The third running of Poker in the Park will take place on August 13th and 14th in Leicester Square in London. Its organizers bill the event as "Europe's largest free poker festival," featuring live tournaments, educational lectures, and a bevy of brand name poker pros on hand celebrating the game. Read more »
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred and sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. -- Chinese Proverb A few years from now when someone asks, "Who is the greatest living poker player?" the answer might be a surprise. Read more »
Sunday certainly seems to be the time for poker fans to get their fill of televised poker action. As the World Poker Tour continues its seventh season run on Fox Sports Network on Sunday nights and new episodes of "High Stakes Poker" are aired on GSN simultaneously, national television network NBC will begin its broadcasts of the 2009 National Heads Up Poker Championship sponsored by GoDaddy.com this Sunday at noon Eastern time. Read more »
Tuesday will mark the end of an era in the online poker community, as PokerRoom and CasinoRoom will shut their doors. The poker site currently makes its home on the Ongame Network and players will be asked to move to bwin. Read more »
Tonight on Betfair, Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi will host a charity fundraiser benefiting stem cell research. The tournament kicks off at 20:00 U.K. time on one of the world's largest online poker sites. Read more »
Poker News Daily: You're a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder and also made a deep run in the 2008 Main Event. In your mind, what's your biggest poker accomplishment? Cantu: It has to be my WSOP bracelet win. It meant so much. Read more »
Imaginative poker site PKR has launched an array of new features and games to its award-winning software. Read more »
After the announcement Tuesday of the settlement between PartyGaming PLC and the United States Attorneys Office, the Washington Post followed up on its 2008 two day investigation into online poker with a response. Read more »
A field of 259 players turned out for the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Foxwoods Poker Classic. In the end, Vadim Trincher stood tall above the rest, taking home $731,000 for his efforts. The tournament sported a rare five-handed final table. Read more »
The son of the late Chip Reese, Casey Reese, has passed away from an overdose of prescription drugs, according to comments by Daniel Negreanu and Doyle Brunson on Full Contact Poker and Doyle's Room. He was 20 years old. Read more »
Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell will don an Ultimate Bet logo at the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in Montreal on April 18th. Liddell will square off inside the Octagon against Mauricio "Shogun" Rua. Read more »
Wednesday marks the conclusion of the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Foxwoods Poker Classic. Traditionally, WPT final tables are played six-handed. However, a rare double elimination on the final hand on Tuesday leaves just five players. Read more »
U.K. poker player Andrew Feldman is the newest Full Tilt Poker red pro according to a press release from Check-Raise Management. He's an esteemed cash game player and is the biggest winner on the current installment of "The Poker Den." Read more »
In a recent interview with The Hill, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) stated that he plans to introduce internet gambling legislation after the Easter recess. The Hill noted that the week of April 20th is a likely time frame. Read more »
In a case that has been years in the making, it was announced this morning that PartyGaming PLC, the company that has been at the forefront of providing poker and casino services to Internet players, has entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Read more »
The fifth season of High Stakes Poker is currently airing on GSN and, in the final episode featuring Tom Dwan, the 22 year-old scooped a $919,600 pot, the largest ever won on the show. The win came at the expense of Barry Greenstein. Read more »
Poker News Daily: Talk about the double firing at the end of Sunday's episode of Celebrity Apprentice. Duke: I was kind of surprised. I knew that there might be an issue when Melissa Rivers asked for volunteers. Notice that I didn't volunteer. Read more »
I just returned from another spectacular adventure with Card Player Cruises aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Legend of the Seas. As I grow older, my interest in visiting new places and learning about other cultures grows. Read more »
On Sunday night on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice, show host Donald Trump fired not one, but two contestants in an episode that severely strayed from its mantra of, "It's nothing personal, it's just business." Fortunately for WSOP Champion Annie Duke, she was not among the two contestants fired as part of a boardroom bloodbath. Read more »
Tokwiro-owned online poker site Ultimate Bet began sponsoring Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Martin "The Hitman" Kampmann last week. Ultimate Bet's logo was displayed prominently on Kampmann's trunks and shirt at the series' event in Nashville, Tennessee. Read more »
In the upcoming release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, poker players may be able to catch a glimpse of one of the game's top stars. According to various sources that have viewed a pirated copy of the movie, there is a scene involving a game of Texas Hold'em featuring Wolverine, Gambit, and Daniel Negreanu. Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Foxwoods Poker Classic kicked off on Friday from the Connecticut casino. Whether it was due to the economy, the ongoing SCOOP tournament series, or preliminary events at the WPT Championship, attendance dropped by 25%. Read more »
Poker News Daily: In your opinion, what's your biggest poker accomplishment? Elezra: Over the last five years, I have been invited to all of the shows on GSN like "High Stakes Poker" and on NBC, like the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. I love poker, but it is not my main source of income. Read more »
It didn't take long for the PokerStars SCOOP to become wildly popular. In fact, the low-stakes installment of its very first tournament, a No Limit Hold'em Six-Max with Rebuys event, attracted 27,134 players, making it one of the largest online poker tournaments ever held. Read more »
On Thursday, PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, announced that 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate and runner up Ivan Demidov have become the newest members of Team PokerStars Pro. Read more »
