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WSOP Unveils 2012 Bracelets

With the 43rd Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) just a week away, it is only appropriate that the new bracelet has been officially unveiled. After all, it’s the one thing by which poker players measure their success (we suppose one could count that whole business of cash winnings, too). This year’s designer is Jason [...]

North Carolina Senate Votes To Make Poker Live At Cherokee Casino

Earlier this week, the North Carolina Senate took up discussion on whether to allow the only casino located in the state, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino in Cherokee, NC, to have live dealers for their table games, such as poker and blackjack. After the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who operate the Cherokee Casino, and Governor Beverly [...]

PokerStars Officially Launches Zoom Poker

PokerStars officially launched Zoom Poker Tuesday, making the popular game a formal offering for the world’s largest online poker room after two months in public beta testing mode. There was plenty of testing done during that period; more than 300 million Zoom Poker hands have been dealt since mid-March. Zoom Poker is PokerStars’ fast-paced ring [...]

Tatjana “TattyTats” Pasalic Renews Sponsorship Deal With Bodog

With the 2012 World Series of Poker on the horizon, poker professional Tatjana “TattyTats” Pasalic and Bodog announced earlier this week that they have renewed their sponsorship deal until at least 2013. The excitement of the renewed deal might have been a bit much for Pasalic, who Tweeted the news even prior to the announcement [...]

WPT Championship Day One: Steve O’Dwyer Takes Early Lead In Difficult Field

The tsunami of poker that is descending on Las Vegas for the next three months has kicked off with the start of the World Poker Tour’s World Championship event at the Bellagio on Saturday. The WPT Championship features an extremely deep stacked format and late registration that kept the first day numbers down but, even [...]

Handling Draws

by Tom “Time” Leonard
Today I’d like to delve into how one can make additional money by the way a no-limit hold’em player handles drawing hands. Many players are somewha…

Korean Buddhist Monks Caught in High Stakes Poker Game

It’s been said that to succeed in poker one must “have the patience of Buddha.” As it happens, it appears that a handful of men took that a bit too literally. In a scandal that has shaken South Korea, a group of Buddhist monks were caught drinking and playing high stakes poker in a luxury [...]

PartyPoker Launches Championship Challenge Promotion

Fresh off the excitement of Manchester City’s historic injury time comeback in its season finale to win the English Premier League, PartyPoker has launched the Championship Challenge. Running May 14th through June 30th, the Championship Challenge is a promotion that gives real money players the opportunity to win cash prizes and freeroll entries by earning [...]

WSOP Retires Fun Police

It appears that World Series of Poker (WSOP) officials are going to lighten up and let the players have a little fun this year. In a conference call Tuesday, WSOP representatives discussed some changes to what had previously been strict rules governing behavior at the tables. One of the biggest complaints from players last year [...]

bwin.party Partners with California Tribe for Future Online Poker Licensing

Online gaming company bwin.party is readying itself to enter the California online poker market should the game become legalized in the state. The operator of bwin.com and PartyPoker.com, bwin.party announced Tuesday that it has inked an agreement with the United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC) to provide online poker games to residents of California when and [...]

Full Tilt Creates Drama at PokerStars

by Wendeen H. Eolis
No sooner than Laurent Tapie hit the send button on an email to employees of Pocket Kings (a Full Tilt Poker company) explaining that discussions to acquire FTP had gone dow…

Joseph Wertz PARX in Victory Lane

Joseph Wertz worked his way through a field of 198 players who each ponied up $1,500 + $100 to capture the Parx Spring Showdown main event. The nearly 200-strong field generated a prize pool of …

Titan Poker Splits with Trickett, Rettenmaier

Titan Poker, one of the leading sites on the iPoker Network, has ended its relationship with its resident pros, star European players Sam Trickett and Marvin Rettenmaier. In a sign of the times, the departures were not announced via a press release or a news item on Titan’s site, but rather by the players themselves [...]

ESPN Releases 2012 WSOP Broadcast Schedule

With less than three weeks until the start of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP), it is now permissible to begin getting excited for the annual poker festival. Before the party ends, ESPN will once again begin its broadcasts of the WSOP, starting with a special airing of the Big One for ONE DROP [...]

Poker News: Tapie Out, Stars In as Full Tilt Assets Buyer and More

by Haley Hintze
FRENCH GROUP EXITS NEGOTIATIONS TO PURCHASE FULL TILT ASSETS…
 The on-again, off-again courtship by Groupe Bernard Tapie to purchase the assets of Full Tilt Poker is off…

Bestbet Jacksonville: Shawn Cunix Takes WPT Main Event

 At the debut World Poker Tour televised event inside Florida’s largest poker room, the brand new bestbet Jacksonville complex, Shawn Cunix conquered a stacked final table to claim mo…

Trippin’ the Light Fantastic at Harrah’s St. Louis

The latest World Series of Poker circuit championship at Harrah’s St. Louis featured a record-breaking field; a race down the homestretch to the finish line, capped off by a thrilling mome…

Lock Poker to Acquire Cake Poker Network

When it comes to online poker network reorganizations, things usually happen in one of three ways: one network buys another, a poker room leaves a network, or a poker room joins a network. On Monday, though, a significant move was made that did not fit any of these categories. Yes, Lock Poker announced that it [...]

Poker Pros Network Launches

Industry conditions be damned. A new U.S.-friendly online poker network, the Poker Pros Network,  launched last week, hoping that its player-friendly atmosphere will attract casual and serious players alike. The Poker Pros Network, owned by Costa Rica-based CMK Interactive, is currently comprised of seven online poker rooms and is new enough that cash game tracking [...]

Wales Turn The Screw On Scotland In National Online League

Things are getting decidedly nervy north of the border as Wales continue their relentless pursuit of Scotland in the PokerStars.com National Online League from APAT. 212 players took to the virtual baize for the 9th match of the 15 match series and it …

Poker Pros Network Launches

Industry conditions be damned. A new U.S.-friendly online poker network, the Poker Pros Network,  launched last week, hoping that its player-friendly atmosphere will attract casual and serious players alike. The Poker Pros Network, owned by Costa Rica-based CMK Interactive, is currently comprised of seven online poker rooms and is new enough that cash game tracking [...]

Wales Turn The Screw On Scotland In National Online League

Things are getting decidedly nervy north of the border as Wales continue their relentless pursuit of Scotland in the PokerStars.com National Online League from APAT. 212 players took to the virtual baize for the 9th match of the 15 match series and it …

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