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Unlike a lot of companies the World Poker Tour (WPT) doesn’t have a policy that excludes its employees from playing in their events, and this weekend one of the WPT’s most prominent employees, Tony Dunst, didn’t just play in a WPT tournament, he won it! Dunst is the host of the WPT’s Raw Deal segment, […]

Senior Poker Tour Announced The Professional Poker Tour failed, the Epic Poker League failed, and the LIPS tour is still struggling to gain traction in the poker world, so you wouldn’t think another niche poker tour would pique much interest, but that hasn’t been the case at all with the recently announced Senior Poker Tour. […]

After some last minute additions, a few cancellations, and subsequent replacements we now have the official lineup for the Party Poker Premier League VII taking place at the Playground Club in Montreal. Party Poker also released the lineups for each of the six preliminary heats that will decide which players move on to the final […]

Other than a little bit of leapfrogging, there hasn’t been much change in the top five online poker providers according to www.pokerscout.com’s traffic numbers. On the other hand, the US market has been anything but steady. With the departure of Lock Poker from the Revolution Gaming Network, the imminent launch of online poker in New […]

Amid their middle of the night departure from the Revolution Gaming Network, Lock Poker has found itself in the middle of yet another controversy as the embattled poker room and their former partners at Revolution Gaming have been firing accusations at one another. So, while Lock Poker is busy trying to migrate their players to […]

From November 16th to December 1st the iPoker Network will be hosting their fifth iPOPS tournament series. In all there will be 16 separate tournaments with $1,250,000 in guaranteed prize-money up for grabs. Online tournament series have grown in popularity in recent years, following the success of Full Tilt poker’s FTOPS tournament series and PokerStars […]

For those of us that follow the US online poker industry it’s been an interesting couple of years since April 15, 2011, when PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker were exiled from the US market, leaving a collection of smaller networks unused to being in the spotlight to fill the void. Since Black Friday virtually every […]

There is a lot going in the world of US Poker. Licenses are being approved in New Jersey (five in total at the time of writing); Delaware is prepping for their launch of real-money Internet poker on October 31st; and in Nevada Ultimate Poker is increasing their marketing and promotion presence now that they have […]

What started this past weekend with 375 of the best poker players in the world has now reached the final table, and it will likely be one of the most competitive final tables in recent history, with two of the best young German players in the game (which is saying quite a bit), Benny Spindler […]

Back in September Tom “durrrr” Dwan posted the following gloomy tweet, speaking generally about a recent session where he suffered his worst loss to date as a poker pro (which is serious coin when you consider we know Dwan has had sessions with seven-figure losses online): In taiwan for the 1st time ever… Not leaving […]