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An impressive week of poker is now over and along with crowning the latest EPT Main Event winner we also saw ElkY bookend the tournament series with a pair of high-roller wins, Jason Mercier take down the inaugural Champion of Champions tournament, and Fernando Brito capture the coveted Player of the Year award, so without […]

After a Dutch player finished in 3rd place in the 5th anniversary PokerStars Sunday Million -good for a $518,902 score-a local newspaper decided this would be a nice little story to run and telephoned the player in question; which is where things started taking a very bad turn… It turns out the player using the […]

Black Friday, what Black Friday? The $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship saw a solid turnout of 188 players take to the poker tables at the Bellagio on Saturday, and with registration open for the first three levels on Day 2 of the tournament it’s almost a lock that the WPT Championship will eclipse last year’s […]

It’s hard to believe that nearly a month has passed since Black Friday turned the online poker world on its head on April 15th, and after a turbulent few weeks that saw some sites make huge gains, while other online poker rooms tumbled, it seems that player traffic at the numerous online poker sites and […]

During a media conference call the World Series of Poker explained the upcoming changes that will be in place for the 2011 WSOP tournament series. While there were a couple of very big announcement, the majority of changes were merely tweaks, some of which are format-based while others are more player-oriented. Here is a look […]

The never-ending saga that is the Cereus Poker Network is still going strong, as the Lindsay Lohan of online poker rooms (always in the headlines but rarely for anything good) issued a statement today regarding this past week’s raid on their offices in Costa Rica. In the statement the company tries to shift the onus […]

In this article I will examine the effects that the Department of Justice and FBI crackdown on online poker in the United States has had on PokerStars and the long-term forecast for where PokerStars goes from here, as well as touch upon how I feel the site has handled the situation as a whole. PokerStars: […]

With all of the poker shows that were cancelled in the wake of Black Friday it’s nice to see that ESPN is not only keeping, but expanding upon its World Series of Poker coverage in 2011. On Wednesday ESPN announced it would be showing six days of WSOP Main Event coverage on a 30-minute delay, […]

After months of anticipation on how the Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack led Federated Sports + Gaming would choose the 200 or so players they would be inviting to participate in their new professionals-only poker league, and on Tuesday we finally received word on the specifics of the selection process; as well as a list […]

With the criteria in place, the still unnamed Federated Sports + Gaming poker league being run by Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack has released the list of the 218 players that will  be invited to take part in Season of the FS+G Season 1 poker tour. Players were awarded with “Tour Cards” of differing lengths […]