Online poker news
It's been an exciting few months for Kara Scott. The professional poker player and television presenter recently signed on as Gabe Kaplan's new co-host of GSN's "High Stakes Poker" in November, and this week she became the newest member of "Team Party," where she will represent PartyPoker.com at poker related events around the world. Read more »
This past weekend, UB.com's Joe Sebok provided the poker community an update on where things stand with disseminating hand histories to those players affected by the cheaters that "won" money from players on UltimateBet in 2006 and 2007. Read more »
The online poker site Everest Poker has awarded 10 of its most talented and active players with a $100,000 contract as part of its Live The Dream promotional event in Vienna, Austria. The winners outlasted 190 other hopefuls. Read more »
On Friday, a top European online poker professional announced that he would quit playing poker, citing fatigue and a depleted bankroll as the reasons. Swedish professional Jonas "Nebuchad" Danielsson, in a rambling blog post issued prior to this last weekend, stated (in a rough translation from the original Swedish) that, "The fire and passion I had for poker is now complete. It's like a bonfire that burned all night and now (it) hisses in the morning." Read more »
More positive news for online poker in Europe: Denmark's state-operated Danske Spil has signed a five-year agreement with PartyGaming, which will use its expertise and know-how to offer online gaming to the Danish market. Read more »
Estonia, a small European country bordering with Russia, has recently legalized online gaming as a way to increase its tax income. The decision seems to have been aided by the success of the Baltic Poker Festival hosted by PokerStars. Read more »
Doyle Brunson is the Godfather of Poker and one of the greatest living legends in the game, but to represent his poker site, he is carefully choosing a team of 10 poker pros under the age of 25, which will be known asthe Brunson 10. Read more »
Poker training site DragTheBar.com announced Friday that renowned online player and instructor Dusty "Leatherass9" Schmidt has joined the company as a lead instructor. Read more »
Much of the attention of the poker community in recent days has been focused on the amicable parting of Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo and Bodog. In another announcement that came out earlier this week, a top poker teacher has announced that he will no longer be a part of the poker training team he helped reach its current prominence. Read more »
The popular Microgaming Network is trying to motivate players to throw more chips on the felt with a change to its rake calculation policies, which will now follow the "weighted contribution" method instead of the previous "contributed" method. Read more »
While the news of his dismissal as a sponsored professional continue to make noise around the poker community, poker professional Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo has issued his response to his departure as a sponsored player on the online poker room Bodog. Read more »
As 2009 came to a close, popular poker publication CardPlayer announced its Online Player of the Year (OPOY) award. The winner was New Jersey pro Steve "gboro780" Gross, who became the third honoree of the prestigious award, joining Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis (2008) and Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron (2007). Read more »
Kicking off on February 10th on Full Tilt Poker is the 15th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). The quarterly tournament series is the first of 2010 and features 27 events with more than $17 million in guaranteed prize money. Read more »
American poker fans who are intrigued by the newest - and youngest - World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion can now play for a chance to spend a day in Las Vegas with Joe Cada, sponsored by PokerStars. Read more »
It may be over six months away, but Titan Poker is getting players warmed up to battle for their chance to participate in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Read more »
DoylesRoom sponsored pro Chris moorman1 Moorman stormed through the competition in 2009, capturing the Yearly PocketFives.com Leaderboard (PLB) title. In addition, he claimed the Monthly PLB for December, his second of 2009. Read more »
On Saturday, the USA-facing online poker room Bodog officially parted ways with sponsored pro Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo by removing him from its website. Now, the poker community, Bonomo's agent, and Bodog have had a chance to react. Read more »
Poker pro Tony G may soon be funding the bankroll of Swedish online poker player Isildur1. The revelation, which appeared in a blog posted on TonyGPoker.com, comes at the same time as Isildur1 revealed that he may file a complaint concerning data mining on Full Tilt Poker. Read more »
Two months after Jean-Robert Bellande lost his status as a sponsored pro of the online poker room Bodog, Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo also appears to be out. Bonomo is no longer listed as a member of Team Bodog on the poker room's website. Read more »
Week 17 of the National Football league (NFL) will feature a hodgepodge of players competing for their spot on rosters in 2010. Players like Curtis Painter and Arian Foster will become household fantasy names on Sunday. How can you use your poker skills to navigate the murky waters? Read more »
One of the top stories of 2009 was the arrival of the Scandinavian high roller "Isildur1" to the nosebleed stakes of Full Tilt Poker and the attempts of several players to chop his bankroll legs from under him. Caught up in those attempts was CardRunners' Brian Townsend. Read more »
In 2009, the online poker world continued to provide excitement, drama, and controversy for the denizens that participated in the game. 2009 saw a great deal of changes in the number of rooms offered as the competition for customers became fierce. Read more »
In January, PartyPoker, one of the world's longstanding online poker sites, returns the popular Cash Machine promotion. This time, hardcore grinders will earn additional cash as part of a Booster Bonus. Read more »
It was an unusual Sunday for online poker players all over the world, as Full Tilt Poker, the world's second largest online poker site, had its server crash during the heart of its heavy-traffic period. Read more »
On a night when Full Tilt Poker's software went down much to the dismay of players everywhere, PokerStars set the Guinness World Record for largest online poker tournament ever held. The event weighed in at 149,196 entrants. Read more »
