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The Durrrr Challenge a Zzzzzzz

Is the once highly touted-turned tired Durrrr Challenge still going?

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/29/2010

Michael Phelps Still Playing Poker

Doyle Brunson may have helped hone his skills after the Olympics last year.  There were even some rumors floating around that

Submitted by Ace King on, Jan/29/2010

Hot Poker Pro: Zigmund on Fire

When it comes to online poker heavy hitters at the high stakes games, a player by the name of Zigmund certainly comes to mind and he is really heating up as we head into the month of February.

Submitted by Ace King on, Jan/28/2010

Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Benedict Arnold?

Poker icon Doyle Brunson would know who Benedict Arnold is.  After all, they graduated High School together.

Submitted by Ace King on, Jan/28/2010

Poker Pro Tiffany Michelle Takes Heat for Obama Interview

Tiffany Michelle made waves at the 2008 World Series of Poker as the "Last Lady Standing".  She came under some fire with PokerNews.com after the two had a falling out over a sponsorship

Submitted by Patrick Flanigan on, Jan/28/2010

Russian Poker Players Enter High Stake Games Online

"The Russians are coming!"

Submitted by Patrick Flanigan on, Jan/27/2010

Poker Pro David Williams Hanging With Rapper Too Short

Seems like professional poker playa David Williams has ditched Too Old for Too Short.  The one time granny g*** b*** foot fetish porn star who himself is anything but "too short", Willia

Submitted by C Costigan on, Jan/27/2010

Poker News: Top Ranked on the Money List

Who are the richest men in poker?  4Flush has released an updated list of the top 10 all tim

Submitted by Ace King on, Jan/26/2010

UBOC 2010 – Day Six Update

UBOC 9 - $30K GTD 6-MAX LIMIT HOLD ‘EM

Yesterday's UBOC 9 $100+9  buy-in event attracted 363 players, creating a prize pool of $36,300.00 that paid down to 36th place.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/26/2010

Doyles Room Player at Final Table of Poker Championship

DoylesRoom.com's Hoyt Corkins is on his way to earning a chair at the final table of the WPT Southern Poker Championship in Bi

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/26/2010

British Poker Player Jake Cody Wins EPT Deauville

Jake "neverbluff67" Cody from Rochdale in the UK has won EPT Deauville for a first prize of €847,000 after besting a record-breaking field that included two former world champions and 1

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/25/2010

UBOC 2010 - DAY FIVE UPDATE

UBOC 8 - $1 MILLION GTD DEEPSTACK NLH 6-MAX

Submitted by Payton on, Jan/25/2010

Doyle Brunson Political Tweet Causes Stir

The social networking tool, Twitter, has quickly become a worldwide phenomena. It provides users to send out and read messages from anyone in the world.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/25/2010

PartyPoker Signing Lots of Big Names Lately

Our bad here at Gambling911.com for not really reporting much about Kara Scott joining team PartyPoker last week.  It appears this is going to become a trend as Party looks to compete with a numbe

Submitted by Ace King on, Jan/21/2010

Aussie Millions 2010 Has Annette Obrestad a Winner

The youngest person to ever win a World Series of Poker championship and the first to receive a World Series of Poker Europe main event win, Annette Obrestad, is doing quite well at the Aussie Mill

Submitted by Ace King on, Jan/20/2010

Doyle Brunson Speaks on Haiti Crisis

All you see on the TV news channels are about the earthquakes in Haiti. It is a real disaster area and America is trying to help and the online poker sites are no exception.

Submitted by Doyle Brunson on, Jan/19/2010

Doyle Deserves Good Karma

Not only is Doyle donating proceeds of the weekly bounty to the Haiti efforts, but he's already breaking a New Year's Resolution in order to support his company.

Submitted by Payton on, Jan/19/2010

‘PLAY FOR HAITI' at Popular Online Poker Rooms UB and Absolute

This week, the Tokwiro-owned online poker sites UB and Absolute Poker join their industry peers in support of the people of the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation

Submitted by Payton on, Jan/19/2010

Pick Off a Poker Pro: Doyle Brunson Goes Down Monday!

Tired of Tweet's about dumb blondes and Joan Rivers?  The blondes who run Gambling911.com want to take down poker icon Doyle Brunson by any means necessary.....

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/15/2010

Full Tilt Poker Suing Clonie Gowen

Full Tilt Poker is entangled in another lawsuit, but this time, it is doing the suing. The online poker giant is suing Clonie Gowen in a federal court.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/14/2010

Reflecting on Phil Ivey’s 2009

Poker players from all over the world generally believe that Phil Ivey is one of the, if not the best poker player in the world, both live and online at

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/14/2010

Doyle Brunson to Join Food Network?

I'm sitting at my desk at 8:30 at night wondering if I should go to bed, watch a movie and go to sleep.

Submitted by Doyle Brunson on, Jan/13/2010

Poker Pro Joe Cada Link to Playmate Shot Down

Winning the World Series of Poker sure seems to have its benefits.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/13/2010

Pearl Jammer’s Girlfriend’s Account Hacked at Full Tilt Poker

Apparently, online poker players need to take extra steps in protecting their online poker assets. It is being reported that online poker pro, PearlJammer's girlfriend has been the victim of a theft as it seems that her Full Tilt Poker account was hacked into last night. The brazen hacker then proceeded to sit down at a cash game table and dump off approximately $30,000 while PearlJammer watched helplessly.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/12/2010

Poker Pro Gus Hansen Great Start to New Year

Danish poker pro Gus Hansen has so far racked up an amazing $194K in just the first 10 days of 2010.

PokerTableRankings.com points out that Gus had a record loss online for 2009 and is yet to complete a profitable year according to online records which begs the question, how does one of the world's greatest poker players have such a bad run online?

Simply put, Hansen plays a lot and for big money.

Submitted by Patrick Flanigan on, Jan/11/2010

Poker World Mourns Passing of Amir Vahedi

Surprise and sadness are the two words that best currently describe the poker community with news that professional poker player Amir Vahedi has passed away at the age of 57.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/11/2010

Ryan "g0lfa" D'Angelo Leads PokerStars PCA Main Event

Ryan "g0lfa" D'Angelo is still in the lead as the PCA main event goes into its final day tomorrow. The 24-year-old  PokerStars qualifier from New York has more than 10 million.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/10/2010

Amit Makhija of the Brunson 10 Makes Waves at Poker Tourney

2010 is starting off quite profitable for The Brunson 10.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/09/2010

ZeeJustin (Justin Bonomo) Speaks About his Exit from Bodog

It is common knowledge at this point that popular online and live poker player Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo was let go early in the new year as a Bodog team member.

Submitted by Guest on, Jan/08/2010

Doyle Brunson: Cease With Tiagra, Blonde Jokes

Poker legend Doyle Brunson, known for his popular Twitter page (one of the best in the poker community) is being called out on his blonde jokes and the feisty pro is fighting back.

Submitted by Ace King on, Jan/06/2010

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