The changes continue to come at UB Poker, this time the popular online poker site is hoping for addition by subtraction, deciding to cancel their most popular and recognizable poker tournament the Aruba Poker Classic.

UB CEO Paul Leggett made the announcement citing the company’s plans on creating a $500,000 monthly tournament –with the goal of growing it to a $1 million guaranteed in the future—as well as having a stronger presence at other tournaments around the globe. Read the rest of this entry…

2010 is shaping up to be a very interesting year in online poker; Tom “durrrr” Dwan is back to form; the Dang brothers, URInDanger and trex313, are both playing and as usual winning; Isildur1 is being, well, Isildur1; and Alexander “postflopaction” Kostritsyn is on fire.

Everything seems to revolve around isildur1 these days. If the Swede is playing it seems to bring the other pros out of the woodwork, and not because Isildur1 is a fish, or easy money, it just appears they want in on the mega-pots that are being generated. Read the rest of this entry…

The world’s largest online poker room Pokerstars released the details of their Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) last week and then headed to the forums to find out what their players thought of the layout of tournaments.

Following the news that the players at the largest online poker room would like to see more tournaments and more prize money put into this years tournament, the online poker room proved that they do listen to their users.

Pokerstars have announced that due to feedback that has been given by the players on their online poker room, they have increased the number of tournaments within this years SCOOP tournament as well as increasing the total prize money Read the rest of this entry…

When 36,169 players take to the felt its typically for a freeroll tournament, or one of those Guinness Book of World Records $1 buy-in tournaments: Not so this past Sunday, when the $215 weekly tournament on PokerStars created a prize-pool of $7,233,800.

PokerStars guaranteed a $4 million prize-pool and $1 million for the winner of the tournament, celebrating the 4th anniversary of the popular Sunday tournament. With the massive number of entries the prize-pool quickly eclipsed the guarantee, and the winner of the tournament took home $1.1 million.

The lucky winner was “RichieRichZH”, Read the rest of this entry…

Full Tilt Poker players will find an interesting bonus offer waiting for them the next time they log into the site: Full Tilt Poker is offering all current players a bonus of $50 to all of its players. Players have until 23:59 ET on March 14th to accept their Fast $50 bonus offer. By accepting the offer players will immediately have the $50 in bonus placed into their bonus account, no deposit is required! Making this a easy poker site to clear a bonus.

The bonus is meant to promote Full Tilt Poker’s newest game variant: Rush Poker. Rush Poker is a fast paced version of a typical poker game where players are never without cards. As soon as a player folds his/her hand they are immediately transported to a brand new table, with new opponents, and another hand is dealt. Read the rest of this entry…

True to his Modus Operandi, Isildur1’s return to the high stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker have seen two huge wins followed by an even bigger loss. After lighting up a who’s who list of online poker including Justin Bonomo, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, and Brian Hastings in his first two days back at the nosebleed tables the mysterious online poker player from Sweden’s bankroll took a massive hit.

According to Highstakesdb.com, the day started with a short session with Tom Dwan that resulted in a $33,000 loss. Isildur1 followed this up with a rematch against Justin Bonomo, whom he relieved of some $550k a few days ago, but this time it was Bonomo getting the best of it and ending the battle up $233k.

However, the real excitement came against Brian Townsend. Proving he’ll play anyone, Isildur1 took on the Read the rest of this entry…

A couple of months ago a player known only as Isildur1 appeared from literally nowhere and began playing the biggest names in online poker at the highest stakes available.

In less than two weeks he had used his hyper-aggressive style to win over $5,000,000, most of it from Tom “durrrr” Dwan, but in roughly the same time he managed to lose the entire amount plus another $2,000,000 besides! His biggest loss occurred when he played Brian “Stinger” Hastings, a top Omaha player who makes poker video tutorials for the training site Cardrunners, and he bled around $4,200,000 to him in a single session!

Isildur1 then disappeared from the tables as quickly as he arrived, either taking time away to get over the shock of the roller coaster ride he had just endured or maybe to rebuild his shattered bankroll but in the past couple of weeks he has been spotted back online, Read the rest of this entry…

Today Chilipoker released details of the French stage of the ‘Chilipoker DeepStack Open’.  This exciting tournament will be held in the largest Partouche poker room in France in the Pasino of Aix-en-Provence.  The event will take place from April 9^th to April 11^th 2010.

Following the huge success of the Irish stage of this tournament with 465 registered players of 15 different nationalities, Chilipoker today announced that France is the next stop for this international deepstack circuit.

With an exceptional deepstack structure of 50,000 starting chips, blinds 50/100 and levels of 60 minutes, this tournament will be played over three days with every player being guaranteed the possibility to develop his/hers A-game whilst avoiding those early busts!

As in Dublin and for every stage of the ‘Chilipoker DeepStack Open’, the buy-in has been set at €500 + €50 giving all poker fans (not only from France but from the whole of Europe) the opportunity to play a large international tournament against other players with different playing abilities. Read the rest of this entry…

How hot is poker? Poker.org recently shattered the record for an .org domain, selling for $1 million. The previous high was $198,000 for engineering.org, a number blasted out of the water by the poker.org sale.

The domain was purchased by PokerCompany.com, a self-titled “Super Affiliate” that works in conjunction with online casinos, poker rooms, and websites. The site also operates such popular gaming portals as EveryPoker.com, BlackJack.org, Craps.net, and Rakeback.org.

The sale coincides with a trend in .org domain registrations, which saw an 11% increase in 2009. Couple this with a huge influx of poker sites, poker content sites, and Poker affiliates and you can see how the situation was right for solid online poker domain names to be worth big bucks. Read the rest of this entry…

The Merge Gaming network continues to add new, innovative, poker sites to its network, and the latest addition, GR88.com, brings a lot to the table for the growing poker network.  Not only does GR88 offer online poker, but also casino games like Caribbean Stud, blackjack and roulette, as well as Backgammon.

The Merge Gaming Network is a collection of smaller, US friendly, poker sites that have combined their player bases in an effort to increase their overall player pool –giving them the chance to compete with the more established poker rooms like Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. As a part of the Merge Gaming Network, GR88 offers a variety of different games –Holdem, Omaha, Stud,  and a number of other formats like 5 Card Draw, 5 Card Stud, Badugi, Mixed Games, Razz, Triple Draw Lowball 2-7, and Triple Draw Lowball A-5. This is in addition to around the clock Sit & Go’s and Multi-table Tournaments.

GR88 has also signed Brad “Yukon” Booth to act as the sites figurehead Read the rest of this entry…