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Sixteen players returned to the Commerce Casino Wednesday for the final day of the $10,000 HORSE event.  It was the marquee event on the LA Poker Classic schedule and had attracted 96 of the most well known Poker Pros in the game and of those, only eight would make it to the money.  Those who [...]

Join Absolute Poker now to gain a little FAME.  If you’re already playing poker with Absolute, then you’re already a VIP.  Now, it’s just a question of how much FAME you want.  Every time you play a real money game at Absolute Poker, you earn Status Points and Status Points define your FAME.  The more [...]

In what will be one of the richest main events outside of the United States, Poker Stars European Poker Tour has announced that it will wrap up its fifth season in Monte Carlo.  Over the span of one week from April 27 to May 3, fourteen tournaments will be held all leading up to its [...]

World Series of Poker champion Peter Eastgate has announced that he is planning to start a charity.  After his impressive win of over $9.2 million during the World Series of Poker Main Event, the Denmark native said he is planning on sharing the wealth.  Eastgate and his brother, Casper have started their own charitable organization [...]

Turn your Ultimate Points into the hottest gadgets available.  The only word you can use to describe Ultimate Bet’s latest Gizmo Roll is WoW.  World of Warcraft is one of the hottest games to hit the internet, second only to online poker at Ultimate Bet of course!  If you haven’t already discovered people’s obsession with [...]

Though the defendants’ attorney hadn’t even finished his closing argument, the judge spoke up and gave his opinion known that Texas hold’em is a game of skill and there was no doubt in his mind about it.  That belief is not something that is new to all poker players out there but it isn’t a [...]

The next stop on the Poker Stars European Poker Tour season four is taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark at the Casino Copenhagen.  The €6,700 no limit hold’em main event gets under way on Tuesday, February 17 at noon CET or 3am PST.  This year the cap on the players field has been increased to 500 [...]

Every player on the tournament trail can claim one game that is their specialty and they are consistently good at.  Robert Golick is one of those players who has been able to make that claim this year at the preliminary events at the LA Poker Classic at Commerce Casino.  Marked off his list was the first seven card [...]

If you tried to count aloud to 25 billion, you’d likely die of natural causes before you finished. The number is shares the rare air of other mythical creatures like the Unicorn, meaning that virtually no one has ever seen it, much less profited from it. That all changed this week on Monday as PokerStars [...]

Join Poker Stars for the Latin American Poker Tour which is back for Season 2 with an all new line up of events!  With so many exotic locations, the Latin American Poker Tour give you an unbeatable chance to win huge cash prizes in the world’s most beautiful places.  Get in now for your chance [...]