After three successful tournaments, the Ante Up for Africa poker tournament has become as much of a staple at the World Series of Poker as the ladies only championship, casino employees tournament or seniors tournament. The 2010 version will once again feature a star-studded lineup of poker pros,Read Full Article

The US Department of Justice has pretty much run ruff-shod on any online gaming person or company it has decided to go after with basically all defendants reaching plea bargain deals or settling out of court. That was until they arrested Australian payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff, whose companyRead Full Article

The Golden Nugget played host to the inaugural World Team Poker tournament this week, a $50,000 per team buy-in tournament, and after an 18 and half hour marathon session it was team China who came out on top. The win netted Team China $300,000, and runners-up Team BrazilRead Full Article

Phil Laak, better known in the poker world as the UnaBomber, is one of the more quirky poker pros, so it came as no surprise to anyone when he announced his latest goal; to play an 80-hour straight session, which would be good enough to get his nameRead Full Article

It was likely an easy decision for the brass of the MGM Mirage hotel group to decide on creating an ultra-high-stakes table in the new Aria Poker Room, and equally as much of a no-brainer to name the new room after poker mega-star Phil Ivey. Ivey is consideredRead Full Article

It’s only fitting that a state known for Cowboys would be among the first to consider easing up their laws and restrictions on social poker games. Wyoming legalized non-profit poker games back in 2007, allowing clubs and bars –as well as home poker games—to run non-raked games, butRead Full Article

The iPoker Network’s ‘European Championship Of Online Poker’ – or ECOOP – is set to return for the 6th time starting on the 24th of May 2010 and running through to the 6th June. With 14 tournaments guaranteeing more than $5 million in prizes this will be theRead Full Article

Today marks the first tournament in the World Team Poker competition –a series of tournaments featuring eight different teams of poker players representing their country—with a $50,000 buy-in event taking place in Las Vegas Nevada, at the Golden Nugget Casino. Coinciding with the launch, World Team Poker hasRead Full Article

Since his 1-month Red Pro suspension late in 2009, Brian Townsend has had a rough go of it at the Full Tilt Poker tables, and approaching the halfway point of 2010 the Cardrunners and Full Tilt pro is down roughly $2.7 million according to highstakesdb.com. The downswing comesRead Full Article

The Cereus Poker Network got a shock a few weeks ago, when an online poker site contacted them to reveal that they had been able to decrypt their security within their custom software, revealing information that could have created a large number of ‘Super Players’. After the storyRead Full Article