The roller-coaster adventures of Viktor Blom – the Swedish poker professional who is best known by his online screen name, Isildur1 – continued this week, as Blom won well over $1 million over a three day stretch, only to lose about half of his winnings back on...

In a first for the fledgling professional poker organization, the Epic Poker League has decided to award Doyle Brunson with a lifetime tour card. The decision to do so was based on the legendary poker player’s lifetime of success in tournament poker, and in honor of ever...

After a long hiatus, Phil Ivey has finally returned to tournament poker, hitting the felt at the Asian-Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event on Wednesday. Ivey, who was one of the major professional players involved with the promotion of Full Tilt Poker, had skipped out on tourn...

Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson were voted into the WSOP’s Poker Hall of Fame, adding their illustrious names to the 40 players currently enshrined. The two will be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame on November 8th, before the final three players play down to ...

The Epic Poker League responded to the amended complaint against Full Tilt Poker that was filed by the U.S. Justice Department yesterday by suspending two league members who were named in the complaint. Both Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer were suspended from the league due ...

We’ve reported several times about the possibility – and reality – of American poker pros leaving the United States so that they could continue playing online poker in another country. The latest professional to make the leap and move out of the country is Ju...

It’s been a bad couple of week for Jose “Girah” Macedo, a player once referred to as the “Portuguese Poker Prodigy.” Now Macedo may have to deal with legal action from Lock Poker, the room that formerly sponsored him.

According to a post by Loc...

When the US government came down hard on online poker, many players were inconvenienced, but no group had it harder than American professional poker players who made their money online. Many vowed to move to other countries, but the process of setting yourself up in a new nati...

A number of scandals have rocked the online poker community in the past week, with the latest being the news that Dan “jungleman12” Cates has admitted to multi-accounting on various online poker sites. According to Cates, he played at least a handful of sessions un...

In a partnership between two popular entities in their own fields, the Breeders’ Cup has signed Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi to help promote the annual racing series to the poker world and beyond.

Outside of the Triple Crown races, the Breeders’ Cu...