When Alan Meltzer passed away last October, he left behind $1 million in his will to his chauffeur and another $500,000 to the doorman of his building. An entrepreneurial success story, Meltzer built his fortune in the music business and gained fame in the poker world when he appeared on Season 5 of High Stakes [...]

Longueuil, Quebec, Canada — Local police authorities have announced that half of the reported $115,000 cash stolen from 2010 WSOP champion Jonathan Duhamel in a robbery last December has been found. An anonymous tipster provided the police with information which led to the discovery of an envelope full of cash matching the denominations and currency [...]

Phil Ivey again shows why he is one of, if not the, best players in the world. Today he won the $250,000 buy-in 2012 Aussie Millions Super High Roller event for $2 million. According to the Hendon Mob “All-time money list” this win put Ivey into second place at just shy of $16 million in [...]

PokerStars pro, Eugene Katchalov, is the 2011 BLUFF Player of the Year. His face is to grace the cover of BLUFF magazine this month. He had quite the impressive year in 2011 with over $2.5 million in tournament winnings and a WSOP bracelet. His 2011 started off with a bang by winning the PokerStars Caribbean [...]

On Saturday it was announced that Joe Hachem would not be resigning with PokerStars as a Team Pro member. His contract expired recently and it was a mutual decision not to renew the contract. The 45 year-old Australian father of four says he will remember his time with PokerStars fondly, but is also looking forward [...]

As part of a recent $180 million facelift for Tropicana Las Vegas, Jamie Gold has been announced as their new poker spokesman/ambassador. This coincides with the grand re-opening of their newly renovated poker room, which has been renamed “The Jamie Gold poker room.” The Tropicana, which opened in 1955, has undergone over $2 billion in [...]

PokerStars has added a pair of new faces to their Team Pro ranks – Bjorn “Bjoerni89″ Schneider and Martin “filfedra” Staszko. Both men hail from the center of the European continent, putting them in excellent poker company.

Online giant PokerStars has released another poker documentary on one of their team members.  Adrienne “talonchick” Rowsome, a female Team PokerStars professional, is the subject of their latest Youtube documentary.  Their first short film focused on Randy “nanonoko” Lew, a mid-stakes super-grinder who plays millions of hands each year.  While Rowsome does not quite put [...]

As part of PokerStars’ 10-year Anniversary, FlopTurnRiver has been given the chance to interview two of the biggest names in online poker today – Barry Greenstein and Chris Moneymaker. They share their experience with PokerStars over the years and touch on other subjects like regulating online poker in the USA and their predictions about the [...]

Oh boy. Some people just like to start fights. People like James Bord, that is, who just recently stated his very firm belief that European poker players completely smoke Americans. Bord said, “I don’t think an American can win the [WSOPE] bracelet; Europeans are now far superior. We used to look up to the U.S. [...]