Paddy Power Poker decided to release the details for the 2010 Irish Open as the Irish Winter Festival was so popular. The 2010 Irish Open will take place beginning on April 2nd and will continue until the 5th. The buy-in for the event will be €3,200+€300.

Paddy Powe...

Online poker room Party Poker is offering players a quick and easy way to gain entry into special free rolls in the month of November. Players will be able to earn entry into the free rolls as well as entries into the 2010 Aussie Millions.

During the month of November players...

Dusk Till Dawn recently held a special tournament weekend called 20Twenty Weekend this past weekend. The event was such a success that DTD decided to add the event as a monthly fixture and it will continue throughout 2010.

20Twenty Weekend was an event in which two mirror &po...

The Broadway Casino in Birmingham recently announced another festival is scheduled for next month. Another Broadway Festival is set to take place starting on November 1st. the festival events have been very popular at the Birmingham casino and many players are expected to atte...

It was recently announced that HeadsUp Entertainment and CI Travel have teamed up to create the Poker Super Cruise. HeadsUp Entertainment has also joined forces with World Poker Showdown for the Cruise.

The Poker Super Cruise will begin on April 25th and continue through May ...

Jeff Castardi plead guilty this past Monday to felony charges that were filed against him. Castardi was charged with violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act as he was running a gambling club under the premise of a social club.

The charges against Castardi are a cla...

The final leg of the British Masters Poker Tour recently concluded and it was John Gardner who came up with the win. This year’s attendance of the British Masters Poker Tour has not seen the numbers of players as they would like but this event saw a good number of player...

The Paddy Power Poker Irish Winter Festival took place just a short time ago and Michael O’Sullivan emerged the victor. O’Sullivan outlasted the field of 397 players to earn the first place finish in the €1,650 buy-in No-Limit Holdem main event.

O’Sulli...

Napoleons Casino in Sheffield will be getting a new poker room this January. The new poker room will have seventy seats and will be created now that the casino has been granted planning permission begin the refurbishment.

The Four Seasons restaurant will be moved to the groun...

Clonie Gowen has been trying to sue Full Tilt Poker for breach of contract for some time now and her lawsuit was dismissed yet again by a federal judge. This is the second time the case has been dismissed by the court. Gowen has one more time to try her lawsuit in court.

The ...

PokerStars Baltic Festival is set to begin next week in Estonia and several of the online poker rooms Team will be in attendance. Those who get to compete in the Festival will be rubbing elbows with some of the best in the business.

The Main Event is set to begin on October 2...

The International Poker Network at GTECH G2 recently announced that the Bad Beat Jackpot has increased above €300,000. The jackpot will be earned if a player holds a great hand but is beaten by a better hand, thus the Bad Beat.

Currently if the Bad Beat Jackpot is hit, t...

The Spotlight 29 Casino is hosting a special poker tournament this weekend where players will get to compete against poker pro Scotty Nguyen. Scotty is the 1998 WSOP champion and loved by many in the poker world.

The Spotlight 29 Casino will be hosting the All-Star Poker Chal...

Top online poker room PokerStars recently announced they are the new sponsor of the Rugby Football Union for at least the next two years. PokerStars will be the official gaming and casino partner. Advertisements will be featured at the matches and also have access to autograph...

Kara Scott is a UK based poker presenter and it has been rumored that she is going to be the one replacing AJ Benza on the High Stakes Poker Show. The Game Show Network has not confirmed who will be replacing Benza but rumors are surfacing everywhere that Scott will be the new...

Boyle Poker’s International Poker Open recently concluded in Dublin, Ireland  and the event saw a record number of players competing. The event drew a field of 1,440 players from over eighteen countries besting the record for most players at a non-USA event.

The pr...

PokerStars European Poker Tour is currently in its sixth season and the latest stop is in Warsaw, Poland. The main event will begin today and conclude on October 25th. The event has a buy-in of 25,000 PLN and will be a no-limit hold’em tournament.

The main event has a c...

Online poker giant Full Tilt Poker has updated their online poker room recently. The updates include new innovations that are creating a buzz of excitement. Players will find the Run It Twice option in cash games as well as the Cashout Tournaments option.

The Run It Twice fea...

The $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Poker Tour Festa al Lago preliminary event recently concluded and Howard Lederer was named the winner. The event was held this past Thursday and had a small field of nineteen players competing. Even though the field of players was only ninetee...

Doyle Brunson is usually recognized as one of the most famous poker players in the world but last week Texas Dolly was recognized for his achievements in athletics. The Athletics Hall of Fame inducted Brunson for his achievements at Hardin Simmons University.

In his younger d...

UK and Irish poker players have one last chance to qualify for the upcoming Poker Million. Full Tilt Poker is offering Poker Million Last Chance qualifiers and the winning player will be able to skip the heats and semi-finals to enter the Poker Million final directly.

The Pok...

Seven poker players returned to the table last night to compete at the final table of the Party Poker World Open V. the event took place in Mayfair at the Palm Beach Casino and it was Phil Laak who outlasted the field to win the $250,000 first place prize. Joining Laak at...

The Irish Winter Festival is fast approaching and players have just a few days left to qualify for the main event. Paddy Power Poker is currently hosting a special series of qualifiers for the event and it is the last time players will be able to earn their seats before the ev...

The World Poker Tour Marrakech High Rollers event ended yesterday and it was a very successful tournament. Forty five players turned out to compete in the €9000 main event and it was Ross Boatman who earned the first place win.

Ross was joined in the competition by his b...

Police are continuing to investigate an incident which happened at a Route 66 bar just before midnight this past Thursday night which occurred after a shooting on Tuesday at the Malibu’s bar. Apparently an argument broke out during a poker game on Tuesday and a player pu...

Cake Poker recently announced they have enlarged their guaranteed tournaments at the online poker room. The site has also created new events which will reward players with $100 in daily prizes as well as over $500 each week in prizes. The new list of multi-table tourn...

Online poker room Boyle Poker recently announced they are offering up forty additional seats to the International Poker Open. The Open is set to begin on October 16th to the 18th at The Regency Hotel in Dublin. Players can earn $250 seats for Day 1A via a direct online bu...

Online casino Full Tilt Poker is the home of poker pro Phil Ivey and the poker room is offering players a chance to win a piece of Ivey’s earnings from the final table of the World Series of Poker. Ivey will return to the final table in November seventh in chips.

Full T...

Poker pros are used to competing against one another and spending a good deal of time together but one thing they are not used to be being naked together. That was until ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue decided to get a few poker pros together and make them strip down to n...

Poker pro Luke “Fullflush” Schwartz was banned recently from the Vic casino in London for refusing to take off his hat. After earning the privilege back to enter the casino, Schwartz was punished again for his bad behavior.

Schwartz’s friend Eddie Hearn pull...

The fourteenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series is about to begin and Full Tilt recently announced the release of the schedule of events. This go round the tournament series will have twenty five events and have a total of $16 million in guaranteed prize money.

Party Poker recently announced the signing of a new player to their poker room and to celebrate the signing the poker room is currently offering free rolls for their players. The newest member of the card room is Giancarlo Fisichella.

Fisichella recently signed a deal with Pa...

The Million Dollar Hand event is back at Party Poker and players now have the opportunity to earn one million dollars if they get the right hand. The Million Dollar Hand will take place until October 30th so players have a few more weeks to try and earn the top prize.

Players...

The Irish Poker Championship is coming up this December and online poker giant PokerStars has signed on as sponsor of the Championship. The event will begin on December 10th in Galway at the Radisson Hotel.

The tournament will take place over four days and players can partici...

The Party Poker World Open is set to begin this Sunday October 11th at the Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair. Many poker pros will be attending the event and a few changes have been added to the tournament.

This time the World Open will have starting stacks that are tripled from t...

The Sky Poker Tour is extremely popular and Sky Poker recently announced the schedule of the second season. The first Sky Poker Tour was very popular with amateurs and poker pros competing side by side in the events and it was such a success, season two is expected to even bet...

Joe Hachem, poker pro and winner of the 2005 WSOP Main Event, is getting ready to star in a new reality television show. The new show is called The Poker Stars and it will give amateur poker players the chance to win a yearlong contract to play poker as a pro.

The show is set...

The Ladbrokes Poker Irish Festival took place this past weekend in Killarney and 750 players took part in the four day festival. It was twenty two year old Thomas Rolfe of Nottingham who managed to outlast the field and take down the first place win.

Rolfe earned €100,00...

Online poker room Party Poker recently announced the signing of Stewart Scott to their online poker room. Scott will serve as a site representative for the poker room in both live events as well as in online play. Scott is the reigning Aussie Millions champion and will be repr...

Every month, top online poker room, PokerStars, hosts some type of tournament. Whether it is a large land event in a foreign land or a nice size tournament online, poker players are sure to find an exciting tournament at PokerStars. The online poker room recently announced the...

Top online poker room, PokerStars, has entered the world record books once again. PokerStars recently broke one of their own records during a tournament the poker room hosted just a few days ago. The record was set during the World Championship of Online Poker.

PokerStars bro...

When a poker room opens its doors online there is always the possibility that they will not do well and fail. Sometimes the online poker rooms thrive and become driving forces in the poker industry and sometimes they do not. It was recently announced by Entraction Holding AB t...

Full Tilt Poker is now hosting a new bounty tournament at their online poker room and it will take place on Friday nights. The new tournament is called Friday Night Fights and players will be able to compete in the no limit hold’em knockout tournaments in the hopes of wi...

Bodog Poker hosts many tournaments each week and one of player’s favorites is the $100,000 guaranteed tournaments which takes place on Sundays. Hundreds of players sign up to compete in the tournament each week and this past weekend an online poker novice managed to ...