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Be our Valentine!
Doyles doubling the love this Saturday with 2 great promotions.
We all know flowers and chocolates are nice, but we’re talking about guaranteeing 30 seats to this Sunday’s $100k and 10 more to next Sunday’s $250K with a satellite buy-in of a single Gold Chip.
They also awarding a lucky cash game player a Valentine’s Special [...]

GoDaddy.com, best known for its Super Bowl advertising, will be bringing its brand name to the felt of NBC’s National Heads Up Poker Championship as its presenting sponsor.  The tournament now in its fifth season, will run from March 6th through March 8th at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.  The tourney is similar in style to the [...]

Doyle Brunson, the ten time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, has spoken out in his most recent blog post about the pictures that have come to light showing US Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps using a bong at a party in South Carolina in November.  Phelps has been the toast of the poker world following [...]

This month Titan Poker has set aside more than $1,500,000 in prize money to be won exclusively by cash table poker players as this exdclusive poker race continues.  Playing cash games with Titan Poker has never been so rewarding!  Players will be ranked on a points based leader board and Leader Board Points will be awarded [...]

At long last, Mac users can rejoice.  Your options at the table are now a bit wider and better.  In a recent move, online Poker Room, Bodog launched an Instant Play option that allows Mac users to play on its software in a web browser.  There are limitations to the option however, it is limited [...]

This weekend was a busy weekend full of events for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS).  A well known online poker player, Steve “gboro780″ Gross attracted much attention as he took down the 5,325 player field of the $1.5 million guaranteed Event 10 for $275,000.  Gross is known as one of the world’s best [...]

The debut stop for the Poker Stars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour crowned Melburnian Karl Krautschneider at the SKYCITY Casino in Adelaide, Australia February 7.  In heads up action, he took down poker pro Tony “Bond18″ Dunst to take home $170,215 AUD in prize money.  For his efforts, Dunst took home a healthy pay day [...]

Now is the time to play with Cake Poker for your chance to play in the $50,000 Irish Open Gold Card Event! The Irish Open Gold Card event features a $50,000 prize pool awarding not one, but SIX Irish Open prize packages plus a share of $8,000 for places 7th to 50th. The [...]

2006 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, Jamie Gold has signed with ACED Poker which has its home on the Merge Gaming Network. Official announcement is expected to come on Thursday. Gold is best known for beating out Paul Wasicka in the largest World Series of Poker tournament ever held with a [...]

The World Series of Poker Circuit is headed to its next scheduled stop which begins tomorrow at the Horseshoe Casino and Hotel in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The tournament series will get under way with a $300 no limit hold’em event and will wrap up with the $5,000 no limit hold’em Circuit championship which will [...]