After two months of speculation, CBS has finally confirmed what the poker world has suspected all along: poker pros Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho will be competing together as a team on the upcoming season of the competition reality show "The Amazing Race." Read more »
PokerStars' World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued to attract massive fields this week as each event went above and beyond its guaranteed prize pool. Despite the enormous turnouts, a couple well-known professionals managed to win tournaments in the year's biggest online poker series. Read more »
Absolute Poker is one of the largest poker rooms currently taking action from US customers, and because they want to keep their reputation as one of the best online rooms out there, they have put together a bevy of guaranteed tournaments for this weekend. To warm-up for the weekend Absolute Poker will be hosting a… Read more »
The popular MiniFTOPS events have just kicked off and have already been a great success so far. Event #1 exceeded the guaranteed prize pool by more than 50%. The second event started yesterday and the guaranteed prize pool was exceeded by 29%. There were a total of 1,296 players battling for the $38,880 prize pool.… Read more »
After four weeks in its Sunday 9PM time slot, the G4 reality show "Two Months, Two Million" will be changing nights, moving to Wednesdays at 8PM for the remainder of its ten episode season. There will be no new episode on Sunday and the network will instead air a two hour marathon of the first four episodes from 9PM-11PM ET. Read more »
The popularity of Pot Limit Omaha is no doubt growing all over the world. A more complex game by nature, Omaha has captured the attention of poker players and has made Omaha a popular poker game at live events and online as well. The overall performance of PokerStars pros at the WCOOP events had not… Read more »
Cake Poker has been experiencing connectivity problems over the past few days, and although they have since identified the problem, it has taken them several days to come up with a proper solution. A new version of their software was released and new hardware was implemented as part of the resolution. Due to the fact… Read more »
In what is a startling change from previous decisions that have been handed down by their judiciary, the European Union's Court of Justice ruled against online gaming operator bwin in a suit the organization had brought before the Court. Read more »
The FTOPS events at Full Tilt Poker are highly anticipated tournaments that online poker players dream of winning. But the FTOPS events have buy-ins that not everyone can afford, thus Full Tilt created the MiniFTOPS which have large prize pools and small buy-ins so all their players can participate and win big cash prizes. Event… Read more »
Having won eleven WSOP bracelets puts Phil Hellmuth in an elite group of players who have had a nearly unmatched success at the poker tables for many years. Other players who make up that group of past WSOP champions include: Johnny Chan with ten bracelets, Doyle Brunson with ten bracelets, Johnny Moss with nine bracelets… Read more »
After a month-long absence from the airwaves, the NBC game show "Face the Ace" will return to the networks line-up this Saturday. Several changes are in store for the program, which struggled in the ratings when it first debuted back in August. Read more »
It was a nearly wire to wire performance for 20-year old Carter Phillips at the final table of the European Poker Tour's (EPT) recent tournament in Barcelona. Phillips came into the last day of play on Wednesday atop the chip counts and stayed there, briefly relinquishing his chip lead only once the entire day. Read more »
The World Championship of Online Poker events started on September the 3rd and seventeen out of the total forty five events have been played. The outstanding part is the fact that only four out of the seventeen events have not exceed the guaranteed prize pool, with the other thirteen events easily reaching the guarantee, and… Read more »
Cake Poker is well known for their rewards program, and now they have added even more benefits for players by giving out Gold Cards at an accelerated pace! Gold Cards are awarded to players independently of the amount wagered, their account balance, or even the amount of sessions logged. They are given out based on… Read more »
With the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the midst of a four month hiatus, the members of the November Nine are currently engaged in the inevitable media onslaught. Of course, these players are also mentally preparing to return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino to battle for the coveted WSOP Main Event bracelet, the $8.5 million first prize, and instant poker stardom. Read more »
Ultimate Bet has recently been busy with the planning of their 10th anniversary party which will culminate with the Aruba Poker Classic main event tournament. The Aruba Poker Classic has millions of dollars in guaranteed prize money up for grabs, and to make sure they get a solid attendance, Ultimate Bet is currently hosting weekly… Read more »
The European Poker Tour event in Barcelona was a wonderful event, and the newly implemented structure allowed for much deeper play, which obviously favored more skilled players. The starting field in the tournament was outstanding, with poker pros like Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Thierry van den Berg, Noah Boeken, Roland de Wolfe and many others looking… Read more »
Party Poker will be hosting one of their popular Super Wednesday tournaments tonight in the form of a $162 $30K guarantee event. Late registration will be available and, as always on Party, the deal-making tool will appear at the final table. There are satellite events offered with buy-ins in the $44 dollar range. Party will… Read more »
Cake Poker announced this past Friday that their players had been having connection problems, and that their technicians discovered that disconnection problems were caused by an external factor that was definitely affecting the connection between their software platform and their players. They recently released a new software update that will most likely help to fix… Read more »
Last night's episodes of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN spotlighted the two most recognizable Phils in poker: Phil Hellmuth and November Nine member Phil Ivey. Hellmuth was seated at the feature table for the coverage of Day 2B while the secondary feature table boasted a strong line up of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and PokerStars Pros Dennis Phillips and Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck. Read more »
The final list of nominees for the 2009 Poker Hall of Fame was announced on Tuesday and the ballot is loaded with the game's biggest names. It is now up to the 15 living Hall of Fame members and the 15-member Media Panel to cast their votes before the inductees are revealed on Saturday, November 7. Read more »
The much anticipated MiniFTOPS starts today with a $20 + 2 $200K guaranteed No Limit Hold’em event hosted by Christian Kruel. The event will start at 9 pm ET and Full Tilt Poker will be hosting a wide selection of satellite events. The lowest buy-in to a satellite event is $0.75 + $0.15 and the… Read more »
The European Poker Tour Barcelona which is sponsored by PokerStars started with 478 players, and after six days the final table has been reached, which means a champion will soon be crowned! The chip leader is Greek player Georgios Kapalas, who started playing poker in 2006 and has quickly become one of Greece’s best players.… Read more »
On the latest episode of ESPN.com's Inside Deal, Absolute Poker Pro Mark Seif joined Andrew Feldman and Bernard Lee in the Bristol studio to talk about the latest poker news, balancing poker and a family life and even got into some details about the Absolute and Ultimate Bet poker scandals. Read more »
Titan Poker rewards players for recommending their friends. The new player will receive a bonus of $50 after making a fifty dollar deposit and accumulating two hundred Titan Poker points. Titan Poker players who have the VIP Platinum, VIP Titanium or VIP Diamond status will receive an additional fifteen dollars for any friends referred. Cash… Read more »
