Pitbull Poker is no stranger to bad publicity, and it has been confirmed today (by PokerNewsDaily.com who has had direct access to the sites network manager Dave Brenes) that the site has officially closed its doors. The troubled site has faced numerous allegations since it opened its doors: The site has been charged with ranging from poor customer support and inferior software that causes numerous ‘bugs’, to outright cheating. The rumors started on September 29th when players were unable toRead Full Article

After completing their second day of play, the WSOPE Main Event is down to 92 players. Day 3 action will kick off at noon, with the remaining participants playing down to 36 –which happens to be the number of players who will reach the money. Day 2 saw a lot of high-profile casualties including: Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, Phil Hellmuth, David Williams, Mike Matusow, and Barry Greenstein. But fear not, there are still plenty of big names still kicking, andRead Full Article

For a few short weeks in late-August/early-September the ultra-high-stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker saw a tremendous increase in action: Mainly due to the emergence of a new player with seemingly endless pockets, with a lot of gamble in him! The player in questions screen-name was ‘Martonas’, and to date is still an unidentified player from Lipoking, Sweden. Over those few weeks ‘Martonas’ lost in neighborhood of $3 million, and then abruptly disappeared. Well fear not, nosebleed players and railbirds,Read Full Article

Poker News Boy got an exclusive interview with Lock Poker’s newest recruit, Stevie ‘Allinstevie’ Devlin. This is how it went. PNB: How did you first get interested in poker? How long have you been playing serious poker? Allinstevie: Playing some sort of poker most of my life, started playing home games when i was like 15/16, progressed to the local tournaments when i was 19/20. Started doing well in the local tournaments and after a good run i decided toRead Full Article

After the recent announcement by Harrah’s Entertainment, owner of the World Series of Poker, that they have joined up with 888 Holdings to launch a WSOP online poker site, many people have become stirred up, including poker’s brattiest, Phil Helmuth, himself. The site, which is scheduled to open in 2010, is a potential threat to any and all established online poker rooms that have, thus far, coexisted peacefully in their own little corners of the Net. The fear has beenRead Full Article

After day 1a attracted a respectable 156 players, the WSOPE was hoping for the typical larger turnout for day 1b. However, the second flight for the WSOPE Main Event had a good, but underwhelming 178 entrants. In all, the tournament had a total of 334 players; each of whom parted with the $14,000+ buy-in. Of those 334 players, 186 players remain when play resumes today at 5:30 pm –the delay is in observance of the Jewish holiday. Among the notableRead Full Article

Unlike their fellow poker pros who seem to excel on the reality TV circuit (at least in terms of good publicity) the poker world was let down by the Amazing Race duo of Tiffany and Maria from the outset. Their first faux-pas was lying to their fellow competitors about their profession. Making the whole matter all the more disheartening is that the girls decided to go with the old “I work at a non-profit, as a counselor for homeless youth”Read Full Article

Lock Poker, fairly new poker site on the Cake Poker network, have been really making waves in the poker community. After announcing Eric ‘Rizen’ Lynch as Director of Product Development. Lock Poker took another giant leap forward after announcing a further 11 poker players signing up. The biggest name to be mentioned among the 11 others is probably online poker sensation, Stevie “allinstevie” Devlin. Stevie Devlin has been ranked as one of the top online poker players for a fewRead Full Article

Bodog president and CEO Patrick Selin announced the creation of a new poker network –aptly called BodogNetwork.com. Set to launch in 2010, BodogNetwork.com’s goal is to forge a poker network based on security and integrity. Selin, the former OnGame Network CEO, has plenty of experience running a large poker network. During his time with OnGAme the network was the highest trafficked poker network, trailing only the large independent poker-rooms like PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and PartyPoker. Bodog has been branchingRead Full Article

Day 1a of the WSOPE Main Event saw 156 players take to the poker tables, including some of the biggest names in the poker world: Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Vanessa Rousso, and Patrik Antonius. There were no shortage of casualties on day 1a, which saw the like of Hoyt Corkins, Robert Mizrachi, Vanessa Rousso, Huck Seed, Phil Ivey, and Andy Bloch among others eliminated. Even with the loss of the aforementioned big names, many top players advanced onRead Full Article