Poker
Poker’s Sexiest Shana Hiatt: Durrrr a Dud, Antonius Mud
Okay folks so I would have thought the feedback for Tom Durrrr Dwan and Patrik Antonius as "Sexiest in Poker for 2010" would be much greater by now and both these fine looking men stand a
AbsolutePoker.net & Hooters Team Up for Poker Academy
AbsolutePoker.net & Hooters Team Up for Poker Academy in Hollywood, California
NBC’s Heads-Up Poker Championship Field Set
The field for the 6th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship presented by GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, is flush with a who's wh
PPA Before MA Committee on Poker as Game of Skill
Washington, DC (February 23, 2010) -The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide and over 25,000 members in Massachuse
Durrrr Drops $1 Million in One Session
Forwards and backwards, backwards and forwards. Just as a pendulum swings up and down, so do the poker bankrolls of the participants of the biggest online poker cash games online.
Amanda Leatherman No Longer With WPT
Amanda Leatherman will no longer play hostess for the televised event of the WPT tour. This news was released by Poker News Daily.
Fossilman to Conservatives: More New Taxes?
Greg Raymer is still alive in the NAPT main event (with 128 of 872 remaining). He made it just in time for the tournament ... via Washington DC, where he was at CPAC 2010, bringing "our issue" to the people who came to see the likes of Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, John Ashcroft, Glenn Beck, and Tucker Carlson.
Probe Involving Full Tilt Poker: What a Shock!
This week a number of websites and online poker forums are reporting on a possible "FBI probe" of the world's number two Internet card room, Full Tilt Poker.
Sportsbook .com Moves to Merge: 6 Times Growth Expected
The Merge Poker Network just received a serious injection to help in its aggressive growth plans.
Online Poker Player Ziigmund Wins $720K in Under 500 Hands
One of the leading online poker players, a gentleman who goes by the name of Ziigmund (real name Ilari Sahamies), managed to make a fast $720K in a high stakes poker match with Brian Hastings.
Visa Looks to Block Online Gambling Transactions
Following in the footsteps of Mastercard, Visa has also decided to start blocking online gambling transactions (all of them). Many establishments have long gotten around these efforts through the
Isildur1 Quickly Loses $1 Million Online
No one inspires more action at the tables than Isildur1.
PokerStars 40 Billionth Hand Dealt
The world's largest online poker room has broken yet another record by dealing its 40 billionth hand. (see PokerStars here)
Doyle Brunson: Most of These Kids On The Net Don’t Have a Clue
I've never sat around the house doing nothing constructive. Since the 1st of the year, I sit at my desk all day with no plans for travel or even looking for cash games.
David Benyamine Wins Premier League IV title
David Benyamine has won the Party Poker Premier League IV title.
Benyamine, a French poker legend and a resident of Las Vegas, overcame a final table that also included Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak, Roland De Wolfe, Luke 'FullFlush' Schwartz and Party Poker online qualifier Giovanni Safina, a 44-year-old lawyer from Palermo, Italy , who qualified through an online satellite for just 100 euros. The total prize pool was $1.5 million, with $300,000 added by PartyPoker.com.
Iowa House Takes up Online Sports Gambling
The Sioux City Journal reports that Iowans could legally play online poker against their neighbors and bet on sports events under a proposal by Iowa House members.
The plan, which may get a hearing in the House State Government Committee next week, may expand sports betting language approved by a Senate committee to include legalized betting on collegiate sports - except Iowa colleges, according to Rep. Brian Quirk, D-New Hampton, who is part of a seven- member bipartisan gambling working group.
Poker Host.com Poker Tournaments Heat Up MidAtlantic
Last week PokerHost.com wanted to warm up those affected by the snowstorms. In the mid Atlantic states.
Poker Domain Sells for $1 Million
It's the most money sold for a .org domain name. Poker.org sold for $1 million this week.
According to TechCrunch.com:
Isildur1 Storms Back, Profiting $1 Million Over 3 Days
The mysterious high stakes online player, Isildur1, came from out of nowhere in the latter stages of 2009 and turned the nosebleed games upside down with his ultra-aggressive poker
Good Job Poker Nordica: CEO Responds to Complaint
Gambling911.com readers might recall we had one online poker operator recently threaten a lawsuit against us after we criticized his company's new policies regarding its showing certain "winni
Sky Dive With Poker Pro Joe Sebok and Win Big Cash
The adrenaline were pumping faster than ever for online poker players around the world Tuesday night. Team UB pro Joe Sebok announced the password to his online poker freeroll on his website SkyDiveWithSebok.com at 9pm ET. The free online poker tournament, scheduled for Wednesday, February 17 at 9pm ET, will include a $2,000 prize pool plus a Las Vegas Skydiving experience with Joe Sebok for the winner.
PokerStars Player Jayde Nicole Not a Hooker
TMZ.com has reported that 2008 Playmate of the Year and PokerStars poker player Jayde Nicole is being t
Poker Players Alliance to be at CPAC
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, will be a booth-sponsor at the annual Conservative Political Action Conf
NBC’s National Heads Up Poker Championship Returns
Poker's most prestigious heads up tournament returns to Las Vegas for the 6th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship presented by GoDaddy.com on March 4-7. Heads-Up brings 64 of the best pok
Doyle Brunson Not a “Cheat”: Gets New Teeth
Little did I know when I chased a pop fly in a baseball game over a half a century ago what problems it would cause me.
Full Tilt Poker Peaked, PokerStars Continues Up
The world's second largest online poker room, Full Tilt Poker, appears to have hit its peak at just shy of 20,000 "real cash" players on averag
Online Poker Room Review: Entraction
Entraction is a European-based online poker room that is trying to crack the world's top 10 largest and Gambling911.com believes they could
The Black Caucus and Online Poker: A Perfect Fit
This weekend the New York Times ran an interesting piece related to the powerhouse Black Caucus and its relationshi
T.J. Cloutier Son Praises Cake Poker for Return of WSOP Bracelet
In a much publicized report that surfaced last month, T.J.
Cole South is Online Poker’s Biggest Winner This Year
No one can dispute the fact that Cole South is on a major heater, the kind most players can only dream about. The CardRunners pro has been absolutely dominating the nosebleed games at Full Tilt Poker since 2010 started and there are no signs that he will be letting up anytime soon.
