After a disappointing turnout on Day 1a of the European Poker Tour’s Season 8 stop in Copenhagen (where a mere 83 players registered for the DKK37,275 (€5,000) buy-in tournament) Day 1b saw over 200 players register for the EPT Copenhagen Main Event, bringing the total number of entrantsRead Full Article

Peter Eastgate has been a bit of an enigma ever since he became the youngest World Series of Poker Main Event Champion back in 2008 (a record broken the following year by Joe Cada). Eastgate was one of the most promising young players in the game after hisRead Full Article

If a recent Twitter exchange is to be believed, there are apparently two more young poker pros who are trying to prove that the life of a professional poker player makes you tough. Daniel “jungleman12” Cates and high-stakes British poker pro Andrew Feldman are seemingly trying to arrangeRead Full Article

On Monday Irishman Emmett Mullin captured the latest PokerStars UKIPT title, winning the Season III stop in Galway. A total of 698 players entered the tournament over the course of the two starting days, all parting with the €700 entry fee. Mullin almost gave the United Kingdom creditRead Full Article

On Friday, 367 players registered for the 2012 PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Grand Final in Brazil, and among the competitors was Team PokerStars Pro, and the face of the company, Daniel Negreanu, who was making his first trip to Brazil. Negreanu wouldn’t get much time toRead Full Article

One of the largest online poker affiliates, PokerStrategy.com, has been the subject of two threads on the website PokerAffiliateListings.com (one recent, and one about a year old) where other users have alleged the massive online poker portal is using strong-arm tactics in order to secure certain domain namesRead Full Article

It recently became public that one of the legends of poker, Thor Hansen, was diagnosed with a Stage 4 cancer that he had little chance to survive, and the poker community has responded as it usually does in these instances with heartfelt support for one of the firstRead Full Article

This week the World Series of Poker announced that five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and 1998 WSOP Main Event Champion Scotty Nguyen will be hosting the second annual World Series of Poker Africa, which will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nguyen’s hosting duties will extendRead Full Article

With all of the new efforts at the state level, as well as new advocates at the federal level, the poker community has been overly optimistic that an online poker bill will be attached to a larger piece of legislation in 2012. One of the proposed pieces ofRead Full Article

When the police contacted Jonathan Duhamel to tell him that they had finally recovered his missing 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship bracelet they probably started the conversation with the adage, “We have GOOD news and BAD news.” The bracelet was stolen along with over $100kRead Full Article