After having a rough start, Peter Eastgate and Phil Hellmuth are back in the race for the final table of the Premier League III. Both were down in points until day three of PartyPoker’s challenge when they both won their heats and received ten points each.

Hellmuth only...

Jose Menendez, the State Representative for Texas has created a bill that would create a poker gaming commission to oversee the poker card room industry in the state of Texas. The gaming commission would operate under the state’s lottery wing and help approve card room l...

As many of you know today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Many of Americans will be celebrating today, being thankful for their family and friends and eating a bountiful meal of turkey and dressing.

We hope that all of our American readers have a Happy Thanksgiving ...

Mansion Poker has decided to extend their brand and offer a version of their poker site to German players. A new version of Mansion Poker has been created in the German language exclusively for German players.

In a recent press release by Mansion Poker, the card site commente...

The World Poker Tour recently announced in a press update that the Borgata Winter Open will not be taking place on the WPT Season VII schedule. It had been rumored for months that the popular event would not be on the WPT scheduled and it has now been confirmed.

The Borgata u...

Monday was the opening day of heats for the PartyPoker Premier League III and JC Tran and Tony G are currently in the point lead. The twelve players were divided into two groups of six and competed for points.

The first group to compete had JC Tran, Peter Eastgate, David Ulli...

A good deal of players turned out for this past Sunday Million at PokerStars which created a slightly bigger prize pool than the guaranteed $1.5 million. Seven thousand seven hundred and fifty five players posted the $200 buy-in to compete in the tournament but only on...

The fourth annual B.C. Poker Championships ended this past weekend at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond with six hundred and ninety players competing for the $370,000 plus first place prize. Poker Pro Daniel Negreanu was able to outlast the competition and take home...

Chinese television has progressed as the first government sanctioned nationally televised poker competition began to air this month. The new series is called the Traktor Poker Tour and is sponsored by the World Poker Tour.

The first season of the Traktor Tour will air a total...

Although Peter Eastgate won just over $9 million in the World Series of Poker Main Event, he won’t even get to keep half as the Danish Taxation Laws make Eastgate turn over a large portion of his winnings. After the Danish government takes their cut, Eastgate will on...

Shawn Riley is an entrepreneur from Wichita, Kansas who has created a new poker game. The game is called Kandu and is awaiting a patent. The game is to be inspected by the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission and hopefully will be declared legal.

Kandu is played like Texas Hol...

PokerStars 2008 European Poker Polish Open has ended with only two hundred and seventeen players competing. The action lasted five days and the low turnout was due to the vast majority of poker events going on in Europe. Even so, those who participated played their hearts out ...

PartyPoker has been announcing names to their Premier League III roster left and right. Every week new names have been added to the list, beefing it up to be a very exciting challenge. The last name has now been announced by PartyPoker and some might say they saved the best fo...

Manila was the place to be if you wanted to try your hand at a PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour event. Two hundred and eighty five players participated in the event but it was Van Marcus of Australia who was victorious.

Marcus was up against Tai Jun Noh in heads up play aft...

As it seems with most up and coming young poker stars once a big win has been accomplished then the deals start rolling in. whether it be from big time poker websites, promotional, or just press opportunities, smart players try and have help weeding through what is good and wh...

Several online poker pros were among the five hundred participants of this past weekend’s event number 22 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series X. The competition was a two day event no limit hold’em tournament that had a $5,000 plus $200 buy-in. This event...

The Premier League III list of players is really heating up. After the most recent addition of Tony G and Devilfish, two more players have been added that should really mix things up. Fresh off his win at this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event, Peter Eastgate, will...

ESPN has released the information on the ratings for this year’s World Series of Poker which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The final table aired on the same day it was played and according to ESPN the television ratings for the tournament were up fifty percent from la...

Professional poker players have been signing up to participate in the PartyPoker Premier League III. Already included in the lineup are Roland De Wolfe, Andy Black, Annette Obrestad, Juha Helppi, J.C. Tran, Victoria Coren and Nenad Medic. Now two more top players have signed u...

At the young age of twenty four, Jonathan Little has achieved a lot in the poker world. Just last year, Jonathan made three final table appearances at WPT events with one win and finished second during the 2007 North American Poker Championship. Now Jonathan has won a second W...

The fourth annual Hold’em for Heroes Charity Poker Tournament is set to take place on November 21st and 22nd in Fort McDowell, Arizona. Fort McDowell Casino will play host to the tournament as Phil Hellmuth will be co host at the event. Helping Phil host the event is cou...

The annual eGaming Review Awards ceremony recently took place in London, England and Everest Poker has won the Poker Operation of the Year award for the second consecutive year. Everest Poker is the exclusive “felt sponsor” of the World Series of Poker and offers p...

To some, the rulings decided on by the Federal Reserve and Treasury in the United States has been surprising. There has been a rush to finalize regulations that will carry out the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. In the regulations poker has been included as a game ...

It was recently reported that despite economic concerns poker is doing well especially Connecticut casinos. The Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods have had full tables and people waiting in line to get a seat at the table. Foxwoods recently hosted the World Poker Finals and the poker ro...

The Ladborkes European Online Championship of Poker has come to an end after the Main Event took place this past weekend. The series had over four thousand players participate with over six hundred playing in the Main Event. The buy-in for the Main Event was $1,000 plus &...

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Harrah’s Entertainment in the United States, Gary Loveman, has stated the odds have improved for online poker to be legalized in America. The improvement is due to the national elections that took place last week.

Loveman sta...

PokerStars Sunday Million saw a good turnout of 7,711 players creating a prize pool of $1,542,200. The first place prize was just over $188,000 so every player was vying for a first place finish. Nine players made it to the final table and chip counts were as follows:

RedKings Poker recently announced the signing of two new professional poker players to represent their website at several big poker tournaments over the next year. Jonas “Molle” Molander and Ramzi Jellassi are both from Sweden and are the two newest players to repr...

Party Poker’s Premier League is about to begin and two more players have been named to participate. Nenad Medic and Victoria Coren will be participating in the poker challenge. Twelve players will post a $75,000 buy-in which added to $350,000 put up by PartyPoker...

Season Two of PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour has kicked off and the winner of the first stop is Ryan Fee. Ryan joined two hundred and ninety other players at the Ramada Plaza Herradura Conference Center in San Jose, Costa Rica to compete in the first stop on the tour.

T...

The World Poker Finals began this past Wednesday with Day 1a and Day 1b beginning on Thursday. The event has a $10,000 buy-in and four hundred and twelve players paid up to compete. The World Poker Tour stop is being held at the Foxwoods Resort and Casino. Jason Potter is...

On November 1st and 2nd the Amateur Professional Association Tour European Team Championship took place in Brighton England. The event was held at the Grosvenor Casino and teams from England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, France, Hungary, Netherlands and Ireland competing.

Each p...

The Sunflower Children Charity will be holding a poker fundraiser this month to help children around the world by sponsoring for medical, nutritional, psychological, educational, etc for orphaned, disabled, abandoned, refugee and impoverished children.

The fundraiser will be ...

The tenth installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series begins today and players will surely be lining up to enter. The FTOPS is one event that many poker players look forward to. The tenth series will run for twelve days and include twenty five events. This will be the lar...

PokerStars has just announced the next stop on the Latin American Poker Tour Season Two. Players will be heading to Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico on December 5th till the 7th to try and win the top title. This event will have a buy-in of $2,700 and will be held at the Marival Res...

Beginning November 1st 2008, NextPoker will no longer be on the Ongame Network. Ongame announced they were dropping NextPoker after they repeatedly violated the Ongame rake back policy. The exclusion was done to uphold their vision of a rake back-free poker network.

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This week’s $750,000 Guaranteed Tournament at Full Tilt Poker had a buy-in of $216 and lasted for just over nine hours. Sistabossen was able to outlast the playing field and take home just over $132,000. When final table play began, nine players were ready to...

The European Poker Tour held its first stop in Budapest on Saturday November 1st and five hundred and thirty one players participated in the inaugural event. Only one could win the tournament and Will Fry of Nottingham managed to outlast his opponents and take home the first p...

In 2007, Steve Billirakis made history as he became the youngest bracelet winner in the World Series of Poker. Billirakis broke the record held by Jeff Madsen for being the youngest to win a bracelet. It would not be long though before Annette Obrestad would beat his record. N...