Earlier this week Daniel Negreanu sat down for an interview with the website pokerplayer.co.uk, who somehow always manages to bring out the best and most controversial remarks in Daniel –you may recall it was the same outlet that Negreanu infamously referred to Annie Duke as a C***in a prior interview. This time around the line of questioning focused on the current state of poker,Read Full Article

There are plenty of poker players whose lives are an open book, thanks to their stardom as well as their propensity to make use of social media. These players, like Daniel Negreanu, Tony G, and Phil Hellmuth catalogue most of their daily activities, and although they are very interesting their lives do not hold the secrets that people love to uncover. But there isRead Full Article

The final ballots have been cast by our hand-picked panel of poker experts, and after a little bit of deliberation we were able to settle upon a winner in each if the 10 categories we selected this time around. Congratulations to all of the winners and the deserving nominees. Here is a look at the winners as well as all of the nominees forRead Full Article

Recently there have been new live poker leagues announced, including the Native American Poker League.  While these leagues will be well received by the influx of new live poker players, perhaps it is time to make a few original poker leagues to give poker fans alternative options.  Below are some new alternative poker leagues.  Celebrity Death Match Poker League Hosts Johnny Gomez and NickRead Full Article

It’s that time again; time to vote for the 2011 PokerNewsBoy.com Awards. For 2011 the categories have been streamlined to 10, with 5 Player of the Year Awards up for grabs, as well as five other awards ranging from Poker Moment of the Year to Best Poker Blog. Last year we opened up our voting for the 2010 PokerrnewsBoy.com awards on our forum andRead Full Article

It’s been a while since the Epic Poker League sent out a press release, which had me starting to worry about the fledgling poker tour, but with its third Main Event stop of Season 1 just around the corner the EPL released its latest presser on Wednesday, and there was quite a reason for the announcement as the EPL announced they would be partneringRead Full Article

One of the longest tenured poker telecasts has come to an end according to multiple sources in the poker industry, as NBC has announced that it will not be bringing back the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2012, which would have been the tournament’s eighth season. The decision was almost certainly influenced by the changed poker landscape in the aftermath of Black Friday,Read Full Article

Well, this story didn’t take very long to come out! Mere days after Annie Duke appeared on the list of the final 10 nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame, here long-time rival Daniel Negreanu made sure that everyone who may possibly be voting for the Poker Hall of Fame’s Class of 2011 remembers the many indiscretions in the career of Annie Duke. PokerListings.comRead Full Article

The public voting stage of the 2011 Poker Hall of Fame induction process is now complete, and it is now on to the next step; where the Top 10, eligible, vote-getters will be voted on by a select group of 17 men and women from the poker media as well as the 18 living members of the Poker Hall of Fame. The eligibility hasRead Full Article

Finally, a preemptive move by the Epic Poker League’s Standards and Conduct Committee! On Thursday the Epic Poker League announced that both Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer (the brother of EPL Commissioner Annie Duke) were both suspended indefinitely by the league. In a statement released on the Epic Poker League website, Standards and Conduct Committee Chairman Stephen Martin said, “The Committee voted to suspendRead Full Article