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Charania Takes Home EPT Grand Final Championship

The 2012 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final is officially in the books, and it was taken down by an American player by the name of Mohsin Charania when all was said and done. The heads up match was between him and Lucille Cailly, who is from France. The second place finish by Cailly is Read more…

WSOP World Champion Winner Passes Away

It’s always sad news when you have to report a popular player passing away in the poker world, but it still has to be done. This morning we lost a poker legend in Poker Hall of Fame member “Amarillo Slim” Preston. Preston took down the 1972 World Series of Poker Championship Event, and also has Read more…

Annette Obrestad Joins Lock Poker

Well look at Lock Poker go ladies and gentleman. This online poker site just continues to grow and continues to get their name out there in a great way. They are back in the news once again for something pretty exciting, as the rapidly growing site has added one of the most well-known poker players Read more…

Is PokerStars Purchasing Full Tilt Poker?

This new poker news is probably some of the most shocking news that has come out in a very long time. It came out on Tuesday that the Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) who was expected to be purchasing the massive online poker site Full Tilt Poker was officially out of the deal. The most updated Read more…

Tommy Vedes Takes Down WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown

The World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Showdown featured quite a bit of interesting poker throughout the event, but nothing was as entertaining or interesting as the heads up match that featured Tommy Vedes against a well-known player in John Dolan, who actually made it to the final table of the 2010 World Series of Read more…

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Takes Down EPT High-Roller Title in Berlin

The name Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier goes hand in hand with quite a bit of poker success in his career, both in the online poker world and in the live poker tournament circuits as well. His name is back out there once again currently, as ElkY took down another big time payday and impressive win against Read more…

Annette Obrestad Signs With Poker Royalty

The name Annette Obrestad has quickly become a household name in the poker world, and this includes both online and on the live poker tournament circuit as well. It seems that the name has just gotten a bit more talked about as well, since the World Series of Poker Europe Champion has officially signed a Read more…

Lock Poker Introduces Lock OPS Poker Series

It seems that there have been quite a few different online poker tournament series’ popping up all around the internet lately, and one of the more recent ones was the Poker Maximus series which worked with Carbon Poker and Lock Poker. This series was so incredibly successful, that they have decided to run another series Read more…

PartyPoker’s Pokerfest II Set to Kick Off This Weekend

When it comes to online poker tournament series’, many online poker networks have put together different sets of series that have gotten some solid response from the online poker world, but only a few have compared to the type of response that the Party Poker Pokerfest received last time it was ran. So since it Read more…

PokerStars Takes Their Argument With PTR to Another Level

Two of the most well-known sites for online poker players today are PokerStars and Poker Table Ratings. PokerStars is the largest and most popular online poker room out there today, and Poker Table Ratings is the most popular data mining site for online poker players right now. The two have been going at it for Read more…

Morten Christensen takes down World Poker Tour Vienna

The World Poker Tour’s stop in Vienna, Austria featured one player step up from the rest of the field to grab the chip lead to start Day Two, and then continue his incredible run late into Sunday evening before taking down the championship. This player was Morten Christensen who is from Denmark, and he definitely Read more…

Where We Are One Year After Black Friday

It’s now official, after one full year since Black Friday hit the United States and the online poker world, poker is still alive and kicking for those of us who enjoy playing online. But it’s been a huge change to the online poker world for those of us who play in the United States, and Read more…

Big One for One Drop Numbers are Growing

The Big One for One Drop is the newest poker tournament at the upcoming World Series of Poker, and it’s one that is going to draw a ton of interest from players and fans alike. The first announcement from the tournament was that there were 22 players who had entered into the event, and that Read more…

Carbon Poker Releases Odds Calculator

Carbon Poker is popping up all over the place recently in the poker news. First it was for their creation of the new Poker Maximus series which was an absolute hit in the online poker world, and after that it was for their multiple increases of different guarantees across the sites poker tournaments. Now though, Read more…

Kevin Vandersmissen Takes Down 2012 Irish Open

The Irish Poker Open is one of the most talked about and storied poker tournaments in the world, so it makes perfect sense why a ton of people had their eyes glued to the final table action in Dublin this past weekend. The action wound down on Monday at the Burlington Hotel, and it was Read more…