Tom “durrrr” Dwan has lost an amazingly large amount of money this month playing poker, $3.53 to be exact. His latest loss came this past Wednesday when he was playing on Full Tilt poker and lost $586,000. Since the New Year began, Tom has issued a poker c...

Just over one thousand players entered the Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship which created over $3 million in the prize pool. Much more than the $2 million guarantee. The event had a buy-in of $3,000 plus $200 and Steven Weinstein outlasted the field and t...

Full Tilt has added yet another poker pro to their Team of poker stars. This time the player is Michael Tureniec of Sweden. Tureniec has a record of being one of the best poker players in all of Sweden.

Poker Icons and Vegas Group are sponsors of Tureniec as he becomes the fi...

Russia has become a new provider of online poker pros so it is online natural that online poker rooms create Russian speaking options. Betfair Poker is one of those online poker rooms that are doing just that. Betfair recently announced that they have launched a Russian poker ...

QUANTOM47 is an online poker player who recently signed up to play on Ultimate Bets poker room. It was just over a week after his signup when he won just over $170,000 while playing Texas Hold’em at the Bad Beat Jackpot tables. Only nineteen years old, QUANTOM47 fro...

Team PokerStars have added two new players to the roster though no formal announcement has been made. Dennis Phillips and Ylon Schwartz have been added to the Team PokerStars webpage along with bios and tournament information for each player.

Phillips made the final table of ...

The British Company, Poker Controls Limited, launched a new device that will help poker players solve several problems they encounter when playing online poker. The device is called the Wireless Poker Controller and it was recently shown at the International Gaming Expo 2009 i...

Doyles Room has confirmed today in a press release that they have moved to the Cake Poker Network. In the same press release, the poker room also stated that they will be holding a $5,000 Launch Party Free Roll this Saturday to celebrate the move. Doyles Room started out ...

The World Series of Poker has released the 2009 schedule and there have been some changes while some things will stay the same. The WSOP decided to keep the four month break that occurred last year. The Final Table will begin in November as it did for the first time last year....

Montel Williams, talk show host and poker player has announced that he has created a new poker television show called International Team Poker League. The show states they will revolutionize the game of poker on television for the New Year when they combine reality TV with pok...

Event #10 of the Aussie Millions was a Heads-Up Poker Championship was thirty two players competed for the first place title. The buy in for the event was $5,300 AUD and only eight players would be paid. John Tabatabai of Betfair Poker would outlast the field and take the ...

Eighty year old Thomas Preston, best known as poker legend Amarillo Slim, was beaten and robbed Tuesday night after trying to take collateral for a $3,000 gambling debt he was owed. Slim was expecting to get a four wheeler as payment for a debt that was owed but instead he...

The Hard Rock Poker Lounge in Las Vegas will be hosting the Protect Our Winters All-In Texas Hold’em Charity Poker Tournament that was put together by Jeremy Jones and Ollie Pop Bubblegum. The event is offering the winner a seat to a 2009 World Series of Poker event and ...

Actor Jason Alexander, better known as George Costanza from televisions Seinfeld, has just signed to join Team PokerStars. Jason will be added to the long list of names that play online at PokerStars and represent the poker room at live events.

PokerStars has stated that Jaso...

The Latin American Poker Tour Vina Del Mar stop kicked off yesterday with Day 1 play. This is the first time the Latin American Poker Tour has stopped in Vina del Mar, Chile and several poker pros have showed up to compete in the event.

The buy-in for the no limit hold’...

It was recently announced by RedKings, the online poker room, that they will begin a new midweek poker tournament series starting today. The new series is called the Wednesday Night Added tournaments and will have large prizes for first place as well as money added to the priz...

The European Poker Tour is returning to France this week as the EPT Deauville mini-series is about to take place at the Casino Barriere de Deauville. The event will begin on January 20th and continue until the 24th. It has been two years since the EPT has stopped in France for...

Poker players are jumping at the chance to compete in this year’s World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic and several top poker pros have been scheduled to play in the tournament. Along with the many newcomers, the tournament is going to be a large event.

Daniel Negreanu, E...

This past Friday during an illegal gambling case a Pennsylvania Judge ruled that poker is a game of skill. This ruling could have a major impact on the decision to rule poker as a game of skill throughout the nation. The Poker Players Alliance believes this decision could be t...

The first Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event of the New Year has ended and Bernard Litman has emerged the victor. Two hundred and thirty five players were competing for the first place prize but it was Litman who was able to outlast the field and win the £70,520 first prize.

Tom “durrr” Dwan played a little high stakes poker with Patrik Antonius last Tuesday and lost over a million dollars in the process. This did not seem to stop him though as this past Thursday he was back at the Omaha high stakes tables but this time he was facing P...

New York Representative Jerrold Nadler has reintroduced his Midnight Rule Act to be considered by members of congress. The Act would mandate that all regulatory changes made by the White House in the last three months must be approved by the incoming Cabinet secretaries. This ...

This past Tuesday Patrik Antonius and Tom “durrr” Dwan played a few round of high stakes cash games. Antonius recently accepted Dwan’s poker challenge but that has yet to take place. This was just a few friendly games of high stakes poker. After the night was...

By the end of this month the Playboy online casino will no longer be providing poker services to their members. The website has admitted in an email to Poker News Daily that they will be shutting down the site as of January 29th.

In the email Playboy customer service stated: ...

The Royal Surrey Club is a poker room in south-west London. The poker club is about to celebrate their one year anniversary since the launch of the poker room. To celebrate the occasion the Royal Surrey Club will host a poker tournament and a few poker pros are supposed to be ...

Event #12 of the Southern Poker Championships just recently finished up and Jordan Smith from Texas was the winner. Jordan was up against almost five hundred other players in the $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em poker tournament. Jordan outlasted the field and took hom...

PokerStars recently announced the winner of the World Cup of Poker V which took place last week at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. The event saw several teams competing for the top prize of $100,000. The team to outlast them all was the German team. Each te...

A good deal of players logged on to compete in this past Sundays PokerStars Sunday Million, 8268 players to be exact. The large field of players created a large prize pool where the first place winner would take home just over $200,000. Nine lucky players made it to the f...

The Asian Poker Tour Manila Tournament Series is set to begin on January 27th and continue until February 1st. the tournament will take place at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati, Philippines. The APT recently announced that this year’s stop in Manila will have seve...

The field of over 1,300 players was whittled down to eight as final table play began at the 2009 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure this past weekend. The large playing field had created a prize pool of $3 million that the final eight would play hard for. ...

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier won the first ever $25,000 high roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure after outlasting the forty seven man field. Bertrand was the winner of the PCA 2008 Main Event and proved yet again that he is a player to be reckoned...

Three hundred and forty two players registered to compete in the first event of the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship. The first event is a $1,100 No Limit Hold’em tournament and day 1a is now complete. Many high profile players wanted in on the action and tho...

The next installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series is set to begin on February 4th. Full Tilt recently announced the schedule of events for the online poker series. The website is currently holding satellites where players can qualify for the online series.

This will b...

Clonie Gowen is still tangled up with Full Tilt Poker in a legal battle that has been going on for the last few months. Gowen filed the suit against Full Tilt and its Team members citing several items including Breach of Contract and Unjust Enrichment. The most recent move was...

The PartyPoker Irish Poker Championships took place this past weekend with two hundred and fifty five players competing. The tournament took place in Galway at the Radisson Hotel and had a buy in of €3000. The first place winner took home a €160,000 prize.

Many high...

One of the most popular events being discussed in the world of poker is the recent challenge issued by Tom “durrr” Dwan. Tom is a well known internet poker pro who has created a challenge for himself. Tom has stated that he will play heads up No Limit Hold’em...

The Mohegan Sun has announced they will be holding a poker tournament this February. This will be the second major tournament for the casino since opening the poker room last august. The tournament is called the Winter Chill Poker Tournament and will take place February 7th th...

It was announced today by UltimateBet that they would be making a change to one of the events included in the Ultimate Bet Online Championships. The $5,000 plus $200 event will be replaced with a $300 plus $200 event to make the series available to more players.

The first Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee of the New Year took place this past weekend with a field of 3,908 competing. The prize pool was up to $781,600 with first place taking home almost $150,000. When final table play began the chip counts ranged from just over tw...

Starting this February poker fans will be able to watch the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe on ESPN. The television station has announced they will begin airing the Main Event portion on February 1st. The series will air in eight one hour episodes.

The first four episodes o...

As one of the largest poker tournaments is about to begin, rumors have sparked on who will be attending and possibly participating. It was recently reported that Pamela Anderson, former Baywatch Babe and Playboy Bunny, wants to play in the tournament.

It is believed that Pam&...

The Amateur Poker Association and Tour is back for a third season. The Tour recently announced the season three schedule along with new additions to the tour. The Tour is still being sponsored by Blue Square and now will offer an Online National Championship series as well as ...

The New Year is finally upon us and many people spent last night celebrating. As we recover from New Year's Eve we can reflect on how we will spend the year 2009. This new year is sure to bring many good changes to the world of poker. Players can look forward to new tourn...