The Irish Masters has finished up its three day run of No Limit Hold’em. Four hundred and twenty two players participated in the event and Fiachra Meere managed to outlast them all and take the crown and the 150,000 Euro first place prize.

Meere qualified for the tourna...

Poker players can now look forward to a free roll in December courtesy of Trump Plaza. The Atlantic City casino will be hosting a free roll tournament on the PokerTek PokerPro automated poker tables. Card players will be able to experience the new poker technology in a tournam...

This past Sunday two hundred and twenty seven ladies participated in the third No Limit Texas Hold’em $200 buy-in event of the World Series of Poker Circuit for women. The turnout created a prize pool of $44,038 and the women were ready to try and win the top pri...

As the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event draws near one man is getting ready to be remembered forever in the Poker Hall of Fame. Henry Orenstein will be honored as he is inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in November for his contribution to the game of poker.

The Dutch Minister of Justice, Hirsch Ballin, of the Netherlands, has stated that even if poker were to be ruled as a game of skill the Netherlands would never license and regulate poker in their country. It has been widely publicized that many are challenging the ruling of th...

As the World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table is about to begin, players are most likely warming up on their skills. The current chip leader, Dennis Phillips, has decided to hold a warm-up event so players can prepare for the final table as well as have fun.

Final table...

PokerStars European Poker Tour will make its first stop ever in Hungary today when play begins in Budapest. This is the fifth season of the EPT and every year the tour adds new places to its schedule. Several professional poker players are set to attend the new stop on the tour.

Instead of their usual $750,000 guaranteed weekly poker tournament, Full Tilt replaced the tournament with their monthly $1 million guarantee poker tournament. The buy-in was raised to $500 plus $35 to help build the prize pool but not as many signed up as expe...

Fresh off of their announcement of the fifth addition to their Star Players Team, UltimateBet has added yet another player to their Star Players Team roster. Known for his skills in blackjack and as a television personality, “Hollywood” Dave Stann is the newest mem...

The World Series of Poker Academy will be holding an instructional poker camp and workshop in Atlantic City toward the end of November. The academy will take place at the Showboat Casino on the 22nd and 23rd and feature several poker professionals.

Attendees will be able to a...

Former cricket star, Shane Warne and professional poker player Joe Hachem will be hosting a charity poker tournament to raise money for the Shane Warne Foundation. Both men are Australian so what better place to hold a tournament than the Crown Casino in Melbourne.

The event ...

Italian lawmakers recently made it legal for online poker operators to run websites for their citizens. When this law came to pass many online operators saw it as a golden opportunity and quickly created online poker sites in the Italian language. The most recent company to la...

The eighth leg of the Grosvenor U.K. Poker Tour took place last weekend with just a little over two hundred players vying for the top spot and the large first place prize. Outlasting the field was twenty three year old online poker pro, Andy Teng who won the event.

Teng was u...

Caesars Palace in Las Vegas will play host to the World Series of Poker Academy on November 7th and 8th before the World Series of Poker Main Event begins on November 9th. The Academy will be an instructional camp that will teach poker players many lessons about the game.

Thi...

The 2008-09 Bluff Poker Tour schedule was recently announced by Bluff Magazine. The Magazine will be working in conjunction with Players Investment Company (PICCLUB) on the tour. The Bluff Poker Tour is an online poker tournament series that hops to different poker rooms on th...

World Poker Tour and the social community of MySpace have joined forces to create the first fully integrated poker channel for MySpace users. The new site will be called ClubWPT and will feature poker content for poker fans that includes free poker and news about World Poker T...

Out of all the major tournaments that took place over the weekend, PokerStars Sunday Million managed to have the largest prize pool. Seven thousand four hundred and forty six players entered the event hoping for a piece of the $1.5 million guarantee. The final table held ...

The Festa Al Lago returned to the World Poker Tour schedule this year and saw a good turnout with one hundred and fifty three players participating in Day 1A. The buy-in for this event was $15,000 and many of the biggest names in the poker industry were in attendance vying...

This past Friday, World Poker Tour Enterprises announced that they would be closing their online poker room. The site had only been operating for just over two years. The World Poker Tour Enterprises stated that the site was not making the revenue they had anticipated.

On Oct...

These days it is very common to hear of a young and rising poker player working his way through the online poker world. Players participate in the top online poker tournaments to try and make a name for them and hopefully begin a long and successful career. But sometimes a sto...

PokerStars has announced that just a few days ago they were granted a license to offer online poker in Italy. Because of this PokerStars has launched an Italian version of their already popular poker website. The new website will allow Italian players to play poker online with...

Four hundred and fifty four players showed up to compete in the 2008 World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship. The event took place over a six day period with three day-one flight. The event was a $10,000 No limit hold’em challenge with a $1,090,589 fir...

Dennis Phillips is the chip leader of the World Series of Poker and has decided to use his position in the series for a good cause. Dennis has come up with a new and interesting idea on sponsorship at the Final Table of the WSOP Main Event. Phillips will be holding an auction ...

Poker players will soon be able to find out exact information on both the Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker cheating scandals. The very reputable, 60 minutes television show, will be reporting what they have uncovered.

60 Minutes is a CBS program and they have been working with...

The World Poker Store recently announced that an agreement had been signed between them and Play It Simpel. Play It Simpel is the creator of the poker reality television show Poker Kampioen Van Nederland, which airs in the Netherlands. The Play It Simpel poker league will now ...

PartyPoker recently announced that the third season of the PartyPoker Premier League will begin in London on the 24th of November and continue until the 30th. The buy-in for the event will be increased to $75,000 and added money rose to $350,000. This will create a tot...

The SkyCity Festival of Poker kicked off last week for the first time ever and they decided to start things off with a bang. A celebrity poker tournament was held to kick off the festival and Amber Peebles, MTV Host and former Miss New Zealand, helped kick off the event by wea...

As popular tournaments have been steadily taking place, the number of new poker players being signed to poker teams has been rising as well. When a good player shows up online then a poker website takes notice and a chance on that player. Those players can go on to do great th...

A little over three hundred players showed in New Zealand from twenty one different countries to try and win the biggest prize a poker tournament has ever seen in New Zealand. Up for grabs was a seat toe the Asian Pacific Poker Tour Main Grand Final in Sydney, Australia and &#...

The fifth installment of the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge is set to begin on October 30th and continue well into November. The Challenge will take place at the Cherokee Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma and have an estimated prize pool of more than $2.5 million. David Stewart, t...

PokerStars has announced that Season Two of their Latin American Poker Tour will begin in San Jose November 3rd through the 5th. The event will take place at the Ramada Plaza in San Jose, Costa Rica at the Herradura Conference Center.

This event will have a guaranteed prize p...

Last night the MGM Grand poker room in Las Vegas played host to the charity poker tournament that would raise money for Road 2 Recovery. Seventy five players entered the tournament to show their support and help raise money for the charity. In the end, Tiffany Michelle of Ulti...

The Asian Poker Tour has announced their first event to take place in the New Year. The 2009 Manila Event will take place on January 27th through February 1st at Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati, Philippines.

The Tour has planned to organize at least four major events for t...

The Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival Main Event took place from October 2nd until the 5th and a record number of players were entered into the event. The capacity was raised from 625 to 750 before the tournament even began and by the time players were ready to hit the felt the n...

The Main Event for the Bodog Poker Open II took place this past Sunday with four hundred and seventy seven players vying for the $75,000 top prize. The buy-in for Sundays event was $500, which was used to build the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool for the Main Event.

With two members making up Team RedKings, the online poker site has now added a third member. Csaba Toth, a Hungarian poker player, is the most recent poker player to join Team RedKings.  Swedish pro Jesper Hoog and Finnish player Toni Ojala are the other two members of t...

Gunshot Poker will be moving to the Cake Poker Network from the Microgaming Network. The move is scheduled to take place tomorrow after a delay. The Gunshot Poker website has an official announcement on their homepage.

“Due to circumstances of timing and technical natur...

College Students at Cape Breton University play online poker for fun every week. The students play on an Internet gaming firm’s website for free and in turn the students can win prizes which include $5,660 in tuition fees. The student union of the campus supports th...

It has recently come to light that poker pro Annie Duke will be appearing on the Celebrity Apprentice 2. The hit TV show is a spin off from Donald Trump’s The Apprentice, which has business men and women vying for a top spot in Trumps Company. The Celebrity version has c...

Vega Promotional Systems Inc. has announced that they will begin a new poker tour called the Poker Tour of the Americas. This will be the inaugural season of the tour and it is set to begin in 2009. The tour will have five tournaments this season and Vega plans to have six tou...

Boss Media just announced the launch of an Italian poker network. The announcement was made at the European iGaming congress and Expo in Barcelona. Because Italy’s gaming regulator is now allowing online poker, Boss Media along with St Minver, the sister company, will be...

Professional boxers Johnny Nelson and Ryan Rhodes will be joined by Soap Star Chris Walker to play poker against each other as well as poker fans for a good cause. The Ultimate Charity Vegas Experience will take place at the Doncaster Racecourse on Saturday October 11th to rai...

The second annual PartyPoker Women’s World Open begins tomorrow and will continue until October 6th, 2008. The event will have thirty six women competing for a piece of the $108,000 prize pool. The tournament will take place in London and eventually broadcast in the ...

It was announced earlier this week that RedKings Poker added a new poker player to their land based Poker Team. Toni Ojala has joined the team soon after his win at the Finish Open. RedKings Poker already supports the European Poker Tour, World Series of Poker and the World Se...

As the new season of television has begun to air many networks are creating new shows to draw in viewers. It is an exciting time for TV viewers as networks become more creative to produce the best new show. Fox Sports Network along with the World Poker Tour will be starting a ...

PokerStars European Poker Tour Event in London is set to begin tomorrow and remarkably it has already sold out. The event had five hundred seats available for players and there are not any left. Over one hundred and thirty of those seats were won online at PokerStars.

The eve...