Major online poker rooms offer their players many options when it comes to online tournament play. the top poker rooms offer large guaranteed prize pools for their tournaments and this brings the players in to compete. Titan Poker recently added a new tournament to their lineu...

PokerStars recently announced they are now offering a new option when it comes to payment solutions. PokerStars has teamed up with Ukash to offer players an easy and secure way to transfer funds at the online poker room.

Ukash is a global e-commerce payment solution that give...

A special charity tournament is taking place this Saturday for the Ante Up For Africa foundation. It was recently announced that poker pro Annie Duke will be participating in the Online Forum Challenge Ante Up For Africa Charity Tournament this Saturday with a bounty on her he...

The Sports Legends Challenge is set to take place in the Bahamas this September and to get ready for their tournament, online poker room Absolute Poker, has started running satellites for the event. Players from Absolute Poker will be able to rub elbows with sports stars and p...

Every Sunday, Bodog poker players enjoy a poker tournament called the $100,000 Guaranteed. The guaranteed tournament offers $100,000 in prize money each Sunday and the players come out in droves to participate and most times the guarantee is increased. This past Sunday...

The United States is known for offering poker academies especially those run by the World Series of Poker. Internationally, poker schools are not as common if they happen at all, until now. The first International Poker School will take place this September in Hertfordshire fo...

Poker pro Phil Hellmuth will be hosting a special tournament in November to benefit families of police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. The event will last three days and feature three different tournaments.

The event is called Hold’em for Heroes ...

The European Poker Tour stop in London is set to begin shortly so PokerStars has now begun offering their players satellites to win their way to the event. Satellites can be found with low buy-ins or larger buy-ins for those who have the bank roll. Players can go to PokerStars...

The APT Macau Festival was anticipated by many poker players especially those who play professionally. The festival had several events but the main attraction was the Main event. The main event had 325 players competing and surprisingly it was an online qualifier who took the ...

Paddy Power Poker may not be at the top of the list when it comes to online poker rooms but they are a consistent poker room that has a loyal following. The online poker room recently announced they would be joining the ranks of the major poker rooms by offering a $1 milli...

Poker pro, Tom Dwan, recently announced he wanted to hold a live Million Dollar Challenge which would see Dwan face poker players in a special heads up game. Sammy George is the first player to sign up for the challenge and Dwan is hoping to find three more players for the game.

Paul Jackson a veteran in the United Kingdom poker circuit was quoted recently in an article by Poker Player magazine as stating that the World Series of Poker is only accessible to sponsored poker players as they are the only ones who can afford the large tournaments. He also...

The Poker In The Park Festival in Leicester Square in London has ended and the festival saw almost 20,000 poker enthusiasts enjoying the festival. Visitors were able to enjoy free poker tournaments, live tutorials and the chance to meet poker pros and learn from their poker kn...

The 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival saw the first ever JBet Battle Of The Nations takes place and it was the team from Korea who won the event. teams representing different nations were competing for the top prize and bragging rights for winning the inaugural event.

The ...

With the Irish Winter Festival taking place in just two months, Paddy Power Poker is making preparations for the event. The online poker room has made changes to the festival to make it more enjoyable for the players.

Paddy Power Poker has made several changes but the main ch...

Online player Elena M. was able to outlast two poker pros in this past weekend’s Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed poker tournament at Bodog. The top prize of the tournament was $25,000 and Elena M. was able to earn the first place prize even though this was the first t...

PKR Poker has been in the news a great deal recently. The online poker room has made a few changes to the site as well as celebrated a milestone. The site has added a new payment option, a new gaming option as well as a new Jacks or Better Video Poker Machine. The site also ju...

Top poker pros are constantly competing against each other in online poker play. poker pros have the bank roll to play the high stakes games and playing against other top pros gives the players the competition they need. David Benyamine is one poker pro who has had a very succ...

The Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival has begun and many poker pros have headed to Macau to participate. One group of poker pros that turned up for the festivities is The Poker Pack. A group of Asian poker pros that serve as ambassadors for the APT. one of the team members, Davi...

The British Masters Poker Tour stopped recently in Nottingham for the latest portion of their poker tour. The poker tournament was low on players, only 82 registered, which created the smallest playing field on the tour. Although the playing field was small the players still m...

Bodo Sbrzesny of Germany is the latest member of the new Party Poker, Poker team. Bodo has been a player at Party Poker for many years and is a Palladium Elite member on the site. The twenty nine year old earned the Elite status by earning at least 50,000 Party Points in one y...

The Borgata Poker Open Championship is set to begin very soon and the Borgata casino in Atlantic City recently announced the details for the World Poker Tour event. The series will run from September 9th to the 24th and the Championship event will offer a buy-in of $3,500 ...

Reports have been surfacing that several new poker movies are presently being filmed or are about to film. One movie is set to star rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson. The new film’s main focus is the world of professional poker and will also star other fa...

This Sunday poker fans will be able to view the new poker show created by G4. The G4 Network will debut the 2 Months, $2 Million television show at 9pm ET. The show will feature four online pros between the ages of 22-24 who will try to earn $2 million collectively ove...

This edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series will see a special charity poker tournament take place. the tournament will be an Ante Up For Africa event and will be held on August 15th to raise money for the situation in the Darfur region of Africa.

The tournament will be...

Poker players get signed to poker rooms almost every day but it is a bit different when a poker player moves from one poker room to the next. Liv Boeree is a poker pro who recently moved from one poker room to another though it really isn’t a big deal because both rooms ...

PKR Poker recently announced they are now in a partnership with Xhilarate which is a group of poker massage therapists. Xhilarate are a team of massage girls that have appeared at the GUKPT and WSOPE to offer massages to players. The team will be working with PKR at the upcomi...

Anyone who knows anything about poker knows that the movie “Rounders” starring Edward Norton and Matt Damon played a pivotal role in bringing the game of poker especially the game of Texas Hold’em to the forefront. The movie is what made the game of poker as ...

The upcoming Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival will be featuring several side events and perhaps the most exciting is set to take place next Wednesday. The JBet Battle of the Nations will see several teams from all over the world competing in Macau.

Teams from Australia, the Un...

Poker In the Park has been in all the headlines lately as it is fast approaching. The latest news is that top poker publication Bluff Europe is going to be hosting special Heads-Up Poker electronic tables at the festival. Bluff Europe is organizing Poker In The Park and the ta...

Online player AlkaliEars was really lucky this past week when he lost a hand at the International Poker Network bad beat tables. AlkaliEars held four jacks when he lost and this triggered the bad beat jackpot and paid everyone involved from the jackpot.

The lucky loser earned...

The upcoming Poker In The Park festival in London is setting up a special place for novice players to go to make the game fairer for those who do not know the game very well. PTG Poker will be offered to inexperienced players to help them win more easily than the regular game ...

Fourteen time gold medalist Michael Phelps has been invited to attend the upcoming Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival by the organizer of the event, AsianLogic Limited. The event is set to begin next week and the company sent an open letter to Phelps in the hopes that he will com...

Those who are planning on attending the upcoming Poker In The Park will be happy to learn that a special Tuition Tent will be set up for those attending to learn the game of poker from professionals. Celebrity players will also be joining in to help teach courtesy of Littlewoo...

Lock Poker has been one busy poker room as they just signed seven poker pros to represent them in competition as well as online. Most of the time poker rooms sign one to two players but seven at one time is quite a large number.

The seven players signed to Lock Poker are: Jas...

The coverage continues next week on the World Series of Poker with the footage of the Ante Up for Africa event scheduled to air on the 11th. The tournament footage will begin at 8pm Eastern and will feature some of the biggest names in entertainment as well as poker.

The tour...

SendMyChips is a new website that has opened to give players an opportunity to transfer poker chips to various online poker rooms. The new site is operated by SMC Group Management Limited and offers players a chance to transfer poker chips between certain poker sites included ...

Another Summer Series leg is set to kick off this month for the GUKPT. They recently announced the Coventry event which will take place at the G Casino in the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Paul Davies the Venue Director wanted to go ahead and showcase the casino to players and esta...

The Dusk Till Dawn Deepstack Weekend took place just a few days ago and saw record turnouts. The £300 and £150 ranking events saw record turnouts with 385 players competing. This number broke the previous record of 360 players back in February.

The 385 players com...

The Irish Winter Festival is fast approaching so many of the online poker rooms are offering players a chance to get in on the action. The festival is set to take place in October and CDPoker is just one of many sites offering seats to the event.

CDPoker is offering satellite...

The Gulf Coast Poker Championship is set to begin on September 3rd and continue for twelve days at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi. The event will be hosted by Team PokerStars players Vanessa Rousso and Chad Brown.

This series will host fifteen events with the last eve...

The 2009 NZPT Queenstown SKYCITY Alpine Adventure tournament has ended and Danny Chevalier of Australia was able to outlast the field of 134 players to win the first place prize. Danny earned $87,435 NZ for his efforts. The starting field was made up of over forty players...