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SKYCITY Festival of Poker to host Poker Academy

Sep 30, 2008

The SKYCITY Festival of Poker is set to begin in October and along with the poker festival, SKYCITY will be hosting a Poker Academy with Joseph Hachem and Lee Nels...

Poker After Dark Dream Match II Airs Tonight

Sep 30, 2008

Paul Featherstone of Woodland, California will get the chance of a lifetime tonight as he will compete against some of the best professional poker players in the w...

Oktoberfest Back for Second Year on PKR

Sep 29, 2008

PKR has announced that they will be holding an Oktoberfest celebration for the second year in a row beginning October 17th. The tournament will feature more than a...

Party Poker 36 Hour Poker Den Begins Tomorrow

Sep 29, 2008

The Party Poker Den is a side event that takes place in Europe while the World Series of Poker Europe is taking place. This will be the third time the Den has take...

Poker Programs Move to Sunday Nights on GSN

Sep 26, 2008

GSN recently announced that the cable networks poker programming will no longer be aired on Monday. The programs will now be aired on Sunday night. The network wil...

PokerStars Announces 2009 Caribbean Adventure Poker Tournament

Sep 26, 2008

PokerStars announced this week that they will be hosting a live tournament in the beautiful Bahamas. The tournament is set to take place in January on the 4th thro...

Innovation of the Year Award Given to PurePlay Poker

Sep 25, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Last Friday night in London, the eGaming Review Industry Awards presentation took place. PurePlay was given the award for the Innovation of the Year for excellence...

Annette Obrestad and Doyle Brunson to Play Heads up Match

Sep 25, 2008
Category: Poker Players

A very interesting and exciting poker match is set to take place on Friday, the day before the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event is set to begin. Annette Obr...

PokerStars Criticized for New Advertisement

Sep 24, 2008

A new poster campaign was released recently by PokerStars that has now received complaints and even criticism from the Advertising Standards Authority. The ad has ...

Bodog Releases Poker Open II Schedule

Sep 24, 2008

As everyone gears up for the upcoming Bodog Poker Open II, players can see the full schedule of events as it has now been released by Bodog. The Bodog Poker Open I...

World Poker Congress to be endorsed by FIDPA

Sep 23, 2008
Category: Poker Industry

It was recently announced that the 2008 World Poker Congress would now be endorsed by...

ChiliPoker Offers Players New Way to Cash Out Earnings

Sep 23, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

The ChiliPoker website announced recently that they have signed an agreement with UKa...

First Multiple Casino Live Dealer to Be Launched at EIG

Sep 22, 2008
Category: Poker Industry

Starting on September 23rd the EIG will begin and many new and exciting ideas will be...

Full Tilt Poker to Host Online Tournament Fundraiser

Sep 22, 2008

The Road 2 Recovery foundation is a charitable organization that works to support professional A...

New Table Design Created By Party Poker

Sep 19, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

Party Poker sent out a press release yesterday that gave an early peak at their brand new design...

Vivek Rajkumar Wins WPT Event also Breaks Record

Sep 19, 2008

The World Poker Tour Borgata Open took place this past weekend. Five hundred and sixteen players...

Poker Stage Show to be hosted by Paul Rodriguez

Sep 18, 2008

A new live stage show is set to begin this October called “The Real Deal”. The show will feature two professional poker player...

Paddy Power Poker Announces Irish Masters Structure

Sep 18, 2008

Poker players have yet another tournament to get excited about as Paddy Power Poker h...

David Cain Attempts to Break Poker Playing Record

Sep 17, 2008
Category: Poker Players

The record for the most consecutive hours of poker played is held by freelance writer Larry Olmsted of the United States. That record stands a...

PurePlay Executive to Speak at EU i-Gaming Conference

Sep 17, 2008
Category: Poker Industry

It was announced today that PurePlay Poker’s Chief Executive Officer, Jason Kellerman, will be speaking at the 7th Annual Eur...

WCOOP Event #19 Results

Sep 16, 2008
Event number 19 of the World Championship of Online Poker was a $25,000 buy-in Heads-up No L...

WCOOP Event #20 Results

Sep 16, 2008
Event number 20 of the World Championship of Online Poker was a two day $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament. The final...

Poker Dealer Choked When Man Becomes Angry

Sep 15, 2008

When most players go to the casino to play a little poker, they imagine having fun, drinking a few beers and hopefully taking home more money than they came in wit...

Titan Poker's ECOOP III Will Begin in November

Sep 15, 2008

The European Championship of Online Poker III (ECOOP) is set to begin November 24th and will continue until December 7th of 2008. This tournament was created by Ti...

SkyCity's Festival of Poker

Sep 15, 2008
SkyCity has announced that some of the biggest poker players in the world are set to play in New Zealand's largest ever poker tournament.  The first ever ...

New Hope Arises with HR6870

Sep 12, 2008
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Brank has introduced HR 6870, if your unfirmiliar with what HR 6870 is it's the Payment System Protection Ac...

CardRunners and StoxPoker Merge Together

Sep 11, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

It was announced this past Tuesday that CardRunners and StoxPoker, both poker video instruction websites, would merge their training libraries together. The two si...

PKR to Host First Live Event

Sep 11, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

PKR has seen great success in the past weeks and they continue to move forward. The online poker site recently announced that they would host their first ever live...

Video Poker Battle in Australia

Sep 11, 2008
There's a fight happening in Australia and no it's not boxing.  The fight is video poker machines, where their allowed to be located, imposed limits a...

Three Poker Pros Turn Ambassadors for APT

Sep 10, 2008

Since the end of the Macau tournament of the Asian Poker Tour, three professional poker players have been signed on to serve as ambassadors. The APT released a pre...

Minnesota Celebrity Poker Tourney Begins Tomorrow

Sep 10, 2008

Trent Tucker is a former University of Minnesota and NBA basketball star that founded the Trent Tucker Non-profit Organization. The organization holds a celebrity ...

Bodog Poker Open II Starts in October

Sep 10, 2008

Bodog Poker is going to be offering up their largest ever guaranteed prize pool in history for their Bodog Poker Open II. The Main Event is going to start on Octob...

1st Ever British Player Wins WCOOP Bracelet

Sep 9, 2008

The World Championship of Online Poker is one of the most anticipated online tournaments in the poker industry. Players sign on all over the world to try and win a...

PokerStars Now Offer Mac Software

Sep 9, 2008
Category: Poker Software

Last week, PokerStars announced that they were now ready to launch their new downloadable Mac poker software. The poker website had finished the beta testing phase...

APT Adds Three New Ambassadors

Sep 9, 2008

After the Macau tournament was over the Asian Poker Tour (APT) signed three top professional poker players to serve as their ambassadors.  The new ambassadors...

Michael Phelps & Doyles Room, a Winning Combination

Sep 8, 2008

Ever since the 2008 Beijing Olympics began, talk has been swirling about Michael Phelps and poker. The super athlete won eight gold medals and broke several world ...

WCOOP Event No 5 Results

Sep 8, 2008
The World Championship of Online Poker event five took place this past weekend and the turnout was tremendous. This event was a $10,000 buy-in high roller even...

Dawson College Claims Poker Promotion was Mistake

Sep 5, 2008

Back to school usually means new classes, teachers and buying school supplies. For students attending Dawson College in Montreal, back to school means “let&r...

NHL Pro to Represent PokerStars

Sep 5, 2008
Category: Poker Players
When you think of poker you don’t necessarily connect it up with hockey. While the two sports don't necessarily go hand in hand they now have something i...

Bluff Europe Magazine Says Dublin is Number 1

Sep 4, 2008
Dublin, Ireland has achieved the title of European Poker Capital for 2008 by Bluff Europe Magazine.  Dublin replaced last year's winning city, London and ...

PKR Signs Two Millionth Player

Sep 4, 2008
Category: Poker Sites

The online poker site, PKR.com has reached yet another mile stone. The site just announced that they have signed their two millionth player. This announcement come...

WSOP Champion Jamie Gold to Speak At Conference

Sep 4, 2008

Casino Affiliate Program officials are getting ready for this year’s online gaming industry conference event.  The conference is titled CAP Euro Barcelo...

PPA Poker Tournament Begins Today

Sep 3, 2008

The Poker Players Alliance along with the American Gaming Association will be holding a charity poker tournament today that will benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of ...

New Poker Room Opens at Mohegan Sun

Sep 3, 2008

Connecticut poker players are probably a lot happier now that they have a new live poker room. The Mohegan Sun held a grand opening this past Friday for their bran...

Pacific Poker Raises Guarantee on Deep Stack

Sep 3, 2008

Not too long ago there were a few dark days for poker when the UIGEA passed but poker has been back for some time and continues to get bigger each day.  Poker...

Devilfish to Star in Poker Television Series

Sep 2, 2008

Nowadays it seems that poker players are given more opportunities than in the past. New players can find themselves signed by major poker websites to play on their...

WSOP Main Event Begins Airing Tonight on ESPN

Sep 2, 2008
Category: WSOP

ESPN is about to be every poker players favorite channel. Beginning tonight the sports giant will start airing the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event episodes. ...

Annual Caesars Palace Classic

Sep 2, 2008

If you want to play in a major tournament in Las Vegas Caesars Palace has got you covered.  The annual Caesars Palace Classic is going to start in October and...

Grosvenor Grand Prix Begins In Late October

Sep 1, 2008

The Grosvenor Grand Prix is set to take place on October 30th and continue until November 2nd 2008. The Limit Hold&rsquo...

Second Annual Par & Poker Celebrity Challenge

Sep 1, 2008

Baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith will be returning to play in next year’s Par and Poker Celebrity Challenge, which will take place the week of the Super Bo...

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