Just one month after his $2 million win at the Aussie Millions High Roller event, Phil Ivey has continued his roll with his shrewd play at the WPT LA Classic. Thanks to a late surge, at the conclusion of day 1 he is sitting in 5th place with 116,300 chips. The chip leader, Michael Rocco, [...]

After 9 hours and 300 hands of final table action, Matt Juttelstad defeated Gigi Gagne heads-up to become the champion of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Gagne, who started the evening as the chip leader, made a valiant effort trying to become the [...]

Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald just retired from poker, at age 20. McDonald made his name by winning the EPT Main Event for $1.3 million, and by earning himself a seven figure bankroll in online poker. But months later, he’s right back out of retirement, making major tracks. He wrote on his blog, “I don’t hate poker [...]

The Epic Poker League is a brand new event series, featuring an all-star cast of the world’s best tournament poker players. As their first event, the Epic Poker League went all out with promotions, including plastering signage all over the Palms Casino, and taking out advertisements in publications as well as establishing a strong web [...]

If you didn’t get the chance to watch ESPN’s coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event, you missed out. ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3 have been providing live (no hole cards), semi-live (hole cards), and produced coverage of the event (only the best hands, edited commentary), in a nonstop stream of the best [...]

Already owning a long history of gambling, and a string of warnings from Major League Baseball (MLB) to steer clear of poker, Alex Rodriguez has been implicated in the Tobey Maguire poker ring. Rodriguez joins the A-list of big names involved in the high-stakes, and quite possibly illegal, poker games, including Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, [...]

Like all soldiers, Ken Griffin was ingrained with a relentless desire to win. In only his third event at the World Series of Poker, that’s exactly what he did.

After four days of raucous play, Mihail Lakhitov emerged as the eventual winner in the 36th event of the 2011 World Series of Poker. Overcoming a field of 1,734 players, Russian-born pro took home an incredible $749,610.

Poker is easy to play, difficult to win at, and downright tricky to turn a profit at. For those players looking to go from amateur to profitable, it is hard to know where to start. Well, that’s just what this list is for! Below are the top six best poker training books you will find [...]

Oleksii Kovalchuk wins Event 26 of the 2011 WSOP.