The Middle Tennessee State University Blue Raiders should have been looking forward to the 2010 football season considering the team was picked to win the Sun Belt Conference. Unfortunately they may be without the services of their starting quarterback Dwight Dasher thanks to a nasty poker habit that has landed the senior in hot water. Dasher, who was on many people’s short-list for numerous awards this year –The Paul Hornung Award as well as the Walter Camp Award– after makingRead Full Article

After implementing a fan voting system last year –a process that saw Mike Sexton end up as the lone inductee– the Poker Hall of Fame once again opened up the nomination process to the fans. After the initial nomination period a whopping 181 poker players have been nominated for poker’s highest honor. Next week the top 10 nominees will be sent to the Nomination Committee for review –you may recall that Tom Dwan was stricken from the list last yearRead Full Article

The Poker Hall of Fame is an extremely exclusive club, and grows by only one or two each year. Beginning last year, the Poker Hall of Fame opened up the nomination process to the public, allowing poker fans to nominate their favorite poker players –so long as they meet the criteria set out by the Hall of Fame—through an online submission form. The top 10 nominees will then be voted on by all living Poker Hall of Fame members, asRead Full Article

The daring robbery shocked the poker world back in March, when four armed men entered the Hyatt Grand Hotel in Berlin brandishing machetes/axes and what turned out to be a starter pistol, and were able to escape with some €242,000 of the €1,000,000 prize-money at the European Poker Tour tournament. Two other men have also been arrested and face separate trials for their roles as planners and conspirators. All six men were from Berlins Arabic/Turkish community, and one of theRead Full Article

Phil Laak knew it was going to be tough to break the record for consecutive hours of poker played –the official record stood at over 72 hours, while the unofficial record stood at 78 hours—but the Unabomber, as Laak is known by, almost made it look easy! Laak not only bested the 72 hour and 78 hour marks, he went well past his own goal of 80 hours, finally calling a stop to the marathon session after a whopping 115Read Full Article

Poker pro Phil Laak has set the poker endurance record after playing 80 hours of live poker! Laak bested not only the record of Larry Olmsted, which stood at 72 hours, from the Guinness Book of World Records, but also the unofficial record of 78 hours set by Paul Zimbler and has beat his own goal of 80 hours and is slowly going towards the 100hr mark. And more importantly he did it for a great cause. Like Zimbler beforeRead Full Article

A study at a US university that was conducted recently has confirmed that a big percentage of professional poker players enhance their game with medication and illegal performance enhancing drugs. Players using these drugs claim to be able to improve their win rate but also put a massive risk to their personal health. The study that was conducted by the Nova South-eastern University showed that 28% of poker players admitted that they used prescription drugs to improve their poker game.Read Full Article

With the success the network has had with High Stakes Poker it’s understandable why they may look to add more poker programming –ignoring the 2 Months 2 Million ratings disaster they attempted. The network recently announced they will be airing the Aussie Millions –perhaps the second most coveted tournament prize in all of poker—in addition to Full Tilt Poker’s Doubles Championship. The network has scheduled the shows to run during their “Poker Block” which will air from 6pm to 3amRead Full Article

The Golden Nugget played host to the inaugural World Team Poker tournament this week, a $50,000 per team buy-in tournament, and after an 18 and half hour marathon session it was team China who came out on top. The win netted Team China $300,000, and runners-up Team Brazil will pocket $100,000. China came into the tournament as one of the clear cut favorites; with co-captains Johnny Chan and David Chiu headlining the team that also includes Maria Ho, Chiau Giang,Read Full Article

Australian co-captains Antanas Gouga –better known as Tony G – and Jeffrey Lisandro have announced the entire Australian team that will be competing in the inaugural World Team Poker event that will be held in Las Vegas in May. Long-time tournament veterans Billy “The Croc” Argyros, Gary Benson, Mel Judah, and Marsha Waggoner will be joining Tony G and Jeffrey Lisandro, along with younger players Grant Levy, David Saab, and Stephen Topakas. So, unlike Team USA that I comprised solelyRead Full Article