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Absolute Poker & UltimateBet Formed CEREUS

Jul 25, 2008

The third largest online poker network in the world was formed yesterday as two major online poker sites that are both under the same company formed CEREUS.  ...

PokerStars Macau Poker Cup

Jul 25, 2008

PokerStars is going to be making use of thier live poker room in the Grand Waldo Casino in Macau by hosting another Macau Poker Cup this weekend.  The Macau P...

Mike Watson Wins WPT Bellagio Cup IV

Jul 24, 2008
While a lot of focused on the World Series of Poker there was another major tournament happening at the same time in Las Vegas.  The World Poker Tour's Be...

High Stakes Poker Goes Another Round on GSN

Jul 24, 2008

While GSN is no longer the home of the World Poker Tour they are still going to be airing thier popular television show, "High Stakes Poker".  They have confi...

Marcus Gustafson Wins Mini Cooper & Trip

Jul 24, 2008

Many professional poker players and amateurs were in Las Vegas recently trying their hand at the World Series of Poker and Marcus Gustafson was one of them while h...

Bodog Running Qualifers for APT Macau

Jul 23, 2008

Bodog Poker is always thinking of ways to get their players to some of the best live events around the world.  They have sent their players to exotic location...

Titan Poker Gathers Team for APT Macua Event

Jul 23, 2008

Titan Poker is running Super Satellites so they can send thier finest players to the Asian Poker Tour event in Macau.  So far nine players have already starte...

C-Webb's Bada Bling Celebrity Weekend

Jul 23, 2008

There is going to be a charity tournament in Las Vegas this Weekend and the host is going to be retired professional basketball player Chris Webber

QFX's KeyScrabler Blocks Keyloggers

Jul 23, 2008
Category: Poker Software

With the recent cheating scandals at both Absolute Poker and UltimateBet most major online poker rooms are beefing up th...

Titan Poker Releases Russian Language Variation

Jul 23, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Titan Poker has announced the launch of thier new Russian language site, they will be offering software, website and support service now in Russian. 

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75 Year Old Took SPT Valencia Tourney

Jul 22, 2008

On Sunday, July 20th Cayetano Garcia made poker history as the oldest person ever to win a major live poker tournament in Europe.  Garcia is 75 years old and ...

Qualify at PokerStars for EPT Barcelona

Jul 22, 2008
PokerStars is offering their players a chance at a seat in Barcelona, Spain for as little as a $2.22 buyin.  PokerStars is the proud sponsor of the Europe...

Check Processing Troubles for Online Poker?

Jul 22, 2008

Many major online poker rooms that allow customers from the United States and a few sports betting operations that have high volume have been hit hard with payment...

Sponsor Everest Poker Made WSOP a Success

Jul 21, 2008
Category: WSOP

Everest Poker is celebrating a record turnout during their first year of sponsoring the Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.  Earlier this year on March...

Party Poker 7th Bday Celebration

Jul 21, 2008
Party Poker is going to be celebrating their 7th birthday on Sunday, August 10th with a $1 million dollar prize pool.  They are the top poker room in Euro...

Marc Couper Went from Microchips to Pokerchips

Jul 21, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Marc Couper has won his biggest gamble ever, he quit his IT job to become a poke player and ended up winning £60,000 in the six months since he quit.  H...

UltimateBet APC Satellite this Saturday

Jul 21, 2008

The Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic is viewed as one of the highlights of the year.  If you are one of the players that wants to go Aruba and lay on the sunn...

WSOP Coverage Starts Tomorrow on ESPN

Jul 21, 2008
For those that didn't make it to Las Vegas for the 2008 World Series of Poker ESPN is going to start airing the action tomorrow night.  Tomorrow at 8pm ES...

Poker After Dark Tries to Answer Online or Pro

Jul 21, 2008
Poker After Dark is going to be featuring young online superstars and legendary live pro's next week.  They are trying to help end the age old debate out ...

Doyles Room is Sending Players to Costa Rica

Jul 20, 2008
Doyles Room is going to be giving their players the chance to win a $4,000 dollar Main Event prize package to sun filled Costa Rica.  For those players th...

Snowshoe Mountain Poker Tournament

Jul 18, 2008
Texas Hold'em players are going to be playing for gamblers dream trip to Las Vegas at Snowshoe Mountain resort this weekend after the state lottery Commission ...

Venetian Deep Stack Winner Julian Thew

Jul 17, 2008
The Venetian Hotel and Casino just wrapped up their 2008 Deep Stack Extravaganza series as it  ended yesterday with thier $5,000 dollar championship event...

Titan Poker Amateur to Pro Player in 1 Day

Jul 17, 2008
With the major win still fresh in a lot of peoples minds, 21 year old amateur poker player Michael Schwaiger has proved that you don't need to sit at the felts...

Poker770 Refunds Your First Deposit

Jul 17, 2008

Poker770 has come up with a great idea to bring in new customers that is definately original.  Their idea is that a players first deposit it totally refunded....

Bookmakers Taking Bets on WSOP

Jul 17, 2008
Category: WSOP
Bookmakers have started accepting bets on who be the winner of the World Series of Poker's Main Event when it resumes on November 9th.  Only nine players ...

Paddy Power Releases Odds on Final Table

Jul 17, 2008
Category: WSOP

In between now and November 9th when the Main Event of the World Series of Poker resumes there is going to be a lot of betting on the result of the final table goi...

Rakeback Stat Launches Daily Payouts

Jul 17, 2008
Rakeback Stat is establishing themselves as one of the industry's leading rakeback providers.  They have just launched thier Daily Rakeback Payments for a...

PokerRoom Sends Players to PokerIsland

Jul 16, 2008

PokerRoom is offering thier players the chance to sit in luxury at the PokerIsland.  On the PokerIsland players will be battling it out for the opportunity to...

Bet365 Offers Qualifiers to GUKPT

Jul 16, 2008
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is now in it's second year and is becoming one of the great events to play in on the UK poker circuit.  The tour featu...

SC Men Fighting Poker Charges

Jul 16, 2008
Back in October of 2006 police raided a home outside of Charleston and cited 23 players that were playing a $20 dollar tournament.  At the time five men w...

Bodog's Awarding 2009 WSOP Main Event Pckgs.

Jul 16, 2008
With this year's World Series of Poker almost over with the final table awaiting to play it's now time to think of the 2009 World Series of Poker.  Bo...

Royal Poker Eyewear Launches New Line

Jul 16, 2008
A lot of players tend to wear dark sunglasses at live tournaments so their eyes don't give away any clues.  Royal Poker Eyewear has launched a new line of...

WSOP Employees No-Limit Hold'em Event

Jul 16, 2008
Category: WSOP
The last event in this year's World Series of Poker was the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em tournament.  The tournament had a $500 dollar buy in...

PokerStars Poker Camp

Jul 16, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Poker Stars is going to be offering a poker camp to help thier online players prepare for major live tournaments.  The PokerStars Poker Camp will start on Sep...

Hollywood Poker Offering Bubble Insurance

Jul 15, 2008
Category: Poker Sites
When you enter a major live poker tournament you hope to take first place and the biggest prize.  Well since you can't take home first every time why not ...

2008 WSOP Main Event Final Table Decided

Jul 15, 2008
Category: WSOP

From 6,844 players down to nine we have the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table.  The final table consists of five American Players, two Canadia...

Amanda Leatherman Joins Live Updates

Jul 12, 2008

The World Poker Tour has announced a new face will be joining thier Live Updates team.  The new addition to the team is Amanda Leatherman.  The tour is g...

Hopes of Online Poker Legalization Fade

Jul 12, 2008
There may come a time when players from the United States can play online poker completely legally but it's not going to happen any time soon.  &n...

Online Poker Law to Benefit Californians

Jul 11, 2008

Assemblyman Lloyd Levine says that protection is the main issue with the new online poker law that could take effect in California.  The proposed law would be...

Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza

Jul 11, 2008

There are going to be a few last minute Super Satellites starting tomorrow at 12 pm.  The Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza is going to end thier 45 event tour...

Bodog Announces Largest Guar. Tournament

Jul 11, 2008
Bodog Poker has announced the details of their largest ever Guaranteed poker tournament.  On August 10th Bodog Poker is going to replace the usual $100,00...

Full Tilt Changes Rakeback Payouts

Jul 11, 2008

Full Tilt Poker will no longer be paying your rakeback monthly as they are now going to be paying these on a weekly basis.  The new payout schedule is going t...

Titan Poker Awards Thousands in June

Jul 10, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Titan Poker has awarded thousands of dollars and a trip to the Asian Poker Tour Macau to their winning players as part of thier "Day of Freerolls" on June 30th.&nb...

Microgaming Bad Beat Jackpot Reaches $200,000

Jul 10, 2008
The Bad Beat Jackpot is at $200,000 dollars and still rising on the Microgaming Poker Network, this is up 35 percent on previous records according to a stateme...

Jonas Danielsson Joins Ladbrokes Poker

Jul 10, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Ladbrokes Poker has announced that they have signed Swedish high stakes poker pro Jonas Danielsson as one of their sponsors.  Danielsson plays online as Nebuc...

Mohegan Sun Casino Reinstalls Poker

Jul 10, 2008

Poker will be making a comeback at the Mohegan Sun Casino in August.  The casino was convinced that slot machines would better occupy the space then the poker...

Machine Proved Better Than Man at Poker

Jul 9, 2008
We humans took a hit to our pride 11 years ago when IGM's Big Blue computer beat out World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov.  Well now it seems as if it ...

Poker Player Proves to be a Sore Loser

Jul 9, 2008

A poker player from Edmonton proved he was a sore loser after he assaulted a fellow card player in the face in a casino after the person beat him out of a large po...

holdplz Wins Full Tilt Poker $750k GP

Jul 7, 2008

Full Tilt Poker is known to be the world’s second largest online poker room, but the most activity can be found on any given Sunday, when Full Tilt Poker hos...

2008 World Series of Poker Main Event Update

Jul 7, 2008
Category: WSOP

The 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off July 3rd as a field of...

Absolute Poker Fame Promotion

Jul 4, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Absolute Poker has launched a new promotion called "Fame" this month with the promise to reward players with the most innovative prizes.  Players could win an...

2nd Annual Ante Up for Africa Tourney

Jul 3, 2008

Yesterday a large number of celebrities were in Las Vegas to play in a charity poker tournament where all of the proceeds would go to various charities that are wo...

PokerStars Announces WCOOP Schedule, Steps Satellites Running

Jul 3, 2008

PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, has announced the schedule fo...

New 6-Max High Stakes Tables At Full Tilt Poker

Jul 3, 2008
Category: Poker Games

Thanks to its newest sponsored pro, Patrik Antonius, Full Tilt Poker...

WSOP Event No. 52 Winner David Daneshgar

Jul 3, 2008
Category: WSOP
Event No. 52 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 buyin No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament that kicked off on June 30th and wrapped up on July 2nd with...

PokerTek Adds David Slansky as Consultant

Jul 2, 2008
Category: Poker Software

PokerTek has hired a three time World Series of Poker bracelet winner David Slansky as a consultant.  He will be advising the Matthews based software company ...

WSOPE Announces 2008 Schedule

Jul 2, 2008
The schedule for the second annual World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair Poker for 2008 was just announced by Harrah's Entertainment.  The sch...

Melbourne Fighting Mike Tyson's Visit

Jul 2, 2008

Citizens are riled over plans of ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist coming to Melbourne to play poker.  Crime victims have called f...

New Season of Poker After Dark

Jul 2, 2008
The new season of Poker After Dark on NBC is going to make it's debut on July 15th.  But instead of starting things back up with their traditional six han...

WSOP Event No. 50 Winner Marty Smyth

Jul 2, 2008
Category: WSOP
Event No. 50 of the World Series of Poker was a $10,000 buyin Pot Limit Omaha World Championship tournament that got under way on June 29th and finished on Jul...

WSOP Event No. 51 Winner James Schaaf

Jul 2, 2008
Category: WSOP
Event No. 51 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 buyin H.O.R.S.E tournament that began on June 29th and finished with a winner on July 1st.  There w...

WSOP Event No. 49 Winner J.C. Tran

Jul 1, 2008
Category: WSOP
Event No. 49 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 buyin No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament that started on June 28th and finished up on June 30th. ...

Police Raid Illegal Poker Den

Jul 1, 2008

Saturday night an illegal poker den was raided by local police due to an inside source.  The current occupant of the residence, Jose Luis Esquivel, assistant ...

Scotty Nguyen at WSOP

Jul 1, 2008
Category: Poker Players

Man VS. Machine

Jul 1, 2008
Category: Poker Software

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