Other than the ongoing SCOOP tournament series at PokerStars it was a fairly quiet weekend on the poker front, but we did see a number of “interesting” stories take place, include some South Korean Buddhist Monks getting busted playing poker and drinking (I’ve now seen it all onRead Full Article

The 2012 running of the PokerStars SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker) tournament series has been wild so far, with a number of online poker players dominating the early tournaments, including the impressive run by Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, where the Team PokerStars Pro won back-to-back SCOOP tournaments, capturingRead Full Article

With a week that started off with a ton of Word Series of Poker news, as well as the rumors (that were later confirmed) that Lock Poker was leaving the Merge Gaming Network and purchasing the Cake Poker Network, it seemed like we were going to run outRead Full Article

Team PokerStars Pro Viktor Blom is best known for his ultra-high-stakes cash-game exploits, but after his run in the SCOOP tournament series at PokerStars early this week, Blom may suddenly find his tournament skills the talk of the online poker forums. Blom, who plays under his infamous screen-nameRead Full Article

It was a fairly busy weekend in the poker world, with a number of major tournaments taking place from Florida to Germany, as well as some interesting news on the sponsored player front. So without any further delay let’s take a look at the big news coming outRead Full Article

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier is one of the most accomplished poker players of the last decade; his exploits at the online poker tables are the stuff of legends, and since making the transition to live tournament poker ElkY has managed to build upon his online reputation, and is nowRead Full Article

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final will have a new addition to its schedule this year as the tournament series in Monte Carlo will host the first six-figure buy-in tournament in European poker history. The tournament will be a €100,000 buy-in Super-High-Roller event, and has already attractedRead Full Article

In a scene reminiscent of the final showdown in the movie Rounders (you know the one where Mike McDermott and Teddy KGB square-off in a winner-take-all match) yesterday at PokerStars Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Isaac Haxton began their own winner-take-all heads-up No Limit Holdem match, but unlike theRead Full Article

After blowing a near $100,000 lead over Isaac Haxton in last week’s Superstar Showdown on PokerStars –the first Superstar Showdown match the site has hosted since last June—Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom came back with an impressive victory of UK high-stakes pro Andrew “Kanu7” Millar. The twoRead Full Article

It was a fairly quiet weekend as far as tournaments go (with only the EPT Madrid Main Event taking place) but the rest of the poker world was virtually on fire with rumors, gossip, and news. So here is our weekly look at the major stories from theRead Full Article