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Online Poker News
A one-outer away from an $11,000 payday
6 Aug 2007
It’s pretty hard to take down over $11K in a $.50/$1 Limit Hold’em hand, especially when your cards end up in the muck. But that’s almost exactly what I did when I recently jumped onto one of Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables.
PKR.com offers EPT satellites
3 Aug 2007
PKR.com is taking on the richest poker tour in Europe with a series of EPT satellites that will award at least four qualifiers a minimum of $52K worth of Barcelona and London EPT packages.
Top 10 hand nicknames for poker
3 Aug 2007
There are lots of hand nicknames. But the best ones are phrases that either sound really good when you use them in a sentence, or have a cool story associated with them that you can tell your friends. Here's our Top 10.
Everest Poker weeky tournament winners named
3 Aug 2007
Everest Poker today announced the winners of the weekly guaranteed $100,000 poker tournament, most recently held on July 29, 2007.
Last chance for Absolute Poker buy-in
3 Aug 2007
The final event of the fourth Absolute Dream Package is scheduled for August 5th at 8:30pm ET. The buy-in for the tournament is $200+16 and one player will win a prize package that includes access to over $100 million in tournament prize pool money.
Four Winds casino's PokerPro tables go live
3 Aug 2007
Four Winds Casino Resort, in New Buffalo, Michigan, opened the world's largest automated poker room today, running exclusively on PokerTek poker tables.
California man seeking support for state-owned online card room
2 Aug 2007
California resident Anthony Sandstrom received approval this week from the Secretary of State's Office to circulate a petition that would create a state-run online poker room that would work in conjunction with the state's lottery system.
Bodog Punk-Poker tournament returns
2 Aug 2007
Bodog Entertainment will bring its
unique, high-class brand of gaming entertainment to the Warped Tour again
this year, when international record label Bodog Music hosts its annual
poker tournament at the Tweeter Center in Camden, New Jersey on August 3.
Drink beer, last longer for a free seat to the EPT
1 Aug 2007
The second annual SunPoker.com “Beer Pong” Championships to be held in St. Kitts during the (CPC) Caribbean Poker Classic.
Online gambling activists fighting back in Washington
1 Aug 2007
The state of Washington has become a focal point in the fight against criminalizing online gambling. One online player is suing the state for making Internet gambling a felony. Another is arguing that his betting exchange is legal.
California could be offering online poker
1 Aug 2007
News Brief: California could be in the Internet poker business next year, if a petition drive catches on.
PlayersOnly.com offers chance for Turks and Caico event
1 Aug 2007
the World Poker Tour is making its first stop in the beautiful Turks and Caicos this fall and PlayersOnly.com Poker is giving players a chance to enjoy surf, sand, sun and a shot at fame and fortune at this televised WPT event.
Hellmuth at UltimateBet's Aruba Satellite
1 Aug 2007
UltimateBet today announced that 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will be playing in Sunday, August 5th's 50-seat Aruba Satellite.
WSOP schedule expanded
1 Aug 2007
Harrah's License Company will launch
the fourth season of its popular World Series of Poker Circuit with an
expanded schedule of 12 tournament stops.
Micon sounds off on Neverwinpoker sale
31 Jul 2007
They come for the breasts. At least that's what Neverwinpoker.com co-owner Bryan Micon, the self proclaimed King of all Degenerates, claims about the thousands or registered forum members at his oft controversial Web site.
PartyPoker.com run more Scandinavian qualifiers
31 Jul 2007
Online qualifiers for PartyPoker.com Scandinavian Poker Masters -- The Game, Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game are still available at PartyPoker.com.
Capture California State Poker Championship in the state that grows champs
30 Jul 2007
Month-long series of Texas Hold'em tournaments begins Sept 4 and culminates in $2,580-buy-in championship event Sept 22-23.
PartyPoker Dutch Open to be televised
30 Jul 2007
Matchroom Sport is pleased to unveil another first for televised poker by announcing that the first PartyPoker Dutch Open will be filmed between August 11th - 14th.
CelebPoker player wins big at WSOP event
27 Jul 2007
Cort Kibler-Melby, a CelebPoker player,eventually finished in sixth place at the 49th leg of the 2007 World Series of Poker out of 3,151 players.
AC cops bust high stakes poker scheme
26 Jul 2007
News Brief: The police weren’t bluffing when they busted in on a high-stakes poker scam at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.
French player wins Everest Poker Europe event
26 Jul 2007
Everest Poker today announced the winner of the online poker room's first direct entry poker tournament for a seat at the upcoming World Series of Poker Europe main event, "jujumalo" from France.
Poker powers delivery WPC keynote
26 Jul 2007
Steve Lipscomb, president of
the World Poker Tour, and Jeffery Pollack, commissioner of the World Series
of Poker will jointly deliver the opening keynote address at WPC 2007 on
November 29 & 30 in St. Julian's, Malta.
A surge in the war (of intimidation)
26 Jul 2007
The latest news in the United States Department of Justice’s war against Internet gambling is not good news for online poker players.
International players swarm 2007 WSOP
25 Jul 2007
English was not the first language at many WSOP-tournament tables this year as more International players than ever made the trip to Las Vegas. Casino City examines this trend and discovers that poker has truly become the world's game.
Everest Poker names tournament winners
25 Jul 2007
Everest Poker today announced the winners of the weekly guaranteed $100,000 poker tournament, most recently held on July 22, 2007.
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