The PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) came out of the gates in Season with massive fields, and looked to be on its way to establishing itself as the preeminent poker tour in the United States; until the start of Season 2 when the tour decided to removeRead Full Article

The final table of the PCA Main Event featured two well established poker pros in Mike Sowers and Sam Stein, as well as the young chip-leader Chris Oliver –an online poker pro who went into the final day of play with 40% of the chips in play inRead Full Article

Since its inception the Bounty Shootout style tournaments held at virtually every stop of the PokerStars NAPT tournament series have been wildly popular amongst poker’s elite, and the $5,000 6-Max tournament held at the PCA was no exception as 216 poker players registered for the tournament. Day 1Read Full Article

Now that the 2006 law making online poker a crime in Washington State has been upheld by the state’s courts, the Department of Justice has wasted little time in cracking down on payment processors who have sent checks and other payments to online poker players in Washington State.Read Full Article

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 thanRead 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 gamingRead 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.Read 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 ofRead 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 NovemberRead 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 revenueRead Full Article