The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of domain names and the charges leveled against executives at Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and the Cereus Network has sent the online poker world into a panic. Given the murky legal situations they know find themselves in, these sit...

Most of the coverage surrounding Black Friday – the sudden closure of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker in the United States – has centered, understandably, on the fact that these sites are no longer available to American players, and the serious crimi...

The PokerStars website was shut down Friday by the FBI, putting into doubt the future of the online poker giant’s operations in the United States. The shutdown was part of a move against several major online poker operators and payment processors that has radically chang...

The shocking news that several online poker sites that serviced American players were shut down in the USA Friday has left many players believing that there is no more online poker in the United States. However, there are actually numerous websites that are still operating in ...

Viktor “Isildur1” Blom fought back Sunday to win his two-part SuperStar Showdown match against Scott “urnotindangr” Palmer. Blom won the second half of the match by a solid $66,607, leaving him with a profit of just over $61,000 for the combined...

A recent report in the New York Times has once again brought the issue of poker bots to the world’s attention. The article, published on March 13, tells the story of Bryan Taylor, a 36-year-old poker pro who found out that he was playing automated computer opponents on P...

In an attempt to discourage one of the fastest-growing practices in online poker, Bodog has announced that they will be blocking data mining services from being used in their poker room. The blocking mechanisms will be targeted at sites like SharkScope, PokerTableRatings (PTR)...

Two more poker rooms have chosen to exit the Washington state market, signaling a continued exodus in the wake of a State Supreme Court ruling that upheld an online poker ban last year.

The latest rooms to ban players from Washington from playing in real money games were Ma...

If a poker game has no bad beats, is it still poker? A new website, NoBadBeatsPoker.com, aims to answer that question by introducing a form of the game that eliminates the bad beat – at least in some sense.

Essentially, No Bad Beats Poker allows players to move all-in...

In a move that has the potential to alter the nature of online tournament poker, Full Tilt Poker has announced the launch of Multi-Entry Tournaments, a new type of tournament that allows players to play more than one seat in a multi-table tournament (MTT).

The Multi-Entry T...