PokerStars has announced the launch of the PokerStars Women’s Poker League, a tournament series designed specifically for their female players. In the Women’s Poker League, women will be able to play against players in daily tournaments with buy-ins as low as $...

The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill that would allow Internet gambling operators to acquire licenses allowing them to take wagers from Americans and overturn the ban on financial transactions between banks and online gambling sites. The Internet Gambling Reg...

PartyGaming and bwin, two of the industry leaders in online gambling, have agreed to terms on a merger that should make the new company the largest online gaming business in the world. The new company, which is yet to be named, will be listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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The World Series of Poker staked its claim to the Facebook poker scene by launching an application that will allow people to play free poker against their friends and others on the social networking site. The World Series of Poker app is actually a rebranded version of the pro...

Andy Bloch and the Poker Players Alliance spoke at the Netroots Nation 2010 Conference this week to discuss online gambling and poker. The crux of Bloch’s message was to point out the importance of Internet freedom, even to those who weren’t directly impacted by it...

The security team at Poker Table Ratings released a report today detailing security concerns throughout the Cake Poker Network. The concern was over a “serious vulnerability in the network encoding for the Cake Network” that could result in various types of informa...

The 2010-2011 World Series of Poker Circuit schedule has been released, with a brand new model designed to expand upon the series’ strengths while addressing some of the weaknesses of the series. This year’s circuit will include 12 events, with the first one occurr...

Eight of the nine players at the final table of the SkyCity Alpine Adventure tournament hailed from Australia, meaning it was no surprise when an Aussie ultimately took down the title. The eventual winner was Julian Cohen, who took down $73,630 by winning the Australia-New...

HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc., which operates the Canadian Poker Tour and Canadian Poker Player Magazine, announced this week that both tournament revenues and corporate sponsorships have increased and exceeded expectations for July.

As an example, the 2010 Stamp...

The French online gambling market continues to attract new operators. The latest player to enter the market is a joint venture between Microgaming and 888, which joins operators such as iPoker, PokerStars, PartyGaming, Everest Poker and bwin in the newly opened French sector. ...

Ante Up Magazine has named Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi their 2010 World Series of Poker Player of the Year. Mizrachi has already won a World Series gold bracelet this year, and is still alive in the Main Event for a chance to win a second.

Mizrachi was long k...

PokerStars continues to expand itself as a global brand by launching more local and regional poker events. Their latest event, the Balkan Poker Festival, will place a large poker tournament at the Golden Sands resort, located near Varna, Bulgaria.  

The Balkan Poker Fe...

Sparks flew Wednesday at a Congressional hearing on Representative Barney Frank’s (D-MA) online poker bill, a piece of legislation that would regulate and legalize the online gaming market in the United States.

Discussion on the bill, named HR 2267, featured a panel o...

Online poker room Everest Poker has announced a partnership with Olympique Lyonnais, one of France’s leading football teams. The announcement comes just weeks after Everest Poker obtained a permit to operate a licensed poker room in the French Market.

As part of the d...

Emblaze Productions, producer of the Million Dollar Cash Game television program, has announced that Full Tilt Poker has signed a deal to continue sponsoring the program for the next three years. Full Tilt Poker has previously sponsored the televised events, which feature many...

Cake Poker recently announced the addition of five new sites to the Cake Poker Network. The new network partners include Broadway Tables, Come On, PokerXRC, Unleashed Poker, and WingsPoker. Each site will act as a skin for Cake Poker, allowing players from each site to play ag...

BetUS released their 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event final table odds, making chip leader Jonathan Duhamel the odds-on favorite to take home this year’s title. Duhamel, who leads the field with nearly 66 million in chips, is listed at odds of +275, or 2.75-1.

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PokerStars has frozen 10 player accounts on their site after investigations revealed that the accounts were almost certainly poker bots. The automated poker playing programs were playing nearly identically to one another, both in terms of statistical analysis and in the way th...

A 259 player field battled it out at the Rendezvous Casino, competing for the UK & Ireland Poker Tour: Brighton title. In the end, it was the UK’s own Jamie Burland who finished atop the standings, taking first place and £65,400 in prize money.

The tournamen...

Yosh Nakano, founder and CEO of the International Poker Players Association, recently announced the launch of Pokeriety, a new Facebook poker app. The game allows players to play Texas Hold’em on Facebook, while also incorporating many of the social networking aspects of...

A litany of poker pros and one remaining amateur player will battle it out for the World Series of Poker Main Event Championship, as the November Nine were determined yesterday. A field of 27 players spent the better part of a day working its way down to a final nine, who will...

Just 27 players remain in the World Series of Poker Main Event, as Day Seven cut the field to the final three tables in the race for the coveted gold bracelet. The final 27 contenders for the 2010 World Championship will return to the tables Saturday, when the field will be cu...

The government of Poland has drafted legislation which would regulate most forms of online gambling, but ban online poker, according to a report by CardPlayerEurope.com.

Current European Union law already covers some of the rules that member states must follow when regulated ...

The shocking elimination of Johnny Chan punctuated Day Six of the World Series of Poker’s Main Event, which resulted in the field being cut to just 78 heading into Friday’s Day Seven. All remaining players are guaranteed to win at least $94,942. It took nine ho...

All eyes may be on the World Series of Poker, but that’s not the only action in Las Vegas this week. While the biggest poker tournament in the world was going on at the Rio, the World Poker Tour’s Bellagio Cup VI was also being contested, with none other than Phil ...

At the end of Day Five of the World Series of Poker’s Main Event, just 205 players remain in the race for the coveted gold bracelet. The chip leader heading into the sixth day is Canadian Evan Lampera, but several big names remain in contention as the tournament begins t...

The Canadian province of Quebec has taken another step towards providing legalized online poker to provincial residents, having announced the appointment of a five person committee to oversee the venture by Loto Quebec. Raymond Bachand, the Finance Minister for Quebec, says th...

When Full Tilt Poker first launched in 2004, one of the things that set the site apart from the pack was its innovative software. Fun, colorful and user-friendly, Full Tilt immediately branded itself as an alternate poker room to be reckoned with. Since then, upgrades to the s...

It’s been a good summer for the Spanish. Following on the heals of wins by Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, and the Spanish football team at the World Cup, Spanish poker player Marc Colome took first place at the Estrellas Poker Tour event in Madrid, Spain. Colome defeated Rom...

Day 4 of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event is underway, promising to bring the field into the money before the end of play today. The day began with 1,204 players remaining out of the original field of 7,319, with the field needing to get to 747 before players would be...

According to a recent report by The Economist, the Computer Poker Research Group has developed a computer program that can play heads-up no-limit hold’em at a “low-level professional level.” While poker computers have shown the ability to be quite formidable ...

Poker players in Pennsylvania and Delaware are gaining more and more options for playing live poker, as new poker rooms are opening at a steady rate. Just last week, poker and other table games were opened at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh and The Meadows Racetrack and Casino...

After the end of the second day of play for all players at the World Series of Poker Main Event, just 2,560 out of the original field of 7,319 participants remain in the quest to win the coveted championship. While it’s still far too early to pick out a likely winner, se...

There were worries that a struggling economy might limit the size of the field at the World Series of Poker’s Main Event, but those fears have now passed. The final tally for the 2010 Main Event is 7,319 players, second only to the field of 8,773 that contested the Main ...

PokerStars has announced their schedule for the 2010 World Championship of Online Poker, a three-week long series of events in September that promises to be one of the biggest events in the online poker world this year. The WCOOP was started in 2002, and has been run every yea...

Huck Seed navigated an all-star field consisting of 27 of the world’s greatest poker players on his way to winning the 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. Seed defeated Howard Lederer heads up to claim first place and the $500,000 prize. Seed used a ...

PartyGaming announced that revenue from their poker properties – namely, PartyPoker – is expected to drop between 11 and 13 percent in the second quarter of 2010 when compared to the first quarter of the year. The main cause is a drop in the number of players on Pa...

Brendan Taylor picked up his first career World Series of Poker bracelet Saturday by winning the 53rd event of this year’s WSOP. By winning the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout event, Taylor also took home $184,950. The final table of eight players began at a...

 The fourth annual Ante Up for Africa charity tournament was won by Phil Gordon, who earned a prize of $130,641 for finishing first. The tournament, held each year at the World Series of Poker to help raise money and awareness for the humanitarian situation in Darfur,...

PokerStars has added yet another big name to their Team Pokerstars, further growing their stable of the world’s best poker players. The newest edition is Vanessa Selbst, one of the finest female poker players in the world.

Selbst may not be one of the most famous names ...

Chance Kornuth has a history of success in online poker, but had yet to win a World Series of Poker bracelet. That is, until now. Kornuth took down the $5,000 PL Omaha WSOP event to claim his first ever bracelet, in addition to a prize of $510,095. Kornuth is best kno...

Boxing superstar Evander Holyfield has inked an endorsement deal that will have him promote online poker room RealDealPoker.com. Real Deal Poker is known for being the only online poker room that uses real cards for online play.

The partnership between Real Deal Poker and Hol...

Michael Linn captured his first World Series of Poker bracelet by taking down event #49 at this year’s WSOP, a $1,500 NL hold’em tournament. After working down to heads up play from a field of 2,543 players, Linn defeated Taylor Larkin after a two hour battle t...