Entertainment Tonight Online recently reported that several celebrities will be banning together to play poker in the name of charity. The Celebs will be competing at the felt to raise money for the Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind (TLC).

The event is set to take plac...

The Game Show Network (GSN) has decided to air one of the most popular stops on the European Poker Tour. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will begin to air on GSN in 2009 around the month of May. This will give poker lovers a great new program to watch their favorite poker p...

This past Sunday PokerStars raised the guarantee from $1.5 million to a whopping $2.5 million. Many players were expected to compete in the tournament but the total amount of entered players is staggering—16,260. This amount created a $3.2 million prize pool ...

As New Years Eve approaches many are trying to figure out where they will be spending their countdown to 2009. A good choice would be the Bellagio poker room in Las Vegas, Nevada. The casino is going to be hosting poker tournaments on both New Years Eve and New Years Day.

Eac...

This past weekend PokerStars attempted to break their own world record of having the largest ever online tournament attendance and succeeded. The online poker room reached their cap of 35,000 players and broke their current record. The event cost only $11 to enter and had...

SkyCity Casino in Auckland, New Zealand is preparing for the Anniversary Poker Championship that it set to take place on January 19th. The tournament will take place for seven days and offer a minimum prize pool of NZ$50,000. Players who are interested in entering the mai...

PokerStars has decided to go big this weekend when it comes to online poker tournaments. The online poker room has decided to increase the guaranteed prize pools for their Sunday Warm-up as well as their Sunday Million for this weekend.

Players will find the Warm-up has incre...

This past Tuesday Tokwire Enterprises, the owner of UltimateBet, released the findings of an investigation into the poker hand that took place between Doubleballer and Phil Hellmuth on the UltimateBet website. The poker hand had caused much controversy this past week as Hellmu...

Today we will be taking a day off from the poker news to spend time with our friends and family. We hope that everyone has a happy holiday and we will be back tomorrow bringing you the latest news in the poker world.

PokerTek recently announced that they had installed their automated poker tables and software on the Norwegian Pearl, a ship in the Norwegian Cruise Line. The tables were installed on a ninety day trial period with the possibility that the eleven other cruise ships in the Norw...

The Asian Poker Tour created their Poker Pack back in august after a stop in Macau when they signed J.C. Tran, Nam Le, Quinn Do and Steve Sung to their special poker team. The team was created to represent the Asian Poker Tour and they recently signed poker pro Chino Rheem to ...

Once a month Full Tilt Poker ups the guarantee to their weekly $750,000 to a guaranteed $1 million and this past weekend was the large upgrade tournament. The buy-in was increased to $500 plus $35 and the field of players came to 2,194. Once final table play b...

This past Sunday’s PokerStars Sunday Million saw a great turnout which caused the $1 million guarantee to be increased by more than $100,000. The field of players was just over 8,000 and the first place prize winner would take home almost $200,000 for their e...

The World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Championship ended this past weekend with the six remaining players competing for the top title. The six players that were left entered the Bellagio on Friday to finish the competition where the top player too...

UltimateBet is part of yet another online poker scandal that came to light this past weekend on the online poker forum 2+2. Details from a hand between Phil Hellmuth and “Doubleballer” are being discussed after it appeared that Hellmuth won the almost $6,000 ev...

The World Series of Poker has announced a new series of academies to be launched in early 2009. The new academies will focus on cash game play and will begin at Harrah’s Atlantic City casino on January 24th and 25th. That academy will be followed by a second at Caesars P...

Bob Dancer is a video poker player as well as a writer and teacher. Dancer is regarded highly in the gaming industry since he first started his gambling career in 1994. Dancer is the author of Million Dollar Video Poker which details his career and how he won.

Dancer has rese...

Titan Poker sponsors the Euro City Poker Tour and recently finished the inaugural ECPokerTour event in Madrid this past May. Now Titan is preparing for the 2009 ECP Tour event that will take place in Salzburg in April.

The event will take place at the Alpine Palace Card Casin...

Marty Smyth is sponsored by BoylePoker, an online poker website. The online poker room recently held a freeroll on December 11th where fifty players would win five percent of whatever Smyth managed to earn at the Poker Million. Well Smyth did very well, winning the event and t...

Almost two hundred players paid the $5,000 buy-in to play in the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event stop at Harrah’s casino in Atlantic City this past week. The prize pool created was well over $800,000 with first place taking home $280,040. The big wi...

Carbon Poker is an online poker room that provides players with a jackpot connected to all Bad Beat Tables. Fifty cents from every pot is added to the jackpot and when a hand of quad 7s or better is busted then the jackpot will pay out. Since it began, the jackpot has yet to b...

Marty Smyth has had very good luck when it comes to the Ladbrokes Poker Million but has yet to win the tournament, until now. Marty is the most recent winner of $1 million in the Final of the Ladbrokes Poker Million VII. Marty has made three Poker Million Final Tables but...

Almost one thousand three hundred players participated in the Main Event of the European Championship of Online Poker III (ECOOP III) but only one would be victorious and that one player was Eoghan “Intruder123” O’Dea. O’Dea won $315,000 for the fi...

Dianna Donofrio was recently named the new Nevada State Director for the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). Donofrio will be recruiting as well as playing the role as the local spokesperson for the PPA. She will help the PPA know what is going on in the poker industry in the state ...

This past Sunday poker players took time off from their busy holiday shopping to schedule in a little poker. Just over seventy five hundred players anted up to compete in the PokerStars Sunday Million which created almost $10,000 over the guaranteed $1.5 million prize ...

Annette Obrestad is known as a young online poker pro who has took down some mighty big online tournaments. The most recent win for Annette came at the $100,000 Guaranteed on UltimateBet, which was just another notch in Annette’s online poker belt. She plays under t...

As many countries are undecided or on both sides of the fence considering the classification of the game of poker, Russia has decided where they stand. The country has officially deemed the game a sport, which comes shortly after Ivan Demidov of Moscow placed second at the Wor...

The Poker Players Alliance has decided to begin an advertising campaign that will be directed at federal lawmakers who are debating the regulation and legalization of online poker and casinos. The ads will be posted in several highly respected political newspapers that are pub...

This weekend the ParadisePoker website will be holding a €1,000,000 Guaranteed Tournament that will award the top ten finishers with sponsorships to live poker tournaments. ParadisePoker is based in London and has been online for many years offering nice incentives for th...

The Grand Final of the Grosvenor U.K. Poker Tour has come and gone with a somewhat new player taking home the first place prize. Paul “Pab” Foltyn is a successful online poker player who has showed the live circuit that he is contender. Paul outlasted many professi...

The Game Show Network has announced the new lineup of poker players that will be competing on the highly popular television show High Stakes Poker. The show will be in its fifth season and will kick off with some amazing new talent as well as old faces.

Peter Eastgate and Iva...

It was announced today by PokerStars that they would be holding a special tournament for the 89 players who were left hanging after the LAPT Nuevo Vallarta Event was shut down. As reported yesterday, the event was cancelled after Mexican gaming officials shut down the Main Eve...

The World Series of Poker Circuit has begun again this time starting at Harrah’s Atlantic City. The first two events have been played with the first event seeing a great turnout, the biggest yet for a WSOPC event in Atlantic City. Event number one was a $340 No Limi...

A few days ago the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour stopped in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico for the first time to hold a poker tournament. When the tournament started, 242 players were competing for the top prize money. By Friday eighty nine players remained. At 10:30 pm local g...

PokerStars, the largest online poker room, is creating yet another online poker tournament series. The new tournament series is set to take place in the spring of 2009 and offer players yet another chance to earn large amounts of money online.

The name is not set in stone but...

The first all women’s poker teaching academy will begin this Saturday December 6th hosted by the Women’s Ultimate Poker Academy. The event will take place at Harrah’s New Orleans in the state of Louisiana and will feature Barbara Enright.

Ms. Enright is know...

The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour will be stopping today in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico for the second leg of season two. Many poker pros from Team PokerStars will be trying their luck at the tables along with those who qualified online.

Several poker pros have been confirm...

PokerStars recently announced that they will be starting a new poker tour beginning next year in Russia. This is just one more tour on the long list of tours that the poker giant provides for online poker players as well as live tournament players.

The first stop on the Russi...

The rumor mill has been hot for about a week now with talk of UltimateBet and poker pro Cliff Josephy parting ways. Josephy was the first addition to UltimateBet’s Star Players Team back in May but according to a recent online forum post at the TwoPlusTwo website, Joseph...

The three day Main Event of the Venetian Deep Stack tournament has come to an end and poker pro J.J. Liu has emerged the victor. Two hundred and thirty three players paid the $2,500 buy in which created a $539,628 prize pool which Liu took a little over $167,000 ho...

It is now official—the 2009 schedule for the Aussie Millions has now been released by officials and players can prepare themselves for its January return. The 2009 event will run from January 4th to the 26th.

Before the first official event kicks off, there will be five...

There are many different kinds of instructional books that can teach people how to do a number of things from designing a room to building a computer. One of the most popular types of instructional books is the For Dummies series. The For Dummies books are created for people w...

This past weekend saw a good deal of players trying their luck at the tables during PokerStars Sunday Million. The event had eight thousand and one players participating which created a prize pool of $1,600,200. Nine players made it to the final table but only one would b...

The heats for the Premier League III have come and gone very fast with the final table now decided. J.C. Tran, Peter Eastgate, Juha Helppi and Annette Obrestad won in the last four heats that added points to their score. After all the points had been tallied it was clear that ...

It seems almost every celebrity who is somewhat famous comes out with a clothing line or perfume to sell to the masses. Most of the time those with clothing lines are A list celebrities who are in movies or on very popular television shows. Now it seems that the poker industry...