Online poker players will be excited to hear that online poker room, DevilfishPoker, is starting a special rake race tomorrow called the World’s Biggest Rake Chase. The Chase will run from July 1st until September 30th at DevilfishPoker.

There is no charge to enter for ...

A news report recently surfaced about a former royal protection officer who was accused of a million dollar betting and property scam. The former protection officer admitted that colleagues played poker and swapped adult material while at Buckingham palace.

Paul Page is the f...

Bluff Europe has organized the Poker In The Park III for this August and several poker pros have confirmed they will be participating. Around 10,000 people are expected to attend the two day event to enjoy the poker festivities.

Kara Scott, Tom Sambrook, Nick Wealthall, Ian F...

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) recently announced the dates for the National Poker Week and along with that announcement they stated a petition has been started online that will help support the game of poker. To help support the PPA, top online poker room, PokerStars, has a...

The eighth season of the World Poker Tour is set to begin very soon so the WPT has released the schedule of events. This season’s events will be filmed in HD and be aired on the Fox Sports Network allowing poker fans to get in on the action.

The eighth season will have ...

Four hundred and forty six players competed in event #38 of the World Series of Poker but only one would walk away a bracelet winner. The event was a $2,000 limit hold’em tournament and it was Marc Naalden who walked away with the win and his first ever WSOP gold bra...

Part of the Cereus Poker Network, Absolute Poker recently announced they have signed a new poker pro to represent their website. Twenty four year old Matt Vengrin has become the latest sponsored player of Absolute Poker. Vengrin has won over $700,000 while playing poker o...

One of the newest members of the Star Players team at UltimateBet has won a WSOP bracelet. Matt Graham recently won event #40, a pot limit Omaha tournament. Graham was signed to the UltimateBet team in March and now has won almost $700,000 for first place prize. A stateme...

Weekend poker tournaments at the top online poker rooms are very popular including those at PokerStars. Players can compete each week for their share of large guaranteed prizes and this past weekend it was online player Vikidin who won the $1.5 million guaranteed Sunday to...

Unibet is an online gaming operator that owns MariaBingo, an online bingo site. Unibet recently announced the launch of a new sister site to MariaBingo, MariaPoker. The new poker website is a feminine themed online poker room and is designed for all levels of poker players.

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Paradise Poker recently announced they will be hosting a poker festival at the International Club in London in just a few months. The festival will run for two weeks and feature twelve European Ranking events in London.

The events will take place from August 24th to September...

Players have something to look forward to this August as Poker in the Park III is coming to London’s Leicester square. The event is hosted by Bluff Europe and eleven of the United Kingdom’s major pub leagues.

The event is scheduled for august 13th at 5:00 pm to ha...

Online poker room UltimateBet has signed a new player to their poker team. Brandon Cantu, age 28, is the newest member of Team UB after a good number of impressive wins at some very large poker events.

Cantu is nicknamed “The Bounty Hunter” and he will now join to...

Twitter is a social networking website that has really taken off in the popularity department. It seems everyone uses Twitter, including celebrities, poker pros, regular people, government officials and anyone else you might think of. Twitter is used by people who want to upda...

Ante Up For Africa, a charity poker tournament created by Don Cheadle and Annie Duke will be taking place at this year’s WSOP. The charity poker tournament benefits those who live in the Darfur region of Africa. This is the third Ante Up For Africa tournament to take pla...

PKR is an online poker room that offers players a 3D playing experience. The online poker room is one of the fastest growing online and they recently re-launched the website with a new look. Along with this the online poker room has a new poker Team and is currently streaming ...

Back in November of 2008 Absolute Poker and UltimateBet joined forces to create the Cereus Poker Network and since that time the online poker rooms have been giving away hundreds of thousands in Bad Beat Jackpots. The current Bad Beat Jackpot on the Cereus Network sits at $...

A tentative schedule has been released by PokerStars for the upcoming 2009 World Championships of Online Poker. The WCOOP is set to begin in September and is said to offer over $40 million in prize guarantees during the forty two event series. The WCOOP will begin on Sept...

The Grand Final of the Sky Poker UK Tour has ended with Robbie Fisher-O’Brien taking home the title win. The tournament took place at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham with 280 players generating a £56,000 prize pool. This gave Robbie a nice first place prize of £...

Many different kinds of people come to Las Vegas to compete in the World Series of Poker. This year’s Series has seen poker pros, celebrities and everyday people competing and next week event #43 will see former New York Senator and the current chairman of the Poker Play...

Team PKR has added a new player to their brand new poker team. The team already has six players and now a seventh has been added. Karl “discomonkey” Fenton is the recent addition to Team PKR. Fenton is well known in the PKR community and is the PKR Live II main eve...

Team RedKings has announced the signing of a new poker player to their poker team. Stephan Kjerstad is now the newest member of Team RedKings. Kjerstad is an up and coming player on the European poker scene and has become quite popular.

Kjerstad is well known in the Norwegian...

Just a few days after winning his first WSOP bracelet of the 2009 WSOP, Phil Ivey won a second one after competing in Event #25. The $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo-8 or Better tournament was won by Ivey after he beat Ming Lee in heads up play. The final table had seve...

Sam Simon is a television producer that likes poker. He likes it so much that he holds private poker games that have said to be so entertaining that they should be on television. Simon recently announced that he will make his fun poker games into a new show that will be debuti...

The Grand Final of the Sky Poker UK Tour will be taking place this weekend at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. The £220 Main event will have a guaranteed prize pool of £25,000 and cameras will be filming the main event as well as side games during the weekend.

But th...

The Poker Show will be featuring an interesting guest list this week when Annette Obrestad, Roland De Wolfe, Steve Sung and Steve Davis appear on the show. Obrestad, De Wolfe and Sung are poker pros of course and Davis is a six time world snooker champion.

Davis will be a gue...

Devilfish poker recently announced the return of the Final Table from Hell series. Players will have five weeks to compete in the Devilfish Bounty Tournaments and the winners of those tournaments will be able to compete in the Final Table from Hell II.

Starting today, every T...

Online poker rooms are giving away packages for players to be able to attend the WSOP and compete in the Main Event. Bodog Poker is one of the online poker rooms giving away these packages and this past Sunday night four more players earned a package to attend the Main event.

Red Cherry Poker, formally known as Swank Poker, have attracted a good bit of attention to their online poker room as they offer something that no other online poker room does; adult entertainment. The online poker room combines poker with adult fun and recent ads released by ...

William Hill Poker will be hosting a special charity tournament on June 26th and they are hoping to break the online record for most players competing in a poker tournament at one time. The special tournament will aid the No Surrender Charitable Trust which was created by Jaso...

Event #16 of the WSOP saw Jeff Lisandro in the chip lead going into final table play. Competition would be fierce with several bracelet winners and top poker pros sitting at the table wanting the title win. But Lisandro would be able to hold on and take down the win which resu...

Cyndy Violette, Jan Fisher and June Field were inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame last week at the second annual induction ceremony. The inductees were joined by last year’s inductees: Barbara Enright, Susie Isaacs, Linda Johnson and Marsha Waggoner to celebra...

A good number of WSOP bracelets have been awarded over the past few days many of which have been firsts for the winning players. One of the lucky players to win their first WSOP bracelet was Jason Mercier when he won the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Tournament this past Wednesday.

Poker pro Steve Sung won his first ever World Series of Poker bracelet when he competed in event #4 of this year’s WSOP. The event was a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Stimulus Special tournament which saw just over six thousand competitors playing for the top prize.

Poker Royalty, the worldwide management and marketing representation firm has announced they will now be representing Doyle Brunson. The ten time WSOP Bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer will be represented by the firm in all aspects of his career including: appearances, c...

The new radio program, The Poker Show, has become quite popular as more and more poker pros visit the show to talk with hosts Jesse May, Padraig Parkinson and Matt Broughton. This week Peter Eastgate will be featured on the show as well as Greg Raymer and Steve Sung.

Last yea...

This week online poker room Full Tilt announced that new restrictions have been placed on seating limits. Players at heads up tables till not have the opportunity to sit and wait for opponents at multiple tables as they have in the past.

Full Tilt announced the changes via em...

PokerPros is a relatively new online poker room but they have managed to stay consistent in the online poker industry. The new poker room is exclusive to the South African market and they recently announced the addition of a free poker room for their players.

The free poker r...

This year the World Series of Poker held a special tournament for past champions of the Main Event. Twenty Champions were invited to the Inaugural Champions Invitational to compete against each other and the winner was none other than the 1983 Main Event Champion Tom McEvoy.

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The end of June will see the third leg of the European Masters of Poker series take place in Prague. The event will take place later this month in the Czech capital with qualification already taking place at many online poker rooms.

The Prague tournament will take place stari...

This past weekend the Fitzwilliam Club in Dublin hosted the Amateur Poker Association and Tour (APAT) Irish Amateur Poker Championships. One hundred and forty four players competed and it was Brian Yates who outlasted the competition to take the first place win.

The buy-in fo...

The Poker Channel is Europe’s largest gaming network on television and they recently announced new distribution agreements in Europe which will give more people the opportunity to view their station as well as offering live horseracing coverage.

Cyprus and Croatia will ...

Everyone enjoys a good stimulus package and the WSOP is no exception. Day 1a of the World Series of Poker $1,000 No Limit Hold’em economic stimulus event broke the previous records for number of competitors with almost six thousand players entering this year’s ...