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First brought to light by Jens “Jeans” Kyllonen over two weeks, the laptop hacking scandal from the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona seems to have much deeper roots than a couple of incidents in a single European city. The thread itself has taken on a life of its own, and multiple other high stakes players […]

On Wednesday PokerStars revealed the full schedule for the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) tournament series. The PCA will run from January 5th through the 13th, and as always it will take place in the beautiful Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. The 2014 PCA will feature 39 separate tournaments, including the return of the popular […]

The poker industry is clamoring to see what affect the launch if the WSOP.com online poker site will have on the Nevada market, and whether it will simply poach players from rival Ultimate Poker, or will it bring their own player base into the mix. Of course, it should be noted that we are only […]

After hosting the World Poker Tour’s season ending $25k Championship tournament for the past 11 years the Bellagio will bid adieu to the prestigious tournament which will now be held at the Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City New Jersey. The news came out of left field yesterday, when the WPT sent out a […]

Allen Kessler took to his Twitter account on Sunday where he detailed a scenario that took place at the tail-end of Day 1a of the Borgata Poker Open Main Event, where four players apparently decided to go all-in blind before the start of the hand –the tournament was a reentry event and assumedly all four […]

I think I speak for the vast majority of poker players when I say that if you are a casino and you have a poker room with fewer than eight tables just shut the thing down please –unless you are the only poker provider (or one of the only) in the area then PLEASE STAY […]

Austria’s Thomas Muhlocker managed to outlast a stacked final table that included quite a few notable names, like 2010 WSOP Champion Jonathan Duhamel, 2013 November Niner David Benefield, GPI stalwart Ole Schemion, and Daniel Negreanu who had one of the strangest runs to a final table in poker history, which I’ll explain below. After a […]

Season 10 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) launched in Barcelona, Spain, and so far so good for the popular tour as it celebrates its 10th year of existence. Attendance has been rock-solid, the stars have come out for the tournaments, and the action has been intense. In this column we’ll take a look […]

Last year it was The Big One for One Drop $1,000,000 buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker that tested the limits of what was possible in poker. This year it is the $5,000 buy-in, $10 million guarantee, Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open that is doing the same; pushing the bounds of what is […]

The first event on Season XII of the World Poker Tour (WPT) is now in the books, with the bwin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event crowning the latest WPT Champion in the form of Russian Alexey Rybin. The Merit Cyprus Classic tournament has kicked-off the last two WPT seasons, and both times a very […]