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Senator Glenn McConnell wants his fellowmen to experience a higher form of freedom by legalizing poker and other gambling games in every home of South Carolina. Luckily, this bill, known as the Senate Bill 535, is largely supported by the House and Senate.

Join Poker Stars for their all new All Star Week!  Now is your chance to show Team Poker Stars Pros just how good you are.  From March 23 to 29, Poker Stars will host a series of heads up matches between a brand new All Star team and Team Poker Stars Pros.  As expected there’s [...]

Bluefire Poker, an online poker training website has issued a very unique challenge to President Barack Obama and any member of the United States Congress.  They are putting up one million to one odds that an amateur from Capitol Hill cannot beat any of its pros, proving that poker is in fact a game of [...]

The 2009 NBC National Heads up Championship first round matches have been drawn and were announced at the big launch party held at PURE night club in Caesars Palace.  You can check out the profiles for the 2009 players as well as learn more about the history on the NBC Heads Up Championship at NBC’s [...]

Vanessa Rousso, who was the center of attention in the poker industry earlier this year when she appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, is now joining ranks with Indy Car star, Danica Patrick as the newest spokes model for domain name registrar, GoDaddy.com.  Rousso is now filming commercials for GoDaddy with Patrick and the [...]

The 2008-2009 World Series of Poker Circuit makes its second stop at Caesars Atlantic City beginning today.  The first tournament to kick things off is a $300 no limit hold’em tournament and will wrap things up with a $5,000 championship event on Saturday, March 14.  There are 11 events in all on the schedule.  The [...]

Join Mansion Poker today to get in on our exclusive Mad March giveaway!  Each week starting Wednesday, March 4 and ending on Tuesday March 31, the Mansion Poker Top 20 point earners for the week will share in a cash pot of $10,000 for a total of $40,000 during the month of March!
The weekly cash [...]

Though the United States may have the market cornered as far as poker on television is concerned, the one thing it is lacking is a dedicated channel to the game.  Europeans are the lucky ones who have the Poker Channel which launched its broadcasting back in 2005.  During that time, the Poker Channel has expanded [...]

Last week Greg Raymer and the Poker Players Alliance attended the 36th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC, rubbing elbows with some of Republican party’s most staunch conservatives.  Raymer and the PPA wanted to make sure their message was clear and to try to get the rights of poker players back on the [...]

The fifth season of the Game Show Network’s “High Stakes Poker” made its debut on Sunday night. The $200,000 buy in cash game was originally filmed at the Golden Nugget Casino in Downtown Las Vegas in December. The season premier featured a host of rising Poker Stars Tom “durrr” Dwan, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies [...]