Cake Poker will be sponsoring live tournament games in Oregon’s premiere poker club, the West Side Poker Club, which has been open to the public since 2005. The West Side Poker Club offers rake free cash games that run Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They also have tournaments every day of the week except on Wednesdays.… Read more »
Absolute Poker is part of the third biggest poker network that accepts US customers, and they are only able to maintain and stimulate growth by innovating their schedule and hosting the biggest guaranteed tournaments around! To warm-up for the weekend, Absolute Poker will be hosting several guaranteed tournaments today starting with an $8K guaranteed with… Read more »
The Ultimate Bet-sponsored Aruba Poker Classic is only a month away and the online poker room recently announced a new incentive to persuade players to take a Caribbean vacation come October. Read more »
The mid-year financial report is in at PartyGaming and while earnings are up for the company's online casino, sports betting and bingo ventures its online poker room PartyPoker saw a 29% dip in earnings compared to this time last year. Read more »
All railbirds and poker fans around the world are used to seeing crazy action at the nosebleed table limits at Full Tilt Poker. Red Pros like Patrik Antonius and Gus Hansen give the poker world plenty of entertainment. Patrik Antonius has kept his earnings in the green numbers and is up a little over $3.7… Read more »
Our first installment of Hand of the Week comes from the final table of the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XIII Event #17: $300 Six-handed NLHE with rebuys. The remaining four players had locked up a minimum of $87,334, but a first-place prize of $246,071 was on the line, as well as the coveted FTOPS jersey. Read more »
Ok, ok, ok. I know the topic of tells in online poker has probably been done already on a gazillion poker websites, but after an involuntary hiatus from online poker (having a second kid will do that to a person), I have played a bit lately and sort of re-noticed things that I had taken for granted when I used to play more often. Read more »
Absolute Poker is set to introduce their series of STEP tournaments. There are a total of 10 STEP tournaments, beginning at $.10 STEPS, where a player has to finish in either first or second place in order to earn an entry into the next STEP. If a player does not finish in the top two… Read more »
Titan Poker is the largest poker room in the iPoker network and to keep their flawless reputation intact, they have modified their rewards program and now offer better incentives to all customers. Players will receive points for playing both cash games and real money tournaments. On average, for every dollar paid in rake, a player… Read more »
In order to maintain its reputation as one of the best online tournament poker sites, Full Tilt is constantly innovating and improving their daily guaranteed schedule. The biggest guaranteed tournament that Full Tilt Poker will offer today is the $150 + $13 $75K guaranteed at 8pm ET. Also starting at 8pm ET is a $24… Read more »
The story of the week in the internet gambling industry has been the constitutional challenge to the UIGEA brought on by the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA). Internet gambling law expert I. Nelson Rose comments on the ruling, which was passed down by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Read more »
With the Caesars Cup getting ready for its inaugural action in just over three weeks, both American captain Daniel Negreanu and European captain Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad have been busy filling out the remainder of their squads. Earlier this week, each named two additional members to their teams. Read more »
Starting on Thursday, online poker players from Canada can officially sign up for Bodog, one of the world's largest sites, through Bodog.ca. Previously, Bodog did not accept players from the North American country, which has produced some of the game's top-tier players. Read more »
Ultimate Bet is constantly innovating their rewards program so that players always gain from simply sitting down at the table! Ultimate Bet players will now receive UltimatePoints and Status points when they play cash games, real money tournaments and sit n gos. Depending on the amount of points they earn, a status will be given… Read more »
Beginning today, PokerStars will be hosting the largest series of online tournaments they’ve ever run. There will be $40 million in guaranteed prizes, and at least two events per day. The smallest guaranteed prize pool for an individual event will be $50K and the highest is the main event which has an unbelievable guaranteed prize… Read more »
It’s the first week of September and each month starts with one of the biggest online tournaments at Party Poker. Sunday September 6 will change a few players’ lives when they make the final table of the Monthly Million at Party Poker. Party Poker wants to make sure that all their players get a chance… Read more »
PartyPoker and Ace Magazine's latest live poker event is taking the game to new heights—literally. In a move that will surely differentiate the upcoming Poker in the Sky event from others around Europe, the 22-person tournament will take place 150 feet in the air over Town Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more »
PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, is gearing up to present the seventh annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) on Thursday. The 45-event series will span across 17 days and culminate with a $5,200 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Main Event on Sunday, September 20. Read more »
Beginning tomorrow, PokerStars will be hosting the largest series of online tournaments they’ve ever run. There will be $40 million in guaranteed prizes, and at least two events per day. The smallest guaranteed prize pool for an individual event will be $50K and the highest is the main event which has an unbelievable guaranteed prize… Read more »
Twenty-four hours ago, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) came up short in its bid to overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). In the process, internet gambling may now become an industry governed by state law. Read more »
The first of two Day 2s in the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event took center stage on Tuesday night on ESPN. 2004 champion Greg Raymer and "Seinfeld" actor Jason Alexander headlined the feature table. Read more »
To say that some of the televised poker offerings that have cropped up in the years since Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker have been a bit lackluster would be putting it nicely. A rash of poker content has found its way onto just about every channel from Bravo to ESPN to NBC to BET and many of those programs bear a striking resemblance to one another: Take a six player Sit & Go, populate it with interesting or famous characters and let the all-ins commence. Read more »
The biggest live tournament series is back in Spain for event #3. The Gran Casino Barcelona will be hosting the event, which will run October 1st through October 4th. The prize pool is guaranteed to be over $200K. For all those Full Tilt Poker players who wish to buy-in directly to the event, the buy-in… Read more »
This week, ESPN.com poker show "Inside Deal" welcomed Victor Ramdin. A member of Team PokerStars Pro who is passionate about charity work, Ramdin discusses Scotty Nguyen's 2008 WSOP antics and coming to the United States from his native Guyana. Read more »
For all those Party Poker players who enjoy tournament events, Party Poker has a new promotion that will give away $30K in prizes each month. Party Poker will give all their players points for playing in Sit & Go tournaments and multi-table tournaments, with those points counted towards both weekly and monthly leader boards that… Read more »
