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Over the past week, as the FTOPS XXIII came to a finish, Full Tilt Poker has announced two new promotions running at the site. The first promotion is called “Build Your Bonus” where players can earn up to $400 in a mixture of an instant bonus and a clearable deposit bonus. The second promotion is […]

As Ultimate Poker’s “field trial” period comes close to a close (Thursday was the official day that their field trial ended when the Nevada Gaming Commission gave the company the go-ahead), the first and only licensed online poker site in the United States is readying the launch of their new and improved 2.0 software, which […]

PokerStars Road to 100 Billion hands has one more milestone stop to make, and that stop will be the 100 Billionth hand dealt at the site. According to the announcement at PokerStars website on Wednesday the site will be giving away an unprecedented $5,000,000 during the lead-up to the milestone hand, which is expected to […]

Full Tilt Poker was likely looking for a reason to change the subject after their poker pros Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, and Viktor Blom, known as “The Professionals”, thoroughly trounced by Team PokerStars Pro members Daniel Negreanu, Isaac Haxton, and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. So, with Full Tilt Poker needing a little distraction they announced a […]

Shortly after relaunching in November Full Tilt Poker announced the return of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, with Full Tilt Poker announcing the twenty-first running of the popular online tournament series would return in December. After a successful relaunch of the FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker has decided to continue making the FTOPS a quarterly […]

PokerStars is bringing back one of its most popular tournament series in less than two weeks, as the MicroMillions II tournament series has been announced. The MicroMillions will run from July 12th through July 22nd (11 days total) and will feature 100 different events ranging in buy-ins from just 11-cents up to $22. The first […]

On Thursday Lock Poker launched the new Revolution Gaming Network (formerly known as the Cake Poker Network, which Lock Poker recently purchased) a day ahead of schedule, and so far the feedback has been mixed. The migration of Lock Poker’s player base along with the slew of new updates and upgrades to the Revolution Network […]

After months of beta-testing, first in play money games followed by real money games being slowly brought into the mix, PokerStars is ready for a full launch of their fast-paced ZOOM Poker game. The official launch of ZOOM Poker will see multiple games and stakes added to PokerStars’ ZOOM Poker offerings, as well as mobile […]

Lock Poker and the rest of the Merge Gaming Network were coming off the successful running of the network’s first online tournament series, The Poker Maximus, and it seemed that Lock Poker wanted to build on the success of the Poker Maximus with the announcement of their online tournament series, the LockOps. Unfortunately, after first […]

There were already plenty of online tournament series on the horizon, with PokerStars SCOOP tournament series coming soon, as well as the second major online tournament series hosted by Lock Poker the LockOps tournament series; now players can also choose to play in the Party Poker Pokerfest II. The Party Poker Pokerfest will be a […]