Full Tilt Poker and Deepstacks University Poker Pro Mike “The Mouth” Matusow was in Florida this week to host a DeepStacks Live poker training seminar, where he made a pretty non-controversial statement by his standards when he said: “In Florida, you’re dealing with a lot of raw players, and they’re terrible.” Matusow also decided to take advantage of the newly lifted limit on the buy-in at poker tournaments throughout the State of Florida –the previous limit being $100—and decided toRead Full Article

Tuesday marked the 77th birthday for Doyle Brunson, who is perhaps poker’s best-known player, and one of the most successful poker players in the history of the game. One of the most respected and liked players in the game, there was no shortage of birthday wishes for the Godfather of Poker. As expected the Tweets and Facebook messages came fast and furiously on Tuesday with Brunson chiming in with a Tweet of his own: “Thank you, thank you, thank you!!Read Full Article

2010 EPT San Remo winner, and everyone’s favorite rocker/poker player Liv Boeree, and UB Poker have “unofficially” parted ways. Poker News Daily first reported a possible break-up between the two parties at the 2010 WSOP where Boeree wasn’t sporting the UB logo, and now the site has taken Boeree’s name off their site and in an odd move basically erased any mention of her on the site –the name Akhenaten comes to my mind: For you non-Ancient Egypt buffs justRead Full Article

Professional poker player Phil “The UnaBomber” Laak was seriously injured after an ATV accident on Thursday during a rafting trip with friends. His injuries included several broken bones and lacerations around his eye. In his usual style, Laak is taking it pretty well, and Tweeting throughout complete with pictures: Atv accident, massive arm injury and lacerations to eye in oregon. Life is good. Stitches forthcoming. Could have been worse I’m lucky to be in one piece. The injury occurred whileRead Full Article

Full Tilt Poker may not have declared who their three sponsored players at the 2010 World Series of Poker final table will be, but they have decided to sign James Dempsey as the newest member of Team Full Tilt. Dempsey had a coming out party at the 2010 WSOP, which made him a very hot commodity in the poker world. The 27 year-old poker pro from Brighton, England had a terrific 2010 WSOP where he not only won his firstRead Full Article

We are all used to the “Online Poker is Rigged” threads that pop-up daily on the online poker forums, or in the comment sections of articles and poker blogs, but rarely is it from someone of the stature of Jason Young, who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2008, and has accrued over $687k in lifetime tournament winnings. In a recent blog post, Young went on to describe a terrible run of cards he had recently playing onlineRead Full Article

The ever vigilant highstakesdb.com not only brings us the most comprehensive results from the nosebleed tables, but they also occasionally pick up a scoop from the table talk between the big name pros, and this is precisely what occurred at the $100/$200 No Limit Holdem at Full Tilt Poker last week. The discussion took place between Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and the anonymous player who uses the online handle ‘Jungleman12’ –rumored to be a young player by the name of DanielRead Full Article

Chalk up another inexplicable prop bet win for Ted Forrest, as the Full Tilt Poker blog reports Forrest won his prop bet with Mike Matusow where Matusow claimed Forrest could not lose 50lbs by by July 14th –the bet began in May. For anyone that doesn’t know, Forrest is far from overweight, and only weighed 188 lbs at the time of the bet. Well, Forrest brought his scale –actually Huck Seed’s scale– and what was left of his body toRead Full Article

When David Williams was let go by Bodog Poker –as the company continued to move away from male sponsorship, as Justin Bonomo recently found out as well—it wasn’t a matter of if, but when Williams would land at another site. Well, it only took about 6 weeks for Williams to come to a sponsorship agreement with the world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars. Williams recently appeared on PokerStars.net Big Game, and the still young poker pro has always been oneRead Full Article

After a misinformed post by Perez Hilton claiming Shannon Elizabeth runs a very sketchy home poker game –the post was quickly squashed since Shannon was in Las Vegas at the WSOP when the game supposedly took place—Carbon Poker proves that timing is everything, and announced they have signed the poker playing celebrity to a sponsorship deal. Obviously the signing has a lot to do with Shannon’s looks and stardom, but she has proven herself a capable poker player, finishing 3rdRead Full Article