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Two new champions were crowned in last night’s action in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII (FTOPS). Both tournaments had prize pools that went beyond the posted guarantees, and ...
Bodog Poker is offering its players a chance to get in on the biggest poker tournament of the year, the World Series of Poker main event. The site plans to ...
PaddyPower.com today launched a slew of betting markets on the World Series of Poker main event being held in Las Vegas from July 3, 2008. The Irish bookmaker has made ...
Bwin, the publicly-quoted Austrian online bookmaker and poker room, today announced revenue from its poker operations up 12.6 percent in the first quarter of 2008 year-on-year to €20.3 million. This ...
PKR.com today announced it is to begin broadcasting in-game footage of tournaments to 15 million homes across Europe. The nightly shows, which will initially feature Thursday’s $100 buy-in $10,000 guaranteed ...
PartyGaming has announced the appointment of Jim Ryan as chief executive officer. Ryan, a 46-year-old Canadian, takes over from Mitch Garber in the next few weeks. He was formerly chief ...
LadbrokesPoker.com has announced it will run a special billionth-hand freeroll to celebrate the landmark event with 20 $14,000 trips to Las Vegas up for grabs for the top 20 finishers. ...
The Absolute Poker bad-beat jackpot was hit on Tuesday when DENDAKOTA won $46,908 holding quad eights. A new jackpot is now building from money taken out of every pot that ...
Travel Link Unlimited’s motto is that it is “the missing link between you and the world,” and poker players know that during the chaos of the World Series of Poker, ...
Hooters Casino in Las Vegas is holding a charity poker tournament Saturday wherein a portion of the proceeds will go to the Nashville Chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast ...
A Washington State judge today sided with state attorneys who successfully defended a law that makes online gambling a Class C felony there. Lee Rousso, the attorney who sued the ...
Poker fans need to set the TiVo, DVR, or, for those who are a little behind on technology, the VCR for Sunday at Noon ET on NBC. The final episode ...
As of now, 16 winners have been crowned in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII, and two of those were freshly minted from last night’s two tournaments, a H.A. ...
The CardPlayer.com poker store is pleased to offer Card Player columnist and blogger Gus Hansen’s new book, Every Hand Revealed. Hansen reveals the true method to the madness that has ...
The fifth leg of the 2008 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, sponsored by BlueSquarePoker.com, kicks off this afternoon at the Grosvenor Casino in Newcastle, and runs through until Sunday. Marc Goodwin ...
High Stakes Poker, which once spent four seasons as the top-rated show on GSN, has yet to put in an order for more episodes. Although President and CEO of Poker ...
It has been a slow and steady rise to the top for Johnathan Westra. Since turning pro in 2006, Westra has earned nearly $430,000 in live tournament winnings, much more ...
It seems that golf, poker, and gambling continue to cross paths, and the World Series of Golf is a product of that. The second-annual event began Monday at the Paiute ...
Professional poker players Roy Winston and Michael Binger have more than $7.9 million in tournament earning between the two of them, and they have both proven themselves as widely respected ...
The Card Player-sponsored third-annual Celebrity Poker Tournament and Casino Night is Saturday, May 17, and players still have time to register to play poker for charity and party with celebrities ...
For the past few televised tournaments, viewers have seen Gus Hansen sneaking away from the table to talk into a voice recorder, often speaking in his native language. Many wondered ...
Bounties add some excitement to the grind of tournaments, because at any point, even in early rounds, there are opportunities to make money. All players have to do is eliminate ...
Tuesday was an action-packed day of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) VIII. The normal daily schedule calls for two events, but Full Tilt took it a step further ...
GigaMedia, the Taiwanese-listed owner of Everest Poker, has announced record poker revenues of $19.1 million in the first quarter of 2008, up 428 percent compared to the same period in ...
Holland Casino has announced registration details of the 17th Master Classics of Poker at Holland Casino, Amsterdam, from Nov. 7-15, 2008. The casino is offering to pay all credit-card fees ...
Go all in at SpadeClub for your chance at four main-event seats in the World Series of Poker*. Compete in SpadeClub’s World Series $40K Giveaway tournaments on June 1 and ...
Full Tilt Poker started offering its Knockout bounty tournaments recently, but the site has had prices on the heads of its red-named sponsored pros for quite some time. Players have ...
The sheer number of big buy-in tournaments that take place during the World Series of Poker and the number of quality professionals who show up for them usually means the ...
In the summer of 2006, Vanessa Selbst made her first-ever televised final table at the World Series of Poker, and the world was introduced to her “go big or go ...
Tony “Bond18” Dunst is the instructor for this week's free poker training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). The video features Dunst, a multitable tournament pro, playing ...