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What are some of the hottest headlines in the world of poker? Here you will find all the latest juicy stories along with other important news and tournament results. A must read for the poker enthusiast with articles published throughout the day.
Poker Pros Seebok and Madsen Get Faces Tattooed
We see lots of interesting prop bets every year, but few are as interesting as the one that recently took place at the L.A. Poker Classic.
Feds Investigate Naples Man With Ties to Online Poker
Allegations outlined in a 39-page complaint filed in U.S.
Tom Durrrr Dwan First Profitable Day in Some Time
Online poker player Tom Durrrr Dwan managed to finish in the money for the first time in over two weeks Thursday, beating out Brian Townsend and Cole South, to land successive wins of $244k and $29
Granny Poker Game Broken Up in Idaho
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - The odds were stacked against retirees at the Twin Falls Senior Center earlier this month when police arrived to break up a long-running poker game after receiving an anony
Single Online Poker Player Picks Off Two Bounties at DoylesRoom.com
Tatjana Pasalic Interview With Woo
Tatjana Pasalic hasn't made her complete worldwide debut...yet but your very own Jenny can't wait until she does. Tatjana has been in the Balkin local poker scene, here and there in the states as
Legal Online Poker Rooms Thriving in the United States
Several bills which would legalize online poker and other forms of online gambling in the USA are currently languishing in the U.S. Congress.
Tony Parker Signs With French Online Poker Site
The online poker world is welcoming it's highest profile sports celebrity sponsor to its community.
Alex Kamberis Signs with Doyles Room.com's Brunson 10
After rumors that one of online poker's most celebrated players had been scooped up by Doyle Brunson spread like wildfire on the online poker forums, DoylesRoom.com has confirmed that Alex Kamber
New Poker Bill –Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act
After several weeks of inactivity, poker legislation officially returned to the bargaining table with the announcement of new legislation being introduced before Congress.
DoylesRoom.com to run Super Satellite this Sunday
DoylesRoom.com's ThaBeast86 lived up his to name on Sunday.
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
