In the wake of successful $100k poker tournaments at both the PokerStars PCA and the Aussie Millions –plus a $250k buy-in at the Aussie Millions– as well as the creation of the Onyx Cup Series by Full Tilt Poker, the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas has decided toRead Full Article

This Sunday will mark the end of the popular Sunday poker tournament the PokerStars Sunday Quarter Million, as the online poker room has announced the prize-pool for the tournament has been raised to $300,000, and with the increased prize-money so too has the name of the tournament changed:Read Full Article

Ladbrokes have today announced the dates for this years Irish Poker Festival, which will be held at the Irish National Events Centre, in Killarney. Ladbrokes will be looking to build on the success from last year when a record number of people were in attendance, which saw aRead Full Article

We are just two weeks away from the kickoff of the Bluff Pro Challenge on Lock Poker where one lucky participant will be awarded with a two-year Lock Poker Team Elite sponsorship, a feature story in Bluff Magazine, and have their life virtually changed overnight as they becomeRead Full Article

With Mike Sexton making his first ‘open’ final table on the World Poker Tour at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event –bear in mind he doesn’t play a full slate of WPT tournaments due to his broadcast duties—the WPT needed to fill his spot alongside VinceRead Full Article

With the largest stable of high stakes poker pros it’s not surprising that Full Tilt Poker is behind the first major bump-up in tournament buy-ins since the 70’s when the World Series of Poker introduced the poker community to the $10,000 buy-in tournament. In a video press releaseRead Full Article

This week’s sign of the poker apocalypse came from the NY Times Science section by way of Gabriel Dance and his column Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling. Dance describes how poker bot technology has been advancing by leaps and bounds in recent years, to the point where pokerRead Full Article

In a “micro-episode” of the animated poker series The Micros that was released yesterday the three characters sent out a congratulatory message to recent NBC National Heads-Up Poker Champ Erik Seidel. In the message the trio makes sure to remind Seidel that his mammoth run of $4.3 millionRead Full Article

It’s not every day that you get two big names battling heads-up for a major poker championship, but this is precisely what occurred at The Big Event Championship at the Bicycle Casino yesterday, as Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem and Victor Ramdin navigated a tough final table toRead Full Article

After weeks of speculation and not-so-subtle hints the matchup between Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Daniel Negreanu is set according to the PokerStars blog. The two will take part in the Superstar Showdown on PokerStars beginning on March 20th –but unlike the previous five Superstar Showdown matches the matchupRead Full Article