The International Poker Network at GTECH G2 recently announced that the Bad Beat Jackpot has increased above €300,000. The jackpot will be earned if a player holds a great hand but is beaten by a better hand, thus the Bad Beat.

Currently if the Bad Beat Jackpot is hit, t...

Police are continuing to investigate an incident which happened at a Route 66 bar just before midnight this past Thursday night which occurred after a shooting on Tuesday at the Malibu’s bar. Apparently an argument broke out during a poker game on Tuesday and a player pu...

Top online poker room, PokerStars, has entered the world record books once again. PokerStars recently broke one of their own records during a tournament the poker room hosted just a few days ago. The record was set during the World Championship of Online Poker.

PokerStars bro...

A New Delhi man, Ismail Sheikh, put up his eighteen year old daughter as a wager in a recent card game when he ran out of money to wager. Sheikh did not earn a win with the hand and therefore he lost his daughter to the man he was playing against.

As horrible as this sounds, ...

The United States is known for offering poker academies especially those run by the World Series of Poker. Internationally, poker schools are not as common if they happen at all, until now. The first International Poker School will take place this September in Hertfordshire fo...

The upcoming Poker In The Park festival in London is setting up a special place for novice players to go to make the game fairer for those who do not know the game very well. PTG Poker will be offered to inexperienced players to help them win more easily than the regular game ...

Fourteen time gold medalist Michael Phelps has been invited to attend the upcoming Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival by the organizer of the event, AsianLogic Limited. The event is set to begin next week and the company sent an open letter to Phelps in the hopes that he will com...

Those who are planning on attending the upcoming Poker In The Park will be happy to learn that a special Tuition Tent will be set up for those attending to learn the game of poker from professionals. Celebrity players will also be joining in to help teach courtesy of Littlewoo...

ESPN is the hot place to be right now for poker programming. The television station recently began airing the 2009 World Series of Poker coverage and now they have announced a new web-only show to begin airing next week.

The new show is called ESPN Inside Deal and will be a w...

HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. owns the Canadian Poker Tour and they recently announced they will be holding poker tournaments in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Canadian Poker tour has been register and sanctioned to host a series of poker tournaments at the Club Regent Cas...