A lot of stories can fall through the cracks over the course of a week, and this past week was no exception. With eyes focused on Phil Ivey and the Aussie Millions, Super-High-Roller tournaments, and the European Poker Awards there were plenty of smaller stories that you have may have overlooked. Isildur1 wins his largest pot on PokerStars This past week Viktor “Isildur1” Blom,Read Full Article

Every year I like to take a look at a few of the tournament grinders who have been quite successful over the past few years, but have yet to “breakout” as poker superstars — had a few cards fallen differently they would already be household names in the poker world and received plenty of poker news headlines. So here is Part 1 of myRead 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

In addition to straight news websites, poker enthusiasts also like to know what is going on inside the poker world, following their favorite poker players, personalities, and poker insiders’ blogs, which is where the realmoneypoker.org list of the 65 most popular poker blogs comes in. This list of the 65 best poker blogs is a first of its kind, and a much needed listRead Full Article

On November 10th Betfair announced it had finished its search for the company’s next CEO, and the group has decided on Breon Corcoran. Corcoran, the former Paddy Power COO and long-time board member is considered one of the rising stars in the industry, and at just 40 years-old could spend many years with Betfair. Corcoran will begin his tenure at Betfair on August 1,Read Full Article

On the same day that Barry Greenstein and Doyle Brunson came out in defense of Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson, another high-profile poker player was blasting the decision-makers at Full Tilt poker, specifically Howard Lederer and Ray Bitar. The website PokerAkedemia.com was able to get Daniel Negreanu to answer a few questions while in Budapest, Hungary, and in true Negreanu fashion, he didn’t pullRead Full Article

Since increasing the buy-in to $5,200 in 2008, the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) has attracted at least 2,000 entrants each year, with the high-water mark coming last year when 2,443 players registered for the tournament. After Black Friday nobody was expecting the 2011 running of the WCOOP Main Event to approach those numbers, but in the end PokerStars is likely toRead Full Article

The poker news website Subject: Poker, headed by 2+2 moderator Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (NoahSD), has been breaking a lot of Full Tilt Poker news since Black Friday –thanks to an inside source at the site—and there latest bombshell has sent the poker world into a tizzy. The latest breaking news by Subject: Poker show Phil Ivey’s and David Benyamine’s Full Tilt Poker account records, whichRead Full Article

Goulder Beats WSOP Winner Perrins To Monte Carlo Title The second Monte Carlo Event of the year at the Dusk Till Dawn poker rooms in Nottingham attracted a field of 252 runners, which meant yet again the guaranteed prizepool of £250,000 was surpassed. The event was lived streamed for the first time, and re-entry was also on offer for the first time, and theRead Full Article

O’Donnell Scoops PokerStars UKIPT Title The World Series may by drawing to a close, but the main event winner will not be known until November, but one winner we can tell you about is Chris O’Donnell who won the PokerStars UKIPT Main Event in Brighton. O’Donnell was just one of the 603 players that turned out over the course of the weekend, a numberRead Full Article