Poker News

Annie Duke and NASCAR Foundation Set Up Charity Poker Event

The 2012 poker season is currently underway, but it’s definitely about to pick up steam in the upcoming months. While everyone is fully aware of that, it looks like there is now one additional poker tournament that quite a few people could be making sure that they join up with. Annie Duke has paired up Read more…

World Series of Poker Schedule Released for 2012

This is about the time of the year when the fans of poker and poker players alike begin to get excited about the upcoming World Series of Poker. The reason for this? Well, that would be because the 2012 World Series of Poker Tournament schedule has officially been released. It was released by none other Read more…

PokerStars Nears Their 75 Billionth Hand

Every once in a while the massive online poker site PokerStars will pop up in the poker news for one of their “billionth hand” promotions, and this is one of those times. The reason why these promotions are so important is because they are excellent, and payout a nice pay day to whichever player is Read more…

Party Poker Announces New Promotion for February

Party Poker is all about setting up some new promotions to benefit their players, and this new one that they have released is no different. The promotion that they are releasing is called the “Card Rush” promotion, which gives real money players the opportunity to win some free money and also entries into freeroll tournaments Read more…

Aussie Millions Main Event Goes to Oliver Speidel; Phil Ivey Takes Down Super High Roller

Oliver Speidel was definitely the fan favorite in the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event final table. It looks like his home town support was more than enough to help him prevail through the action, as he looked to be dominant in the long seven hours of final table action. In the end, the first place Read more…

Is Chris Ferguson the Hold Up on a Potential Deal Between Full Tilt and Bernard Tapie?

As we’ve heard quite a bit about, there is a pretty huge deal in the makings between the Groupe Bernard Tapie and the massive online poker site Full Tilt Poker. It seems that this deal has been in the works for quite a while though, and no one really knows exactly what is holding it Read more…

Sam Trickett Wins European Poker Tour Player of the Year

Sam Trickett is a big name in poker, but when his name was announced as the winner of the 2012 European Poker Tour Awards Player of the Year, it was considered by many to be a bit of an upset. Trickett, who is from the United Kingdom, took down the award over another big name Read more…

Dan Smith Takes Down $100k Event at Aussie Millions

The 2012 Aussie Millions $100k event featured some of the biggest names in poker, and also had some of the most hype surrounding it of any tournament to this point of the year. It featured the likes of Gus Hansen, Joe Hachem, Tony G, Sam Trickett, and Sorel Mizzi, and that was just in the Read more…

Joe Hachem Teams Up With Asian Logic Group

Throughout quite a few of the live poker tournaments that have recently been going on, it seems that Joe Hachem’s name has been popping up quite a bit. Recently it seems that he has been making some solid deep runs in events, which comes just a few weeks after the news that Hachem and massive Read more…

Aussie Millions $100k High Roller Final Table Set

The 2012 Aussie Millions is officially underway, and we are in the midst of one of the biggest events out there. The $100k High Roller event is one of the most popular and followed events, and this years features some of the biggest names in poker. Before the final table was set, we had a Read more…

Tom Middleton Takes Down $1k No Limit Hold’em Event at Aussie Millions

The Aussie Millions for this year is official underway, and we’ve already knocked out one of the many events that are set to come your way. The series will take place at the Crown Casino, which is located in Melbourne, Australia. The opening event was a $1k Six Handed No Limit Hold’em event which came Read more…

Poker Players Have Money Confiscated by Customs in Bahamas

This is probably one of more interesting poker news stories that has come out recently. It was reported that three poker players who were on their way back to the United States from the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas this past week were stopped by customs in the airport with quite a bit Read more…

Melanie Weisner Added to Lock Poker Pro List

While some sites are currently losing their poker pros right now, it looks like Lock Poker has made a nice step forward with their newest addition to the roster. They have decided Melanie Weisner to team LockPRO Elite this week. This definitely adds a bit of additional punch to an already strong lineup of pros Read more…

PokerStars CEO Steps Down

I guess the recent “sit out” at PokerStars has drawn even more attention than most people imagined! While this new bit of poker news may not directly relate to the sit out, PokerStars continues to find themselves in the news almost every day for something new it seems. This time, a bit of news leaked Read more…

PCA High Roller Event Taken Down By Leonid Bilokur

Is it just me, or does Jonathan Duhamel’s name seem to be popping up all over the place since the home invasion and robbery on his house? Fortunately, it looks like Duhamel’s had a bit of good luck after that tough situation which left him physically injured, and short of over $100k in cash, his Read more…