The World Poker Tour Legends of Poker has played down to its final 27 players. The chip leader is Paul Smith, who sits with a 946,000 chip stack.

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has become involved in the Republican National Convention (RNC), which kicks off on September 1st at the Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Rumors surfaced on Wednesday that Phil Tom, father of Absolute Poker founder Scott Tom, was indicted in conjunction with the scandal.

The 5th season of the EPT kicks off with the EPT Barcelona Open, and will see the presentation of the inaugural EPT Awards.

Just before midnight ET on Thursday, August 14th, the world record for an online poker Bad Beat Jackpot was broken when one lucky table hit a whopping $1,013,381.63.

On Thursday, Ultimate Bet announced that, in addition to its Ante Up for Africa Tournament, the online poker room will be holding a 50 Seat Aruba Poker Classic.

Ultimate Bet announced that on August 15-17 it will host six “Ante Up for Africa” tournaments, with all of the tournament fees being given to the Ante Up for Africa charity.

Yuvee04 won both Event 14 and Event 15 in the FTOPS, marking the first time any player has won two FTOPS events in the same night.

It’s been almost a year since Natalie “TheV0id” Teltscher took down the 2007 PokerStars WCOOP Main Event and was disqualified by PokerStars. She filed a lawsuit against the site, but withdrew it recently.

Just a few days ago, the Remote Gambling Association took a stand supporting Pete Sessions’ HR 6663, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Clarification and Implementation Act of 2008.