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NBC’s second season of the “Celebrity Apprentice” got under way Sunday night and among the contestants was none other than World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Annie Duke. The 16 contestants are divided into two teams, men versus women. In the first episode, the women outsold the competition and comedian Andrew Dice Clay [...]

Play Poker With Nicky Hilton Tonight 9:30pm ET
Doyle Brunson hosts tonight’s Bounty Tournament alongside legends Mike Caro and Hotel Heiress Nicky Hilton - plus last week’s tournament winner “Skuzzie”.
Doyles giving you 5 great reasons why YOU can’t miss Doyle’s Bounty this week.
1. Final Table Rematch: The players that made the final table in the [...]

Join Ultimate Bet for a once in a lifetime opportunity to play in Scott Ian of Anthrax’s home game! Scott Ian is inviting four of his rockin’ buddies to play along with two of poker’s biggest pros to hang out and play. If you play your cards right, you could find yourself seated [...]

The Borgata in Atlantic City will host a $500,000 Deep Stack poker tournament starting on March 21st. The buy in will be $1,650 with the contest awarding 30,000 chips to each player. The event has drawn so much interest that there will be two starting days with the winner being crowned on March [...]

The fifth season of High Stakes Poker debuts Sunday night on the Game Show Network at 9 pm ET. This season will feature some of the most well known professional players out there including Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius to name a few. Hundreds of thousands of dollars will [...]

Win your way to the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship with a $12,000 prize package from Full Tilt Poker! Full Tilt will award at least 10 $12K World Poker Tour prize packages to the WPT 101 Shooting Star Championship, including $10,000 buy in for the event and $2,000 for travel and [...]

Back in August 2002, Chris Karagulleyan was the winner of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker during the tournament series’ inaugural season. The final table was a memorable one with the then amateur Mark Seif along with Stan Goldstein, Can Kim Hua and Hon Le. Six and a half years later, Karagulleyan [...]

The 2009 Wynn Classic poker tournament series kicks off today with single table satellites at none other than the Wynn Las Vegas. This is the third year of the tournament. The first tournament on the schedule is a $500 no limit hold’em event that begins at noon on Thursday, February 26. The [...]

Would you like to play in the World Series of Poker main event?  Are you a little tapped out right now but still want to play?  You can make it happen with a mere ten cents with Ultimate Bet’s Step 1 qualifiers.  The ever popular online poker site has recently announced that it has begun [...]

That’s right, Tom Dwan is back on top again.  Dwan regained the lead on Monday that he had lost on Saturday, finishing the latest session with a $150,000 overall advantage in the challenge.  Patrik Antonius just couldn’t manage to hold onto the $56,000 lead he had over Dwan after this past weekend’s play.  Don’t lose [...]