Poker News

Samuel Chartier Leads Irish Poker Open After First Day

The 2012 Irish Poker Open is one of the more talked about poker tournaments of the year to this point, and it’s for good reason. The tournament will not only be a part of the iSeriesLIVE tournament, but it also features some of the biggest names in the poker world. The event is run at Read more…

2012 Irish Poker Open Set to Kick Off

The 2012 Irish Poker Open is officially set to kick off tomorrow, and it will draw quite a bit of interest on this holiday weekend from players in or around the Dublin, Ireland area. The action will kick off at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin and this tournament series is actually the longest running poker Read more…

Million Dollar WSOP Event Features Live Satellites Currently Running

The World Series of Poker has continually built up the hype surrounding the most expensive poker tournament in history, which will feature a $1 million buy-in at the 2012 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The hype has also built itself up quite a bit as well, but it seems that even though the Read more…

Poker Nordica Closes Down

It seems that another online poker site has taken a major hit and will not longer be able to stay in business. This site is one that is one of the more popular online poker sites today, but one that still seems to fly under the radar a bit in Poker Nordica. They told their Read more…

Two Poker Tours to Run on Cruise Ships on the Sea

The world of popular live poker tours in the world today is now expanding a bit more, as there will be two poker tours that are going to be running on the high seas. These are definitely two of the more well-known poker tours out there today as well, as it will include the Heartland Read more…

Jannick Wrang Takes Down EPT Campione Event

Going into the final day of action at the European Poker Tour Campione event, there were two well-known players at the top of the leaderboard in Fabrice Soulier and Olivier Busquet. At the end of the day, both players made a nice run through the final table, but only one of them was able to Read more…

Stars Signs Loose Cannon From the Big Game to Team Pro

PokerStars is back in the news once again, and now it is for a new addition to their Team PokerStars Pro roster that features some of the biggest and best names in the game of poker today. The addition is a player who most know by now named Massamilio Martinez, and he actually popped up Read more…

PokerTracker 4 Beta Released

PokerTracker is well-known as one of the best online poker analysis software programs ever created, and now they are back in the news once again for releasing the beta version of their newest and most updated version of the software, PokerTracker 4. This new version of the software will be available through the beta testing Read more…

Chad Elie Pleads Guilty

After Black Friday hit back on April 15th of last year, there were eleven specific men who were named for online gambling indictments, and one of the more talked about ones is Chad Elie. Elie has officially pleaded guilty to one of the nine crimes that were charged against him, which means that he will Read more…

Gordon Huntly Takes Down ANZPT Sydney Title

The Australia New Zealand Poker Tour may not be the most well-known poker series out there today, but it is definitely one that draws in some very strong poker players and some solid prize pools as well. The most current tournament was the Sydney event, and this one drew in quite a few players as Read more…

Bodog Makes Some Serious Changes Including Restricting US States

In a bit of incredibly interesting poker news, the massive online gambling site Bodog has made some serious changes to their all-around gambling site which include restricting a few specific places. One of the largest moves was the fact that they are now no longer going to be in the Spanish market, and have officially Read more…

Live Betting Added to New Poker Tournament Series

The new iSeries of poker is a tournament series that could change the game of poker forever, and it will begin next month. The idea behind the series will not only offer the players some group options through their tournaments, but will also offer fans and viewers of the events some great additions as well. Read more…

Daniel Negreanu Banned From 2+2 Forum for Spamming

Daniel Negreanu is one of the most popular and well-known poker players in all of the world today. He’s also known for talking quite a bit at the poker table, and more than once it’s gotten him in a bit of trouble with tournament officials as well. This time though, Negreanu has apparently been banned Read more…

Relax Gaming Puts Out Fast Poker

It was recently reported that the massive online poker site PokerStars was releasing their “Zoom Poker” which is essentially their own form of what the old online poker site Full Tilt Poker used to have (called Rush Poker). If you couldn’t guess, the idea behind this new game is that the action is fast paced Read more…

PokerStars Launches Zoom Poker

PokerStars is back in the poker news once again, and that’s probably not much of a shocker to any poker fan out there today. This massive online poker site continues to grow and do things the right way, and this is why they were one of the few online poker sites to continue to move Read more…