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

We’re now in the middle of August and with the 2012 World Series of Poker now firmly behind us the other tours are getting rolling, and this week and the next we have two of the biggest tournaments of the year virtually going to head-to-head in the PokerStarsRead Full Article

One of the biggest names in the history of online poker has decided not to part ways with his sponsor. On Tuesday PokerStars announced that Viktor “Isildur1” Blom will no longer be a part of Team PokerStars Pro, stating that the decision was “mutual’. The news first brokeRead Full Article

There was a report earlier today in Poker Player Newspaper by Wendeen Eolis where she stated the deal between Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and the US Department of Justice has come to a head, and that an announcement would be forthcoming soon. Eolis stated that more details couldRead Full Article

Back in early June the 10 finalists for the 2012 Class of the Women in Poker Hall of Fame were announced, and this past weekend two deserving players were announced as having met the induction criterion and will be honored at a soirée at the Golden Nugget CasinoRead Full Article

In the fall of 2003 the world (the world of young males in the United States anyway) had already caught poker fever; Chris Moneymaker, and his fated run to the World Series of Poker Main Event title was simply the tipping point; a culmination of events that leadRead Full Article

With just 27 players remaining in the 2012 World Series of poker Main Event there is a very good chance that for the first time since 1995, and only the second time in the 43-year history of the WSOP, a women may be among the final nine competitors.Read Full Article

Sometime today, on Friday the 13th, the money-bubble at the 2012 World Series of poker will burst, when just 666 players remain in the field; which is quite a coincidence that two of the most superstitious numbers in the world will collide in such a way during aRead Full Article

A total of 1,066 hopeful poker players registered for the opening flight of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event on Saturday, a substantial increase over the 897 players that registered on Day 1a of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event in 2011. Even thoughRead Full Article

One of the most interesting events at the 2012 World Series of Poker is the WSOP Circuit Series National Championship –a $1,000,000 freeroll tournament for the 14 winners on the WSOPC and 86 players who qualified on points during the 2011/2012 WSOPC season. This is the second yearRead Full Article