The rumors have been circling for quite some time now, and Carbon Poker users have now received confirmation via E-Mail that their rakeback deals will be coming to an end, and all players will be switched to the site’s VIP Rewards Program. Furthermore, according to PokerFuse.com the switchRead Full Article

Last year I made some very bold predictions, and all-in-all I have to say I did pretty well. However, we are all poker players here, and we all know this could easily just be a case of the Jason Mercier “run-good”, so I’m back for 2013 with aRead 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

When the Poker Maximus III tournament series got underway Thursday there were several notable absences of Merge Gaming Network skins, Black Chip Poker, Hero Poker, and RPM Poker. The three rooms had decided to withdraw from the network-wide tournament series at the last minute, a move that cameRead Full Article

Matthew Hilger is a professional poker player and the owner of Dimat Publishing, one of the top publishing houses for poker books. The latest entry to roll off the Dimat printing presses is the third volume of the smash series Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time.Read Full Article

The highly anticipated third volume of Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time is now available, and the final installment of the tournament poker trilogy did not disappoint. This time around Eric “Rizen” Lynch, Jon “ApeStyles” Van Fleet, and Jon “Pearljammer” Turner, are joined by Matthew HilgerRead Full Article

The Season XI World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris Main Event final table is set, and it is one of the toughest lineups of the year, with six very talented poker players competing for the €400,000 first-place-prize, as well as the title of WPT Grand PrixRead Full Article

This week Carbon Poker, one of the flagship poker rooms on the Merge Gaming Network, announced the launch of the Carbon Calculator, a poker odds calculator designed to help players understand and implement everything from hand matches to winning percentages of specific hands vs. and opponent’s range, asRead Full Article

With the Epic Poker League’s debut now come and gone I thought I’d take a look at the pros and cons that I’ve noticed about the league from two different perspectives: The League and The Players. In Part 1 I examined the pros and cons for the EPL,Read Full Article

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is keeping the pressure on Congress thanks to their 1 million plus members sending Congress a blitz of E-Mails, letters and phone calls. To make sure that the poker community does not become complacent, the PPA has just sent out another E-Mail urgingRead Full Article