On the 4th April Full Tilt Poker is teaming up with PokerGives.org to run a special $5+$5 charity tournament which will benefit charity organizations in America.

The chivalrous MTT takes place on Full Tilt Poker, and there are a number of fantastic prizes and bonuses added to the prizepool.  The prizes contributed so far have a combined value of over $3,900 and include six months of poker coaching from Deuces Cracked, a one month CardRunners Gold Subscription, poker sunglasses from Blue Shark Optics, poker books, a $200 gift certificate to Andrew Shirley and Company, and even a one-year free subscription to Bluff Magazine among others.

In order to participate in this one-off event and grab your hands on these awesome prizes, poker players should log into Full Tilt Poker, go to the Tournament Lobby and register for the Read the rest of this entry…

The National Heads-Up Championship tournament has become one of the most coveted titles in all of poker. The tournament utilizes an invitation only entry, bracket-style format, comprising poker’s elite players. Since only the best poker players are invited –along with a handful of celebrities and online qualifiers—it’s difficult to use the word “upset” or “underdog”, but this year saw the first female player capture the title in Annie Duke. Read the rest of this entry…

The elite eight is set to return to the poker tables at Caesars Palace on Sunday, and headlining the remaining field will be the 76 year-old 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Doyle Brunson. Along the way Doyle has defeated Brock Parker, who won back-to-back bracelets at the 2009 WSOP; Actor, and poker enthusiast, Don Cheadle; and young superstar Annette Obrestad. In the round of eight Brunson will face off against Dennis Phillips, who has gone from a Cinderella story at the 2008 WSOP, to a polished poker professional and serious poker contender.

Besides Brunson and Phillips, the other players remaining I the field also have a long list of credentials: Read the rest of this entry…

In one of the biggest upsets of the first day of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, 2003 World Series of Poker Champion, Chris Moneymaker, was able to dispatch Patrik Antonius in about 30 minutes. Antonius, who frequently plays heads-up cash games online, was a huge betting favorite in the match, but it was the man who put poker on the map in 2003 who will be advancing in the bracket style tournament.

In another major upset, 2006 WSOP Main Event champion, Jamie Gold 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…

Marchese is a well known commodity in the world of online poker, but the man known as “KingofCards” to his online fans has had zero success in live tournaments. That was until he won the first-ever NAPT event at the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas. Marchese and 871 other poker hopefuls put up the $5,000 entrants-fee to be part of the first ever NAPT event.

Marchese had to beat out a tough final table that included runner-up Sam Stein, a PokerStars sponsored player; Eric Blair who finished 8th, another PokerStars pro; and longtime tournament veteran “Miami” John Cernuto, one of poker’s most colorful, and respected, players.

The win was worth $872,648, which prompted Marchese to offer the following statement, “The event is one of my favorites now.” Considering the $872k payday, and his first major tournament Read the rest of this entry…

PokerNews.com is reporting 9 confirmed players for the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The highly popular tournament pits 64 of the top poker talents and personalities in poker in a series of heads-up elimination matches.

NBC has confirmed 6 players: Included in the field are NHUPC mainstays Huck Seed (last year’s champion), Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, and Daniel Negreanu, as well as 2009 WSOP Champion Joe Cada.

The sponsor for the tournament is once again Read the rest of this entry…

Full Tilt Poker kicked off the 15th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) with a $216 No Limit Holdem tournament. The tournament saw a total of 5,646 players hit the virtual tables, crushing last year’s opening event by nearly 1,000 players, and falling just shy of the 5,712 players from two years ago.

Full Tilt’s $1 million guarantee for the tournament was easily eclipsed, with the winner pulling in a massive$151,000; living up to his screen-name “SolidGoldman24k”! Read the rest of this entry…

PokerStars has announced that the inaugural North American Poker Tour event, taking place at the Venetian in Las Vegas, will conclude with a $25k buy-in High-Roller tournament with a twist; certain pro players will have a $5,000 bounty on their head, and the player collecting the most bounties will receive an additional $100k from PokerStars!

Another unique feature of the tournament will be the payout structure. The prize-pool will be distributed in the following way: PokerStars will award each player at the final table $50,000, and the remainder of the prize-pool will be awarded to the winner of Read the rest of this entry…

The Borgata is one of the only US casinos that is going on the offensive to counteract the falling attendance numbers that have plagued US poker tournaments over the last two years. In late 2009 the Borgata dropped the buy-in of their WPT championship event from $10k to $3,500 and offering a guaranteeing prize-pool.

The decision worked out so well that the Borgata decided on a $3,500 buy-in for their Borgata Poker Championship with a $2 million guaranteed prize-pool. The event didn’t draw quite as many players as the WPT event –likely because of the WPT’s television exposure—but still exceeded their $2 million guaranteed prize-pool with 766 entrants; creating Read the rest of this entry…