Dec Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 30, 2011 Posted in Poker Gossip, World Poker News | No Comments »
The title of the article basically says it all, so here are my choices for the 15 craziest, zaniest, mind-boggling stories from the world of poker over the past year. So in no particular order here are #’s 1-5: Matt Perrins wins WSOP bracelet after watching YouTube tutorialRead Full Article
Nov Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 19, 2011 Posted in Tournament News, World Poker News | No Comments »
It’s a big weekend for poker advocates around the world as the International Poker Federation (IFP) wrapped up its groundbreaking Nations Cup Poker Tournament on Friday and gets set to host a $500k freeroll tournament known as “The Table” this weekend. The Nations Cup was a unique event whereRead Full Article
Known as the “Bellagio Biker Bandit” Anthony Michael Carleo was in court this past Wednesday for a preliminary hearing in the case. A number of witnesses entered their testimony during the preliminary hearing, and according to Forbes Magazine, Carleo could face as much as 35 years in prisonRead Full Article
We were told in the movie Oceans 11 that you just don’t walk into a casino and rob the place, but that is precisely what happened at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas at around 4 PM Tuesday morning. According to the report in the NewRead Full Article
Monday night not only saw the World Series of Poker crown Jonathan Duhamel as its newest Main Event Champion, but prior to the heads up match the Poker Hall of Fame officially grew by two players as Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel were inducted into the very exclusiveRead Full Article
It was announced Tuesday morning that Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel will be the two members of the 2010 class inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Seidel and Harrington have both had storied poker careers –careers that surely have not seen the final chapter written just yet—andRead Full Article
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 thatRead 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 nominatedRead 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 theyRead 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 PokerRead Full Article




Lock Poker will be moving from the Merge Netowrk after their purchas of the Cake network. The Cake network will be re-branded as the Revolution Gaming network. This move will allow Lock Poker to offer 36% rakeback!! This all happens June 1, 2012.






