Poker News
ESPN E:60 followed and documented the life of professional poker player Phil Ivey, and produced an 11 minute video.
Doyle Brunson and DoylesRoom.com management seal the deal with one of online poker’s greatest players.
Hold on to your bankroll, Full Tilt Poker's Rush Poker is a crazy new variant that will redefine the game of grinders and multi-tablers.
Cash bonus boosts and seats to two amazing live poker events are yours to win at Betfair.
Get ready for an epic 11 days at Full Tilt Poker as FTOPS XV kicks off on February 10!
The Brunson 10 are in for a fabulous New Year. A look at the 2009 accomplishments from five Doyle's Room pros...
PartyGaming bought World Poker Tour for $12 million.
Joseph Cada emerged as the winner of WSOP 2009 Main Event and won $8.5 million.
It took 14 hours for the WSOP main event to get down to the last two. Joe Cada and Darvin Moon will now fight it out for the $8.5million top prize.
The Paradise Poker Bad Beat jackpot climbs up to record value of €500,000.
Full Tilt defeated US state Kentucky in UK court, which attempted to seize its domain name.
Rakeback.com is sending one lucky player to Aruba!
Ultimate Bet signs poker pro Joe Sebok.
Many poker fans and players were surprised after an initial nomination of Tom Dwan to the exclusive Poker Hall of Fame. Not because of his ability as a poker player, but more so, his age and lack of results in big live tournaments.
UltimateBet has released a Mac version of their downloadable poker client.
This years WPT, Legends of Poker was won by a forgotten man, Prahlad Friedman.
Full Tilt Poker is set to sign Tom "Durrr" Dwan.
The Durrrr challenge had been on a break for over two months, but now Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius hav resumed it.
PartyGaming, better known for their online poker room Party Poker, has agreed to buy World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPT) for an estimated $15.3 million.
Betfair Poker's Caesar's Cup Team Event is shaping up to be a big success, with some of the biggest names in poker having already confirmed their participation.
Liv Boree joins Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke as Ultimate Bet Poker ambassador.
To accomodate more players, this year's EPT London will change venue to Hilton Metropole Hotel.
Over the years the World Poker Tour has had many luxurious locations. This year is no different with Cyprus being chosen as one of the destinations for this years WPT.
CelebPoker will move to Playtech's iPoker Network on Wednesday, August 12th.
An all Chinese major poker movie with working title "Poker King" is expected for cinematic release later this year, and feature some of the best Asian poker professionals.
On July 22, during National Poker Week, the Poker Players Alliance will present this petition to President Obama, asking his support to exempt poker from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), and for the legalization and regulation of online poker.
PokerStars now provides RSA Security Tokens to users who are interested in adding a layer of security to their poker accounts.
Paramount has signed Leonardo DiCaprio to star in a movie about online casinos in Costa Rica.
The U.S. Federal government has frozen over $30 million in payments owed to 27.000 online poker players
A swedish court ruled a Texas Hold'em poker tournament to be a game of skill rather than chance.
As of yesterday Absolute Poker now has a downloadable poker client for Mac users. This is the first Mac compatible poker client for the CEREUS poker network.
The 2009 World Series of Poker will be broadcast live by PKR this year.
Harrah’s Entertainment, announced on friday that it has formed a subsidiary company, called Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
President Barack Obama asked Americans on his Change.gov transitional website to send him their policy priorities, and online poker received most votes in technology group.
"The Prince of Poker", Scotty Nguyen, has signed a contract with Expek as their exclusive poker ambassador.
Full Tilt Poker now synchronizes multi-table tournament breaks, which helps you take a real 5 minute break when playing more than one tournament.
Full Tilt Poker has lowered their minimum deposit amount from $50 to $10. This change will also lower the 60 day real money policy requirement from $25 to $10.
Adding to the recent speculation that some land-based casino's are looking into entering the profitable online gambling market, a recent look at stock market prices for land based casino companies shows an interesting rising trend in the past few months.
Barney Frank's recently introduced Internet Gambling Regulation Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act is getting the support of a major Las Vegas casino operator Harrah's, who spent over $400,000 as a registered lobbyist on getting support for it.
WSOP has revised it's rules considering behaviour on poker tables. Phil Hellmuth's outburst in last year's tournament, may have been a factor in this revision.
Professional poker player Annie Duke was fired by Donald Trump in the finale of television show The Celebrity Apprentice, in favor of Joan Rivers.
U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank introduced new legislation H.R. 2267 to overturn the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006) that would enable Americans to bet online.
Hansen loses 1.1 M$ to Tom "durrrr" Dwanin HU PLO in one session
Off the wall: Russian and Italian press claim Chelsea owner Abramovich lost his luxury yacht in poker. Didn't get saved by the river, did he?
U.S. Representative Barney Frank has been fighting back the UIGEA legislation, and Reuters reported today on Tuesday that he will unveil legislation to roll back the ban on Wednesday.
Betfair Poker offers their uppgraded Rakeback deal with 40% rakeback as standard; available to all players who generate 30,000 Betfair Poker points (£1,500) monthly.
The 21 year old Yevgeniy Timoshenko came in as chip leader to the final day of the WPT World Championship at Bellagio on Saturday, April 25th. He mastered staying on top of the final table with Scotty Nguyen, Shannon Shorr, Bertrand Grospellier, Christian Harder and Ran Azor.
62 players returned for Day 4 at the 2009 World Poker Tour Championship at Las Vegas Bellagio. Steve Billirakis was forced to hand the lead over to Eugene Katchalov.
Steve Billirakis took over the chip lead after Day 3 with 1,722,000 chips in the 2009 World Championship Event. Top Ten is overflowing with poker talents like Mark Seif, David Singer and Phil Ivey; they all have collected over one million chips and are in good position for Day 4.
The WPT Championship Day 2 is done with a new man leading the way; the runner-up on 2009 European Poker Tour Highroller Event Jean-Noel Thorel. Other top survivors were Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Steve Billirakis, Dan Heimiller and Justin Young, all with a great day behind them manning the top of the leaderboard.
