Online poker room Devilfish Poker is now hosting special bounty tournaments for players to earn a spot to compete against Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliot in a single table tournament. Devilfish Poker is now bringing back the Final Table From Hell and this time it is the th...

This past weekend Full Tilt Poker hosted their $750,000 guaranteed poker tournament and 4,008 players signed up to compete. The tournament has a buy-in of $200 plus $16 and with so many players competing; the prize pool was increased by over $50,000. The prize...

On September 24th Paul Zimbler broke the continuous heads up poker world record by setting a new time of seventy four hours, twenty minutes and twenty one seconds of consecutive play. Even though Zimbler broke the record it was very tiring for him and he had to be carried away...

The European Poker Tour stop in London is coming soon and PokerStars is getting ready to host the event. The tour stop begins on September 30th and will continue until October 7th with several events for players to participate in.

This edition of the London EPT stop will take...

A press release was recently passed out by online poker room Doyles Room which stated that Doyle Brunson, a living legend of poker, has picked poker pro Chris Moorman as one of his ten handpicked pros to represent his poker room.

Doyle is choosing ten young poker pros to reva...

This Saturday Phil Hellmuth will be making a big entrance when he arrives at the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event. Hellmuth is known for making big entrances and it will be interesting to see what he is planning for this one.

A press release hinted at royalty so H...

The 2009 World Series of Poker Europe is in full swing and the second event of the series has come to an end. 158 players registered to compete in the event and it was Erik Cajelais, a twenty seven year old poker pro from Montreal, who was able to outlast the field and take th...

Carbon Poker recently announced that their bad beat jackpot was hit for over $400,000 and was split between a group of online poker players. The losing player of the poker hand earned just over $210,000 for his bad luck. Baseball127, an online poker player, was compet...

CardPlayer editor Jeff Shulman is one of the nine players who will be returning to the final table for the WSOP Main event this November. To ready himself for the event, Shulman has hired Phil Hellmuth to be his poker coach.

Hellmuth is a great choice for coaching Shulman as ...

A New Delhi man, Ismail Sheikh, put up his eighteen year old daughter as a wager in a recent card game when he ran out of money to wager. Sheikh did not earn a win with the hand and therefore he lost his daughter to the man he was playing against.

As horrible as this sounds, ...

Yesterday the 2009 World Championships of Online Poker finished up at PokerStars and the series prize pool total for all forty five events came to over $50 million. This is an amazing amount of money awarded over just a few days and it goes to show how PokerStars remains t...

Online poker room UltimateBet announced today that they have signed poker pro Joe Sebok to their team of poker pros. Sebok will not only represent the poker room at the felt but he will also be a consultant for media and operation matters.

Paul Leggett the COO of Tokwire Ente...

The Crown Casino has released the schedule for the 2010 Aussie Millions and the tournament series is set to have twenty events. The Main Event will begin on January 24th and run to the 30th with a buy-in of $10,000. The series will take place in Melbourne, Australia and i...

HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc is the owner and operator of the Canadian Poker Player Magazine as well as the Canadian Poker Tour. The company recently announced they will soon be launching their own internet television network. The network will be called Canadian Pok...

Paddy Power Poker recently announced the schedule for the 5th edition of the European Championship of Online Poker. The Championship will be a guaranteed $4.5 million spread over fourteen tournaments. The tournament will take place beginning on November 2rd and ending on D...

The English Poker Open has ended and David La Ronde was crowned the first ever champion. La Ronde had to outlast quite a crowd of competitors to win the first place prize. The event took place at Dusk Till Dawn and several poker pros were in attendance vying for the first ever...

Bodog Poker hosts a regular Sunday tournament where players compete for their share of the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. The weekly tournament is a big hit at the online poker room and this past weekend it was online player Droeftoeter who came away with the first place ...

Full Tilt Poker’s $1k Monday Tournament this week saw a good turnout, so much so, that the prize pool was increased by $57,000. The tournament has a guarantee of $300,000 but with 357 players competing, the prize pool was increased to $357,000. The buy-i...

Online poker room PKR will be hosting the first ever PKR Heads Up Grand Slam tournament which will pit some of the best poker players in the world against each other. The stars will be battling for the $100,000 first place prize. PKR recently announced the first round draw...

Online poker room, Lock Poker, recently announced the signing of three new poker pros to their site. Lock Poker is a member of the Cake Poker Network and they have signed Brett “Gank” Jungblut, Vinny Pahuja and David Zeitlin as their newest sponsored pros.

Jennife...

Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier has been part of the PokerStars team of pros for five years now and it seems surprising to find out that she is now leaving the online poker giant. Mercier announced in a press release recently that she will be leaving the PokerStars Tea...

PokerVT is an online poker training site and they recently announced the addition of poker pro Jon “PearlJammmer” Turner to their roster. Turner has had a great year in the game of poker and joining PokerVT is yet another milestone in his career.

Turner commented ...

PokerStars European Poker Tour stop in Barcelona recently concluded and it was Carter Phillips of America who walked away with the 850,000 Euro win. Phillips is only twenty years old and managed to outlast the other 477 player in the competition.

Phillips came into final tabl...

Over the next few weeks, a large amount of major tournament series will be taking place in London. The city will be hosting the World Series of Poker Europe and as well as the latest stop on the European Poker Tour.

Both of the events are sure to draw a large crowd of poker p...

Every Sunday, online poker room Bodog hosts a special $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament. players log on and pay the small $109 buy-in to participate in the hopes of winning the top prize. sometimes so many players’ sign up, that the $100,000 guarantee is increas...

Denmark has a law against playing poker professionally online. This law states that it is illegal. One man recently was ordered by the Supreme Court of Denmark to forfeit money he earned online playing poker since it is illegal in the country.

The Copenhagen Post covered the ...

It was recently announced by UltimateBet that Tiffany Michelle will be returning for a second as a member of Team UB. Michelle re-signed with the poker room and will continue to be a strong presence online as well as at live events.

Michelle commented: “I’m happy ...

Party Poker recently announced they will be the sponsor for next month’s television show The World’s Strongest Man. Because they are the new sponsor the online poker room will be giving away sixteen luxury trips for players to get in on the action.

On the 13th and...

The GUKPT Cardiff main event finished up recently and Karl Mahrenholz earned the first place win. Mahrenholz is a member of the Hit Squad and with the win he became the third member of the team to win a main event of the GUKPT.

Mahrenholz joins Praz Bansi and Sunny Chattha as...

The European Poker Tour is stopping on London in October and the ladies of poker will see an event all their own. The help women make it to the event PokerStars is holding special tournaments. Ladies can log on to PokerStars and try their hand at qualifying for one of the ten ...

Action from the 2009 WSOP Main Event is set to air again tonight on ESPN. The sports channel will be picking up where they left off with Phil Hellmuth as the main attraction. Tonight’s action should be very interesting.

The footage will begin at 8pm EST in the US and fe...

Players at Titan Poker will be glad to hear that the online poker room is offering up prize packages to the upcoming Euro City Poker Tour stop in Malta. Titan Poker has launched the ECPoker Tour Malta tournament series and players will be able to earn seats to the event which ...

The fall schedule of the High Heels Poker Tour is set to begin this Saturday. The tour is the first all women’s poker tour to be launched on the East Coast and this season the tour will be hosting several events.

The first scheduled event will take place on September 12...

Send My Chips is a money transferring option for those who transfer funds via the internet. The company recently announced that Sun Poker and LiiPoker, both online poker rooms, have added Send My Chips as a transferring option for their poker customers. Players of these sites ...

Barcelona is geared up and ready to go for the European Poker Tour which begins in the Spanish city today. This is the second leg of the EPT and it will run from today, the 4th, to the 7th. The Gran Casino is hosting the event and several poker pros are expected to compete.

P...

Residents of Canada can now rejoice as they are now able to enjoy the online poker room operated by gambling operator Bodog. Bodog Poker has now released a site for Canadian players. The new site was created as part of the celebration of the poker room’s fifteenth annive...

Paddy Power Poker is a popular online poker room for many reasons but one main reason is their commitment to offering their players the best in online gaming opportunities. The site recently announced a new offering for those who enjoy Pot Limit Omaha.

Pot Limit Omaha players...

The Caesars Cup is set to begin soon and team captains Annette Obrestad and Daniel Negreanu have been busy selecting poker pros to be on their teams for the event. The Cup is scheduled to take place in the UK during the World Series of Poker Europe and yet no player is on the ...

Players will be excited to hear that the 2009 World Championships of Online Poker, otherwise known as the WCOOP, will begin tomorrow afternoon. The first event will be a $215 no limit hold’em six max event with a $1.25 million guaranteed prize pool. This event wi...

The Amateur Poker Association and Tour held their World Championship event this past Sunday and 157 players registered to compete. It was Chris Mason who was able to outlast the field of competitors and take the first place finish.

The event took place in Nottingham and Mason...

Vicky Coren is a top poker pro and she is the latest of poker professionals to write a book about her life in the poker industry. To celebrate her new book, Coren is planning on appearing at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London for a book launch.

You never know when a poke...