A new poker documentary is in the works that will take a look at the evolution of online poker through some of its biggest stars. The working title of the documentary is fittingly, BOOM – The Incredible True Story of Online Poker, and is being produced by PokerRead Full Article

It was announced Tuesday morning that Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel will be the two members of the 2010 class inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Seidel and Harrington have both had storied poker careers –careers that surely have not seen the final chapter written just yet—andRead Full Article

The Godfather of Poker, Doyle Brunson, has been turning into the Godfather of Social Media lately, evidenced by a series of polls regarding poker players. Brunson tweeted a few poll questions to his followers asking their thoughts on the following three questions: Which poker player would you likeRead Full Article

Another interesting week of poker is in the books, and the past seven days have seen a new game introduced at Party Poker, PokerStars creation of Regional Championships of Online Poker tournament series, and rash of signings at a number of different online poker rooms. Party Poker introducesRead Full Article

I know, I thought I had misread this when I first heard about it, but it’s true: The $400 Deep-Stack tournament at the Foxwoods World Poker Finals ended with 23 players agreeing to divide up the remaining prize-pool –I’m not sure who’s idea it was to float theRead Full Article

According to EGaming Review, PokerStars is planning a shakeup at the highest levels of the company, which will see a new CEO come in to take over some of the duties of founder Isai Scheinberg and his son Mark Scheinberg. The new CEO is Gabi Campos whose mostRead Full Article

We can now place France in the same category as Italy when it comes to boneheaded decisions in how to deal with online poker. France now only allows its residents to participate in online poker games from companies within French borders, and only against other French players; effectivelyRead Full Article

Responding to player demand, PokerStars has greatly improved their multi-currency options for real money players. The wild swings taken by the US dollar, Euro, and most other global currencies over the last two years have made calculating exchange rates for poker sites difficult, at some times frustrating playersRead Full Article

This past Sunday, almost across the board, the online poker sites were running special promotions for their big guaranteed tournaments, including PokerStars upping the guaranteed prize-pool of the Sunday Million to a whopping $2 million! Well, with 19,377 participants the total prize-pool grew to $3.875 million, a SundayRead Full Article

The Pokerstars.net APPT Macau Summer Festival was comprised of 38 events this year with over $3.5 million in prize money to be won throughout them all. The event was a huge success and there were almost 3000 poker players from all parts of the world take part inRead Full Article