TwoPlusTwo’s poker forums were hacked today and shut down by the owners. The extent of the information obtained by the hacker is not fully known, but in the mean time NoahSD offers these tips and I thoroughly agree with them. 1.) If you use the same password for 2p2 for other things, change them immediately. [...]

Annette Obrestad, known as Annette_15 online, was recently named a Lock Pro for the Lock Poker site on the Merge Network. Annette who started her poker career at a very young age is mostly known for winning the PokerStars Sunday Quarter Million, and then being the youngest player ever to win the W.S.O.P.E. Main Event [...]

The misdemeanor guilty plea of John Campos, the former head of a bank with Black Friday ties, has been accepted by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

While the biggest news of the week might be PokerStars potential purchase of FullTilt Poker, there was still plenty of action on the felt, as Sunday tournaments continue to be on the rise. Taking the headlines this weekend was the start of Party Poker’s annual PokerFest, a tournament series featuring high buy-in events.  PokerFest started [...]

8:30 PM ET Update: Diamond Flush spilled details of how players would have been repaid had the GBT gone through: Players with an account balance of less than $ 100 could be repaid in full or have that balance credited to their players account in the new company, virtually immediately. According to some sources, this [...]

The truly original documentary “All in: The Poker Movie” was developed to investigate the explosion in popularity of poker around the world. Featuring interviews with many well-known professional players, it chronicles the journey of poker from its shady backroom past to the post-2003 Moneymaker online poker boom. The indie movie was first screened at the [...]

Gary Herbert, the Governor of Utah, recently sent an open letter to the leaders in Congress, asking that they stand firm against the legalization of online poker.

The Alderney Gaming Control Commission, or AGCC, has declared it will hold a public hearing pertaining to grant Full Tilt Poker a gaming license. This follows the news of the new company in Ireland founded by Tapie called New Full Tilt Limited, as well as Pocket Kings (a Full Tilt company) hiring new employees for [...]

PokerStars has taken their next step in a long-standing battle with infamous data-mining site Poker Table Ratings (PTR). They’ve sent a cease and desist to the site and have a team of lawyers ready to take legal action on the order if necessary. Poker Table Ratings is a site that collects hand histories on the [...]

Bodog has confirmed that it will lay off several employees in their offices in the United Kingdom.