Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel in North Carolina has been affected by an outbreak of a virus. The virus has been so contagious that almost two hundred and fifty people have been affected. Because of this the casino has decided to clean their gaming machines every two...

The Cake Poker Network recently announced they have added eight new rooms to their poker network. One of the rooms added to the network is associated with poker pro Phil Laak. Laak will be a regular on the site, called UnabomberPoker, and he will be keeping a blog as well.

Pl...

The Ultimate Bet UBOC 2010 is finishing up and this weekend is the main event. Players have really enjoyed the tournament series and the events have seen large turnouts. The UBOC has been very popular and this weekend should be no exception. The main event has a buy-in of ...

Last week it was reported that TJ Cloutier’s World Series of Poker bracelet was up for sale at eBay. As hard as it seems to believe that a poker pro would sell the coveted bracelet, it is true. Now it seems as though Cake Poker has purchased the bracelet.

The bracelet w...

Doyle Brunson is all about family it seems. Brunson’s poker room, DoylesRoom, recently announced Doyle’s daughter, Pamela Brunson is now the manager of the new poker team the Brunson 10. Pamela will be handling the scheduling of the team as well as PR requests and ...

The Calgary Flames Hockey Club and the Calgary Flames Ambassadors recently held their 5th annual charity poker tournament for the Flames Foundation for life. The tournament was a great success and raised hundreds of thousands for the charity.

The tournament offered a first pl...

Poker pros have been signing up left and right to be part of PartyPoker’s Premier League IV. Recently we broke the news that Phil Hellmuth and Roland de Wolfe would be joining the tournament and now David Benyamine has signed up to compete as well.

Benyamine will join s...

Earlier this month a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti and thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands are displaced, hurt and in need of the bare necessities. Poker players have heard the call for help and have come together to donate funds to the relief efforts.

Sometimes you may wonder how smart a person is especially when they are doing something illegal and decide to post it on the internet. The Grand Rapids Poker Club in Michigan decided to place an ad on Craigslist about their poker game at a Ramada hotel. This may seem like a go...

Top online poker room, PartyPoker, has announced they are giving away fifteen packages for the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational. The Invitational is set to take place in LA in February and many top poker players and celebrities will be participating in the event.

The q...

Poker pro Tony G has announced he is joining Team PartyPoker. Tony G has signed a large deal with the online poker room. He has sold his TonyGPoker website assets to PartyGaming and the deal will also see Tony G will also represent the poker room at major events such as the Pr...

The European Deepstack Poker Championships are set to take place next month in Dublin and the event now has a new long term sponsor. ChiliPoker will now be the sponsor for the Championships. The buy-in for the event has been reduced to €550 which caused the event to sell ...

Full Tilt Poker recently launched a new form of poker called Rush Poker. This new type of poker game gives players the opportunity to compete in what Full Tilt is calling ‘the world’s fastest poker game’. Rush Poker minimizes wait times between hands and crea...

The 2010 season of the Grosvenor UK Poker tour has kicked off and this time the tour has stopped in Bolton. The opening event and a re-buy event have concluded with Steve Holden and Alli Mallu taking first place in the events.

The first event was the £150 No Limit Hold&...

Poker pros have been signing up to participate in the Party Poker Premier League this February. The latest pro to sign up to compete is Luke Schwartz. “Fullflush” will be taking his trash talk to the gaming tables in the contest against other poker pros and the Par...

A special bounty tournament is set to take place tonight at Doyles Room to help raise money for the relief efforts in Haiti. The nation was hit by an earthquake last week and it has killed at least 70,000 people and destroyed many buildings and major landmarks in the area.

Do...

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is back in full swing as its Bolton stop began yesterday. The tour stop is taking place at the G Casino in Bolton and the tour has made some major changes. A new starting stack has been added, at 15,000, for the main event and the Champion of Champi...

Doyle Brunson has been working hard to create his ideal team for his online poker room, Doyles Room. The poker pro and his website have been searching for the brightest, young talent to make up their new team. The team was up to five players until one player decided to leave t...

The Score Television Network recently began broadcasting episodes of Poker2Nite in Canada. Canadians will now be able to enjoy the poker show on Sunday afternoons. The show features poker pros Joe Sebok and journalist Scoot Huff and the show is already half-way through its thi...

The Premier League is set to take place soon and poker pros are beginning to sign up to participate. The latest player to join the lineup is Roland de Wolfe. De Wolfe has seen great success in the Premier League and this time around should be no exception.

Last year Roland be...

Party Poker recently added a new face to their online poker room. Kara Scott has become the newest member of Team Party. Scott will be acting as a television hostess for various Party Poker events as well as playing in live events all over the world.

Scott recently took over ...

Isildur1 is the online mystery poker player who has been making several headlines as of late. The poker pro takes to the high stakes tables and wins and losses big. A new online poker site is looking to create high stakes poker tables dedicated for the unknown poker player.

T...

Everest Poker started their Live the Dream contest last year where players would get the opportunity to live like a poker pro. Over 50,000 players entered the contest and two hundred made it to the live event in Palais Auersperg. The event took place on January 9th and 10th an...

The PartyPoker Premier League IV is set to begin in Las Vegas on February 12th and continue until the 18th with many poker superstars competing. Phil Hellmuth recently confirmed that he will be one of the top poker pros competing in the event.

Hellmuth will be playing alongsi...

UB and Absolute Poker of the CEREUS Network have announced they have revamped their leader board systems. Both poker rooms will be rewarding players with a total of one million in prizes this year during their series of competitions with their leader boards.

Both poker rooms ...

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has finished up and the event series in the Bahamas was very successful. One of the many events taking place during the PCA was the ladies event. it was Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso who was able to outlast the field of women to win the top ...

DragTheBar is an online poker website and it was recently announced that Dusty ‘Leatherass’ Schmidt is the latest to sign with the company. Schmidt will be acting as the lead instructor at the online poker training site.

Last week, Schmidt resigned with online sit...

The Sky Poker Tour recently stopped at Aspers Casino in Newcastle for the stop on the second leg of the second season. The event took place this past weekend and 149 players registered to compete in the event.

The competition was fierce but eventually it was David ‘Dave...

It seems as though many poker pros have been experiencing gaming burnout. Shaun Deeb decided to quit poker tournaments and Gus Hansen decided to quit last December but he is already back in the fray. Now Jonas Danielsson has announced he is quitting the game of poker.

Daniels...

Amir Vahedi, an avid poker pro and World Series of Poker bracelet winner, passed away on January 8th in Las Vegas. Vahedi passed away from complications from diabetes. Vahedi’s passing was first reported by Mark Seif in his personal blog.

The blog read: “have spok...

Jon ‘Pearljammer’ Turner has a girlfriend who likes to play poker. Her name is Tracey “XTraCey” Nguyen and she recently found herself in a jam when her Full Tilt Poker account was hacked. Nguyen’s account was completely taken over and attempts to ...

Bodog Poker has been the sponsor of Justin Bonomo for two years until recently when the two parted ways. Bonomo recently addressed the split with Bodog on his newly designed website. Bonomo’s statements give fans and poker players a look into what really happened.

Bonom...

Online casino RedKings has started the latest round of their Points Race poker competition. Players can compete in the Points Race to earn prizes and cash that total $150,000. Up for grabs are laptops, PlayStation 3’s as well as televisions. This installment of the ...

The European Deepstack Poker Championships in Dublin are more than a month away but tickets to the event have already sold out. Four hundred seats were available and all four hundred tickets have been purchased. The event even filled up the list of alternates, so as you can te...

Almost every day a strange poker story comes out about players fighting or doing something crazy over a poker debt. The most recent crazy story comes from the NBA. Two Washington Wizards players ended up drawing guns on each other after one racked up a $25,000 card game de...

PokerStars announced today that they are launching a live poker tour in the United States. The tour is called the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) and it is being called the ‘first major poker tour in North America created by poker players, for poker players, with access...

Sky Sports 2 will be airing the first ever PKR Heads Up Grand Slam tonight at 10pm. Matchroom has created the new format for the Grand Slam which is a heads up shootout tournament. The first show will feature Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz taking on Yevgeniy Timoshenko.

The 2009 European Poker Awards are set to begin on the 12th of February at the ACF in Paris. The candidates for the awards have now been announced and several players from the UK and Ireland are nominated for awards.

Several players up for awards are: Tony G, Kara Scott, Mart...

The month of January brings back the Cash Machine at Party Poker. From January 4th to the 31st players at Party Poker will be able to cash in their Party Points for cash. Players who earn at least 10 Party Points for a minimum of 10 days will be able to earn cash.

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We’ve seen some amazing poker stories in 2009 and 2010 seem to be on the same track. Online player XBLINK began his journey last year earning a win in an $11 tournament on the CEREUS network and now is still on the same roll turning that $11 investment into almos...