Hollywood Poker is offering their players several ways to win a seat at the 2008 World Series of Poker.   There are prize packages for the Main Event and there are also packages up for grabs to the side events.  The Premium Class Package promotion started this...

Phil Hellmuth has just released a new series of online poker videos that are known as the "Black Belt Poker Course".  The videos are aimed at helping poker players improve their game by progressing through the videos.

This new online poker course has been...

Titan Poker will be sending players to the Asian Poker Tournaments for the first time.  They are going to start holding their Asian Poker Tour (APT) Manila Super Satellite Series later this Spring. 

Titan Poker is going to be offering their players the chance...

The Merge network has added another poker room to their growing online poker network.  TexasHoldem.com announced that they have officially opened their doors to all players, including US based players. 

The Merge Network has some unique features and fans of G...

Pokerari is one of the newer poker rooms and they are going to be the first ever cardroom to offer online qualifier tournaments to the World Series of Poker 2008 Side Events 49-53. 

The spokesman for Pokerari, Toby Clarke says that even though the WSOP Main Event ...

Weekend poker festivals will no longer have to be held just in the Spring and Summer.  They are going to be moving in doors so that poker can be dealt all year long.  For the past three years the Nautica charity poker events were held outside in large tents.

The Poker Player Alliance has announced the launch of a free Litigation Support Network (LSN) that will provide basic poker legal advice and it will also provide members with a network of attorneys around the country that could help players if they need it.

This service...

The first two days at the Irish Poker Open have been played and we are now nearing the final table.  A total of 52 players will be returning on Sunday at 2pm GMT and they will play until there are only nine players left.

The current chip leader is Mark Spellman wit...

Fans of poker can now look forward to watching the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe in April, the series will be making an eight night appearance on Sky Sports. 

The 2007 WSOPE took place on September 5th through the 17th at The Empire at the Casino, the Fifty an...

The controversial bill in Massachusetts that would have allowed three new resort style casinos while making online gambling illegal was defeated by a House vote of 106-48 on Thursday. 

House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi had been working to defeat the proposed bill ...

The largest poker room on the iPoker Network, Titan Poker will be sending poker players Charles Micheletti from France and Jason Hussak from Canada to the Genting Stanley National Poker Championships. 

The championships will be taking place on March 26th through M...

Doyles Room is offering their players the chance to win a prize package that will give them the legendary Las Vegas experience that could be your best shot at poker greatness.

The Vegas Poker Fantasy 2008 prize package is a 13 day trip to Las Vegas that will cover...

The Grand Sierra Resort Hotels are going to host the VIP World Poker Tour Watch Party on March 24th.  This party is to celebrate the premiere of the World Poker Tour on their new network home, GSN. 

The World Poker Tour hosts Mike Sexton, Layla Kayleigh, Vince...

The World Poker Tour has made yet another millionaire.  The Bay 101 Shooting Stars event lasted for five days and at the end Brandon Cantu was the player that took it home.  He played aggressively throughout the tournament and on Saturday morning he took home the f...

CryptoLogic Limited has announced that today they have extended and expanded their relationship with World Poker Tour.  Under the new arrangement WPT Enterprises Inc. will expand their internet casino offering. 

There were also Spanish and German language int...

The Poker Room School is sending one lucky pupil to the Irish Open.  The winner of the Irish Open Super Satellite will be going on an all expense paid trip to Dublin to sit in the Irish Open, one of the richest tournaments in Europe.  The Irish Open will have a &eu...

Canadian player Dave Moreau will be off to Europe later on this Spring courtesy of Pacific Poker after he won a freeroll event for a seat in the European Poker Tour San Remo event.

Moreau is 40 and lives in Pembroke, Ontario, he learned to play poker with his friends wh...

Bill Edler has recently signed with Poker Royalty, they are going to be handling his worldwide management and marketing representation, this will also include sponsorship, licensing and speaking appearances.

Bill Edler originally started playing poker to get through col...

We are now at the third day of the PokerStars EPT Polish Open that is being held in Warsaw.  At the start of the day 26 players remained in the event and took their seats.

But after about 3 hours of play 17 players had been eliminated from the event, the nine playe...

One of the largest pros that was unrepresented until now has signed with Poker Reality as they announced the signing of Patrik Antonius for exclusive worldwide management.

The deal with Poker Reality covers all major venues, including media, sponsorship, licensing, comm...

If your game is off do you practice online for smaller stakes, host poker nights with your buddies, well now you can go off to school.  People are signing up for poker camp fast so if you want to take part you better hurry.

The World Series of Poker Academy is goin...

Some say that poker is a game of chance and not skill but if you ask any poker player they will not agree.  Annie Duke is one such poker player that thinks poker is a skill and she is definately skilled at the game.

Professional poker player Annie Duke has never re...

Titan Poker is no longer just online, they are now jumping into the land tournament market with the launch of the EuroCity Poker Tour that will start in May.  The first stop on this tour will be the €1,000 Madrid Open in Spain from May 9th through the 12th and this...

With Poker growing all over the world online poker sites sometimes struggle to keep up.  Poker is gaining extreme popularity in different countries across the globe.

People like to play online as there might not be a land based option close by so if your poker...

It was formally announced today that Drew Lesofski has joined the Poker Player Alliance (PPA) as their director of Grassroots and External Affairs.  Lesofski is a former senior federal policy adviser from Washington DC who will bring his experience to the organization a...

It is a popular opinion that after the first case of cheating the Kahnawake Gambling Commission and online poker rooms handled the situation poorly.  In this cheating scandal they are now taking a stand and showing a united front.

Earlier this year on January 12th,...

A story was posted on Tech Radar that claims that Trojan programs are being used to help players steal anywhere up to a million dollars while cheating online poker rooms.

The chief research officer, Mikko Hypponen at the security software company F-Secure said that his...

PokerStars has announced the launch of their first major Latin American poker tour the LAPT. This tour is set to make stops in some of the most exotic stops in Latin America including Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay.

The Latin American Poker Tour will be kicking off on ...

For players that are tired of playing in satellite qualifiers and never get anywhere CakePoker knows how you feel and they are doing something about the problem. 

CakePoker is going to be rewarding their most frequent players with not one seat but 50 seats for the

The Absolute Poker Dream Package Eight starts today and players will have from now until April 6th to qualify for a seat in the final event and the player that takes first place will win the Absolute Dream prize package.

This is a prize worth fighting over as the winne...

Team Cardrunners has earned themselves a reputation as some of the hottest young players and instructors that play online poker.  This team is going be playing at Full Tilt Poker exclusively from now on. 

"The biggest names in poker all play at Full Tilt...

Everest Poker has announced the 200 finalists that have been selected for their one of a kind interactive poker competition, the Judge Everest Poker Live the Dream Competition.  They have also announced that names of the three international poker celebrities that will b...

The International Fighting Championship (IFC) are going to be hosting their first celebrity poker tournament in May. 

Fighters are going to have to trade in their shorts and gloves for some cards and chips to play in the 1st Annual International Fighting Championsh...

The World Poker Ladies Event is going to happen tomorrow at Bay 101 and the first place winner will get some cash and a seat at the World Poker Tour Ladies Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas in April.

Since most women always want more the winner will also get ano...

The North Carolina charity tournament is no longer as they have apparently tried to raise too much money.  One would think that raiseing a lot of money for charities would be a good thing but apperantly not.

This was to be the largest charity tournament in the nati...

A while ago I wrote about a professional poker player that was looking at possible charges for not paying his child support.  When he was asked it about back then he implied that everything was okay and that there was no problem.

Well it is definately a problem now...

You hear about unsportsmanlike conduct in sports from time to time, but in poker?  Well it finally happened yesterday at the World Series of Poker circuit event that was held at Caesars Atlantic City. 

 The chip leader at the final table was disqualified ...

Phil Hellmuth takes his poker game very seriously no matter who he is up against.  He was recently in a game against members of the press and after knocking out the firs player he said "Hey no rebuys, I want to win".

That desire to win along with his pers...

WassOnline a well known internet poker and gambling community website recently held their 4th live poker event.  The event was held in Newcastle, England and 100 community members from all over the globe were in the casino hoping for a chance at the cash and prizes.

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Ryan Osbourne a computer programmer is very happy that he made the decision to play in the World Series of Poker Circuit Event that was held in Caesars Atlantic City.  A few days ago this player was at home in Orlando, Florida hanging out with friends when he got talked...

Sun Poker is doing March up right with launch of two new promotions, the first is March Madness this is going to be a £100,000 guaranteed tournament that will kick off on Sunday March 9th.

Sunday is a very great day for online poker players as most of the big name...

Former world number one tennis star Boris Becker has begun a poker playing career according to the report in the Sunday German newspaper, Die Welt.  The 40 old year old three time Wimbledon winner has signed a contract with an internet poker company.

Boris Becker s...

Microgaming Poker Network has pulled nearly 30 poker skins from their operations, all of the poker skins that are associated with the software licensee Tusk Investment Corp. have been blocked from the network because of solvency issues that are going on. 

Poker Pl...

Chris Ferguson has taken the 2008 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship after finishing in second place in 2005 and 2006.  Ferguson won the best of three finals against Andy Bloch.  Andy was the last minute substitute when comedian-actor Brad Garret was called b...

Players that have anxiously been waiting for the inaugural Bodog Poker Open to start only have one more day to wait.  The Bodog Poker Open is going to be kicking off tomorrow and the online poker world can hardly wait.

Bodog Poker is also going to be chipping in so...

There is currently a bill being proposed in Israel that will automatically block access to online poker sites, sex and violence orientated web sites unless the customer specifically asks their internet provider permission to visit those blocked sites.  This bill has pas...