This year’s World Championship of Online Poker is in full swing at PokerStars, with players from around the globe competing for awesome prize pools in exciting tournaments. We’re fast-approaching the halfway mark of the series, so a huge amount of cash has already been won but, more importantly, there’s also a lot of it up [...]

Poker players throughout the United Kingdom may be starting to find it difficult to sleep as their excitement mounts in face of the upcoming poker action. The Grand Series of Poker Live Tour Season Two is kicking off in under two months time in Manchester, and will be pulling poker players and big names from [...]

In the most positive piece of news since Full Tilt Poker players from the United States had their accounts frozen following FBI indictments against Full Tilt, the site is claiming to have successfully regained access to a bank account holding significant funds. There has been considerable amounts of controversy and back-and-forth debate about whether this [...]

PokerStars is without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest online poker sites serving players on the internet today. In addition to many other great features, it is the king of tournament poker and if you’re an online tourney player then you’ll feel right at home there. Live tournament players now also have [...]

PokerStars has continued to uphold and improve its reputation as the home of online tournament poker over the last couple of weeks as players from around the world have been competing against each other in the Spring Championship of Online Poker. Although player counts and prize pools were down in comparison to previous years due [...]

Amid much speculation of how Black Friday would affect the live poker scene, live tournaments are still doing extremely well and drawing great crowds. The poker action was heating up in Spain’s capital city of Madrid last week as the conclusion to this latest season of the EPT took place in the form of the [...]

Serving as a further testament to the strength of poker and that the game shall live on in whichever form necessary regardless of attempts to stop it, the European Poker Tour held their inaugural Champion of Champions event. Every single player who has won an EPT event in the history of the Tour was invited [...]

This week saw massive amounts of controversy erupt in the live poker tournament scene, as one of the players taking part in the World Poker Tour Championship event was identified to be none other than Ali Tekintamgac. The german poker player was invited to play in the event despite strong allegations that he has cheated [...]

Despite coming across as having a relatively neutral – if not thoroughly uninterested – stance towards online poker over the past few years as the issue came before congress, the American Gaming Association has come down in support of the legalization of online poker since the events of Black Friday. Thanks to a recent interview [...]

April 15th, 2011 has become known as Black Friday in the poker community, the day on which the United States Department of Justice and FBI took to the online poker world in a big way, issuing indictments against eleven individuals and seizing bank accounts and web domains of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, UB and Absolute [...]