Yesterday the final sixteen players returned to the World Series of Poker Circuit Caesars Las Vegas event to see who would make the final table. Each player would earn a nice payday but they all wanted to be the last one standing. Fortunately for Justin Bonomo, the day would b...

Jeffery Pollack, the commissioner of the WSOP, unexpectedly brought Joan Rivers into poker talk this week during a news conference. Rivers recently went on a tirade against Annie Duke on the television show The Celebrity Apprentice.

Pollack was asked during the conference if ...

PartyPoker, one of the biggest online poker rooms, will start a new poker challenge for their online players. The new challenge is called the Million Dollar Race and it will begin this Friday, May 1st. players will be able to earn prizes, cash and even a WSOP qualifying package.

May 3rd marks the day that NBCSports will re-launch their online poker room. The poker room will use the software platform by Zen Gaming Inc and players will be able to play for free with the option of winning prizes, cash, and NBCSports gear as well as prize packages.

The NB...

Darryll “DFish” Fish logged on Monday at Full Tilt poker to play some poker and boy did he play. With a field of three hundred and twenty four players competing DFish managed to outlast them all as well as come back after being down in chips when final table play b...

PokerStars Ante Up For Africa tournament in Europe was a great success and the event was able to raise over 250,000Euros for the Darfur Region of Africa. Forty players competed in the tournament, paying the 4,000 Euro buy-in. the prize pool was increased even more when PokerSt...

The 2009 Five Star World Poker Classic WPT Championship event came to a close on Saturday night and it was Yevginiy Timoshenko who would claim the victory. Many thought Scotty Nguyen would earn the win and break a record for the most money earned but it was not to be.

The com...

During the European Poker Tour Grand Final Week, a special charity tournament will take place to help the victims in the Darfur region. Today the Ante Up for Africa tournament will kick off with several poker pros as well as celebrities participating. A few more names have bee...

Paddy Power Poker announced the details today of their upcoming charity poker tournament. The event is called the Paddy Power Charity Poker Open and it will take place in Renfrew, Scotland at The Normandy Hotel.

The tournament is scheduled to begin on May 16th and four heats ...

The European Poker Tour San Remo stop has concluded and it was twenty year old Constant Rijkenberg who would outlast the field and take the first place win. It seemed as though Dragon Galic would take the tournament as he had remained the chip leader from day one but it was no...

Last weekend the Loose Cannon club hosted the PKR Live II $75,000 Main Event.  A good number of players competed in the event but it was Karl “discomonkey” Fenton who outlasted the field and took down the $20,000 first place prize. On the final hand o...

Every year BLUFF Poker finds one players who has shown the best results over a one year period. Players earn points for tournament finishes based on the buy-in and size of the competition. That player is awarded the Player of the Year award. BLUFF poker recently announced the ...

This Saturday the first Bluff Europe Poker Academy begins and players can look forward to learning the game from some of the best poker pros in the business. The first academy will begin in Manchester with Paul “Action” Jackson and Ian “Raiser” Frazer i...

The Denmark Government recently announced that they have decided to deregulate gambling in the country. Denmark has seen a gaming monopoly run for sixty years in the country by Danske Spil which was state owned. The government will now begin to offer a regulated and partially ...

You know the old saying goes “Third Time’s a Charm” and that is apparently the case for Bodog online poker player daisyxoxo. This past Sundays $100K guaranteed tournament at Bodog was the third time daisyxoxo had made the final table. Fortunately for him ...

It has been two years since Bodog began fighting in court to regain control of their domain name. After the long battle they finally have regained control and can use the Bodog website once again. The online gambling provider announced that the court battle was over recently a...

Last week over one hundred and twenty players competed in a special charity poker tournament created by poker pro Jennifer Harmon. The event was created to raise money for the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The tournament was a great success and raise...

Poker players will be excited to know that the upcoming Suzie and Howard Lederer Celebrity Charity Poke tournament will feature a great first place prize. The tournament will be offering a $20,000 seat to an episode of NBC’s Poker After Dark. This is the first Celebr...

Twitter is the latest online trend to hit the internet and everyone is doing it. If you are not familiar with Twitter it is a social networking site where people can keep track of their friends. Each person is allowed only a few words to describe what they are doing. It has be...

Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, who are part of the CEREUS network, are both hosting a large prize rake race. The race is taking place this month and players have the chance to win a piece of the $530,000 prize pool. For players to qualify in the rake race, they only hav...

Christian Vieri is a former player of an Italian football team has decided he might eventually try his hand at a professional poker career. Vieri has stated he will not give up football just yet but he enjoys poker so much he might as well give it a go once he is done with foo...

This past weekend, BodogLife hosted a special tournament to celebrate the Easter holiday. Bodog held a $20,000 Added Easter Sunday Special Tournament and three hundred and eighty seven players logged on to compete. The buy-in was $109 to participate but with the $2...

Poker players and fans alike will be excited to learn that a new poker radio show is about to hit the air waves. The new show is titled The Poker Show and the host of the show will be Jesse May. The show will air on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays from 8pm to 12am.

The new show...

All the major online poker rooms have been holding their large poker tournament series and pretty soon it will be Bodog’s turn. Bodog Poker just announced the schedule for their Poker Open III which will begin April 26th and continue until May 3rd.

Bodog has decided to ...

The Spring Championship of Online Poker has ended and it went out with a bang. Each event had three buy-ins for players so they have the chance to compete, no matter what their bank roll. The Main Event was the last tournament to take place and the name of the game was No Limi...

Harrah’s Entertainment is gearing up for the third annual World Series of Poker Europe and they recently announced the schedule for the tournament series. The WSOPE will begin on September 17th and will continue until October 1st.

The WSOPE will take place in London, En...

Poker players will be excited to know that the California State Poker championship has been rescheduled and will now begin much earlier than anticipated. The original date for the championship was September 4th but it will now begin on April 30th and continue until May 24th.

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April 15th through the 18th marks the second stop on the European Masters of Poker championship and it will take place in Varna, a city of Bulgaria. Many of the top poker pros are expected to attend and it is estimated that three hundred players will be competing for the top p...

Poker players are gathering in Dublin, Ireland today to begin competing in the Irish Poker Open. The City West Hotel is hosting the event as it begins at 2pm. It has been estimated that six hundred players will be competing in the event and should create a large prize pool of ...

The Women In Poker Hall of Fame announced this week that three women will be inducted to the Hall of Fame this June. The induction ceremony will part of the Ladies International Poker Series schedule as the Women In Poker Hall of Fame is an extension of LIPS.

The three women ...

BodogLife will be celebrating the Easter holiday by adding $31,000 to five different tournaments they will be offering this weekend. The special tournaments will begin tonight and continue until Easter Sunday. Tonight the Easter weekend celebration will begin with the Pas...

Nick ‘Stinko_Mikko’ Rainey is a poker pro and Sit & Go specialist. Nick has used his skills as a poker specialist to break a world record. Nick successfully broke the world record for the most Sit & Go’s played online in one month.

The previous world...

Matt Graham otherwise known as mattg1983 is the latest of the crop of young poker talent to be signed by a top online poker room. UltimateBet recently announced that Graham is the newest member of the Star Players Team.

Graham is twenty five years old and has seen great succe...

As summer approaches poker fans and players alike will be glad to know that Europe’s largest free poker festival will be back for its third edition in August. Poker in the Park III will be back on August 13th and 14th in the middle of Leicester Square Park.

The consumer...

Every Sunday Full Tilt Poker holds their $750,000 guaranteed tournament. Players log on to compete in the weekly tournament in the hopes of becoming the latest winner. This past Sunday it was SCNoodle who took home the first place prize of almost $140,000. Three thous...

It was recently announced that Jason Alexander will be hosting a celebrity poker tournament in May to raise money for domestic violence victims in Los Angeles, California. The event will draw celebrities and poker pros alike to raise money for the worthwhile cause.

Alexander ...

Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov are two of the newest additions to Team PokerStars. The two have been working with the site since last year on a limited basis but now they have been signed as full fledge members of the poker team.

Eastgate became the youngest player ever to w...

Fans of NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship will be glad to know that the new season will begin to air on NBC April 12th. The channel has twelve hours of footage that was filmed from the three day event. The show will air for six consecutive weeks from 12pm to 2pm...

The Advertising Standard Authority is constantly looking at advertisements created by online gambling companies and making sure they are appropriate for viewing. Sometimes ads are found appropriate and other times they are not and the ASA bans them. The most recent advertiseme...

Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo used to be a familiar face at PokerStars, the giant online poker room. Three years ago Bonomo was banned by PokerStars for multi-accounting while competing in online poker tournaments. Bonomo has worked hard to show that he has changed his...

Poker rooms and casinos are constantly adding new games and features to keep up the competitive market. Especially during these rough economic times, it is best to keep your poker room or casino current so players will continue to visit.

PKR is the latest online poker room th...

Online poker rooms have been steadily offering satellites and various tournaments for their players to win seats to the 2009 World Series of Poker. Several packages are up for grabs at many different online poker rooms for many different events at this year’s WSOP. Ladbr...

The 2009 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza II begins today in Las Vegas at the Venetian. Twenty four events will take place during the tournament series with games of no limit hold’em, pot limit Omaha, Omaha eight or better and H.O.R.S.E.

Each event will begin at Noon an...

Full Tilt Poker has snapped up the latest hot phenomenon in online poker, Andrew Feldman. Feldman is a twenty year old United Kingdom poker pro who has seen recent success and caught the eye of one of the largest online poker rooms in the world.

The news of Full Tilt signing ...

Lock Poker played host to the Bluff Online Poker Challenge this past month as twenty five online poker players competed to see who could earn the biggest bankroll from just $200. Several big name players were competing but it was Brian Hawkins who was able to outplay the f...