It was a typical evening of cards at Gil's house. Gil is the regular host of my local poker game and he does it spectacularly well. The game starts on time and ends on time. He's got a great sound system and the tunes range from Massive Attack to George Jones; you don't know what you're going to hear, but you know it's going to be good. Read more »
Although attendance at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) out-paced last year's tally by 13.5%, this year's champion will earn a whopping $800,000 less. In 2009, Canadian poker player Poorya Nazari earned $3 million after defeating American Anthony Gregg heads-up. Read more »
A total of 62 players remain out of the 1,529 who began the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event. A host of brand name players survived Day 3, including 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event winner Barry Shulman. Read more »
Estonia, a small European country bordering with Russia, has recently legalized online gaming as a way to increase its tax income. The decision seems to have been aided by the success of the Baltic Poker Festival hosted by PokerStars. Read more »
Doyle Brunson is the Godfather of Poker and one of the greatest living legends in the game, but to represent his poker site, he is carefully choosing a team of 10 poker pros under the age of 25, which will be known asthe Brunson 10. Read more »
In the last two years, poker training sites have exploded. Mainstays like DeucesCracked and StoxPoker, which have been around for years, are contending with upstarts like Drag the Bar, which just wooed Dusty "Leatherass9" Schmidt into its ranks. Read more »
It is the year 2010. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) has been on the books in the United States since late 2006. While the deadline for implementing its regulations has been pushed back to the middle of this year, many financial institutions have already begun clamping down on transactions to online poker rooms. Read more »
Poker training site DragTheBar.com announced Friday that renowned online player and instructor Dusty "Leatherass9" Schmidt has joined the company as a lead instructor. Read more »
Titan Poker has a very strong image in most European countries, and it has earned the trust of many thousands of player’s world wide. Titan Poker belongs to the iPoker network which currently stands as the biggest poker network in the world. Only the biggest poker rooms in the industry have the ability to award… Read more »
On Friday night during the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), a charity poker tournament benefiting amfAR, a foundation for AIDS research, will play out. The field is capped at 39 entrants. Read more »
The last days of the year are fairly important for most people around the world and the main reason is that most people visit their families and try to spend quality time with their loved ones, but along with the holidays comes a lot of free time that can be used for many profitable activities.… Read more »
Poker News Daily: Describe how you got started in poker. Ng: I took a job as a dealer in an underground poker club in Toronto. That's how I learned to play. Read more »
PokerStars has managed to do it again, breaking all previous records at the current PCA. But there is one record that will stand and that has created some controversy among the players participating in the tournament. The payout structure has been modified and more players will be receiving money after their performance at the main… Read more »
After a remarkable ’09 in terms of high stakes action, the high stakes tables at Full Tilt don’t look so interesting. Railbirds miss the insane action that invaded the tables at the end of the year but there’s a reason why things have cooled at Full Tilt. First of all the suspension imposed to Brian… Read more »
Much of the attention of the poker community in recent days has been focused on the amicable parting of Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo and Bodog. In another announcement that came out earlier this week, a top poker teacher has announced that he will no longer be a part of the poker training team he helped reach its current prominence. Read more »
Like Wayne Bentley on Day 1A, Praz Bansi owns a commanding chip lead in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) after Day 2. His stack of 960,800 chips is 260,000 more than the next closest competitor. Read more »
After having a field of more than fifteen hundred players and two tough days of competition at the tables, the field was cut back to 884 players for day two. The final numbers are out and the first place winner will be taking a $2.2 million prize and a total of 224 players will take… Read more »
This week, the UB.com-sponsored poker news franchise "Poker2Nite" welcomed acclaimed tournament director Matt Savage. The creator of the Iron Man tournament and former director of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), Savage assessed the industry entering 2010. Read more »
The Euro City Poker Tour will be hosting its next event in Barcelona, the event will start on March 19th and it will run until March 21st. Titan Poker has already awarded a total of twelve packages and there are more available each week. Each package will include the buy-in into the main event plus… Read more »
PokerStars recently announced that all US players will get the chance to meet Joe Cada in person, in the epic city of Las Vegas and what’s better, it will cost zero dollars. The date with cada will be around the main event of the recently announced North American Poker Tour, but there is no set… Read more »
The popular Microgaming Network is trying to motivate players to throw more chips on the felt with a change to its rake calculation policies, which will now follow the "weighted contribution" method instead of the previous "contributed" method. Read more »
Even as the huge PCA event is taking place in the Bahamas, PokerStars is working to run interesting live tournaments in all parts of the world, and it has been successful at it in most parts of the world thus far. One tour that was definitely missing was in North America, which has finally become… Read more »
While the news of his dismissal as a sponsored professional continue to make noise around the poker community, poker professional Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo has issued his response to his departure as a sponsored player on the online poker room Bodog. Read more »
Look out, North America! Long absent poker events sponsored by PokerStars, the continent will host the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) beginning on January 20th at the Venetian, with another stop planned for Mohegan Sun. Read more »
One more year has passed by and the poker community will remember the remarkable action that was seen at Full Tilt Poker. One of the first events that remained as a hot topic for many months of last year and still pops-up as a hot topic is the durrrr challenge. The online sensation Tom “durrrr”… Read more »
