On May 27th, the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) will kick off from the Rio in Las Vegas with a $500 buy-in Casino Employees event. Among its presenting sponsors will once again be Milwaukee's Best Light, Harrah's officials announced this week. Read more »
In November, CryptoLogic announced that it would merge its member online poker rooms with the Boss Media Network during the first quarter of 2009. Poker News Daily can confirm that the official move of InterPoker is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, March 17th. Read more »
The first installment of the 2009 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza is in the books. The 25 event tournament series attracted over 7,000 players and generated a total prize pool of nearly $3 million. The Venetian's Kathy Raymond talks about the successful tournament series' origins and future plans. Read more »
On March 21st, the Borgata in Atlantic City will host a $500,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack poker tournament. The buy-in is $1,650 and the contest awards 30,000 chips to each player. The event has received so much interest that a total of two starting days are planned, with a winner being crowned on March 24th. Read more »
Fresh off a final table appearance at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe in London, Team PokerStars Pro member Daniel Negreanu will now see his cash game expertise unfold on GSN beginning this Sunday, March 1st, at 9:00pm ET. Read more »
The World Poker Tour's (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic kicked off last Saturday from the Commerce Casino. A total of 696 poker hopefuls entered, representing a growth of 5% from 2008. In the end, one man stood tall above the rest, Andrew Cimpan. Read more »
This Sunday, March 1st, at 9:00pm Eastern Time, the fifth season of "High Stakes Poker" will debut on GSN, the Network for Games. The fifth installment has been a longtime coming and perhaps no one is looking forward to it more than its host, A.J. Benza. Read more »
In the current day of professional poker, players look to find ways to alleviate the pressures faced by everyone who works for a living. Many times this is done by being the spokesperson or sponsored player for one of the multitude of online poker sites that crave a vibrant face to place on their product. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker's FTOPS XI has come to a close, and with it several champions have been born. One of them is Chris "The Universe112" Leveroni, a 19-year-old whiz kid from Amherst, MA, who earned more than $270,000 during the series. Read more »
On Thursday, the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative (SSIGI) released the results of a study performed by U.S.-based PricewaterhouseCoopers. The company found that up to $51.9 billion over a ten year period could be raised by taxing and regulating the internet gambling industry. Read more »
In August of 2002, Chris Karagulleyan took down the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Legends of Poker during the tournament series' very first season. Six and a half years later, Karagulleyan is back in the spotlight, holding a commanding chip lead at the L.A. Poker Classic. Read more »
Players on the iPoker Network room Titan Poker will soon find their Loyalty Points balances increased as part of the site's Spring Poker Madness promotion. The additional points are based on how many Loyalty Points players accrue during the month of March. Read more »
AbsolutePoker.net is gearing up to make dreams come true for 12 lucky Texas Hold 'em players. The site announced Tuesday that it's giving away six trips for two to the Kandyland Party at the Playboy Mansion on June 13, 2009. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker pro Chris Ferguson holds five WSOP bracelets. He's reached the finals of NBC's "National Heads-Up Poker Championship" in three of the four years the tournament has been held, winning it in 2008. However, one accolade Ferguson lacks is a victory on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Read more »
Betfair's stable of young gun poker pros recently became a little bigger. The independent site announced that it has signed Peter "Zupp" Jepsen to Team Betfair, joining Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad, Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi, and John "Kunku wap" Tabatabai. Read more »
There are 63 players remaining in the World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic, which originates from the Commerce Casino. Online poker pro Jeff "ActionJeff" Garza eliminated Patrick Stemper from contention in 64th place, leaving the survivors to finish in the money. Read more »
As players battle it out in Los Angeles at the World Poker Tour's L. A. Poker Classic, players are also looking forward to the upcoming 2009 National Heads Up Poker Championship, which will be played out from March 5th to the 8th at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker? Esfandiari: I was about 19 years-old and lived at the time with Scott Stuart, who played poker in local casinos. He got me into it. He gave me a book to read, "Winning Low Limit Hold'em" by Lee Jones. Read more »
On Monday, online poker site Poker Host officially moved to the Cake Poker Network from Microgaming. The move comes one month after Doyle's Room jumped ship to the Network, also from Microgaming. Players on Poker Host are now asked to download and install new software upon signing in. Read more »
Dream Team Poker, which is gearing up to host its second ever tournament (at Caesars Palace) in Las Vegas in March, announced that it has added Katherine Kowal as the company's Director of Business Development. Read more »
Online gaming software developer CryptoLogic Limited has fired back at ex-CEO Javaid Aziz, claiming that he is in breach of contract related to his severance from the company. CryptoLogic has said it's entitled to get back more than €1.5 million currently held in escrow under terms of his severance agreement. Read more »
At the start of business on Friday, the English online and live gaming organization Ladbrokes PLC announced its preliminary 2008 financial statements, turning a profit for the year despite the economic collapse of late last summer. Read more »
Two days of play in the World Poker Tour's (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic are in the books. The magic is in the air at the Commerce Casino, as Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari sits with the largest chip stack entering Day 3 at 405,000, just edging out Kofi Farkye, who holds 391,000. Read more »
Last month, I was approached by Bluff Magazine to take part in its "Bluff Poker Challenge." For those of you who are unfamiliar with the event, a dozen or so players were invited. Each of them will start with $200 on Lock Poker and we will have the entire month to turn that into as much money as possible. Read more »
Tonight, the 81st annual Academy Awards will take place from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. After the final Oscar is awarded, 2006 WSOP Main Event Champion Jamie Gold will host a charity poker tournament benefiting Children Uniting Nations. Read more »
