Today marks the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker, and the two tournaments slated for action are the highest and lowest buy-ins of the entire 57 tournament series. At the low end of the scale is the $500 buy-in Casino Employees Event, an event that hasRead Full Article

The Poker Hall of Fame has had one of the most stringent induction processes a person could find. Needing 75% of the vote to be inducted, most years saw only one, sometimes but rarely two, players gain entry to the extremely exclusive club of professional poker players andRead Full Article

Why is Mark Twain’s memoirs being reported by Poker News Boy? Twain, born Samuel Longhorn Clements, was a noted poker enthusiast in his time, and incorporated many poker themes into his literature. The 500,000 word autobiography will be released in 3 volumes 100 years after the man whoRead Full Article

Despite the mounting fears that the UIGEA legislation that was passed in 2006 will go into effect at the June 1st deadline, the implications for online poker players in the United States is not as bad as it seems. First and foremost, it will not be a crimeRead Full Article

World famous poker player; Phil Ivey opened up the new high stakes poker room called the Ivey Room last Saturday. It was really only a matter of time before Phil had his own poker room named after him and it was fitting it was a high stakes one.Read Full Article

Boku who is a PokerStars professional has successfully completed his challenge of turning $5 into $100,000 in under a year. Boku did it on his second attempt after losing his first $5 that he deposited. Boku managed to achieve the feat by playing almost 45,000 tournaments in underRead Full Article

It seems Daniel’s ire over players wearing sunglasses has taken a backseat to his latest target UB –or more precisely the Cereus Poker Network of UB and Absolute Poker. Negreanu wrote a fairly pointed blog post about the site and their history of troubles; most notably the super-userRead Full Article

Germany’s Ali Tekintamgac told Card Player magazine that he has been playing poker for 20 years, but only recently decided to go for it and enter major poker tournaments. Well, it appears Tekintamgac made a pretty solid decision, since he recently got his first major cash under hisRead Full Article

After a failed attempt to sway one of online poker’s harshest critics, Representative John Kyl (R-AZ), it appears that online poker players should be ready for an even stricter online poker climate after June 1st, when the UIGEA law of 2006 goes into full effect. Former Representative inRead Full Article

The World Series of Poker announced their plans for a “Poker Tour” at the height of the poker boom in 2005, and with the WSOP brand attached the decision-makers must have felt they had a slam-dunk winner on their hands. Fast forward to 2010 and the now strugglingRead Full Article