The SKYCITY Festival of Poker is set to begin in October and along with the poker festival, SKYCITY will be hosting a Poker Academy with Joseph Hachem and Lee Nelson teaching the seminar. Fans will be able to learn the skills of Texas Hold’em, tournament style, from the ...

Paul Featherstone of Woodland, California will get the chance of a lifetime tonight as he will compete against some of the best professional poker players in the world. Paul won the chance to play in the Dream Match on Poker After Dark after he won an online free roll.

The sh...

PKR has announced that they will be holding an Oktoberfest celebration for the second year in a row beginning October 17th. The tournament will feature more than a quarter of a million dollars in cash prizes and twelve events over a twelve day period.

The tournament prize poo...

The Party Poker Den is a side event that takes place in Europe while the World Series of Poker Europe is taking place. This will be the third time the Den has taken place and many are expected to attend as well as participate. The Den will begin on September 30th and continue ...

GSN recently announced that the cable networks poker programming will no longer be aired on Monday. The programs will now be aired on Sunday night. The network will air their poker show “High Stakes Poker”.

Kevin Belinkoff, the Vice President of Programming for GS...

PokerStars announced this week that they will be hosting a live tournament in the beautiful Bahamas. The tournament is set to take place in January on the 4th through the 10th of 2009. The Atlantis Hotel and Casino on Paradise Island will be hosting the PokerStars tournament.

Last Friday night in London, the eGaming Review Industry Awards presentation took place. PurePlay was given the award for the Innovation of the Year for excellence in meeting judges’ criteria for developing new methods of maximizing revenue and new revenue-generating mod...

A very interesting and exciting poker match is set to take place on Friday, the day before the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event is set to begin. Annette Obrestad and Doyle Brunson will be testing their skills against each other in a special No Limit Texas Hold’em ...

A new poster campaign was released recently by PokerStars that has now received complaints and even criticism from the Advertising Standards Authority. The ad has received complaint because it supposedly implies that gambling could make someone more confident and courageous.

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As everyone gears up for the upcoming Bodog Poker Open II, players can see the full schedule of events as it has now been released by Bodog. The Bodog Poker Open II is set to begin on September 28th and continue until October 5th. This series will have fourteen events with man...

It was recently announced that the 2008 World Poker Congress would now be endorsed by the Federation Internationale de Poker Association. The World Poker Congress will begin on October 29th through the 30th in Budapest, Hungary.

This will be the third annual World Poker Cong...

The ChiliPoker website announced recently that they have signed an agreement with UKash, a London based e-payment processor. In the agreement, UKash will supply ChiliPoker members with the Washout pre-paid MasterCard that can be used to access earnings from the players account.

Starting on September 23rd the EIG will begin and many new and exciting ideas will be unveiled to the gaming world. The EIG is the European i-Gaming Congress and this will be the seven time the conference has taken place. Live Game Systems, which is a service provider to onlin...

The Road 2 Recovery foundation is a charitable organization that works to support professional AMA Motocross and Supercross members who have been injured. The foundation was created by Jimmy Button after he recovered from his own crash. The foundation has now teamed up with Fu...

Party Poker sent out a press release yesterday that gave an early peak at their brand new design for the online poker table. The new table is set to debut on the site September 23rd, which is a Monday. The debut will be celebrated by a $50,000 customer freeroll on Saturday...

The World Poker Tour Borgata Open took place this past weekend. Five hundred and sixteen players entered the $10,000 buy-in event but only one could be victorious. Vivek Rajkumar managed to outlast the playing field to take down the win. The amazing moment about this tourn...

A new live stage show is set to begin this October called “The Real Deal”. The show will feature two professional poker players that will face a group of randomly selected audience members on stage. The show will be a combination of humor, improvisation, poker and ...

Poker players have yet another tournament to get excited about as Paddy Power Poker has just announced the playing structure for the head line event of the Irish Winter Festival. The tournament will begin on October 25th at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.

The event will featur...

The record for the most consecutive hours of poker played is held by freelance writer Larry Olmsted of the United States. That record stands at 72 hours of consecutive play. David Cain, a poker player, is now in the process of trying to break that record.

Olmsted set the reco...

It was announced today that PurePlay Poker’s Chief Executive Officer, Jason Kellerman, will be speaking at the 7th Annual European i-Gaming Congress and Expo. Kellerman will be speaking on the legislative landscape for online gaming in the United States. The i-Gaming Exp...

Event number 19 of the World Championship of Online Poker was a $25,000 buy-in Heads-up No Limit Hold’em tournament. The event had a $1.6 million guaranteed prize pool and quite a few players entered. However no byes were allowed so the playing field was cut down...

Event number 20 of the World Championship of Online Poker was a two day $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament. The final continued today with forty three players left out of a field of 3,467. Each player left was guaranteed a cash prize out of the $3,467,000. Two ...

When most players go to the casino to play a little poker, they imagine having fun, drinking a few beers and hopefully taking home more money than they came in with.

A player might expect a little action especially if they continue playing well into the night but one thing th...

The European Championship of Online Poker III (ECOOP) is set to begin November 24th and will continue until December 7th of 2008. This tournament was created by Titan Poker and will be the third one ever to take place. Titan Poker says that this year's event will be bigger...

SkyCity has announced that some of the biggest poker players in the world are set to play in New Zealand's largest ever poker tournament.  The first ever SkyCity Festival of Poker will start on October 4th and will run until October 12th.  The tournament is expec...

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Brank has introduced HR 6870, if your unfirmiliar with what HR 6870 is it's the Payment System Protection Act.  The bill will ensure "that implementation of proposed regulations under subchapter IV of chapter 53 of ti...

It was announced this past Tuesday that CardRunners and StoxPoker, both poker video instruction websites, would merge their training libraries together. The two sites will join forces as one company but will focus on different segments of the market. The two together now form ...

PKR has seen great success in the past weeks and they continue to move forward. The online poker site recently announced that they would host their first ever live event this November in London. Players will have three days to play poker the PKR way.

The live poker festival w...

There's a fight happening in Australia and no it's not boxing.  The fight is video poker machines, where their allowed to be located, imposed limits and some want them banned completely.  One such plan is to ban video poker machines from clubs and some are op...

Since the end of the Macau tournament of the Asian Poker Tour, three professional poker players have been signed on to serve as ambassadors. The APT released a press release that stated the pros would represent the APT on the world poker circuit. The three poker pros chosen ar...

Trent Tucker is a former University of Minnesota and NBA basketball star that founded the Trent Tucker Non-profit Organization. The organization holds a celebrity poker tournament every year to raise funds for their charity. This is the tenth year the organization has held the...

Bodog Poker is going to be offering up their largest ever guaranteed prize pool in history for their Bodog Poker Open II. The Main Event is going to start on October 5th at 4pm EST.  The first ever Bodog Poker Open made it's debut in March, 2008 and saw 596 players c...

The World Championship of Online Poker is one of the most anticipated online tournaments in the poker industry. Players sign on all over the world to try and win a WCOOP Bracelet and bragging rights till the next event. Players have won from many different places all over the ...

Last week, PokerStars announced that they were now ready to launch their new downloadable Mac poker software. The poker website had finished the beta testing phase of the Mac software and launched it just in time for Mac players to participate in the World Championship of Onli...

After the Macau tournament was over the Asian Poker Tour (APT) signed three top professional poker players to serve as their ambassadors.  The new ambassadors for the APT are J.C. Tran, Quinn Do and Nam Le.  They job as ambassadors will be to represent the APT on the...

Ever since the 2008 Beijing Olympics began, talk has been swirling about Michael Phelps and poker. The super athlete won eight gold medals and broke several world records during the Beijing Olympics and stated during his time away from swimming he enjoyed poker. It was with th...

The World Championship of Online Poker event five took place this past weekend and the turnout was tremendous. This event was a $10,000 buy-in high roller event and 321 players showed up moving the $2 million guaranteed prize pool up to $3,210,000. The top finisher...

Back to school usually means new classes, teachers and buying school supplies. For students attending Dawson College in Montreal, back to school means “let’s go play poker!” The school recently passed out a planner that contains information about the school a...

When you think of poker you don’t necessarily connect it up with hockey. While the two sports don't necessarily go hand in hand they now have something in common, Mats Sundin. Hockey fans know him as the Olympic Champion who has played for the Quebec Nordiques and To...

Dublin, Ireland has achieved the title of European Poker Capital for 2008 by Bluff Europe Magazine.  Dublin replaced last year's winning city, London and put it in second place.  Vienna came in third, followed by Amsterdam and Barcelona came in fifth. Bluff Euro...

The online poker site, PKR.com has reached yet another mile stone. The site just announced that they have signed their two millionth player. This announcement comes less than one year from when the site signed their one millionth player to play poker.

There are only a handful...

Casino Affiliate Program officials are getting ready for this year’s online gaming industry conference event.  The conference is titled CAP Euro Barcelona and is going to take place in Barcelona, Spain.

The conference will be taking place over a four day period com...

The Poker Players Alliance along with the American Gaming Association will be holding a charity poker tournament today that will benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

Around 125 players are expected to participate in the event and more than 200 are expected to attend. A ...

Connecticut poker players are probably a lot happier now that they have a new live poker room. The Mohegan Sun held a grand opening this past Friday for their brand new casino addition. The new addition is a 64,000 square foot building and called the Casino of the Wind.
 
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Not too long ago there were a few dark days for poker when the UIGEA passed but poker has been back for some time and continues to get bigger each day.  Poker is in more homes across the world then ever before, so poker sites are continuing to update their software to inc...

Nowadays it seems that poker players are given more opportunities than in the past. New players can find themselves signed by major poker websites to play on their poker teams and older players have more opportunities to show their knowledge now more than ever.

Players earn a...

ESPN is about to be every poker players favorite channel. Beginning tonight the sports giant will start airing the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event episodes. Every Tuesday a new Main Event episode will be shown. These episodes will continue until the almost live shows wil...

If you want to play in a major tournament in Las Vegas Caesars Palace has got you covered.  The annual Caesars Palace Classic is going to start in October and their poker room is going to be giving away $400,000 dollars worth of seats into the Main Event. There are t...

The Grosvenor Grand Prix is set to take place on October 30th and continue until November 2nd 2008. The Limit Hold’em event will be held at the Grosvenor casino in Walsall.

The Grosvenor Grand Prix is one of Europe’s most popular tournaments. This event is unique ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith will be returning to play in next year’s Par and Poker Celebrity Challenge, which will take place the week of the Super Bowl. The Par and Poker Celebrity Challenge brings out all types of celebrities who want to try their skills in the ...