The past week’s headlines have been dominated by the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) but there were plenty of other tournaments taking place around the globe, including the inaugural stop at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California for the World Series of Poker Circuit Series, as well as the vaunted Aussie Millions tournament series getting underway at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, AustraliaRead Full Article

The first stop on the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) schedule marks the tour’s first foray into the Emerald Isle, as the inaugural WPT Ireland Main Event began on Thursday. Despite running concurrently with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) many of the top UK and European poker players decided to skip the Bahamian island’s first few tournaments –including the $100k Super-High-Roller tournament—in favor ofRead Full Article

After word hit the Internet poker forums that the Bodog Anonymous Table software update had been compromised by the website HHSmithy.com, the company was quick to respond; insuring their players that their accounts and money were safe at the site, and that they would work to fix the loophole that allowed the website to compromise their data and turn the anonymous tables into not-so-anonymousRead Full Article

According to the website HHSmithy.com, the newly implemented Anonymous Tables at Bodog are not as anonymous as the site would have you believe. The site released a video on Tuesday demonstrating how they were able to exploit the Bodog code and gain access to each players Bodog ID# (Similar to a screen-name). Later the site released a second video where they explained how toRead Full Article

Just days after Bodog announced all of their poker tables would now be anonymous, the Microgaming Poker Network has apparently decided to follow in their footsteps, announcing yesterday that all of their Heads-Up No Limit Holdem tables, and select other tables at all stakes would be anonymous. I’ve been giving a lot of credit to Bodog for their site-wide anonymous tables, but I shouldRead 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 on the Facebook website. According to the report, Facebook is already in talks with several gaming providersRead Full Article

All eyes will be on the quaint city of the Prague as the Czech capital hosts the 12-day long Prague Poker Festival. With its impressive architecture, Prague is a city steeped in culture and historic tradition. It’s also a popular party destination, with people from all over Europe keen to sample the cheap alcohol and beautiful women. The festival sees the collaboration of threeRead Full Article

Las Vegas Company BBL Enterprises, LLC introduces an innovative online poker tool that will protect an online poker player’s tournament buy-in and entry fee. BubbleProtection.com uses revolutionary technology that creates a new bubble, encompassing an additional 10% of the field.  This radical technology created by Poker Pro Labs (www.pokerprolabs.com) in partnership with Poker Players International (www.ppipoker.com) is available to all non-U.S. players for allRead Full Article

It’s a small, select, group: Juha Helpi, Andy Black, JC Tran, David Benyamine, and now you can add Andy Frankenberger to that list after the reigning WPT Player of the Year captured the Party Poker Premiere League title on Thursday. Frankenberger navigated his way through the extremely talented field of 16 players, and bested a final table that included November Niner Matt Giannetti, reigningRead Full Article

Chalk up yet another $1 million score for Titan Poker pro Sam Trickett, as the young poker star increased his 2011 tournament earnings to a mind-boggling $4.5 million this past weekend by winning the 2011 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event. After a mammoth field turned out for last year’s PPT Main Event (which was eventually won by Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst) the tournament titleRead Full Article