Our weekly look at the top headlines from the weekend, and this week there was plenty of stories going on in the world of poker. This weekend saw everything from a new blog by Phil Galfond, to an artist’s rendition of the Steve Wynn proposed casino in Foxborough,Read Full Article

Sunday marked the launch of Lock Poker’s massive tournament series dubbed Poker Maximus. Lock Poker, along with the rest of the Merge Gaming Network, will be hosting the 70 event tournament series over the next three weeks, and Day 1 got off to great start, with four tournamentsRead Full Article

Each year poker players look for different options to qualify into one of the most prestigious poker events in the world the WSOP, since the social media era started poker sites have looked for a way to bring in new ideas while promoting through social tools. Poker HostRead Full Article

The Merge Gaming Network will kick-off its first-ever major tournament series today, when it debuts the Poker Maximus tournament series; a 22-day long event featuring a mid-blowing 70 tournaments. All told the Poker Maximus series will award players with at least $1.5 million in guaranteed prize-money, including twoRead Full Article

Lock Poker and PokerNewsBoy.com are teaming up for a very special offer that gives Lock Poker players participating in the upcoming Poker Maximus tournament series a chance to win a free entry into Event #67, the $109 Poker Maximus Main Event, or an entry into Event #68, theRead Full Article

I’ve been meaning to get to this article for a couple of weeks now, but with everything else going on in the poker world I simply kept putting it off, but I’ve finally gotten around to the topic of the end of the poker news website Subject: Poker.Read Full Article

Beginning on March 4th, 2012 and running through March 25, 2012, the Merge Gaming Network will be hosting a massive 70-Event tournament series known as Poker Maximus. Over the course of thee 22-days of tournaments the Merge Gaming Network will be guaranteeing $1.5 million in prize-money, with theRead Full Article

Throughout October we are offering a very special promotion for anyone joining Lock Poker through PokerNewsBoy.com. All new players who join Lock Poker this month (October 2011) and earn 5,000 VIP Points at the site will receive a free Lock Poker T-Shirt! To receive this special offer, simplyRead Full Article

About a month ago the Merge Gaming network received the good news that it had qualified for a coveted Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta license (considered far superior to their current Kahnawake license due to Malta’s stricter regulations including the segregation of player funds). However, soon thereafterRead Full Article

A report last week by the website Subject: Poker regarding possible Department of Justice action against payment processors working in conjunction with the Merge Gaming Network saw the site take a tremendous hit in terms of overall traffic –with pokerscout.com detailing a 25% drop in traffic this pastRead Full Article