NBC’s popular poker series, Poker After Dark, is featuring an international flare this week as six countries are represented during game play. The United States, Canada, France, Russia, Indonesia and Vietnam will all be represented during this week’s competition.

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The World Series of Poker is a BIG deal in the poker industry and among poker players and fans. BodogLife has made this obsession more interesting by introducing special proposition bets at their poker website for people to take advantage of for the 2009 WSOP which begins on J...

We all hope to win a large pot when playing poker but sometimes you can win when you lose a hand. Absolute Poker has a bad beat jackpot that is up for grabs on their website and this past week online player EMILIE14 won $270,843.03 after hitting the bad beat jackpot. On W...

In just a few days the Irish Open will kick off in Ireland with several big name pros competing for the first place prize. One such pro who recently confirmed his participation in the event is Jamie Gold. Gold will be joined by Tony G and Brian Townsend who also recently confi...

The Heartland Poker Tour is entering its fifth season and this year the tour will have a big name poker room as their title sponsor. PokerStars has signed on to be the new title sponsor for the Heartland Poker Tour.

This year’s tour will have eighteen to twenty events a...

RedKings poker room announced today that they have scheduled three more online finals for their players to earn a package to the European Poker Tour event in San Remo, Italy. The three finals will take place during the first two weeks of April.

The three finals offer players ...

UltimateBet recently ran a poker tournament where one lucky online player would win a package to attend the WWE 25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania. Three hundred and seventeen players participated in the tournament and it was Alex Cummings of New Brunswick who outlasted them all...

It’s that time of year again, when all the popular poker sites start to hold satellites for the World Series of Poker. It is only a few short months away so players can start now to try and earn their seat to various WSOP events. Cake Poker just announced they will be st...

Authorities in Macau recently gave the Asian Poker Tour permission to extend the length of the Macau Festival of Poker. This year’s event will double in length, changing from six days of poker to twelve. The festival will begin on August 12th and run through the 23rd at ...

It has been a few months since Tom Dwan announced his Durrrr Challenge and it has really gotten into full swing. Tom Dwan and Patrick Antonius, just one of the poker pros who accepted the challenge, have played a few sessions. In the most recent session, Dwan regained his lead...

Last Tuesday, Bodog Poker held a special St Patrick’s Day tournament called the St. Paddy’s Lucky 7 Special. Online players were able to compete in a special tournament to win free seats to the $100,000 guaranteed event last weekend. The winner of the special t...

Speculation has been rising that the World Series of Poker Brand may be going up for sale very soon. Harrah’s Entertainment is having problems with their liquidity and they may have to sell a few items to remain afloat and avoid bankruptcy. The WSOP is a large asset owne...

The Punta de Este, Uruguay stop on the Latin America Poker Tour ended this past weekend and twenty year old Karl Hevroy outlasted the three hundred and twenty six players to win the grand prize of just over $280,000. For the first time, an LAPT event had a prize pool of on...

April 1st is fast approaching and we all know what that means:  Playing games with people and jokes! Well, this April Fools, Howard Lederer and his wife Suzie will be playing games but the fun kind- poker. The pair will be hosting a charity poker tournament at the Hard Ro...

Caesars Palace in Las Vegas will play host to the Dream Team Poker tournament on March 27th through the 29th. The list of teams for the tournament has just been announced and more than one hundred teams will be competing in the event. The teams will be comprised of three hundr...

UK and Irish poker players have reason to celebrate as PokerStars has just announced a new poker tournament exclusively for them. The new tournament is called the $50,000 guaranteed UK Poker Open and will take place on March 24th. The new tournament only costs $11 to ...

This past Sunday, BodogLife’s guaranteed $100,000 online poker tournament has a large turnout of nine hundred and twenty seven players competing for the first place prize. The top prize was $25,000 and it would be online player Veteran In Love who would come out ...

Online news sites have been buzzing about a supposed blacklist that has leaked online that lists thousands of websites that will be banned by the Australian government. Wikileaks, a website that leaks documents posted a list two days ago that claims to be the new Australian bl...

Last week over three hundred players competed in the charity poker tournament organized by Jennifer Harmon. The event took place at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno and the participants were able to raise more than $111,000 for the United States National Kidney Foundation.

Poker pro and recent NBC Heads up Runner up Vanessa Rousso will soon be starting a new poker tour to teach those interested how poker is played. The new tour will begin on March 20th and is called The Art of Poker.

The Art of Poker tour will make seven stops at three casinos ...

This Thursday the £2,500 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour heads up tournament begins and it has already sold out. All sixteen players have paid their buy-in and the list is confirmed. The winner of the tournament will take home £20,000 with the runner up winning £10,0...

Neil Channing is the current Irish Open Champion and one of the best live poker players in the United Kingdom. Channing is taking his knowledge and fame in the game of poker and possibly transferring it to the online poker realm. There has been talk online that Channing is goi...

 

Poker fans and players look forward to the World Series of Poker every year. The WSOP is the number one event in poker and over the past few years many changes have been made. Harrah’s Entertainment, the group that runs the WSOP, has made the changes to make th...

History was made this past Saturday night as Sandra Naujoks won the European Poker Tour Dortmund stop. Over six hundred players competed in the event and ponied up the 5,000 EUR buy-in. Naujoks became the second woman to win a European Poker title.

The final table began with...

Players who enjoy playing poker against famous celebrities or the possibility of winning a large prize are sure to enjoy the 888 Celebrity Charity Challenge which will begin this May. The Challenge will pit online poker players against celebrities such as Matt Damon and Ben Af...

The European Masters of Poker series will be making their next stop in Varna, Bulgaria this April 15th through the 18th. The event is expected to draw a large crowd and if the numbers are correct then the event at the Golden Sands Resort will offer players a prize fund of 300,...

World Poker Tour recently announced a new tournament that will be held in Africa. The new event will take place in October 2009 and many online poker rooms will be offering prize packages for online players to earn a spot at the event. One such poker room is ChiliPoker.

Chili...

The Israel Poker Association holds a yearly championship in Tel Aviv and this year the Association will be unable to hold their annual event. The Israel Police have prohibited the Association from holding their annual event. The police state that the event is illegal because o...

The World Poker Tour will be taking their tournaments to Italy for the first time this May when they stop in Venice. The WPT Venice event will be powered by bwin and the tournament will run May 6th through the 10th.

The tournament will take place at the Casino de Venezia whic...

Party Poker will begin a new contest in less than two weeks at their online poker room. The new contest is called Million Dollar Hand and players have the opportunity to play poker and win $1 million. What a great incentive to play your favorite poker game! As players com...

Full Tilt is one of the top online poker rooms available to poker players and the website recently launched their new online Poker Academy. The new Poker Academy is available at Full Tilt and players will be able to learn the game of poker from the best of the best poker playe...

Devilfish Poker recently announced that they will be sponsoring the Talent Trail 2009 which is the annual competition held by the Hull Daily Mail. The Talent Trail will give one winner £1,500, runner up will win £750 and third place will win £250.

The Talent...

The European Poker Tour will be makings it next stop in Dortmund, Germany and RedKings Poker has just announced they will be sending their largest team ever to compete to the event. Eleven team members will be going to Germany to participate in the tournament; six of those tea...

Blandine Gines is a man who has worked hard all his life. Emigrating from Manila in 1975, Gines has worked several hard jobs such as a grape picker and a construction worker. Now unemployed, Gines recently participated in an online poker satellite tournament. Gines was able to...

The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Open is the largest televised charity poker tournament to take place in Canada. The fourth annual Full Tilt Poker Montreal Open is scheduled to begin on March 29th and will continue until April 1st. The event will be held at the Le Windsor Montreal...

Players who want to compete in the 2009 Irish Open have just a short time left to register. Paddy Power Poker has announced that players have until March 27th to register online for the 2009 Irish Open. Tickets could sell out fast so those wanting to attend should register ear...

KrazyKiddo is an online poker player who has achieved the almost impossible. KrazyKiddo competed in his first Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed tournament at Bodog Poker and he not only made the final table but won the first place prize! Six hundred and sixty five players were en...

A new website has launched that gives gamblers a chance to bid on casino and poker packages each day for a fraction of the cost. The new site is called WebmoneyAuction and to celebrate the opening, the website has one lucky item up for bid: a US$10,000 buy-in for the April...

The World Poker Tour announced recently that they would be teaming up with the ChiliPoker website to host a new poker tournament in Morocco. This stop will be just one more addition to the long list of stops on the Tour.

The new tournament stop will take place this October at...

On June 5th, the Women in Poker Hall of Fame will be inducting new members. The event will take place at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, Nevada and many celebrated poker players are expected to attend and be inducted.

The names of the special women to be inducted into the Hal...

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) kicked off the second leg of the tour in Walsall recently and Sunny Chattha outlasted the field of 301 players and won the event taking home £88,150 for his efforts.

Sunny is a twenty three year old from south London and managed to be...

The World Series of Poker has decided to continue their relationship with Milwaukee’s Best Light as the official beer sponsor for the WSOP. The beer maker will be the official beer sponsor for the 2009/2010 WSOP season.

Milwaukee’s Best Light will be able to use t...

The second PartyPoker Monthly Million of this year took place this past Sunday and almost sixteen hundred players participated. Players competing had to pay the $640 buy-in to participate and the prize pool generated was $1 million. Players from Russia dominated t...

Just over four thousand players competed in the latest Full Tilt Sunday $750,000 Guarantee. The large amount of players created an increase in the prize pool bringing the total to $837,600. The first place winner took home just over $145,000. Nine players made the...