Longtime poker pro Hoyt Corkins captured his second World Poker Tour championship this week after outlasting a strong field in the Southern Poker Championship Main Event and was able to outlast Jonathan Kantor in the heads-up duel. Corkins is one of the unsung poker pros on the tournament trail, who seems better known for his run-ins with Phil Hellmuth –who considers Corkins some kind of luckbox—and his signature cowboy hat

The eight members of the Aussie Million final table are set and poker pro Sorel Mizzi is dominating the field with an astounding 6 million chips! Consider that the next closest competitor, Tyrone Krost has only 1.8 million, it looks like this is Sorel’s tournament to win or lose. There is at least one speed bump in the road for the young poker superstar, which happens to be an even younger, and bigger, superstar; Annette Obrestad, or Annette15 to theRead Full Article

A couple of interesting items came up for auction on eBay recently that caused a minor buzz in the poker world –TJ Cloutier’s 2005 WSOP bracelet and his 2007 Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge bracelet– most notably on the online poker forums who simply can’t resist some good gossip about the big-name poker pros. Cloutier, who has won over $10 million in tournaments in his poker career, has

With a catchy name, high-profile player, and a solid poker network Unabomber Poker looks to be off to a strong start before dealing their first hand of poker. The site has garnered a lot of publicity before its launch; more so than the seven other poker sites that will be joining the Cake Poker Network: 7Win Poker, Redback Poker, Amsterdams Poker, Safari Poker, Dimeline Poker, Rags2Riches Poker, and Burro Poker. Unabomber Poker, like all Cake Poker Network sites, will utilizeRead Full Article

Phil Ivey, arguably the greatest poker player ever, recently hit another major milestone in his glittering career when he claimed the number one spot in the all-time tournament earnings list. He is currently battling it out at the 2010 Aussie Millions where he finished second in the AUD$100,000 Challenge, a tournament with a AUD$100,000 entry fee. The feat netted him AUD$600,000. This money, approximately $538,275, took his live tournament career earnings to $12,798,489, enough to oust Daniel Negreanu

The Southern Poker Championship is one of my favorite WPT stops –even though this is only the third year of the event—for one simple reason: The tournament has a simple 4-day format. No unnecessary flights for Day-1 play, no unnecessary 5th, 6th, or 7th day to draw out play, the Southern Poker Championship has none of this; it’s just a poker tournament. Last year’s event saw 283 players compete for a first-prize of just over $1 million, which was takenRead Full Article

2008 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate has had his struggles since his monster win, but the young poker superstar has found his way to the EPT Deauville final table. Unfortunately, Eastgate is the short-stack with 695k chips. Eastgate has some stiff competition at the final table, with former EPT champion Mike McDonald –who is even younger than Eastgate at 20 years-old– and a bevy of young poker professionals from all over the globe. Eastgate, at 24,Read Full Article

Poker News Daily has reported that they received an E-Mail from the Merge gaming network announcing the addition of Fantasy Poker, which will happen on January 31st. Current players on Fantasy Poker will have until the 31st to request their funds from the site, otherwise they will be transferred to the site’s new software on the Merge Poker Network. Poker news Daily is estimating a two-week down-time before the site is re-launched in mid-February. Merge is one of the up-and-comersRead Full Article

Full Tilt Poker are fast becoming the 1st choice online poker site for the true online poker players. Full Tilt have been moving foward with their software that they use as well as introducing new features and games that are exclusive to Full Tilt Poker. Take the inclusion of Rush Poker at Full Tilt. Rush Poker has over night became what every recreational poker player is talking about. A new game that has yet to be mastered by the pro’sRead Full Article

I have registered to play in the WBCOOP PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! You too can Play Poker Online at PokerStars.com and take part in the WBCOOP which is open to all Bloggers by registering on WBCOOP to play. Registration code: 875275 The WBCOOP returns for 2010! It’s time for all poker-playing bloggers to put down the keyboard and mouse and get ready for action, because the annual PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP) is backRead Full Article