A bit of bizarre poker news has trickled out of Atlantic City, where a male, 65 year-old Abraham Korotki, was not only allowed to play in Woman’s only poker tournament, but managed to win the thing! Korotki paid the $300 entrant’s fee and was never informed he wasRead Full Article

Summary CD Poker is a very popular poker room on the Ipoker network.  It calls itself “the most prestigious online poker room”.  It offers loose games with very weak competition.  The site also offers a wealth of valuable promotions that help keep money in the accounts of theRead Full Article

Everyone’s favorite gossip site,TMZ.com, is reporting that Brandon McSmith is claiming that Poker Productions stole the idea of ‘Face the Ace’ from him. McSmith claims he pitched an idea for a poker show where ordinary people would compete against poker pros hidden behind doors –‘Face the Ace’s’ premiseRead Full Article

Ilari Sahamies, better known in the online poker world as ‘Ziigmund’, has been cruising along in 2009 and is up approximately $3.5 million according to highstakesdb.com. Ziigmund’s year-long heater on Full Tilt Poker has him just slightly behind Patrik Antonius in terms of total profit for the yearRead Full Article

In a move designed to increase revenue, Pennsylvania lawmakers issued a preliminary budget and outlined ways to increase state revenue to help pay for the $28 billion plan according to the Associated Press. Most notably was the inclusion of legalized poker and other table games at Pennsylvania’s currentRead Full Article

The Philadelphia Daily News ran a story today on a couple of changes at the Borgata Poker Open. The paper stated the buy-in for the Main Event (a WPT tournament) would be set at $3,500 with a guaranteed prize-pool of $2 million. While online poker players may beRead Full Article

Several California Card-Clubs and Indian Tribes who were pushing for California to legalize online poker have withdrawn their proposal and plan on reintroducing it next year. A spokesman for the Morongo Indian Tribe stated, “The best option is to regroup and get it done in January.” Among theRead Full Article

This year marked the first time the public was able to vote for whom they felt deserved to be in the Poker Hall of Fame. All-in-all, when the nine finalists were announced it appeared the public got it right; the nine nominees were: Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, DanRead Full Article

On her FaceBook page, Tiffany Michelle confirmed the not-so-well-kept secret that Tiffany and fellow poker pro Maria Ho will be contestants on the upcoming season of The Amazing race on CBS. Tiffany’s tweets and FaceBook updates hinted at the duo being chosen for the show: Tiffany’s updates includedRead Full Article

With a $10,000 buy-in, it’s not too surprising that the PokerStars WCOOP High-Roller event had a star-studded final table.  299 of the best online poker players entered the $2 million guaranteed tournament –which surpassed the guarantee by almost $1,000,000. When the dust settled it was ‘Sumpas’ who cameRead Full Article