For the second straight week a player on High Stakes Poker has been felted, losing their initial $200,000 buy-in. In week one it was the poker pro everyone loves to hate, Phil Hellmuth who went busto: Week two of the popular television show saw Andreas Hoivold take anRead Full Article

Iowa officials are trying to rush through a legal bill that will see the state being able to allow poker tournaments, something that the states financial experts have looked over and come back with the conclusion that the passing of the bill will bring an estimated $80 millionRead Full Article

When it was announced that Season 6 of the popular poker show, High Stakes Poker, was going to air on Valentine’s Day 2010, forums were alight with excited posters wondering which professionals would feature over the series. However, the excitement and joy quickly turned to despair and sorrowRead Full Article

True to his Modus Operandi, Isildur1’s return to the high stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker have seen two huge wins followed by an even bigger loss. After lighting up a who’s who list of online poker including Justin Bonomo, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, and BrianRead Full Article

Poker News Daily has confirmed that Amanda Leatherman and the WPT have parted ways. Amanda has done an excellent job acting as the hostess of the show, and has interviewed just about every professional poker player at some point. Leatherman has been the hostess since season 7, takingRead Full Article

A couple of months ago a player known only as Isildur1 appeared from literally nowhere and began playing the biggest names in online poker at the highest stakes available. In less than two weeks he had used his hyper-aggressive style to win over $5,000,000, most of it fromRead Full Article

Last year I wrote how the PPA had gone into the lion’s den and set up shop at CPAC, a conference for conservatives to sound off on their ideals, and despite the inherent difference of opinion, there was apparently enough headway made that the PPA is making aRead Full Article

Today Chilipoker released details of the French stage of the ‘Chilipoker DeepStack Open’.  This exciting tournament will be held in the largest Partouche poker room in France in the Pasino of Aix-en-Provence.  The event will take place from April 9th to April 11th 2010. Following the huge successRead Full Article

How hot is poker? Poker.org recently shattered the record for an .org domain, selling for $1 million. The previous high was $198,000 for engineering.org, a number blasted out of the water by the poker.org sale. The domain was purchased by PokerCompany.com, a self-titled “Super Affiliate” that works inRead Full Article

The Merge Gaming network continues to add new, innovative, poker sites to its network, and the latest addition, GR88.com, brings a lot to the table for the growing poker network.  Not only does GR88 offer online poker, but also casino games like Caribbean Stud, blackjack and roulette, asRead Full Article