay the first and largest poker site that is compliant with the US is announcing the kick off of their World Series Tournament.  The winner of the tour...

Update on Scott Obst Child Support Problem

Mar 8, 2008
Category: Poker Players

A while ago I wrote about a professional poker player that was looking at possible charges for not paying his child support.  When he was asked it about bac...

World Poker Tour Revenues Down

Mar 8, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
The NASDAQ quoted World Poker Tour reported yesterday that the full year revenues are down almost 25 percent to $21.7 million at the end of December of 2007 ...

PokerStars New Member Status

Mar 8, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Online Poker is the way to go some opt to play poker online because there isn't a casino in their area, some are good at it and need a little extra spending ...

Titan Poker White Night Millions

Mar 8, 2008

TitanPoker.com has announced the details of their White Night Millions Tournament, this tournament is scheduled to run from May 11th to May 18th in St. Petersbur...

Century Casino & Hotel Tournament

Mar 7, 2008
Century Casinos Inc. has announced that their casino, Century Casino and Hotel in Edmonton Canada will be the host of the St. Patrick's Day Poker Tournament ...

Player Thrown out of WSOP Circuit Event

Mar 7, 2008
Category: Poker Players

You hear about unsportsmanlike conduct in sports from time to time, but in poker?  Well it finally happened yesterday at the

Everest Poker Makes Agreement With Harra's Ent.

Mar 7, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Everest Poker has announced that they have a new agreement with Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. that will help strengthen the European poker site's presence...

Titan Poker $2 Million Tournament

Mar 7, 2008

The largest poker room on the iPoker Network, Titan Poker has staged their largest ever guarante...

Phil Hellmuth Off to Canada

Mar 7, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Phil Hellmuth takes his poker game very seriously no matter who he is up against.  He was recently in a game against members of the press and after knocking...

WassOnline Held 4th Live Poker Event

Mar 7, 2008

WassOnline a well known internet poker and gambling community website recently held their 4th live poker event.  The event was held in Newcastle, England an...

New Poker Site..ReeferPoker.com

Mar 7, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
ReeferPoker.com is the newest poker site on the Merge network and you don't even have to go to the site to figure out this isn't just another online poke...

Ryan Osbourne Wins WSOP Caesars Atlantic City

Mar 7, 2008

Ryan Osbourne a computer programmer is very happy that he made the decision to play in the World Series of ...

Sun Poker Has Caught March Madness

Mar 7, 2008

Sun Poker is doing March up right with launch of two new promotions, the first is March Madness this is going to be a £100,000 guaranteed tournament that w...

Celebrity Texas Hold'em Tounrament in Orlando

Mar 6, 2008
Pro Athletes and some media personalities showed up fourth Friday Front Row on International Drive for the Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando's ...

Bodog Poker Open Event 3

Mar 6, 2008
It's just another day at the Bodog Poker Open and another Bodog regular is raking in the cash.  The

Annie Duke $100,000 Texas Hold'em Tournament

Mar 6, 2008
Category: Poker Software
There are only a couple of seats left at the Annie Duke $100,000 Texas Hold'em Tournament so if you want a shot at the $50,000 first place prize you ...

Ottowa's Government Trying to Ban Online Gaming

Mar 5, 2008
Canada's federal government in Ottawa has considered the 400 online poker and gambling sites in the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory (Canada's First Nations) t...

iPoker Network $2 Million Guaranteed Online Tournament

Mar 5, 2008
The iPoker network held a recent $2 million dollar guaranteed online poker tournament that gave out six figure prized to the top five finishers this week inc...

Boris Becker Tries Out Poker Career

Mar 3, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Former world number one tennis star Boris Becker has begun a poker playing career according to the report in the Sunday German newspaper, Die Welt.  The 40 ...

Microgaming Pulls Nearly 30 Skins

Mar 3, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Microgaming Poker Network has pulled nearly 30 poker skins from their operations, all of the poker skins that are associated with the software licensee Tusk Inve...

Chris Ferguson Wins NBC Heads UP Championship

Mar 3, 2008

Chris Ferguson has taken the 2008 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship after finishing in second place in 2005 and 2006.  Ferguson won the best of three...

Bodog Poker Open Tomorrow

Mar 3, 2008

Players that have anxiously been waiting for the inaugural Bodog Poker Open to start only have one more day to wait.  The Bodog Poker Open is going to be ki...

US Casino Players Face New Tax Rule

Mar 3, 2008
Poker Players aren't going to be able to bluff the IRS about their poker winnings anymore on Tuesday.  Casinos are now going to have record winnings of ...

Bodog Poker Signs Jean-Robert Bellande

Mar 3, 2008
Category: Poker Players
Bodog Poker has signed a new player, Jean Robert Bellande who is a professional poker player and was also a recent star on CBS' Survivor.  He will ...

PokerStars Sunday Million Results

Mar 3, 2008
The PokerStars Sunday Million yesterday had the largest turnout ever this year in this normal $200 buyin event.  The tournament saw 8,063 entrants last ...

Isreal's New Bill...Sound Firmiliar

Mar 3, 2008

There is currently a bill being proposed in Israel that will automatically block access to online p...

Paddy Power Poker is Hot This Month

Mar 1, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Millions of guaranteed dollars are up for grabs this month at Paddy Power Poker.  This is going to be the biggest month in this poker site's history, in...

World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational Kick Off

Mar 1, 2008

Celebrities and poker pros are starting to take their seats at the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational that is kicking off today,  There was a short day...

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