On Wednesday night the participants in the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship assembled at Caesar’s Palace for the “Draw Party”, where the 64 players found out who their first-round opponents will be, and what their path to the Final Four will look like. The tournament uses anRead Full Article

Phil Ivey doesn’t have to do very much to grab some poker headlines, basically just showing up is usually good enough to get a mention, but even still his eponymously named poker site, IveyPoker.com, has been doing a lot of PR work recently. IveyPoker just sent out aRead Full Article

A few weeks back Full Tilt Poker informed its former Red Pros along with the rest of the poker community that they would not renew or honor any of the contracts signed by the previous owners of Full Tilt Poker, effectively ending their relationship with all of theRead Full Article

While the poker world still waits for IveyPoker.com to offer more than a landing page (many people are still asking, “What is it?”) the site, headlined by Phil Ivey, is still trudging forward and signing poker players, even if they don’t have a specific role with the siteRead Full Article

Part 1 of this series took a look at the forgettable moments in poker during the course of 2012; in Part 2 I examined the themes that dominated poker throughout the year; now the final installment of this series will cover the individual achievements that took place duringRead Full Article

On October 28, 2012 the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event final table will resume at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. On the line for the nine remaining poker players is a payday of over $8.5 million for the winner andRead Full Article

There has been quite a bit of gossip going on in the poker world over the past few days, along with all of the usual stories, rumors, and news. The big gossip has to do with separate stories regarding two former Team Full Tilt Poker members (who seemRead Full Article

Six-figure Super-High-Roller poker tournaments have been hit-or-miss events over the years, but perhaps the issue wasn’t that the buy-ins were too high, but rather that they were too small! With the overwhelming success of the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop tournament, the WinStar Casino in Macau decidedRead Full Article

With three outlets now handing out Player of the Year awards, tournament poker players have even more opportunities to promote themselves within the poker world, and should a player manage to capture two, or possibly all three Player of the Year awards, they would surely become one ofRead Full Article

I’m probably getting a little bit ahead of myself here, but with PokerStars looking to have Full Tilt Poker back online within 90 days there are a few questions that players are going to want to have answered concerning the relaunch. In this article I’ll take a lookRead Full Article