This is our weekly look at the top stories in the world of poker. This week all was fairly quiet on the tournament front, but there was plenty of rumor, gossip, and speculation to more than make up for it! This week we saw a high-profile banned fromRead Full Article

Yesterday the Party Poker Premier League added the thirteenth player to its roster, Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier, leaving only a single slot to be filled before the event begins on April 10th, 2012 –in addition to the 14 professional players there are two qualifiers. ElkY, who added the TripleRead Full Article

For all of you that are too busy to follow every story in the poker world, our weekly series, The Friday Wrap, is here to help you! So without any more fanfare, here is a look at all of the stories from the world of poker that youRead Full Article

One of the most popular poker tournaments in the world got started on Friday as 523 players registered for the World Poker Tour Season X LA Poker Classic. Among the entrants were some of the biggest names in the poker world, including Phil Ivey, making the WPT LARead Full Article

The title of the article basically says it all, so here are my choices for the 15 craziest, zaniest, mind-boggling stories from the world of poker over the past year. So in no particular order here are #’s 1-5: Matt Perrins wins WSOP bracelet after watching YouTube tutorialRead Full Article

On Wednesday a total of 100 players registered for the third Epic Poker League Main Event, which is being played as a NLHE Mix-Max tournament –Day 1 is played at 8-Max tables, Day 2 at 7-Max tables, Day 3 at 6-Max, and Day 4 at 4-Max. Among theRead Full Article

With a €4 million guarantee the 579 players who registered for the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event over the two starting days easily eclipsed that number, generating a total prize-pool of €4,342,500. However, this number is way off of last year’s pace, which saw 764 players ante-up theRead Full Article

I’m pretty certain that when they came up with the idea of a “Loose Cannon”, as the PokerStars.net Big Game calls the online qualifier that appears on the show, PokerStars was not expecting an Italian semi-pro to come in and out agro the pros, which is precisely whatRead Full Article

Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better is one of the newest poker formats around and the intricacies of the game are still being tested and tinkered by the best poker minds in the world, but after seeing the performances put on by the poker pros in this eventRead Full Article

Once again three days of action was not enough time to complete a tournament at the 2011 World Series of Poker, and yet again play was halted with just two players remaining thanks to the atrocious Hard-Stop Rule put in place for the 2011 WSOP. Hopefully neither NickRead Full Article