The third largest online poker network in the world was formed yesterday as two major online poker sites that are both under the same company formed CEREUS.  Absolute Poker and UltimateBet are the two that have formed CEREUS and it is expected to launch in August.

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PokerStars is going to be making use of thier live poker room in the Grand Waldo Casino in Macau by hosting another Macau Poker Cup this weekend.  The Macau Poker Cup is going to be played over three days starting today with a charity tournament that will benefit the Cari...

While a lot of focused on the World Series of Poker there was another major tournament happening at the same time in Las Vegas.  The World Poker Tour's Bellagio Cup IV was won last week by Mike Watson from Toronto, Canada.  He got $1,673,770 dollars for his f...

While GSN is no longer the home of the World Poker Tour they are still going to be airing thier popular television show, "High Stakes Poker".  They have confirmed this with an announcement from the Game Show Network that said this great show will again be appearing this y...

Many professional poker players and amateurs were in Las Vegas recently trying their hand at the World Series of Poker and Marcus Gustafson was one of them while he didn't cash at any of the events he didn't walk away empty handed either. On July 2nd, Betfair Poker...

Bodog Poker is always thinking of ways to get their players to some of the best live events around the world.  They have sent their players to exotic locations to play poker, most recently to the World Series of Poker and now they are offering thier players the chance to ...

Titan Poker is running Super Satellites so they can send thier finest players to the Asian Poker Tour event in Macau.  So far nine players have already started packing their bags since they won thier qualifiers.  But Titan Poker wants to send more of their poker tale...

There is going to be a charity tournament in Las Vegas this Weekend and the host is going to be retired professional basketball player Chris Webber. Chris is getting poker and sports celebrities together on Friday, July 25th at Planet Hollywood during C-Webb's Bada Bling C...

With the recent cheating scandals at both Absolute Poker and UltimateBet most major online poker rooms are beefing up their security so that their players will feel completely secure playing in their online poker sites.  So they are installing a new player protection product t...

Titan Poker has announced the launch of thier new Russian language site, they will be offering software, website and support service now in Russian.  This brings Titan Poker's language variations to up to 12 they already offer; English, Spanish, French, Italian, Germ...

On Sunday, July 20th Cayetano Garcia made poker history as the oldest person ever to win a major live poker tournament in Europe.  Garcia is 75 years old and he took the crown at the final table of the Everest Poker sponsored Spanish Poker Tour in Valencia. 

He plow...

PokerStars is offering their players a chance at a seat in Barcelona, Spain for as little as a $2.22 buyin.  PokerStars is the proud sponsor of the European Poker Tour and they are offering their players a virtual buffet of options to get their seat at the EPT Barcelo...

Many major online poker rooms that allow customers from the United States and a few sports betting operations that have high volume have been hit hard with payment issues after a check processing service closed their doors.  The affect of the online poker industry was hig...

Everest Poker is celebrating a record turnout during their first year of sponsoring the Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.  Earlier this year on March 5th Everest Poker and Harrah's Entertainment Inc. signed a multi year agreement that included satellite tourn...

Party Poker is going to be celebrating their 7th birthday on Sunday, August 10th with a $1 million dollar prize pool.  They are the top poker room in Europe and they are going to be partying with their $1,000,000 dollar guaranteed Birthday Party Bonanza tournament.

Marc Couper has won his biggest gamble ever, he quit his IT job to become a poke player and ended up winning £60,000 in the six months since he quit.  He gave up microchips for chips of another sort after he realized that he could double his annual salary as a compu...

The Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic is viewed as one of the highlights of the year.  If you are one of the players that wants to go Aruba and lay on the sunny beaches and play poker then this weekend is your chance. Ultimate Bet is going to be running a single satellite ...

For those that didn't make it to Las Vegas for the 2008 World Series of Poker ESPN is going to start airing the action tomorrow night.  Tomorrow at 8pm ESPN is going to air their coverage of Event No. 1 of the WSOP in which Nenad Medic was the first place winner. Eve...

Poker After Dark is going to be featuring young online superstars and legendary live pro's next week.  They are trying to help end the age old debate out who is better, online or live players by pitting them against each other. The lineup is going to include such pla...

Doyles Room is going to be giving their players the chance to win a $4,000 dollar Main Event prize package to sun filled Costa Rica.  For those players that win one of the packages they will be off to the La Condesa Hotel in Monte de la Cruz. Satellites will be start...

Texas Hold'em players are going to be playing for gamblers dream trip to Las Vegas at Snowshoe Mountain resort this weekend after the state lottery Commission officials noted that nothing was going to be wagered and there wasn't a buyin so the game was free to play. T...

The Venetian Hotel and Casino just wrapped up their 2008 Deep Stack Extravaganza series as it  ended yesterday with thier $5,000 dollar championship event.  The winner was Julian Thew who got $251,000 dollars for her win and she is also known for having won ...

With the major win still fresh in a lot of peoples minds, 21 year old amateur poker player Michael Schwaiger has proved that you don't need to sit at the felts for years to win big.  Michael became very happy when he took home Sunday's $250,000 dollar Guarante...

Poker770 has come up with a great idea to bring in new customers that is definately original.  Their idea is that a players first deposit it totally refunded.  New players can also take part in their "First Chance" exclusive tournament, this tournament is only open t...

Bookmakers have started accepting bets on who be the winner of the World Series of Poker's Main Event when it resumes on November 9th.  Only nine players remain in the competition with Dennis Phillips as the chip leader as he is currently holding 26,295 million chips.

In between now and November 9th when the Main Event of the World Series of Poker resumes there is going to be a lot of betting on the result of the final table going on and Paddy Power is one such bookmaker that has released their early odds.

The odds are based mostly on the ...

Rakeback Stat is establishing themselves as one of the industry's leading rakeback providers.  They have just launched thier Daily Rakeback Payments for all players. They have been building upon their current daily rake statistics functionality by now allowing player...

PokerRoom is offering thier players the chance to sit in luxury at the PokerIsland.  On the PokerIsland players will be battling it out for the opportunity to win a one year membership with team PokerRoom.  On the PokerIsland players will sit in the lap of luxury whi...

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is now in it's second year and is becoming one of the great events to play in on the UK poker circuit.  The tour features a series of £1,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em tournaments that will take place at Grosvenor Casinos acro...

Back in October of 2006 police raided a home outside of Charleston and cited 23 players that were playing a $20 dollar tournament.  At the time five men were charged and they are now going to have their preliminary trial on August 22nd where they will get their chance...

With this year's World Series of Poker almost over with the final table awaiting to play it's now time to think of the 2009 World Series of Poker.  Bodog Poker has already begun awarding seats into next year's World Series of Poker.  Bodog Poker hosted a...

A lot of players tend to wear dark sunglasses at live tournaments so their eyes don't give away any clues.  Royal Poker Eyewear has launched a new line of revolutionary state of the art poker glasses that will give poker players a superior way to shield their eyes fro...

The last event in this year's World Series of Poker was the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em tournament.  The tournament had a $500 dollar buy in and got underway on Monday, July 14th and continued through to Tuesday with 930 entrants competing for a share of...

Poker Stars is going to be offering a poker camp to help thier online players prepare for major live tournaments.  The PokerStars Poker Camp will start on September 7th and finish teaching on September 8th in Barcelona. 

The Camp is just a few days before the start ...

When you enter a major live poker tournament you hope to take first place and the biggest prize.  Well since you can't take home first every time why not buy some insurance?  Hollywood Poker is offering players Bubble Insurance for the 2008 World Series of Poker ...

From 6,844 players down to nine we have the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table.  The final table consists of five American Players, two Canadian players and one Dane and Russian player.  All will be competing for the $9.1 million dollar top prize a...

The World Poker Tour has announced a new face will be joining thier Live Updates team.  The new addition to the team is Amanda Leatherman.  The tour is going to kick off on July 11th and Leatherman will be bringing viewers up to date reports from the poker tables.

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There may come a time when players from the United States can play online poker completely legally but it's not going to happen any time soon.   On June 25th the House Financial Services Committee defeated the bill that was submitted by congressman Barney Frank ...

Assemblyman Lloyd Levine says that protection is the main issue with the new online poker law that could take effect in California.  The proposed law would be the first step towards having online poker rooms in California and so far it's made it through the first comm...

There are going to be a few last minute Super Satellites starting tomorrow at 12 pm.  The Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza is going to end thier 45 event tournament series with a $5,000 dollar buyin No Limit Texas Hold'em championship event that will start on Sund...

Bodog Poker has announced the details of their largest ever Guaranteed poker tournament.  On August 10th Bodog Poker is going to replace the usual $100,000 Guaranteed tournament with their largest guaranteed poker tournament ever.  Players can look forward to a m...

Full Tilt Poker will no longer be paying your rakeback monthly as they are now going to be paying these on a weekly basis.  The new payout schedule is going to be effective immediately with the first payouts taking place today.

Effective immediately you will now receive ...

Titan Poker has awarded thousands of dollars and a trip to the Asian Poker Tour Macau to their winning players as part of thier "Day of Freerolls" on June 30th.  The first set of freeroll tournaments were for the first depositors from April to May that earned the required...

The Bad Beat Jackpot is at $200,000 dollars and still rising on the Microgaming Poker Network, this is up 35 percent on previous records according to a statement from the company.  The Bad Beat Jackpot is won when a hand that is a four of a kind, 8's or better los...

Ladbrokes Poker has announced that they have signed Swedish high stakes poker pro Jonas Danielsson as one of their sponsors.  Danielsson plays online as Nebuchad and has won more then $3 million dollars playing online poker.  He also received the Best Online Play...

Poker will be making a comeback at the Mohegan Sun Casino in August.  The casino was convinced that slot machines would better occupy the space then the poker tables.  They thought that slots would bring in far more revenue then they were getting on the rake of card ...

We humans took a hit to our pride 11 years ago when IGM's Big Blue computer beat out World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov.  Well now it seems as if it is our turn again to lose to a poker playing machine.  The Polaris 2 was at the Rio All Suites and Hotel for ...

A poker player from Edmonton proved he was a sore loser after he assaulted a fellow card player in the face in a casino after the person beat him out of a large pot with a better hand.  The sore loser, Hon Van Tran didn't get away with it he was fined $750 dollars...

Full Tilt Poker is known to be the world’s second largest online poker room, but the most activity can be found on any given Sunday, when Full Tilt Poker hosts its most valuable, weekly online poker tournaments – the Sunday Mulligan, the Sunday Brawl and the $7...

The 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off July 3rd as a field of 6,844 paid the $10,000 buy-in to converge on the most prestigious poker tables in the world. Here we are, four days later, and the seats have already dwindled to near half as 3,663 competitors rema...

Absolute Poker has launched a new promotion called "Fame" this month with the promise to reward players with the most innovative prizes.  Players could win anything from diamonds valued at $45,000 dollars to free gas and more great prizes that up for grabs.  To ...

Yesterday a large number of celebrities were in Las Vegas to play in a charity poker tournament where all of the proceeds would go to various charities that are working in Dafur.  Among those sitting at the poker tables were Don Cheadle, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Adam Sand...

PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, has announced the schedule for its most lucrative, 33-event online poker tournament – the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). PokerStars has guaranteed no less than $30 million in the 2008 WCOOP.  

Thanks to its newest sponsored pro, Patrik Antonius, Full Tilt Poker is now hosting four new 6-max high-stakes cash tables. When Full Tilt Poker says “high-stakes”, they mean it! Players will need a minimum of $40,000-$50,000 in their bankroll to even claim...

Event No. 52 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 buyin No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament that kicked off on June 30th and wrapped up on July 2nd with a winner.  In all there were 2,693 people entered into the event to compete for a portion of the $3,675,...

PokerTek has hired a three time World Series of Poker bracelet winner David Slansky as a consultant.  He will be advising the Matthews based software company on their casino products.  He has also authored or co-authored 13 books on poker and gambling theory.

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The schedule for the second annual World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair Poker for 2008 was just announced by Harrah's Entertainment.  The schedule is going to feature four bracelet tournaments and a new addition, the GBP 1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event t...

Citizens are riled over plans of ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist coming to Melbourne to play poker.  Crime victims have called for the ex-convict who once bit off a boxing opponents ear off in the ring to be banned from entering Australia.

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The new season of Poker After Dark on NBC is going to make it's debut on July 15th.  But instead of starting things back up with their traditional six handed $20,000 dollar buy in winner take all tournament thier going to change it up.  The first two weeks of...

Event No. 50 of the World Series of Poker was a $10,000 buyin Pot Limit Omaha World Championship tournament that got under way on June 29th and finished on July 1st.  The top 36 players in the tournament would see a piece of the record making prize pool. There wee a ...

Event No. 51 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 buyin H.O.R.S.E tournament that began on June 29th and finished with a winner on July 1st.  There were a total of 803 players that competed in the event that created a total prize pool of $1,096,095 dollars. ...

Event No. 49 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 buyin No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament that started on June 28th and finished up on June 30th.  A total of 2,718 people paid the $1,500 dollar buyin to create a total prize pool of $3,710,070 dollars.

Saturday night an illegal poker den was raided by local police due to an inside source.  The current occupant of the residence, Jose Luis Esquivel, assistant principal at a local elementary school, was housing a mini-casino. Mission Police Lt. Martin Garza said that inves...

The house members say that there's a loophole somewhere in the state's ban of video poker that needs to be closed.   A House judiciary panel on Tuesday approved  legislation that would somehow eliminate the sweepstakes that would me it possible allow a pers...

Scotty Nguyen the poker pro, won his fifth World Series of Poker Bracelet and almost $2 million in the $50,000 buy in the H.O.R.S.E. tournament.   Nguyen outlasted 148 players to win what has become one of the most prestigious event at the WSOP.The tournament is...

From July 3-6th, the university's poker team will be pitting Polaris against a large n umber of opponents, including Stoxpoker.com coaches Nick Grudzien and IjJay Palansky, and contributer Matt Hawrilenko, who can all boast very good about $1 million USD in lifetime wi...

Hey, to all you poker enthusiasts, the Santa Clarita Vally Jaycees is going to host the 4th anual Texas Hold'em Charity Poker Tournament on Saturday, on July 26th, it's gonna be at the City of Santa Clarita's Actvities Center.   It's only $125 per...

Looking at the casinos within Atlantic City, Chinese-style card games seem to be this city's newest trend. You can find these Chinese card games in close to half of Altantic City's casinos in their Eastern Asia themed areas, such as "Disney China" architecture and surr...