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The race for the top spots of Card Player’s Online Player of the Year continues to tighten up and is a neck and neck race.  The top five players are only a mere 146 points apart from top to bottom and the below that, its an even tighter race with plenty of players just waiting [...]

The second week of preliminary events of the LA Poker Classic held at Commerce Casino featured a $300 no limit hold’em rebuy event.  The tourney brought in an impressive 623 entrants who between them purchased 933 rebuys and 356 add ons.  The largest first prize of the week came from this event at $140,467 and [...]

Win your way to the World Poker Tour Los Angeles Poker Classic
Main Event with a $12,000 prize package from Full Tilt Poker!  Starting January 15th, Full Tilt Poker will be awarding at least 10 World Poker Tour $12,000 prize packages to the LA Poker Classic Main Event, including a $10,000 buy in for the [...]

The $5,000 no limit hold’em championship event of the World Series of Poker Circuit stop held at Harrah’s Tunica brought in a 154 player field which created a prize pool worth $735,900.  After two days of play the field was narrowed down to nine finalists and the chip leader amongst them was Matt Stout, one [...]

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series has always been a big lure for players of all types.  The grinders set aside a piece of the bankroll in anticipation of the event, low stakes players hit the satellites hoping for their chance at the big time and even high stakes cash game players cant resist the [...]

The Doyle’s Room Bounty Tournament is your chance to take on Doyle Brunson and his guest Poker Pros and celebrities for free!  Play Doyle’s Bounty for the first time and at the end of the tournament, request your free refund and we’ll return every penny of your buy in and fee!  You can sit and [...]

Join Mansion Poker for Febonanza Golden Hands Bonuses to see your poker hand turn to gold and claim your glittering Golden Hand bonus this February!  Get your poker chips this February because every 1,000,000th hand is turning to Gold in true Febonanza fashion.  The winner of each 1,000,000th hand gets a money prize according to [...]

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law is holding a hearing entitled, "Midnight Rule Making: Shedding Some Light".  Online poker players should pay attention, one of the first items to be addressed is HR 34, the Midnight Rule Act which has the potential to undo the regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement [...]

The ever popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series also known as FTOPS, kicks off today at 9pm EST with a $216 no limit hold’em tourney.  Full Tilt is featuring a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million.  There will be 25 FTOPS events in the next 12 days with a wide variety of events.  From hold’em [...]

The Poker Stars Russian Poker Tour’s debut has been hailed a success with 201 entrants who anted up the $5,000 entry fee directly or via satellite to be a part of the inaugural event.  The resulting prize pool was a large one of roughly $1 million US with over $300,000 or 10 million Russian Rubles [...]