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

On Wednesday the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York put forth an amendment to their civil case filed on April 15th against Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars, and AP/UB Poker where Preet Bharara termed Full Tilt Poker a “Global Ponzi Scheme”; listing a litany of offenses perpetrated by the company before and after Black Friday. In the proposed amendment, three newRead Full Article

With the ongoing 42nd Annual World Series of Poker setting attendance records in multiple events it would seem that poker is definitely not in its death throes –a major fear after the US government’s crackdown on online poker back in April and May—in fact poker seems to be thriving now more than ever, with the World Poker Tour (WPT) reporting a 35% increase inRead Full Article

After nearly two months of inactivity the Superstar Showdown will return to PokerStars tonight as Viktor “Isildur1” Blom takes on Rui “pepperoniF” Cao across four $50/$100 poker tables, two of which will be NLHE and two of which will be PLO –similar to the structure Blom and Tony G used in their Superstar Showdown match. Cao first stated that he wanted to be aRead Full Article

The recently concluded PokerStars North American Poker Tour series held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut was a can’t miss event if you won a title there last year considering the two biggest tournaments of the series were won by the same players who triumphed in them last year! Team Poker Stars Pro Vanessa Selbst managed to repeat in the $5,000 buy-in MainRead Full Article

Live poker is rigged! Or, probably closer to the truth is the fact that there are cheating scandals to be uncovered; which is precisely what happened leading up to the Partouche Poker Tour’s Season 3 Grand Finale set to take place in Cannes, France this weekend. After reviewing video tapes leading up to the final table Partouche Poker Tour officials have determined that GermanRead Full Article

Heading into the final table of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour, Daniel Negreanu has a huge chip-lead over the rest of the remaining 8 players. Only Konstantinos Nanos has over half of Negreanu’s 5,070,000 chip-stack with 3,635,000; the remainder of the field has roughly 9,000,000 chips combined, almost the same amount as both Negreanu and Nanos collectively. The final 8 players will be battlingRead Full Article

With 28 players remaining in the hunt for the World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Finals championship there are a number of big-name poker pros still alive and kicking. Attendance was markedly down at Foxwoods this year –no doubt because of the EPT Vienna tournament running at the same time, as well as the WSOPC Hammond finishing the day before the Foxwoods Main Event.Read Full Article

24 poker players returned for Day 3 of the World Series of Poker Circuit Regional Championship in Hammond, Indiana yesterday looking to make the final table; unfortunately, 15 of those players would hit the rail, and not be able to play for the $525,000 in first-place prize-money that would be up for grabs on Thursday. Gabe Patgorski was able to maintain his chip leadRead Full Article

The largest online team poker event is well under way with Pokerspace crews battling it out on UB.com and Absolute Poker over the past two Sundays this October in their Crew Cup competition that has a 5-night trip to Las Vegas on the line. The first two crews to qualify on October 17th and move onto the Crew Cup Finals were the BERHOUET REDRead Full Article