With attendance down virtually across the board at poker tournaments around the world since Black Friday, few people were expecting the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship to be able to match last year’s attendance mark of 195 players. But lo and behold, on Day 1 of the tournament 188Read Full Article

On Monday, Federated Sports and Gaming released their Season One roster of 218 players.  In addition, the criteria for earning a tour card was also released.  Player can earn their tour card up until August 1st of this year for Season One. For inclusion into the league, theRead Full Article

With all of the poker programming that has been pulled from the airwaves over the past week it’s good to see that some shows will remain for all of us die-hard poker enthusiasts. With PokerStars NAPT being pulled from ESPN, as well as FOX pulling the PokerStars.net BigRead Full Article

Amidst all of the doom and gloom posts by poker players and those of us in the poker media after the Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars shutdown were a few diamonds in the rough that even during the darkest day in online poker history could bring a smileRead Full Article

The full roster for the upcoming NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship was released today, and now that the entire 64 player field is known I thought I would take a look at some of the favorites amongst the field. First, here is a look at the complete 64Read Full Article

Parttimepoker.com broke this story, and although this is far from official –although PartTimePoker has had it confirmed by several sources– all signs are pointing to Doyles Room joining a long line of its predecessors who have left the Cake Poker Network over the past year or so. AsRead Full Article

It’s been a topsy-turvy first season for Party Gaming, the new owners of the World Poker Tour, with attendance numbers all over the map. There is no better illustration of this than the tour’s last two stops which include the recently concluded WPT Marrakech tournament which saw anRead Full Article

Going out of his way to credit Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer made the case for Phil Ivey in a recent blog post about the 2010 Poker Hall of Fame inductions. Lederer wrote: “Anyone who has even casually followed poker over the last ten years knowsRead Full Article

The Godfather of Poker, Doyle Brunson, has been turning into the Godfather of Social Media lately, evidenced by a series of polls regarding poker players. Brunson tweeted a few poll questions to his followers asking their thoughts on the following three questions: Which poker player would you likeRead Full Article

Tuesday marked the 77th birthday for Doyle Brunson, who is perhaps poker’s best-known player, and one of the most successful poker players in the history of the game. One of the most respected and liked players in the game, there was no shortage of birthday wishes for theRead Full Article