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Beginning on April 15th, the maximum rakeback offered on the USA-friendly Merge Gaming Network will rise to 35%. Around the same time, members of PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com will migrate to the network, perhaps boosting its traffic five-fold. Read more »
Earlier this week, the Cake Poker Network made an announcement that it had added three new sites. JuicyStakes, BeteXpress, and Kakuy Poker will now join the USA-friendly family of sites. Read more »
While earning one million VIP Player Points (VPPs) on PokerStars in a calendar year might seem like a daunting task for most players, it's become rather routine for PokerStars Team Pro Online member George "Jorj95" Lind. Read more »
According to the Financial Times, Full Tilt Poker, the world's second largest online poker site, is being investigated on money laundering charges. A "federal grand jury in Manhattan" had taken up the case. Read more »
Yesterday was April 1st, which marks a day of trickery in celebration of April Fools Day. In the poker industry, rumors of the true identity of the mystery Swede Isildur1 spread like wildfire. Read more »
This weekend, Full Tilt Poker is running its popular Take 2 promotion once again, a;though this time it is for less money and the requirements, while still exceedingly simple, are just a bit tougher than before. Read more »
Running from April 1st to 30th on the USA-friendly online poker site UB.com is the Perfect 10 Challenge. A total of $100,000 will be given away as part of a special Leaderboard Challenge and a top prize of $20,000 is on the line. Read more »
Online poker site Victory Poker continues to take strides in becoming the next major poker room, as it recently signed well-known pros Jonathan "FieryJustice" Little and James "Andy McLEOD" Obst. Read more »
Starting on April 5th, PartyPoker will be holding the first ever Online Cash Game Championships. Whether players grind it out in the lower level cash games or play at the nosebleed stakes, everyone will have a chance to take part. Read more »
Starting on April 1st, Cake Poker will make it even easier for players to amass Gold Stacks as part of its unique rewards program. The USA-friendly online poker site is making stacks up to 50% easier to earn. Read more »
To celebrate Annie Duke's victory at the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, UB.com introduced a new high-stakes tournament last weekend, the $1,000 Annie Duke Heads-Up Challenge. Read more »
Innovative online poker site PKR.com unleashed its annual Springfest series on Friday, March 26th. The 11-event series will span two weeks and guarantee more than $130,000 in prizes. Read more »
We're two months away from the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. Full Tilt Poker is gearing up to send a throng of players to Sin City, including announcing a 150-seat guaranteed tournament on June 20th. Read more »
The latest site to jettison from the Cake Poker Network is Lock Poker. In April, Lock Poker will move to the USA-friendly Merge Gaming Network, whose flagship site is Carbon Poker. Read more »
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series, otherwise known as FTOPS, is one of the most popular tournament series online and features millions of dollars in guarantees and attracts some of the largest player pools for tournaments for the year. Read more »
Over the weekend, one of the major news items was the vote in Washington, DC regarding health care in the United States. Just as soon as the bill was passed, the poker community responded to the decision of the Senate. Read more »
StoxPoker is once again under fire, this time for founding member Nick "Stoxtrader" Grudzien admitting that he used multiple accounts on multiple poker sites. Amid the allegations, Grudzien has resigned from his post at StoxPoker. Read more »
The Durrrr Challenge might be two-thirds completed, but at this point a lot of players are beginning to think that Patrik Antonius is fully cooked. According to our good friends at DurrrrChallenge.com, there have been 33,303 hands played out of the 50,000 total with Tom "durrrr" Dwan up over $1.9 million. Read more »
Online poker training site DragTheBar.com announced Thursday that lead instructor Dusty "Leatherass" Schmidt has been added to the PokerStars Team Online. Schmidt joins an elite 26-player roster. Read more »
According to CNN Money, there is a potential deal being offered for sponsorship of the Canadian Poker Tour or an outright purchase of the organization by an unnamed online poker company. Read more »
Poker News Daily can independently confirm that Steve "gboro780" Gross has signed with DoylesRoom to become the sixth member of the Brunson 10. The legendary Doyle Brunson, the site's namesake, has handpicked the group of rising poker stars. Read more »
Microgaming, one of the world's foremost developers of online casino and poker software, announced Monday that it launched a new poker network exclusively for the Italian market. Read more »
Over the weekend, the Bay 101 Shooting Star World Poker Tour event came to a close with Phil Hellmuth primed to take down his first ever WPT title. Doyle Brunson was firmly in the corner of the UB.com sponsored pro, tweeting, "go Phil...show the boys some "old school" poker!" Read more »
Annie Duke and UB.com are once again looking to give back to those in need. The online poker site, with the help of the always benevolent Duke, is introducing Second Sundays, a new series of events benefiting charities. Read more »
