One of poker’s top talents is now a free agent, as UK poker pro Sam Trickett announced that he was parting ways with Titan Poker today, ending a year-long sponsorship deal he had with the popular iPoker Network site. Trickett was one of two sponsored players at TitanRead Full Article

Senator John Boozman (R-AR) penned a letter on Facebook aimed at quelling the enormous amount of comments he has been receiving from the online poker community. The letter, which can be interpreted as either an olive branch to the pro-poker advocates, or as a sleight of hand aimedRead Full Article

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 onRead 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 inRead 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 advertisingRead 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 legalizesRead 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 viaRead 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.comRead 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 toRead 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 andRead Full Article