Las Vegas professional poker player Joe Tehan won the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) $5,000 buy-in No Limit Holdem Main Event last night, eliminating the final 7 opponents for a 1st place prize of $725,000. Joe Tehan is an experienced professional poker tournament player with more than $2.2 million in live winnings on the major tournament circuits.  His previous claim to fame wasRead Full Article

The French online poker site Chili Poker has announced the creation of a US-friendly online poker room that will launch within the next year. The US arm of the Chili Poker gaming empire will feature a subscription-based poker room to conform to current US regulations concerning online gaming sites. Chili Poker CEO Alex Dreyfus stated, “We are very excited about this new dimension toRead Full Article

The PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour is putting up some very impressive numbers in its first season. The NAPT stop in Los Angeles is the latest tour stop to top 700 players –with a total of 701 players registering over the course of the two Day 1 flights. With Day 1a and 1b officially in the books, a number of top pros have workedRead Full Article

The landscape of the US House of Representatives and Senate are drastically changed after the 2010 mid-term elections which saw the Republican Party sweep into power in the House, and close the gap in the Senate. This has left online poker players wondering what the chances are of being able to play poker in a legalized and regulated environment in the coming year. TheRead Full Article

The world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars has just announced a new tournament series, the USA Championship of Online Poker. A pared down version of the WCOOP, the USA COOP will feature 11 tournaments with a total guaranteed prize-pool of $3.2 million, and will take place from November 21st through the 28th. The Main Event will consist of a $500+$35 buy-in No Limit HoldemRead Full Article

July 1st 2010 marked a new day for Florida poker players; this was the day that the $100 buy-in limit was removed, and Florida players were finally allowed to play some ‘real’ poker. So how successful has the new legislation been? The Sun Sentinel reports that poker revenue in July was up 35% over June’s numbers — $11.3 million in July compared to $8.4Read Full Article

The latest victim of the United States crackdown on online gambling payment processors was Ahmad Khawaja, who ran the payment processors Allied Wallet and Allied Systems. The case began over a year ago when federal prosecutors seized some $13.3 million in funds from the companies account at Goldwater bank in Scottsdale Arizona. The funds were traced back to the popular online poker room PokerStars,Read Full Article

A sweeping expansion of gambling in Massachusetts seemed like a foregone conclusion just a few months ago, but now appears to have hit a roadblock as Gov. Deval Patrick has threatened to veto the bill in its current form. Patrick, one of the initiators of adding casinos in Massachusetts is upset over the inclusion of two slots parlors that will be added to areaRead Full Article

The California State Legislature was supposed to vote on SB 1485, a bill that would legalize online poker in the state, on Tuesday June 29th, but the bill’s author, State Senator Rod Wright, decided to delay the vote saying that the legislation still needs some work. SB 1485 was a wolf in sheep’s clothing for online poker players, and even the Poker Players AllianceRead Full Article

The fourth stop on the PokerStars North American Poker Tour has been announced, and the latest addition to the highly successful poker tour will be The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, affectionately referred to as The Bike. It will be interesting to see how many stops are added by the end of the year; currently the NAPT is flying by the seat of itsRead Full Article