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

Thursday, January 19, 2012 marks the start of the inaugural Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) at the world’s #1 poker site, PokerStars. The tournament series will run for a total of 11 days, featuring a mind-numbing 50 tournaments with at least $10 million scheduled to be awarded. PokerStars has guaranteed $10 million in prize money over the course of the tournament series, butRead Full Article

Founded in the 1940’s in Great Britain, Victor Chandler has become a name that is virtually synonymous with sports-betting in the UK. However, even their powerful brand hasn’t seemed to be able to crack the upper echelon of online gaming sites, which may be the reason that Victor Chandler announced it would be rebranding its entire operation, now known as BetVictor. Virtually everything butRead Full Article

Players at PokerStars will find several changes beginning on January 1, 2012 as the site announced a major change to their rake calculations, which in turn will have a severe impact on the site’s VIP Loyalty Program, according to a 2+2 forum post by PokerStars Steve. Beginning January 1st, PokerStars will make the move to the “weighted” model when determining precisely how much aRead Full Article

The world’s largest online poker room (and second place isn’t even close) has just launched a new global marketing campaign targeting players from all over the world, including the growing Latin and South American markets. The new television ad campaigns feature the slogan “We are Poker” and incorporate some of the biggest names in poker into the ads. It’s scary to think that PokerStarsRead Full Article

One of the first promotions PokerStars started hyping for its 10th Anniversary was the Sunday Million tournament scheduled for December 18th, 2011. Yesterday’s tournament touted an impressive $10 million guarantee as well as a $2 million guaranteed prize for the winner of the historic event. The undertaking was considered extraordinary in the current online poker market (US players are barred from playing at PokerStars)Read Full Article

Well before their attempt to break their own record for the largest online poker tournament in history PokerStars managed to hit the cap they placed on the $1 buy-in/$250k guaranteed tournament. In the end, the tournament saw an impressive field of 200,000 players compete in the historic event, an amazing number considering PokerStars has left the US market entirely (which accounted for roughly 25%Read Full Article

Today PokerStars will attempt to break their own record for the largest online poker tournament in poker history, a remarkable achievement considering the entire US market is cut off from playing at the site! The old record has already fallen during pre-registration, and with just a few hours until the tournament gets underway it looks like the tournament will reach its cap of 200,000Read Full Article

Beginning December 1st, poker players at Victor Chandler could find their holiday season even merrier as the site has announced its latest promotion: The 25 Days of Christmas. Every day from December 1st – 25th, players at Victor Chandler can log into the poker client and see what the daily prize is, and how to win it. Overall the site is giving away someRead Full Article

On Monday, November 28th, Titan Poker will launch its iPoker Online Poker Series (iPOPS) with $1,000,000 up for grabs over the course of the four tournament series. The Main Event of the iPOPS will be a $125 buy-in NLHE Freezeout tournament with a massive guaranteed prize-pool of $500,000. Once the tournament is down to the final 27 players, play will be halted and theRead Full Article