There’s no denying that it has been a very tough year for many people and most businesses.  The online poker industry was not much different.  Online poker has been under attack by various groups throughout the year, and unfortunately has had precious few victories to celebrate.  However, there is some optimism as we look toward [...]

The poker charity formerly known as Simon Poker Day, now known as Poker for the Homeless, will take place in conjunction with the 2009 Irish Poker Championship circuit.  The charity event runs on Sunday, January 4th, the last day of the IPC.  A buy-in of €300 + €30 gets players in the door with 8,000 [...]

Bellagio, the prestigious casino of legendary renown and fame, thanks also to its prominent featuring in the Ocean’s Eleven motion picture and non-fictional live hosting of regular high stakes poker games, will be celebrating new years eve and also new years day in style. How? Well, since it’s featured on your beloved FlopTurnRiver.com, it’s with [...]

Sit & Go Madness is back for a limited time at FullTilt Poker.  Between Friday, January 9th at 16:00 ET and Sunday, January 11th at 16:00 ET, players will be able to compete for over $75K in cash and prizes!  And there’s three ways to win! To find qualifying games, enter the sit & go [...]

A new season of Poker After Dark began last night as six world-class players sat down to battle out in a winner-take-all $20,000 Sit-N-Go style tournament. The show typically has a weekly theme, and for the first week of Season 5 producers decided to go for a “close but no cigar” field.  The six participants [...]

PokerStars set not only one, but two records this past Sunday!  As originally planned, they hosted the largest poker tournament ever with 35,000 players!  That landed PokerStars in the Guinness Book of World Records.  And then, without trying, PokerStars set another record for having the most players logged in at once – over 250,500! Players [...]

A HUGE day of online tournaments took play yesterday as PokerStars was determined to end 2008 with a a bang.  Not only did Stars add $1,000,000 to its Sunday Million Prizepool, run their end of the month Turbo Takedown, but they also attempted (and succeeded) to break the world record for the biggest poker tournament [...]

iPoker, the third largest poker network on the internet, has announced that they will be dropping NoIQ Poker and Carlos Poker from the network.  They issued a simple press release, which states, “iPoker has, following discussions with Tain, decided to remove Carlos Poker and NoIQ Poker from the iPoker Network.  The said cardrooms will be [...]

After the success of their first Poker Camp in Barcelona, during the EPT tour, PokerStars has scheduled a second camp to take place during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.  Both the camp and PCA takes place at the luxurious Atlantas Hotel and Resort on Paradise Island in The Bahamas.  The camp runs from January 7th to [...]

For many poker players there is just nothing like playing in a live game.  You are interacting directly with the players you are against, the dealer is sitting right in front of you, and you have the feel of the cards between your fingers and the felt under your palms.  One company, however,  is trying [...]