In an interview in Las Vegas, Nevada ahead of this month’s Republican Primary in the state, Mitt Romney gave online poker players a glimpse at how a Romney administration would handle the sticky issue of online gaming in the US; he is against it. Romney’s stance on online gaming is buried in the very last sentence of an article on 8newsnow.com, where it states,Read Full Article

It appears all of last week’s talk about Chris Ferguson single-handedly holding up the sale of Full Tilt Poker to Groupe Bernard Tapie (a deal being brokered by the United States Department of Justice) was off the mark, as it came to light today that player loans from Full Tilt Poker to certain owners, sponsored players, and other individuals, is actually the main stickingRead Full Article

Beginning on March 4th, 2012 and running through March 25, 2012, the Merge Gaming Network will be hosting a massive 70-Event tournament series known as Poker Maximus. Over the course of thee 22-days of tournaments the Merge Gaming Network will be guaranteeing $1.5 million in prize-money, with the Poker Maximus tournament series culminating on Sunday, March 25, with four separate Main Event tournaments withRead Full Article

Earlier this week it was reported, originally by Subject: Poker, that Chris Ferguson could have been single-handedly responsible for holding up the forfeiture of Full Tilt Poker’s assets to the US Department of Justice (and therefore holding up the eventual sale of the company’s assets by the DOJ to Groupe Bernard Tapie) but on Tuesday we learned that the Full Tilt forfeiture to theRead Full Article

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

The inaugural PokerStars Turbo Championships of Online Poker (TCOOP) came to a close on Sunday, culminating with the $700 buy-in Main Event, featuring a $1.5 million guaranteed prize-pool. A total of 3,667 players registered for the tournament, blasting through the guarantee, and nearly reaching a total prize-pool of $2.5 million ($2,438,555 to b precise). Over 40 Team PokerStars Pros took part in the event,Read Full Article

Three years after the doors were completely blown off the Super-User scandals taking place at Ultimate Bet Poker a group of eight players has decided to file RICO charges against the site’s parent company Exscapa Software. The eight players were some of the biggest players at the site during the Super-User days, including well known UB players like Brad Booth, Tom Koral, Dustin Woolf,Read Full Article

While the Player of the Year races for live poker tournaments was one of the closest in history (at both Card Player and BLUFF Magazine) the title of Online Poker Player of the Year at Card Player Magazine was an absolute runaway victory for Jason “jdpc27” Wheeler. Wheeler tallied an impressive 8,076 OPOY Points on his way to the award, besting his nearest competitorRead Full Article

With the assault on the online poker industry from the US Department of Justice in April (forever to be known as Black Friday in the annals of poker history) the online poker action came to a screeching halt, and just as things started to pick back up again Full Tilt Poker went black, leaving the game’s high-stakes players without a home, and many deprivedRead Full Article

After a return to the online poker tables following a significant absence, the identity of a particular online poker player at PokerStars is coming under scrutiny, with many people believing it is Phil Ivey. The 2+2 Poker Forum has long held the belief that the anonymous high-stakes player on PokerStars, known only as “RaiseOnce”, is none other than poker superstar Phil Ivey, and it seemsRead Full Article