Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 25, 2012 Posted in Online Poker News, Poker Room News | No Comments »
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After having their now-defunct Bodog.com domain name seized and seeing their founder indicted in the state of Maryland, Bovada.lv (the brand Bodog switched a few months back) made the not-so-surprising choice to leave the Maryland market a few weeks back. A little more surprising, but still seen asRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 20, 2012 Posted in Online Poker News, Poker Room News | No Comments »
SuperStar Showdown

After blowing a near $100,000 lead over Isaac Haxton in last week’s Superstar Showdown on PokerStars –the first Superstar Showdown match the site has hosted since last June—Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom came back with an impressive victory of UK high-stakes pro Andrew “Kanu7” Millar. The twoRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 19, 2012 Posted in Online Poker News, Poker Room News | No Comments »
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PokerStars’ version of former rival Full Tilt Poker’s Rush Poker has been in beta-testing at the site’s play-money tables for close to a month now, and late last week PokerStars announced that ZOOM Poker is still in the beta-testing phase, but would now be available at select real-moneyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 04, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions, Poker Room News | No Comments »
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The Merge Gaming Network will kick-off its first-ever major tournament series today, when it debuts the Poker Maximus tournament series; a 22-day long event featuring a mid-blowing 70 tournaments. All told the Poker Maximus series will award players with at least $1.5 million in guaranteed prize-money, including twoRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 23, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions, Poker Room News | No Comments »
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It seems like just about every month or so PokerStars is hosting a special tournament for some milestone or another, and March 2012 will be no different as the site has announced its plans to hold the 6th Anniversary Sunday Million Tournament. The 6th Anniversary Sunday Million willRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 22, 2012 Posted in Poker Player News, Poker Room News | No Comments »
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Peter Eastgate has been a bit of an enigma ever since he became the youngest World Series of Poker Main Event Champion back in 2008 (a record broken the following year by Joe Cada). Eastgate was one of the most promising young players in the game after hisRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 16, 2012 Posted in Poker Player News, Poker Room News | No Comments »
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It seems like every week I’m writing an article on some new poker pro that is now representing Lock Poker, so I was very happy to see that this would not be the case this week: Instead Lock Poker signed not one but two more poker pros toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 13, 2012 Posted in Poker Players, Poker Room News | No Comments »
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If you thought Lock Poker was finished adding to their Team LockPRO Elite roster in 2012 after signing a slew of big name talent in 2011 and into 2012 you were sadly mistaken. This past week Lock Poker announced yet another addition to their roster of sponsored pros,Read Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Feb 01, 2012 Posted in Poker Room News | 4 Comments »
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Today Lock Poker launched there new cashier. The hope is this will mean the time from withdrawing from your player account to you bank will be decreased greatly. It’s also important to note this is not a merge cashier change, but only refers to the Lock cashier. ItRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 31, 2012 Posted in Online Poker News, Poker Room News | 1 Comment »
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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 DOJRead Full Article