According to a report at egrmagazine.com (the subscription part of the site), Facebook is preparing to enter the online poker industry in the UK; well preparing to partner with existing online poker sites in the UK by offering to host up to eight online poker companies’ software on the Facebook website. According to the report, Facebook is already in talks with several gaming providersRead Full Article

Yes, we know the picture is bigger than usual, BUT IT’S AMANDA LEATHERMAN! Bodog has always been the nonconformist of the online poker world, and this is no more evident than in their choices of sponsored players. Bodog apparently dismisses the idea that signing the top players in the poker world will bring in more players, instead taking the line that signing beautiful youngRead Full Article

There is always one announcement or another coming out of Facebook every week, and while the typical announcement usually has something to do with a privacy setting or some other minor change to the site itself, this weekend the Social Media mega-company detailed a change in their advertising policy that will allow online gaming companies –including online poker—to advertise on the site. The newRead Full Article

Daniel Negreanu’s appearance on the QuadJacks podcast last week is starting to look very sage-like, considering when the discussion turned to the Epic Poker League, he hypothesized that the company was likely positioning itself to offer real-money online poker games if the US ever comes around and legalizes the industry. Well, on Wednesday we learned that the Epic Poker League has created a ZyngaRead Full Article

On Tuesday, Phil Ivey dropped a bombshell on the poker world when he announced that he is sitting out the 2011 WSOP due to Full Tilt not returning player funds.  Furthermore, Ivey filed a suit in Clark County District Count on Wednesday against Tiltware, LLC.  Ivey claimed via his statement on his website and Facebook that he did this to facilitate payments back toRead Full Article

It would be hard to steal the headlines away from the first day of the 2011 World Series of Poker, but Phil Ivey managed to do just that after talking for the first time about Black Friday via his official Facebook page –the post was corroborated by WickedChopsPoker.com and BluffMagazine.com who authenticated that Ivey was the author. The two main parts of the postRead Full Article

For most of Friday afternoon it would have seemed that the apocalypse was upon us, especially if your Twitter and Facebook accounts are as jam-packed with poker players as mine is! Fortunately as the day wore on and more and more details emerged it went from apocalyptic to simply mega-disaster –still really, really, bad, but not end of days bad. Depending on who youRead Full Article

It you are looking regular updates on Poker from around the world, one of the easiest ways is to get regular updates sent to your wall on Facebook. Now all you have to do is sign up as a follower of PokerNewsBoy on Facebook by clicking here and becoming a blog follower. Once you have registered as a follower of the PokerNewsBoy Blog youRead Full Article