PokerStars is the number one poker room for a reason. The online poker room offers their players the best in online and live tournament events and to maintain their status as the top online poker room, PokerStars has announced a new live poker tour.

The Italian Poker Tour wil...

Reality television is a hot commodity these days and it seems that it rules the airwaves. People love to see other people’s lives, how they live on a day to day basis or how they will fair in competition. There are so many different kinds of reality shows on television t...

Australia has one of the strictest ruling systems when it comes to consumer gaming. Many times first person shooter games are banned from the country but this time they have banned a poker game created by WiiWare.

The new game is called Sexy Poker and it was created by Gamelo...

With the WSOP beginning this week bookmakers have released their odds on who will win the most bracelets as well as who will be the biggest money winners. Several events have attracted bookmakers to post many different betting options for things that will happen at this year&r...

Three hundred and twenty eight players logged on to compete in the PokerStars Super Tuesday tournament which created a first place prize of $68,250. Online player Anton “Antoshka” Smolanskiey was able to outlast the field and take the first place win. When fin...

Players can finally begin to flex their skills at the poker table as the 2009 WSOP kicks off today. Players have been practicing online as well as at the felt to ready themselves for the stiff competition that will take place at the most anticipated poker series of the year.

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The Full Tilt $1K Monday tournament saw a good turnout of 341 players which would give the first place winner just over $85,000. Matt Shepsky was able to pull through being one of the lowest stacks at the final table to take home the first place win. When final table ...

Check Raise Management is a company that helps poker pros manage their careers and affairs in the poker industry. Having only been in the business six months, Check Raise Management has been able to sign several poker pros. The latest addition to the list of players represente...

Scott Gray and John O’Shea of BoylePoker will be participating in poker tournaments at BoylePoker to earn the online poker rooms players more money for tournament prize pools. The two will be participating in a mini ECOOP series which will take place this week.

Both pro...

Paris Hilton has many things: fame, beauty, money. But one thing she does not have is good luck with vehicles. Paris likes to drive Bentley’s but has not been able to keep one for very long. At a recent party in Hollywood Paris’s Bentley was vandalized. So to help ...

If you have been hiding under a rock somewhere then you may not know that Joan Rivers spoke harsh words to Annie Duke during the Celebrity Apprentice. Annie will now get her back during her upcoming charity poker tournament.

The tournament is called Sucking out on the Rivers ...

Online poker room PKR recently announced they have teamed up with the World Series of Poker to air twenty four bracelet events from the 2009 WSOP. Poker lovers will be able to view the WSOP events via PKR’s free broadcast at the website.

PKR will be the only place playe...

Yet another online poker room has created a professional poker team to represent them at live events. RPM Poker is the latest online poker room to create a new team and it has a good deal of players on the team. The best young stars in the game of poker have been added to the ...

Monday May 25th will kick off the Binion’s Poker Classic at the Binion’s Horseshoe in Las Vegas. The casino will host the poker series which will include forty four tournaments during the summer months. The tournament will continue to July 8th when the final table ...

G4 is the television station to tune into when you want to learn about the latest gadgets, video games and all things manly. The station recently announced a new show they have created called 2 Months, $2 Million. The show will feature four friends who have exceptionally h...

The Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada will be hosting the second annual Grand Poker Series beginning on June 6th and continuing until July 5th. The series will feature daily tournaments at the casino’s events center, the Grand, as well as cash games and special t...

Online poker room Titan Poker is offering their players a chance to earn a seat at this year’s World Series of Poker for a very low buy-in. tournaments start at just eighty four cents and then increase for those with a larger bankroll. This is an excellent opportunity fo...

The 2009 World Series of Poker television schedule has been released by ESPN and it is lacking when it comes to bracelet events. The sports station will air only four events and only two will be bracelet events.

The Main Event will be aired with the finale having twenty five ...

One hundred and eight players competed in the Swansea stop of the Sky Poker UK Tour (SPUKT) which took place at Aspers Casino last week. It was Aaron Hopkins who outlasted the field and took the £1800 first place prize. Hopkins also earned a seat to the SPUKT Grand Final.

After some controversy when it first began the new radio show, The Poker Show, will be featuring big names in poker this week. The Poker Show is hosted by Jesse May, Padraig Parkinson and Matt Broughton and they will be discussing the latest in poker with the pros this week.

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WSOP Champion and poker pro Scotty Nguyen has signed an exclusive deal with Expekt Poker to be the online poker sites poker ambassador. This is a great opportunity for Expekt Poker to grow even further with the Scotty by their side.

Scotty stated in a press release why he cho...

Harrah’s casino in New Orleans will be hosting the final Circuit championship of the 2008-09 WSOPC season beginning this Monday. Many players should be turning out to compete in the championship as it is the last one of the season.

On Sunday the 17th the casino will be ...

The 2009 World Series of Poker will begin very soon and to kick off the tournament series ND’s the Club inside the Rio will be hosting a special celebration to get everyone ready to compete in the most anticipated event in poker.

The WSOP is taking place at the Rio All-...

The Canadian Poker Tour will be hosting the Canadian Open Poker Championship beginning today in Calgary, Alberta. The event will take place at the Stampede Casino and will consist of the Main Event with a $5,000 buy-in. The competition will be a heads-up tournament. Playe...

PokerStars Super Tuesday tournament saw three hundred and sixty players fighting for the first place prize. First place was worth just over $70,000 and it would be online player Viirusss who took down the last pot to claim the win. Viirusss was down in chips when final ta...

The largest poker exposition in the world, the Gaming Lifestyle Expo, will be back for 2009 on July 2nd through the 5th but this time the event will be called PokerPalooza. This time the event will focus on the social, interative and fun aspects of the game of poker. PokerPalo...

The PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) event in Sydney has ended and  Paren Arzoomanian outlasted the field of four hundred and ninety three players to take home the first place prize of $246,500. Second place went to Lisa Walsh who earned $162,6...

Poker players will be excited to learn that online poker room, Boylepoker, has launched the World Series of Poker Fantasy League, which allows players to guess which five players will earn a WSOP bracelet when the 2009 WSOP begins.

All players have to do to enter is to fill o...

Harrah’s Entertainment has announced a change for the 2009 World Series of Poker Bracelet Ceremony. This year the bracelet winners will be invited to the Rio to receive their bracelet at the Amazon Room. The winners will be awarded their bracelet at 2:20 PM the day after...

The first Sunday Warm-Up for the month of May took place last week at PokerStars online poker room and it was online player sirpietah who walked away with the win. Four thousand one hundred and seventy five players competed in the tournament which had a buy-in of $215. The...

With the World Series of Poker rapidly approaching, more and more online casinos will be offering satellites for players to gain a seat to an event of the series. However land casinos will be offering seats as well. The latest casino to confirm satellites is Mountain View Casi...

The second largest online poker room and one of the most popular, Full Tilt Poker, has redesigned the look of their website. The site offers players a new look as it has been changed to a more modern contemporary feel with black and gray accents.

The new look is sleek and coi...

An announcement was recently made by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety to try and block state citizens from playing on commercial gambling websites, which includes poker sites. The Minnesota state director of the Poker Players Alliance, Matt Werden issued a statement o...

It was recently announced by HollyWood Poker, of the OnGame Network, that they have now been added to the UK White List. Vista Global Inc, the parent company of HollyWood Poker, has received a Remote Gambling License from Gibraltar.

Receiving the gambling license now means th...

A new online poker room recently launched called 5PMPoker and they offer special options that you may not find at other poker rooms. 5PMPoker offers players free Host Your Own Tables as well as On-Demand Tournaments.

The free Host Your Own Tables section allows players to inv...

An online poker network recently announced they have reached a great milestone in their online history. The International Poker Network, of Boss Media, is a very popular online poker network in Europe and they just announced the registration of their 3 millionth player.

This ...

Many of the biggest and most popular online poker rooms are offering players several options to qualify for WSOP events. Bodog Poker recently announced they will be running WSOP qualifiers that will be easy to enter and cheaper than most.

The qualifiers begin this week and un...

The second stop on the Bluff Europe Poker Academy lecture series will take place in Birmingham at the Broadway Casino on May 9th with poker pros teaching novice players the ways of the game of poker. Paul Jackson, Dave Ulliot and Alex Rousso will be lecturing at the Academy.

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June 5th and 6th marks the first poker teaching academy for women who will be held at the new Hard Rock Poker Lounge in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The academy will be offered by the High Heels Poker Tour Academy and will feature such women poker pros ...

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...

The 2009 ECPokerTour Salzburg has ended and one hundred and twenty three players entered the three day tournament in Austria with twenty countries represented by the players. The tournament was held at the Alpine Palace Card Casino which is a five star establishment.

On the f...

The Jesse May Poker Show aired this week for the first time on the radio and it already has started a controversy. The first three episodes this week saw major controversy after a few callers phoned in to the radio show and made a few off color comments.

May, Matt Broughton a...

The PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour event in Melbourne has ended with Chris Levick defeating the playing field at the Crown Casino. Levick is an entrepreneur in Australia who has seen success behind the scenes in the poker industry so it was about time he saw some ...