Vanessa Selbst has proven to be one of the top tournament poker players in the world over the past couple of years and despite a WSOP brace let in 2008, her coming out party was at last year’s inaugural PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event where the YaleRead Full Article

Ben Wilinofsky is hardly a recognizable name in the poker world, but his online screen-name of “NeverScaredB” is one of the most feared at the virtual tables, considering he has racked up nearly $1 million in online tournament wins since he burst onto the poker scene in earlyRead Full Article

For the first time in the history of the show –or in the history of any cash-game poker show for that matter—this week’s episodes of Poker After Dark on NBC will be fought out over a PLO table. Probably to pull in the casual viewer who is unlikelyRead Full Article

Last year Vanessa Selbst won the inaugural PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event in April, and went on to have one of the best years on the tournament trail in recent memory, winning around $4 million total. Now Selbst is back where it all began, and after twoRead Full Article

Although the PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event saw its attendance nearly cut in half from their Season 1 total of 719 players, amongst the 387 players that did make to the trip for the first official stop on Season 2 of the NAPT are some of theRead Full Article

In a good news/bad news scenario, the Swedish Superior Court has ruled that poker tournaments are in fact a game of skill, but they also ruled that cash games are purely chance. Now anyone with even a modest understanding of poker would argue with the premise of theRead Full Article

The PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) came out of the gates in Season with massive fields, and looked to be on its way to establishing itself as the preeminent poker tour in the United States; until the start of Season 2 when the tour decided to removeRead Full Article

Just a day after a FTOPS Gold Jersey was sold on EBay for the sum of $250, yet another piece of poker history appeared on the online auction house’s website: a 2006 World Series of Poker Circuit Ring that was awarded in San Diego, California. Last year weRead Full Article

It seems that Gus Hansen’s 6+ month heater at the Full Tilt Poker tables has finally come to a head, as the Team Full Tilt Poker Pro finds himself down nearly $1 million over the first week of April according to highstakesdb.com. At one point Hansen had beenRead Full Article

After shocking the poker world by announcing his early retirement last summer, 2008 World Series of Poker Champion Peter Eastgate returned to the poker tables in early 2011 for the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship followed by the EPT Denmark tournament –ending his Brett Favre-esque retirement after lessRead Full Article