There is a new player in the televised poker industry, the iSeriesLIVE, but unlike its predecessors and the current incarnations of televised poker shows, iSeries is putting a whole new spin on the staid programming that poker fans have grown accustomed to. The iSeries will be an invitation-onlyRead Full Article

This is our weekly look at the top stories in the world of poker. This week all was fairly quiet on the tournament front, but there was plenty of rumor, gossip, and speculation to more than make up for it! This week we saw a high-profile banned fromRead Full Article

WickedChopsPoker.com is the latest outlet to claim that the Full Tilt Poker deal to Groupe Bernard Tapie is slated to happen soon. According to the Insider’s Section of the popular poker website (which resides behind a paywall) unnamed sources have told Wicked Chops that Groupe Bernard Tapie isRead Full Article

In what appears to be a bit of overzealous moderation, it seems the 2+2 poker forums have decided to ban perhaps the most followed professional poker player in the game, Daniel Negreanu. The hubbub was over Negreanu’s most recent vlog (video blog) which opened with an advertisement forRead Full Article

In 2010 the Department of Justice made an arrest in Las Vegas that would prove to be instrumental in bringing down the online poker industry in the United States. Payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff was arrested in Sin City for violation of the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement ActRead Full Article

With Nevada well on their way to being the first state in the US with legalized and regulated online poker games, other states have started exploring the possibility as well. Unfortunately, the online poker bills introduced in both the Hawaii and Iowa state legislatures have been scrapped forRead Full Article

Yesterday the Party Poker Premier League added the thirteenth player to its roster, Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier, leaving only a single slot to be filled before the event begins on April 10th, 2012 –in addition to the 14 professional players there are two qualifiers. ElkY, who added the TripleRead Full Article

It was a fairly slow week on the tournament front, but there was still quite a bit of action taking place, and a lot of major tournaments coming up to discuss. So without any further delay here is a look at the tournament results over the past week.Read Full Article

After blowing a near $100,000 lead over Isaac Haxton in last week’s Superstar Showdown on PokerStars –the first Superstar Showdown match the site has hosted since last June—Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom came back with an impressive victory of UK high-stakes pro Andrew “Kanu7” Millar. The twoRead Full Article

It was a fairly quiet weekend as far as tournaments go (with only the EPT Madrid Main Event taking place) but the rest of the poker world was virtually on fire with rumors, gossip, and news. So here is our weekly look at the major stories from theRead Full Article