Poker pros who want to play high stakes poker are always on the lookout for financial backers that are willing to help them with the buy-in. These financial backers stake a percentage of the buy-in in exchange for a percentage of the cash prize – provided the playerRead Full Article

Every year the Poker Hall of Fame (PHoF) inducts just two members who have been selected by an elite panel from a great pool of nominees. This year, the late David ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott & Phil Ivey have been nominated in the 2017 PHoF. Some of the other nomineesRead Full Article

Scott Blumstein, a 26 year old poker player from New Jersey had not really won anything big at a live poker tournament but for some reason he believed that he could win the 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. To put things into perspective, the 2017Read Full Article

The number of strange incidents that have taken place at poker tables around the world are too many to counted. Some of the more recent ones include poker pro Antonio Esfandiari urinating under a poker table as he would have been forced to lunge his way to theRead Full Article

The debate as to whether poker is a game of skill or chance has gone on for decades mainly because it has always been difficult for poker players to win consistently whether it is live poker action or online poker. However there are a few elite poker prosRead Full Article

Online Poker Signed By France, Spain, Italy and Portugal  There were talks for a number of months that an online poker shared liquidity agreement would be on the table for a number of European countries as their respective online poker markets were struggling to survive independently. Those talks cameRead Full Article

More Than 60,000 PKR Poker Players Will Be Able To Claim Their Refunds From PokerStars  Over the years a number of online poker websites have been forced to shut down because they were unable to run a successful operation. PKR became the latest online poker room to shutdownRead Full Article