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SC Bill to Legalize Poker in Homes Failed

Apr 24, 2008
The bill that would have made playing poker at resident's homes in South Carolina has failed.  A measure that could have legalized recreational poker game...

Day 4 at the 2008 WPT Championship

Apr 23, 2008
It's the fourth day at the 2008 World Poker Tour Championship and only 55 players still remain.  The initial plan was to play five levels or down to the f...

Florida & Colorado Look to Expand Poker

Apr 22, 2008

The Florida Senate has approved allowing around the clock poker play on weekends and 18 hour days during the week in the state, according to the Palm Beach Post.&n...

PPA Launches New Voter Registration Program

Apr 22, 2008

The Poker Player Alliance (PPA) has reported that they have gone over the one million membership mark earlier this month.  At the time this was written they h...

Hollywood Poker Offers Players New Bonuses

Apr 22, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Hollywood Poker is always looking for new ways to make their rewards program better to make sure that all types of players feel welcome.  They currently offer...

Day 2 at the WPT World Championship

Apr 21, 2008

Day 2 at the World Poker Tour World Championship saw a rise in action from day one,  Deep starting stacks limited the first day eliminations to just 121 playe...

California Investigates Legalizing Online Gambling

Apr 18, 2008

California is busy investigation whether they should legalize online gambling and if they do decide to legalize online gambling what should be permitted in the sta...

UltimateBet and Absolute Poker Welcoming ePassporte Customers

Apr 18, 2008
Two major poker rooms, Absolute Poker and UltimateBet have issued a statement to let all online poker players that were affected by ePassporte's decision to st...

World Poker Tour Event No. 14

Apr 18, 2008
The last preliminary event before the $25,000 WPT Five Star World Poker Classic is Event no. 14 and it is going to be finishing up today.  There are just ...

Doyles Room Celebrity Bounty Poker Tournament

Apr 18, 2008

Doyles Rooms is again bringing some of the biggest stars to compete in their celebrity poker action.  They have announced that A list celebrities Nicky Hilton...

Second Annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament

Apr 17, 2008

The second annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament will kick off tomorrow at 3pm at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.  There are still seats...

Glen Chorny Wins EPT Grand Final

Apr 17, 2008

For the third time in a row a player from North America has captured the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final.  Glen Chorny took home the win this year ...

Former Cop on the Run After Stealing Poker Money

Apr 17, 2008

Federal Marshals in Sweetwater Tennessee are on the hunt for a former Sweetwater cop that was charged in connection with money that came up missing from the police...

PokerStars Launches New PokerStars.TV Site

Apr 17, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

PokerStars has launched a new video site that will be "offering live webcasts of major events and a unique collection of high quality poker footage."   T...

Titan Poker Holds Country Races

Apr 16, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Titan Poker is currently staging online poker races for their players that are located in Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the UK. 

Players from eac...

Antonio Esfandiari Is Leading EPT Grand Final

Apr 16, 2008
It's day 4 at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo and Antonio Esfandiari is way ahead of the competition with a 300,000 chip lead over the rest ...

2007 WSOPE Airs On April 21st On Sky Poker

Apr 16, 2008

The first ever 2007 World Series of Poker Europe is being presented by Betfair Poker and will soon be broadcasted on Sky television and other channels across Europ...

World Poker Tour Ladies Championship Down to 6

Apr 16, 2008
The $1,500 buy in World Poker Tour Ladies Championship started out with 150 players but is now down to just six with Vanessa Selbst as the current chip leader....

PokerTek Announces New Agreement with Cosmic Video

Apr 16, 2008

PokerTek is the leading producer of automated poker tables and related software.  They have now announced that they have expanded their distribution agreement...

England Wins Party Poker's Nations Cup

Apr 15, 2008
The winner of Party Poker's Nations Cup is England.  Team Britain was captained by Rolande De Wolfe and they have played their way to victory in the 2008 ...

Some Unhappy About WTA Ladies Champ. Donation

Apr 15, 2008

Last week a number oh high profile female poker players that included two time World Series of Poker Ladies Champion Susie Isaacs canceled their plans of competing...

Brothers That Stole 150,000 Got 18 Month Sentence

Apr 15, 2008

The two professional poker players that stole over £150,000 from cash machines to fund a trip to Las Vegas have been imprisoned for 18 months. 

...

Poker Echecks the New Way to Deposit

Apr 14, 2008

In the last few days US poker players have found out that they can no longer use Epassporte to deposit or withdraw funds from their account.  So Poker Echecks...

Lee Russo's Fight For Online Poker Delayed Til May 15th

Apr 14, 2008

The new court date for the Washington State Online Gamblin and Poker is now May 15th.  Lee Russo is the former gubernatorial candidate and Poker Players ...

EPT Grand Final Update

Apr 14, 2008

The two day 1 flights of the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo are over and now the field has been combined for day 2 and still sitting with those pla...

Poker Trillion Leaves Boss Media & Files Lawsuit

Apr 14, 2008

There is news that the online poker room, Poker Trillion are now leaving the Boss Media Network.  They have issued a garnishee order and have filed a €45...

xPEOPLES CHAMPx Wins the $750,000 Guar. at Full Tilt

Apr 14, 2008
The $750,000 dollar Guaranteed on Full Tilt Poker featured a small overlay this week of $8,600 dollars with only 3,707 players that registered for the even...

APAT Academy Launches

Apr 14, 2008
Since online poker exploded and more and more people want to learn how to play and don't necessarily want to lose their shirt in the process.  You can fin...

Paddy Power Poker Hosts Irish Winter Festival

Apr 13, 2008
Paddy Power Poker announces they are doing poker the Irish way yet again.   While Summer isn't even here yet Paddy Power Poker is thinking ahead to t...

Epassporte Officailly Done With Poker

Apr 13, 2008

Last week US players that were using Epassporte to make deposits were told there were technical difficulties but Epassporte has now officially stopped servicing po...

Purple Lounge Signs Michelle Orpe

Apr 13, 2008

Purple Lounge, operators of online poker rooms and casinos have announced that they have signed Michelle Orpe.  Purple Lounge has entered into an agreement wi...

Absolute Poker Now Has Assasin bounty Tournaments

Apr 12, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Bounty tournaments are growing very popular for online players as you don't need a good finish in a tournament to score a little cash. Absolute Poker i...

Lawyer in Pennsylvania Says Drop The Poker Charges

Apr 12, 2008
A lawyer that was recently charged with operating illegal poker games says that they weren't illegal at all.  Larry Burns, 63, lives in Westmoreland Count...

Sweden Considers Combining Online Poker Operations

Apr 12, 2008

Sweden is very eager to get players away from private online sites in offer to prevent undesirable economic and social effects.  A Swedish study has resulted ...

Griffin & Brown Now Members of Team PokerStars Pro

Apr 12, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

PokerStars has announced that they have signed two new members to their team.  Gavin Griffin and Chad Brown are the two newest members of Team PokerStars Pro....

PKR.com Takes Advertising to the Skys

Apr 12, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

PKR.com has partnered with top aerial company Helibanners Ltd. and their patented Helicopter Overcity Banner Systems.  PKR has commissioned a bespoke 25,000 s...

EPT Grand Final Day One

Apr 12, 2008

The first day at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo is over.  The players were greeted in the tournament room like they were rock stars with b...

WPT Player of the Year

Apr 11, 2008

As the sixth season of the World Poker Tour finishes the race for their Player of the Year is heating up.  Now that the Foxwoods Poker Classic has been played...

Mike Vickers Time at Full Tilt Pays Off

Apr 11, 2008
Category: Poker Players
The time that South Georgia resident Mike Vickers spends online at Full Tilt Poker finally paid off last weekend with his win in the weekly $3,000 freeroll.&nb...

Party Poker Holding Friday Night Parties

Apr 11, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Alot of poker player login on Sunday night to play tournament poker, one of the reasons might be that is your last chance win your fortune so you won't have to...

Epassporte No Longer Accepting US Players?

Apr 11, 2008
There is recent news that Epassporte may no longer be accepting US poker player deposits.  At this time they haven't issued a statement saying that they w...

EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo Tomorrow

Apr 11, 2008
The European Poker Tour is headed back to exotic Monte Carlo on the Cote d'Azure for the 2008 Grand Final on Saturday.  Some of the worlds best poker play...

Chili Poker Awarding Moroccan Getaway & Great Poker

Apr 11, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Chili Poker is now offering an exclusive to their players, a $7,000 package to relax and unwind for 10 days in Marrakesh and also then play in a tournament tha...

Oklahoma Focusing On Poker

Apr 11, 2008

Poker is coming to Oklahoma thanks to the commitment from several casinos to put the focus on poker and locals and people that live in bordering states are cheerin...

WPT Ladies Championship is Sunday

Apr 11, 2008
The first ever World Poker Tour Ladies Championship will take place this Sunday at noon at the Bellagio's Five Star World Poker Classic.  This event has a...

Bellagio World Poker Classic Preliminaries

Apr 10, 2008

The Bellagio Five Star World Poker Classic has finished up seven preliminary events and they are halfway through their schedule with seven more events to go before...

NBC Airs National Head Up Poker This Sunday

Apr 10, 2008

Starting this Sunday poker fans can start watching 12 hours of Head To Head poker.  NBC is presenting the National Heads UP Poker Championship that was held i...

Titan Poker Hopes to Send 30 to Madrid Open

Apr 10, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Titan Poker is going to be sending players from across all of Europe to compete in the first ever Eurocity Poker Tour Madrid Open.  Some of the players at Tit...

Poker After Dark's Newest Host Leeann Tweeden

Apr 10, 2008

Poker After Dark is starting out their newest season by filming right now in South Point Casino in Las Vegas and although the set will still be the same one from t...

Bet365 Offering Satellite Qualifers to WSOP

Apr 10, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Bet365 has announced more World Series of Poker qualifying tournaments that will get players into the best of tournament poker that will return this Summer. 

One Year Investigation in Sweden Report

Apr 10, 2008

The results of a one year investigation into online poker play in Sweden alleges that players are more then twice as likely to develop gambling problems when playi...

Realities For Children Fort Collins Series of Poker Championship

Apr 10, 2008

Poker players are competing for either cash or a seat at the WSOP at the Realities For Children Fort Collins Series of Poker Championship.  Ten lucky players ...

UltimateBet's Heads Up SmackDown Bracket of Champions

Apr 10, 2008
The final four in UltimateBet's Heads Up SmackDown Bracket of Champions are going to be battling out for the chance to play against Phil Hellmuth for $30,0...

Caesars Palace's Mega Stack Series

Apr 9, 2008

To find the largest poker room in Las Vegas you have to go to Caesars Palace and this summer they are giving poker players from around the world more reasons to co...

World Poker Tour Giving 96 Winners Bracelets

Apr 9, 2008
The World Poker Tour has announced this week that they have partnered up with one of the world's most famous jewelers to create championship bracelets for all ...

North Florida Gets Another Poker Room

Apr 9, 2008

North Florida opened their doors to their second poker room today and hundreds of people turned out for the grand opening which exceeded the expectations of the po...

WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic Winner Erik Seidel

Apr 9, 2008

Only Six players got to return to play at the televised final table at the World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Classic.  At the start of the day  Erik Seidel...

Online Poker Players Want to be Heard

Apr 9, 2008
Local poker players recently gathered at a Texas Hold'em poker club meeting that was held in Scottsdale, Arizona.  The players were asked to discuss ...

Coast to Coast Poker Championship in Canada

Apr 9, 2008

The Coast to Coast Poker Championship in WPT ...

Habana Poker Now Partners With Income Access

Apr 9, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Habana Poker has announced their new partnership with Income Access, they are the world's leading in dependant gaming network that offers poker players a uniqu...

Buy a Weekend With Daniel Negreanu

Apr 9, 2008
Category: Poker Players
For $15,000 dollars you could spend the weekend with a World Poker Tour winner and three time World Series of Poker bracelet winner.  Daniel Negreanu if o...

Online Poker in Germany

Apr 8, 2008
Online gambling is on the rise in Germany, even though it's not exactly legal.  One person, Boris Becker a retired tennis star and millionaire is now beco...

Casino Barcelona to Host WPT Championship

Apr 8, 2008

Casino Barcelona is going to be hosting the World Poker Tour Main Event for the second time.  The reason they are the hosts yet again is because of the great ...

Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII

Apr 8, 2008
Full Tilt Poker is going to feature more then $10 million dollars in guaranteed prize money when the Full Tilt Online Poker Series makes it's eighth appear...

Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII Event Schedule

Apr 8, 2008

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII Will kick off on May 7th and will run through May 18th.  You can still win your seat into any of the events by playing ...

Bill in Florida Made it Through one Committee

Apr 8, 2008

People in the US are trying to make poker an acceptable game and some people are trying to get legislature passed so that poker can be played in more states and ev...

wPT Foxwoods Poker Classic Day 5

Apr 8, 2008
It's day 5 at the World Poker Tour's Foxwoods Poker Classic and there are just nine players left that returned at 12pm EDT to play down to the final t...

Absolute Poker Finishes Vegas Poker 247 Migration

Apr 8, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Absolute Poker has announced today that they have completed the migration of player accounts from Vegas Poker 247.  Absolute Poker announced that they had acq...

Betfair's Pokerfecta Challenge Met by 2 Players

Apr 8, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Betfair poker issued a challenge to their players a while back, the challenge was to win three multi table tournaments in a week at the poker site.  The rewar...

First Ever WSOP Advanced Academy

Apr 7, 2008
The WSOP Academy is headed back to Las Vegas for another round of their popular poker training course.  But this time around the training isn't for everyo...

Jeff Cuthbertson Wins WSOP Seat at Full Tilt

Apr 7, 2008
Category: Poker Players

As the World Series of Poker draws closer we hear more and more about online poker sites having satellites, freerolls, promotions and more ways for players to win ...

Eversest Pokers Dream Team Chosen

Apr 5, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Two hundred poker players from Everest Poker traveled to Vienna to try and become one of the final ten to become Everest's Dream Team.  Saturday night s...

Pharaos Poker Palace Is No Longer

Apr 5, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Pharaohs Poker Palace is no more they have closed their doors and their website is no longer available. 

This comes after at least two months o...

PokerStars is Still Number One

Apr 5, 2008

PokerStars is currently still number 1 according to the latest stats at Pokerscout.  Pokerscout analyses 20 million online poker hands each month to be able...

PaddyPower Poker Gears Up for 1 Billionth Hand

Apr 5, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Sometime in next coming months PaddyPower Poke will deal their one billionth hand and they are going to be celebrating this monumental event by giving away cash ...

PartyPoker World Poker Open IV

Apr 5, 2008

Mike Sexton "the Ambassador of Poker" will be the official headliner for the Party Poker

Rumor is the WSOP Final Table Could be Delayed

Apr 5, 2008
Category: WSOP
The final table action at this year's World Series of Poker Main Event may be broadcasted nearly live and according to rumors circulating on the internet it ...

2nd Annual Jennifer Harman SPCA No Limit Charity Event

Apr 5, 2008
The second annual Jennifer Harman SPCA No Limit charity event will kick off on April 18th at the Venetian Resort.  This year's event is a No Limit Hold&...

Middletown Poker Raid Two Plead Guilty

Apr 4, 2008

Two of three people that were charged in a Middletown gambling raid in February have plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense earlier in the week.  Laurie Ande...

Pocket Fives Relauncshes After Remodel

Apr 4, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Pocket Fives has launched their new site that will have many upgrades for new and veteran readers alike.  Users will now be able create a personalized blog,...

Day 3 at PokerStars EPT San Remo Event

Apr 4, 2008
It's day three at the Poker Stars European Poker Tour San Remo Championship and 31 players are still sitting.  Some of the players still left in the tou...

WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic Day 1

Apr 4, 2008

The World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Classic kicked off at noon and at the start of the day and the tournament there are 338 players registered.  But as it bec...

Virgin Poker Festival Starts Next Weekend

Apr 4, 2008
The Virgin Poker Festival is on it's way to Aspers Casino in Newcastle next weekend and there are sure to be plenty of poker hopefuls all trying to win their...

Gavin Griffin Joins Poker Royalty

Apr 4, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Poker Royalty has gotten themselves another poker pro this week as they have signed Gavin Griffin on to use the agency for his management and marketing represent...

LAPT Expands to North America

Apr 4, 2008

Vega Promotional Systems has announced that they are going to expand their Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) to now include stops in North American venues.  ...

Titan Poker Offers 3 ways to get the WSOP

Apr 4, 2008
Category: WSOP

Titan Poker is the largest poker room on the iPoker Network and they are currently getting ready to send a large delegation of players to the 2008 World Series o...

Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam

Apr 3, 2008

Amsterdam is getting excited as the Casino Affiliate Convention in NH Grand Krasnapolsky Hotel is about to take place. 

There are going to be o...

Jarrad Dale Making His Way to Stardom

Apr 3, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Jarrad Dale is a Poker Network player that was born and raised in Canberra.  He worked in real estate for five years then moved to Sydney in 2004.  Tha...

60 Minutes Proposed Show on Absolute Scandal

Apr 3, 2008

The online poker industry is nervous about a proposed 60 Minutes expose.  The CBS show 60 Minutes is going to air a show about the online poker industry and...

DoylesRoom Software Update

Apr 3, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

DoylesRoom.com has made an announcement today about their release of their new groundbreaking new poker software. 

This is their first software...

WinStar Tournament to be Aired on "The River"

Apr 3, 2008
WinStar Casino offers $5 million dollars in a guaranteed cash prize pool and a chance to create or further a television career has celebrities and some of th...

Wicked Poker Chops Poker Awards

Apr 3, 2008

There are the usual awards for poker and then there are the Wicked Chops Poker Awards, these awards are quite unique and only a few have been handed out so far.&...

Titan Poker Sends Players to Salzburg Poker Cup

Apr 2, 2008

Titan Poker is giving more free seats to more great tournaments, this time they are sending players to Salzburg to compete in the 2008 Salzburg Poker Cup. The Po...

Foxwoods Poker Classic Event 9

Apr 2, 2008
The Foxwoods Poker Classic Event No.9 was a $2,000 buyin No Limit Hold'em Preliminary and Hevad Khan went heads up to win first place over Michael Binger...

Asain Poker Tour Back For 2008

Apr 2, 2008

The Asian Poker Tour has announced that they will be returning for yet another year.  The schedule that was released for 2008 has four events, the events wi...

Wendeem Eolis Elected As WPA'S New Chairman

Apr 2, 2008
Wendeem Eolis served as the World Poker Association's Vice Chair in 2007 and chair of their Executive Committee since December of last year and has now been ...

Poker Player Alliance Statement on UIGEA Hearing

Apr 2, 2008
Former Senator Alfonse D'Amato is the Chairman of the Poker Player Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group that is comprised of almost on...

Florida Expands and Mississippi Worries

Apr 2, 2008

The Seminole Casino expansion and recent bills that have expanded their poker and greyhound racetracks that won approval from the Florida Senate Committee on Tue...

Celeb Poker Announces Freeroll Marathon

Apr 2, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
Celeb Poker has a started a new Poker Freeroll Marathon as part of their new '11-11' promotion.  Players can win over €20,000 per month playing...

BetClick Poker Remodels Their Tournaments

Apr 1, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

BetClick Poker has recently announced that their daily tournaments are now bigger and better then before. 

Players can expect to see some great...

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