It took a miracle one-outer, but by the end of Day 3 Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was the chip-leader in the $50k Poker Players Championship, headlining a star-studded field of 26 players that remain in the hunt for one of poker’s most prestigious titles. The hand in question cameRead Full Article

When Massamilio Martinez appeared on Season 2 of the PokerStars Big Game it was pretty evident from the outset that the Italian poker player was anything but a “Loose Cannon” (the PokerStars Big Game terminology for an amateur qualifier). But even after running over the table and winningRead Full Article

Attention all out of work Full Tilt Poker Red Pros: The poker agency Check Raise Management has made an appeal to all European based poker players who have lost their sponsorship deals since Black Friday to contact the agency regarding possible sponsorship deals at other online poker rooms.Read Full Article

Thus far at the 2011 World Series of Poker the first-time events have drawn sizable fields, with the $25k Heads-Up Championship setting a prize-pool record, and the 10-Game Mix tournament attracting a solid field. Yesterday another new format was introduced as the $5k buy-in 6-Handed PLO tournament gotRead Full Article

What happened to Seven-Card-Stud? The once popular poker format has been steadily declining over the last decade in terms of popularity, and at the 2011 World Series of Poker this was on full display as the $10k Seven-Card-Stud Championship drew an identical number of participants as the $10kRead Full Article

The online poker screen-names ‘SpiritRock’ and ‘Mahatma’ will likely go down in poker lore as the first online poker superstars; while the man behind both of those names, Prahlad Friedman, has had his share of controversy, success, and failure in the course of his poker career. Now FriedmanRead Full Article

Capturing his fourth World Series of Poker in the past two years –his fifth in four years– Jeff Lisandro is quickly rising up the a number of the ‘All-Time’ lists at the World Series of Poker. Lisandro’s latest win came in the £5,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha ChampionshipRead Full Article

Now that 2009 has come to an end, PokerNewsBoy has compiled it first annual PNB Poker Awards. As this is it’s first year we are only having a few categories that we hope to add to in the near future. These Awards have been compiled with the helpRead Full Article