A lot of stories can fall through the cracks over the course of a week, and this past week was no exception. With eyes focused on Phil Ivey and the Aussie Millions, Super-High-Roller tournaments, and the European Poker Awards there were plenty of smaller stories that you have may have overlooked. Isildur1 wins his largest pot on PokerStars This past week Viktor “Isildur1” Blom,Read Full Article

After Governor Deval Patrick vetoed a casino bill passed by the state legislature in 2010, it looked like Massachusetts residents were going to have to continue making the long trek to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, or head to their northern neighbor New Hampshire to play in that state’s charity poker rooms for the foreseeable future. But all that changed when a casinoRead Full Article

After Black Friday online poker sites where starting t get bad press with stories coming out like the Full Tilt scandal. However, where Full Tilt had been taking money from players, Lock Poker decided to give back this Christmas. Lock Poker heard about a small Christmas tournament getting played in a small town called Omagh in Northern Ireland. This was a one off tournamentRead Full Article

I can’t say that I’m surprised that nobody decided to accept the heads-up challenge issued by Daniel “jungleman12” Cates that would have pitted the young poker phenom in a live heads-up €200/€400 No Limit Holdem game, with a minimum buy-in of $100,000 (the match was slated to take place during the EPT Prague tournament series). With no incentive other than a little Internet exposureRead Full Article

All eyes will be on the quaint city of the Prague as the Czech capital hosts the 12-day long Prague Poker Festival. With its impressive architecture, Prague is a city steeped in culture and historic tradition. It’s also a popular party destination, with people from all over Europe keen to sample the cheap alcohol and beautiful women. The festival sees the collaboration of threeRead Full Article

Connecticut no longer has a monopoly on gambling in the Northeast as two New England States, Maine and Massachusetts, are both preparing to expand their brick & mortar gambling foothold in the Northeast, albeit Maine and Massachusetts are at very different points in the process – Maine is preparing to expand gambling as we speak, while Massachusetts is at the very beginning of theRead Full Article

One of the biggest winners (state-wise) in the recent trend that has seen a number of locales introduce or expand their gaming has been the Sunshine State, Florida. After last year’s legislation that allowed Florida card-rooms to expand their gaming under a 2006 law from the ultra-small-stakes that were allowed at race tracks where people were betting horses, the already popular tourist locale hasRead Full Article

No, this story isn’t the plot-line for an upcoming Ocean’s Eleven movie, this actually happened. According to an article first published on FoxNews.com it seems that a small group of Italian poker players were cheating other players at the table by marking cards that was only visible to players wearing infrared glasses. It seems that the perpetrators had some inside help, as a casinoRead Full Article

One of the longest tenured poker telecasts has come to an end according to multiple sources in the poker industry, as NBC has announced that it will not be bringing back the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2012, which would have been the tournament’s eighth season. The decision was almost certainly influenced by the changed poker landscape in the aftermath of Black Friday,Read Full Article

Apparently the possibility of taking over the struggling online poker website Full Tilt Poker wasn’t enough news for the Groupe Bernard Tapie this past week, as it was also revealed that the company is behind the recently announced International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT). The ISPT first came to light in a thread on 2+2 where teasers for the initial stop at Wembley Stadium inRead Full Article