Online poker news
Amid demand in the online gaming industry, it has taken years for online poker rooms and casinos such as Bodog to hear the demands of customers and develop software applications for mobile platforms. Read more »
Starting on Wednesday of this week, players on CEREUS Network sites Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker began competing in a high-stakes two month Points Race worth $530,000. The prize pool will be divided among the top Status Point earners. Read more »
Joining the likes of the other major online poker rooms, next generation poker site PKR.com today announced the roster of its new "Team PKR Pro." The six new members will represent PKR.com and act as brand ambassadors for the website. Read more »
On April 26th, the third Bodog Poker Open will kick off on one of the world's largest online poker sites. In a similar model to tournaments held on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, the newest Bodog Poker Open will feature three buy-in levels. Read more »
Three versions of the inaugural PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Event played out on Monday, with j.thaddeus taking down the high-stakes $10,300 buy-in tournament for nearly $1 million. Read more »
In just a few short weeks, Everest Poker will return as the presenting sponsor of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). When the tournament series kicks off on May 26th from the Rio in Las Vegas, Everest Poker qualifiers will see their winnings in the Main Event matched up to $1 million and then distributed evenly among qualifiers. Read more »
Tuesday will mark the end of an era in the online poker community, as PokerRoom and CasinoRoom will shut their doors. The poker site currently makes its home on the Ongame Network and players will be asked to move to bwin. Read more »
Tonight on Betfair, Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi will host a charity fundraiser benefiting stem cell research. The tournament kicks off at 20:00 U.K. time on one of the world's largest online poker sites. Read more »
Imaginative poker site PKR has launched an array of new features and games to its award-winning software. Read more »
Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell will don an Ultimate Bet logo at the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in Montreal on April 18th. Liddell will square off inside the Octagon against Mauricio "Shogun" Rua. Read more »
U.K. poker player Andrew Feldman is the newest Full Tilt Poker red pro according to a press release from Check-Raise Management. He's an esteemed cash game player and is the biggest winner on the current installment of "The Poker Den." Read more »
Tokwiro-owned online poker site Ultimate Bet began sponsoring Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Martin "The Hitman" Kampmann last week. Ultimate Bet's logo was displayed prominently on Kampmann's trunks and shirt at the series' event in Nashville, Tennessee. Read more »
It didn't take long for the PokerStars SCOOP to become wildly popular. In fact, the low-stakes installment of its very first tournament, a No Limit Hold'em Six-Max with Rebuys event, attracted 27,134 players, making it one of the largest online poker tournaments ever held. Read more »
On Thursday, PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, announced that 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate and runner up Ivan Demidov have become the newest members of Team PokerStars Pro. Read more »
Just in time for its very first Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), the world's most popular online poker room, PokerStars, reinstated the account of Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo, a sponsored pro of Bodog. Read more »
On Thursday, online poker room Ultimate Bet announced that it had signed World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder and top online poker player Matt "mattg1983" Graham to its roster of Star Players. Read more »
One of the things that draws players to Doyle's Room is the number of top professionals who show up to play in tournaments on the site. Starting tonight at 9:30pm ET, players on Doyle's Room will have the opportunity to "Beat The Brunsons" with large cash prizes on the line. Read more »
If you've ever wanted to rail your favorite poker stars without having to be at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, head to Bodog. The online poker site and sports book recently opened up betting on the WSOP. The festivities at the Rio begin on May 27th. Read more »
On Sunday, April 5th at 4:00pm ET, PokerWorld will host a $1,000 freeroll celebrating its move from the Gold Chip Network to the Cake Poker Network. Players on PokerWorld will also be able to take advantage of Gold Chip and Gold Card promotions, which are staples of the Cake Poker family of sites. Read more »
In a study released on Friday, it was revealed that Texas Hold'em, statistically at least, is a game of skill. The research in question investigated 103 million hands and found that three-quarters of them did not go to showdown. In essence, they were won due to betting by players. Read more »
It is hard to believe that it has been this long, but the online poker world is sliding out of its infancy. One of the first rooms around and the one which continues to be at the forefront of the poker world today, Ultimate Bet will soon celebrate its tenth anniversary. Read more »
After seeing the network's Bad Beat Jackpot hit in January for over $500,000, the CEREUS Network once again paid out a staggering amount of money when the Bad Beat Jackpot was hit on Absolute Poker Wednesday evening. Read more »
Looking for keepsakes from NBC's Celebrity Apprentice? UBAuctions.com, which allows members of the popular online poker site to bid on one-of-a-kind items in a similar fashion to eBay, has added several items from the popular reality show. Read more »
As reported earlier this week by Poker News Daily, the schedule for the 12th edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) was released today. Notable changes this time around include the buy-in of the prestigious Two Day event being lowered from $5,200 to $2,620 and the introduction of a MiniFTOPS schedule. Read more »
After hearing many comments from players on their multitude of sites, the iPoker Network has recently announced changes to their tournament structures which should give their players more action for their tournament dollar. Read more »
