In an interview in Las Vegas, Nevada ahead of this month’s Republican Primary in the state, Mitt Romney gave online poker players a glimpse at how a Romney administration would handle the sticky issue of online gaming in the US; he is against it. Romney’s stance on online gaming is buried in the very last sentence of an article on 8newsnow.com, where it states,Read Full Article

Beginning on March 4th, 2012 and running through March 25, 2012, the Merge Gaming Network will be hosting a massive 70-Event tournament series known as Poker Maximus. Over the course of thee 22-days of tournaments the Merge Gaming Network will be guaranteeing $1.5 million in prize-money, with the Poker Maximus tournament series culminating on Sunday, March 25, with four separate Main Event tournaments withRead Full Article

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

In one of the most in-depth articles available on the subject, RealMoneyPoker.org has broken down the current state of online poker in the United Sates, as well as offering up a detailed forecast for what poker players can expect on the legislative front in the coming months and years. Less than a year after Black Friday turned the poker world in the United StatesRead Full Article

The inaugural PokerStars Turbo Championships of Online Poker (TCOOP) came to a close on Sunday, culminating with the $700 buy-in Main Event, featuring a $1.5 million guaranteed prize-pool. A total of 3,667 players registered for the tournament, blasting through the guarantee, and nearly reaching a total prize-pool of $2.5 million ($2,438,555 to b precise). Over 40 Team PokerStars Pros took part in the event,Read Full Article

After four full days of play the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event is now down to just 12 participants, with one very, very, big name still in the hunt. Phil Ivey’s dominant run came to a screeching halt on Day 4 of the Aussie Millions, but the poker superstar did manage to squeak into Day 5 where he will enter the day as theRead Full Article

With a few days off in between the completion of the opening tournament and the start of Event #2 at the 2012 Aussie Millions, Melbourne has fallen off the poker radar over the past couple days, but with the results from Event #2, an $1,100 PLO tournament, the poker world’s attention will surely shift back to Australia. Here is a recap of the firstRead Full Article

Phil Hellmuth is fond of saying that when the US government legalizes online poker there will be a second, even larger, poker boom. In Hellmuth’s version of reality, the WSOP will see the Main Event attendance balloon to unprecedented levels as new players pour into the poker economy. While this surely sounds well and good, the facts just simply don’t add-up for this typeRead Full Article

Prior to the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) one of the online poker world’s most recognizable names decided to break a record; precisely what record attempt he would tackle he left up to suggestion, but according to Randy “nanonoko” Lew a record would fall at the PCA. In the end Lew settled upon setting the record for the most hands of online poker playedRead Full Article

If the Bahamas wasn’t at the top of Galen Hall’s list of favorite destinations after winning the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event, it could very well be by the end of Saturday. Hall is currently the chip-leader heading into the final table of the $100k buy-in 2012 PCA Super-High-Roller tournament, which will net the winner about $1.2 million! The final table ofRead Full Article