The Godfather of Poker, Doyle Brunson, has been turning into the Godfather of Social Media lately, evidenced by a series of polls regarding poker players. Brunson tweeted a few poll questions to his followers asking their thoughts on the following three questions: Which poker player would you likeRead Full Article

Another interesting week of poker is in the books, and the past seven days have seen a new game introduced at Party Poker, PokerStars creation of Regional Championships of Online Poker tournament series, and rash of signings at a number of different online poker rooms. Party Poker introducesRead Full Article

I know, I thought I had misread this when I first heard about it, but it’s true: The $400 Deep-Stack tournament at the Foxwoods World Poker Finals ended with 23 players agreeing to divide up the remaining prize-pool –I’m not sure who’s idea it was to float theRead Full Article

With the Bellagio’s late registration structure, that allows players to register up until level 8 on Day 2, as well as the tournament buy-in dropping from $15,000 to $10,000, the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago drew an impressive 335 entrants compared to the 275 entrants the WPTRead Full Article

October 2010 may just go down as the year of the signing, considering a slew of poker and entertainment talent has been gobbled-up by a number of online poker sites, mostly by Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. The latest in this rash of signings is Felipe Ramos, theRead Full Article

Less than a week after signing professional boxer Audley Harrison Full Tilt Poker has brought another sports star on board, this time in the form of tennis star James Blake. Blake becomes the second major tennis player to sign a deal with an online poker room; retired tennisRead Full Article

The online poker screen-names ‘SpiritRock’ and ‘Mahatma’ will likely go down in poker lore as the first online poker superstars; while the man behind both of those names, Prahlad Friedman, has had his share of controversy, success, and failure in the course of his poker career. Now FriedmanRead Full Article

Doyles Room Poker has recently changed their VIP Rewards Program, making it one of the most lucrative in online poker, especially for high-volume players. The new rewards program at Doyles Room is a tiered program that increasingly rewards players as they climb higher up the Doyles Room foodRead Full Article

PokerStars created the first tiered VIP Program, Full Tilt Poker gave us the wildly popular Rush Poker tables, and now it’s Party Poker is making sure they’re not left out of the poker innovation category with its addition of Double Holdem. Double Holdem begins in the same wayRead Full Article

The world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars has just announced a new tournament series, the USA Championship of Online Poker. A pared down version of the WCOOP, the USA COOP will feature 11 tournaments with a total guaranteed prize-pool of $3.2 million, and will take place from NovemberRead Full Article