888poker Extends $8 No-Deposit Bonus and More!

888poker recently launched entirely new 3D software for their poker platform, offering new graphics, improved lobby functionality and additional rewards for players. To celebrate this launch they ran an exciting promotion last month which put thousands of dollars up...

Betfair Poker Live! Prague Proves Popular

Monday 1st November 2010 Betfair Poker Live! Prague, the sixth leg of the popular poker series, proved a hit with poker players once again. The event, which was hosted by the Card Casino Prague attracted players from far and wide. Betfair Poker Live! Prague, NLTH...

Aussie Millions 2011

The biggest tournament in the southern hemisphere – Down Under is the place to be in January When the world’s top tournament players meet in Melbourne, it’s clear to the poker world what time it is: the Aussie Millions is back! 2011 promises to be...

Michael Eiler Ships EPT Vienna Main Event

The European Poker Tour Vienna Main Event has concluded this weekend, with the great stop being an awesome experience for everyone involved, and the main event no exception. As day four came to a close and the final table was set, it was Daniel Negreanu and his...

New PartyPoker Software Release

This week, PartyPoker made some big changes to their software. The non-US poker room added lots of new features for its players to enjoy. Party also claims the new software is more secure, faster and more reliable. Here are a few of the changes PartyPoker has made:...

Awesome November Promotions at Poker Heaven

Poker Heaven has become known in the online poker community for their great array of monthly promotions which reward loyal users and attract a steady amount of volume to the site. November is no exception, and Poker Heaven has recently unveiled its newest collection...

Tom Dwan Compensated $300k from UB scandal

Tom “durrrr” Dwan is an internet poker superstar, and a man that basically needs no introduction if you care enough about poker to be reading this blog. While we’re used to hearing stories of him tearing up the high stakes tables at Bovada Poker and...

Future Looking Bright for PartyGaming

PartyGaming announced a 9% increase in revenues despite stagnant poker room earnings. The company also announced their merger with Bwin is on schedule and will be completed in March 2011. Bingo and Sports Betting operations are have skyrocketed since 2009. The number...

Could RaiseOnce Be Phil Ivey?

With the Halloween weekend rapidly approaching, it seems as though one of poker's biggest names may be playing in costume. The player in question is “raiseonce”, who has become a frequent fixture at the nosebleed tables over at PokerStars. After appearing sometime during 2009, the mystery man has made a name for himself with a hard-driving, aggressive style. This, combined with several other factors, has led many online wizards to predict that raiseonce is, in fact, Full Tilt pro Phil Ivey.

Gabe Patgorski Opens, Finishes With Day Three Lead at WSOP Regional Championship

The World Series of Poker is enjoying a vigorous round of play in their first ever Regional Championship event, held at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. With a $10,000 buy-in, 226 players have been engaged in a two-day battle for the inaugural crown. And when the cards finally hit the air on Day Three, it was FlopTurnRiver's own Gabe Patgorski in the lead. His stack of 729,000 chips bested a field which included such names as Steve Zolotow, Brandon Adams, Bernard Lee, and Justin Smith. Twenty-four players were still alive, all having made the money.

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up

Online tournaments are in a bit of a holding pattern as the end of 2010 draws near. With the majority of online tournament series in the rear-view mirror there just is not a whole lot to get excited about on a weekly basis.  Since the end of MiniFTOPS XVII and the...

Anna Chapman to Create iPhone Poker App

With poker being as popular as it is today, it seems everybody wants a piece of the pie, even Russian spies. Anna Chapman, the now world-famous sexy Russian spy, is planning to release an iPhone app. The app allows players to play poker against her and win prizes. The...

UFC 121 Betting Preview at Bodog

The baddest man on the planet, UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, returns to the Octagon on Saturday night at UFC 121 in Anaheim, Calif., for his third consecutive title defense — this time against unbeaten Cain Velasquez, who looks to become the first...

GIGANTIC CHIP STACK SETS NEW WORLD RECORD

(21 October 2010, Dublin) The Paddy Power Poker team literally stacked their way into the Guinness World Record Book in Dublin today by making the world’s biggest poker chip stack. The gigantic stack, which stands at a whopping 3 meters tall and 50cm wide, took...

Win your Dream Job Through PokerStars!

Most players that take up the hobby of poker dream of turning that hobby into a full-time job. This would require that the player be able to make enough money playing poker to support themselves. Playing poker professionally allows players to create their own schedule...

Weekend Tournament Wrap-Up

Online tournaments continued to move in the right direction this past weekend as both PokerStars and FullTilt saw a nice boost in attendance during their Sunday majors. Without a major tournament series on the horizon the Sunday Million and FullTilt Sunday $1,000,000...

Wynn Resorts Warms To Internet Gaming

After years spent silent regarding the legalization of online gambling in America, Wynn Resorts, Ltd. has reportedly opened their stance. Following two years of decreased earnings, the Vegas-based gaming corporation are believed to be ready to discuss the possibility of expanding into the online market. With more and more players reluctant to commit so much time and energy to a long distance trip, the ability to pipe their gaming services into the homes of millions of US consumers may be too much to ignore.

PokerStars Announces RCOOP

PokerStars has recently announced their newest tournament series, the Regional Championships of Online Poker or RCOOP. Following in the footsteps of its wildly successful predecessors, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the Spring Championship of...

PokerStars Estonia Launches with Government OK

In conjunction with the government of Estonia, PokerStars has launched its third country-specific gaming site. The newest entry, PokerStars.ee, “complies fully with Estonian law and enables the country's residents to continue playing at the world's largest poker site and to qualify for the biggest live events across the globe, such as the PokerStars European Poker Tour,” according to a recent press release.

Bodog Inks Contract with Galaxy, Oilers

Bodog Poker, one of the biggest names in the gaming industry, has entered into a partnership agreement with the most famous team in America's growing soccer stable. Known for their high-powered attack and nationwide appeal, the LA Galaxy has made fans out of even the most ardent of soccer haters. This comes largely by virtue of their cast of stars, which includes names like Landon Donovan and international icon David Beckham.

Casinos Change Stance on Online Gaming

The debate over online gambling in the United States has been dissected by politicians, economists, and businesspeople all over the world. Congress has been mulling over Representative Barney Frank’s bill that would legalize Internet gambling (besides sports...

Bodog Poker Open V Main Event

This weekend, the Bodog Poker Open V went out with a bang with two events that closed out their respective series: the big-money Championship Series of tournaments and the aimed-at-everyone Contender Series. First place in the Championship Series Main Event, a...

Do You Play Different?

888poker kicks off a low buy-in, high prize tourney marathon Starting this October, poker players will have the chance to find out why 888poker plays the “same game, but different.” The world’s most progressive poker room will host 4 major...

Negreanu Draws Fire at WCOOP Final Table

Once embraced as one of the most likeable characters in the game, Daniel Negranu has drawn a sizable amount of heat over the past several months. From his criticism of Ultimate Bet to his well-publicized slur toward Annie Duke, Kid Poker has found himself in the limelight a bit more often than he and his employers would like, perhaps. Now, it seems, he's given detractors more fuel for their hate machine.

Bodog Poker Open V Underway

The Bodog Poker Open V shot out of the gate Sunday evening with three tournaments: two in the Championship Series and one Contender Series event. The inaugural tournament for the BPOV was a $100+$9 No Limit Hold’em Championship Series Event that featured an...

PokerStars Promos Celebrate 50 Billion Hands

It's a number that's impossible to wrap your head around, no matter how hard you try. It's a total nearly seven times the population of the planet, an astonishing tally that defies the imagination. 50,000,000,000 – The number of hands that PokerStars has dealt out over their years as one of the top names in the gaming industry. It's an landmark feat, one that must be celebrated.

DDBeast Wins 2010 WCOOP Event #53

Throughout the 2010 World Championship of Poker there have been plenty of big buy-in events with huge paydays. Actually, some of the smallest fields have produced the biggest prize pools, especially the re-buy events. A great example of this was Event #53, the...

Bodog Teams With Monday Night Football

As America hunkers down for another season of the NFL, Bodog is set to pump up their player base with an exciting promotional pairing between poker and Monday Night Football. Each Monday at 8 PM ET, Bodog will host a pair of $10 + $1 tournaments. Each one will be named in honor of one of the night's competitor's in the nationally televised NFL matchup, effectively representing the team. Players can then sign up for the tournament whose namesake they feel will cover the spread under the Monday night lights.

dcg30 Captures WCOOP Event #49 Crown

For just about 15 hours worth of work, $123,000 isn't a bad payday. Just ask dcg30, who finished in the top spot in the 49th event of PokerStars' current WCOOP running. Kicking off at 12:00 ET on September 22 and wrapping at 3:14 ET the following morning, 1,654 players bellied up to the digital tables for this $200+$15 No Limit Hold'em event. Each player was allowed one rebuy and one add-on (costing an additional $200). Not willing to simply bow out after one beat, 1,172 of the contestants opted for a rebuy, while 942 spent the additional cash to pad their chip stack.

Jason Mercier Wins 2010 WCOOP Event #42!

With over 60 events in the 2010 World Championship of Online Poker it can be hard for a tournament to stand out. A great way to garner a lot of attention is to have an event with a huge prize pool and great professionals making the final table. The two-day $1,050...

norajean Wins MiniFTOPS Event #32

After outlasting an astonishingly large field in Full Tilt Poker's MiniFTOPS Event #32, norajean is basking in the sweet smell of success. Beginning on September 19 at 13:03 ET, this $300,000 guaranteed tournament went into the wee hours of the morning before wrapping at 00:24 ET on September 20. Hosted by Michael Tureniec, this $24+2 event saw 16,572 players ante up for a chance at one of the biggest prize pots in the latest running of Full Tilt's MiniFTOPS. The massive enrollment totals bested the guaranteed money by $31,440, bringing the final tally to just under a third of a million dollars.

SixthSenSe19 Wins WCOOP Event #38

In the marathon heads-up matter that was PokerStars' WCOOP Event #38, SixthSenSe19 emerged as the top dog in what is arguably the most challenging game in online poker. Outlasting 943 other entrants, SixthSenSe19 took home the lion's share of the $600,000 guaranteed prize pool. The $500+$30 buy-in event finished short of its expected enrollment, but still managed to last nearly 36 hours.