By the 1970′s it was clear that not only was poker going to remain a permanent fixture in Las Vegas, but players were growing more and more fond of the freeze out tournament format as well.  Consider the first WSOP, played as a prolonged cash game. It featured one table of participants, and they voted [...]

Full Tilt Poker’s Take 2 promotion is back! Full Tilt is offering cash game players the chance to earn double the Full Tilt Points for ten days. Additionally, players that take part in this awesome promotion can earn up to an extra $25. This makes for a promotion that grinders can’t miss out on. The [...]

Finishing last in any poker tournament takes a huge hit on one’s ego, right? Sure, unless you are playing at bwin Poker! Bwin Poker is proud to announce and welcome back their popular promotion “Joker”. With Joker, absolutely no one loses! In fact, finishing in ninth out of 10 participants actually earns you 20% of [...]

Following years of opposition to the legalization of online poker in the United States, Las Vegas-based Wynn Resorts has announced a partnership with PokerStars.

Daniel Negreanu might not be the world’s best poker player, but he is certainly one of the most popular. When Negreanu started playing the poker circuits, he became one of the game’s youngest celebrity professionals. He claims to have become a profitable, full-time poker player by age 17. Playing profitable poker involves mastery of countless [...]

UK gambling giant Victor Chandler is teaming up with grassroots organization Poker in The Pub to bring live poker to various venues across the UK. Victor Chandler’s Head of Poker, Andy Horne, stated, “We are very proud to be sponsoring Poker In The Pub and happy to be able to give something back to our [...]

Florida has become the latest state to ponder the legalization of online poker.

For months, talks of a Bwin/PartyGaming merger have been going on, but no real progress has been made. That is, until late last week when the Gibraltar Supreme Court endorsed the deal between the two online gambling giants. In July 2010, Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, the gambling company, and PartyGaming announced they would be merging [...]

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit $10,000 Western Regional Championship is well underway, and featured player Daniel Negreanu has made it down to the final 18, finding himself in eighth place. The tournament, being played in San Diego, has a prize pool just short of $1 million. With a $10,000 buy-in, it attracted 98 [...]

When you’re new to the game, it’s easy to imagine that good poker is all about bluffing. It seems like everything else is just down to luck. The players can’t control how the cards will run out, so the only way to get beating your opponent is to make him fold while he’s ahead. Neophytes [...]