On Saturday Phil Hellmuth went about his usual Twitter name-dropping, but this time the name was a little bigger than usual, as Hellmuth Tweeted that he was on his way to meet former US President George W. Bush. A little later on a second Tweet appeared along withRead Full Article

Amidst the Superbowl chatter yesterday, and all of the people financially rooting for certain scores, point spreads, and over/under lines, another story was developing on Twitter as Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree was making a deep-run in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-up tournament. Boeree, best known for win atRead Full Article

There are always players who get a lot more attention than they deserve in the poker world, and it’s usually a lot of fun to discuss who the most overrated poker players are; whether it’s because of previous accomplishments, a good PR campaign, or perhaps they are simplyRead Full Article

Anytime a popular tourist destination plays host to a major poker tournament you can expect a fairly strong turnout, and this is precisely what occurred at the World Poker Tour’s inaugural stop in Venice, Italy. After two Day 1 flights the WPT Venice Main Event attracted a respectableRead Full Article

What started as a $51,000 win over Daniel Cates in the PokerStars Superstar Showdown series has been the catalyst for Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom’s best run at the online poker tables since he first burst onto the US poker scene in late 2009 at the Full Tilt Poker nosebleedRead Full Article

Never one to keep things bottled up, Team Full Tilt Poker pro Mike Matusow took his famous “Blowups” to his Twitter account yesterday after being slow-rolled on Full Tilt Poker while playing $1,000 Super-Turbo Sit and Go tournaments according to the AM Scramble over at www.Bluffmagazine.com. The incidentRead Full Article

In a bit of shocker it seems that PokerStars and longtime sponsored pro Greg “Fossilman” Raymer have decided to part ways. The news is being reported by the 2+2 poker forum after a number of people noticed Raymer no longer appeared on the Team PokerStars page, and anRead Full Article

In any other week Lucien Cohen’s win at the PokerStars European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France would have garnered all of the headlines; after all, how many 47 year-old amateur poker players win one of the biggest tournaments of the year in their home country! Well, apparentlyRead Full Article