Online Poker Shut Down for US Residents

In what has come to be known to online poker players as Black Friday, on April 15 the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) Southern District of New York seized the websites of the three largest Internet... continued

WSOP: Recreating History

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has announced it is going all-in playing the ‘what-if’ game by re-staging a select group of the best Main Event heads-up battles in its long and memorable history. The... continued

Full Tilt Poker: durrrr Disqualification, Onyx Cup Announced

Full Tilt Poker recently ran a promotion called Challenge Durrrr in which players had an opportunity to compete in a promo with a slightly convoluted qualification process, the result being that one player... continued

Full Tilt Poker: FTOPS Twenty and Double Guarantees Week

At Full Tilt Poker, two events are coming up that are guaranteed to please, no pun intended. For the second time this year, Full Tilt is resurrecting the successful Double Guarantees Week, a weeklong celebration... continued

Get Ready for PokerStarsWynn.com

The odds on online poker powerhouse PokerStars opening the door to legalized Internet poker in Nevada just got a lot better with the recent announcement they have formed a strategic alliance with international... continued

Eugene Katchalov Signs with Team PokerStars Pro

Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov is certainly not the showiest of poker professionals, as a matter of fact, many are surprised to learn he’s been around since 2004, and has won some of the biggest titles... continued

Portuguese Poker Prodigy: Turns $30 Deposit into 2 Million

Portuguese Poker Phenom José “Girah” Macedo The rumor had been going around for a while without really being taken seriously because to a lot of knowledgeable players it just seemed a little too unbelievable... continued

Did Prahlad Friedman Jump the Gun Accusing Fellow Poker Pros of Account Sharing?

Online poker pros Justin “Zeejustin” Bonomo and Isaac “Ike” Haxton took a twit-hit recently when Prahlad Friedman went on the warpath and accused the pair publicly on Twitter of conspiring to cheat... continued

PokerStars SCOOP is Coming

Play the 2011 PokerStars SCOOP One of the true value events of the tournament year is almost here. Pokerstars 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) boasts a series of events promising $45 million... continued

XBLINK TO XWINK: A New Online Poker Prodigy Emerges

It has recently become clear that the high stakes poker player who made and cashed out a million dollars at UB.com in 2009 under the username of “XBLINK” is the same individual creating a sensation... continued

Erik Seidel Tops All Time Money List

January came in like a lion for PokerStars Poker pro Daniel Negreanu when he kick started his game with a runner-up finish at the $100k Super High Roller event at PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA).... continued

PokerStars Sunday Million Anniversary Was Huge

When online poker giant PokerStars first announced they would hold a fifth anniversary of their wildly popular Sunday Million tournament, everyone knew it would be large, very large. But when the curtain... continued

Carlos Mortensen Denied Fourth WPT Title By Greg Brooks

Inactive poker coach Greg “MYNAMEIZGREG” Brooks is not exactly a stranger to live tournament play, though he is mostly recognized as a cash game specialist playing high stakes games online. Yet Brooks... continued

Football Great Emmitt Smith Signs with Full Tilt

All-time leading NFL rusher Emmitt Smith has formally entered into an agreement with the second largest online poker site FullTiltPoker, joining a roster of celebrity poker players including actor Mekhi... continued

Chance To Face durrrr Heads Up For $1.5 Million On Full Tilt

On PokerStars, online qualifiers are offered the chance to face online poker sensation Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in a heads-up match at 1/10th of the stakes of the regular SuperStar Showdown and now Full... continued

Sorel Mizzi Accused of Cheating by November Niner John Racener

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi has been publicly accused of cheating John Racener, the runner up to the 2010 WSOP Main Event. The details came to light in a TwoPlusTwo forum post recently through a somewhat... continued

$5 Million PokerStars Payday for Sunday Million Anniversary

Whatever you do, leave this date open: Sunday, March 6. On that day, beginning at 16:30 EST, the largest online poker site PokerStars is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the most popular online tournament... continued

FTOPS XIX in the Record Books

The ever-expanding, mega-popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is now officially over, having run from February 6 thru February 20, offering 45 separate poker tournaments and awarding well over... continued

High Rolling Scammer Lost $1.5 Million at Full Tilt

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in recent filings that St. George, Utah residents Jeremy Johnson along with brother Andy Johnson and friend Duane Fielding scammed an estimated $275 million... continued

PokerStars Team Online: New Members

Leading online poker room PokerStars just announced the new Team Online members chosen for 2011. Some 4,500 poker players applied for the fifteen slots on the team, up from the roughly 2,000 that applied... continued

Bellagio Biker Bandit Busted

When news of the brazen biker robbery at the Bellagio first broke in December, a lot of casino watchers were giving the then unknown perpetrator high marks for cunning, bravado and sheer audacity. Comparisons... continued

DoylesRoom Changes Poker Network

For old Texas Road Gambler Doyle Brunson, moving was a way of life.  And recently, Texas Dolly, legendary holder of a record Ten WSOP bracelets, has lamented the fact that the high stakes poker action... continued

Aussie Millions – Erik Seidel Wins Biggest Tournament Ever

In Australia, they don’t like to do things in a small way and during the Aussie Millions poker tournament one event stood out, attracting twenty of the absolute best poker players on the planet to the... continued

Latin American Poker Tour Season 4

In the middle of February, PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) will kick off in style in Sao Paulo, a city that not only is the largest in Brazil, it’s the largest city in the southern hemisphere,... continued

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event

For sheer drama, this year’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event will be hard to match. It had Chris Moneymaker just fall short of making the final table, the last woman standing was the... continued

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