Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker?

Phillips: I’ve played cards all of my life. Growing up, my family played everything from canasta to bridge. (continues…)

On Friday, the seventh installment of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker kicked off on the world’s largest online poker site. The first event was a $215 buy-in tournament that featured six-handed play.

Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott will star in a 5-part TV reality series where he will try to turn four losing players into poker sharks.

At the Next Generation in Gambling Conference in Montreal, Joe Brennan, Chairman of the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA), spoke with iGaming News in a video posted on the Poker Players Alliance website about the organization’s lawsuit against the Federal Government of the United States.

888 Holdings report showed growth across the board, led by a 36% increase in operating income in 2008 compared to the second quarter of 2007.

Paying attention to what goes on around you, both in live and online tables, will give you an edge over careless and unattentive players.

The nine players who will vie for the U.S. $453,851 first place payday in the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Macau tournament have been determined. The final table will play out on Saturday from the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Macau.

The World Poker Tour announced that it would air two tournaments filmed at the River Rock Casino in Vancouver as part of the first-ever WPT Canada series.

On Tuesday night, the first installment of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event aired on ESPN. It marked Day 1A of the second largest tournament in WSOP history and seated at the featured table was none other than Scotty Nguyen.