Online Poker

Nordic Gaming Group Ltd. (NGG), one of Europe's fastest growing online gaming companies, announced Tuesday that it has chosen Income Access affiliate marketing software to power its soon-to-be-launched affiliate programs. Read more »

Officials at the Cake Poker Network room Lock Poker have made a splash in the last week, signing nine of the game's top players. In addition, Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Eric Lynch (Rizen) has become the site's Vice President of Product Development. Read more »

On August 12th, CelebPoker will move from Boss Media's International Poker Network to Playtech's iPoker Network, the third largest worldwide and the largest that does not accept players from the United States. Read more »

Over the last few weeks, users on the TwoPlusTwo forums have been buzzing about allegations against the small flash-based poker room Pitbull Poker. Users from TwoPlusTwo accuse Pitbull Poker of "stack shaving," superusers, and security holes. Read more »

In an e-mail distributed by the world's largest online poker room, PokerStars, on Tuesday, it was revealed that a special 100% up to $600 first-time deposit bonus is now available. Players can also take advantage of a new 50% up to $300 reload bonus. Read more »

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) returns on Wednesday for its 13th installment. This time around, the recurring tournament series boasts $19 million in guarantees and runs through August 16th. Read more »

Synchronized breaks may make their long-awaited debut on PokerStars on Tuesday as part of a soon-to-be-launched software update. Full Tilt Poker rolled out synchronized breaks in April, taking the online poker industry by storm. Now, multi-tablers are rejoicing with the news that PokerStars will likely follow suit. Read more »

What started as a collection of threads making arguments against the legitimacy of play at the small online poker room Pitbull Poker has grown into a firestorm of allegations over illegal activities. On most of the major online poker forums, there are threads spanning dozens of pages accusing Pitbull Poker of a plethora of security issues. Read more »

It's been about two months since the funds for many online poker players were frozen and payment checks bounced due to actions taken by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Players affected by bounced checks were refunded, typically with a bonus in the neighborhood of 10 to 20%. Read more »

After recently celebrating their fifth anniversary, Full Tilt Poker could have sat back for a bit on its laurels and waited for its next FTOPS schedule to begin in less than a week (August 5th, to be exact). Read more »

Everest Poker, the official on-felt sponsor of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP), is celebrating its fifth anniversary in style. The promotion is highlighted by a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool event featuring a live finale. Read more »

After an excellent performance at the World Poker Tour's first stop of their eighth season at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, longtime online professional Justin "Boosted J" Smith has signed a deal to be a Full Tilt Poker sponsored professional. Read more »

PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, has unveiled the Americas Cup of Poker, bringing players from 13 countries in the Western Hemisphere together to do battle. Up for grabs is a $250,000 prize pool. Read more »

Over the past weekend, poker players had a difficult decision to make, with the ability to say that they were a part of a Guinness World Record on the line. Read more »

In coverage of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bellagio Cup V, it was revealed that Alec "traheho" Torelli has signed with Doyle's Room, a USA-friendly site on the Cake Poker Network. Torelli holds the sixth largest chip stack entering Day 4 at the Bellagio. Read more »

Poker commentator Lacey Jones will take her career to the next level after signing with Absolute Poker this week. Outside of poker, Jones has also appeared on hits like HBO's "Entourage," NBC's "Las Vegas," and Fox's "The O.C." Poker News Daily sat down with Jones to talk about her poker and modeling careers. Read more »

As the battle for online poker legality comes to the forefront of the American legal system, players are still in limbo making deposits and withdrawals from their favorite sites. Some rooms like Cake Poker have had no reported incidents, while larger ones like Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars were directly affected by the U.S. Attorney's Office seizing funds in bank accounts tied to processors. Read more »

Fans of the world's second largest online poker site can rejoice in the introduction of a Hand Replayer and Mixed Limit games on Full Tilt Poker. Both made their debut as part of a recent software upgrade. Read more »

The popular PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) returns on September 3rd and consists of 45 tournaments, an increase from the 33 that were run in 2008. Hold'em, Omaha, Razz, Stud, HORSE, Badugi, and 2-7 Triple Draw events will be held. Read more »