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Just weeks after announcing that they would break with the Merge Network and start their own online poker network, Lock Poker is ready to make the switch, which will take place on the morning of ...  Read more...

There’s no doubt that mobile gaming is the next great frontier in online poker. It seems that nearly every week, one poker site or another is adding new games to their mobile poker room, ...  Read more...

It’s a busy time of year for poker. Many online gambling companies are trying to take part in newly regulated markets in Spain and Germany, while players in the United States and Australia are ...  Read more...

After a wild final table and a heads-up battle that lasted nearly 70 hands, Marvin Rettenmaier finally took down the World Poker Tour World Championship. The win marked Rettenmaier’s first ever ...  Read more...

With less than a week remaining before new regulations go into effect in Spain that will usher in a new era of online poker in the country, rumors are swirling that one prominent Spanish sports ...  Read more...

It seems as though we’ve been talking about Marvin Rettenmaier a lot this week. First, the popular young German poker pro signed a new deal that saw him join Team Party Poker just in time for the ...  Read more...

Look out Australia – national online poker regulation could be coming sooner than you think. According to a report by The Daily Telegraph, Australia’s federal government is strongly considering ...  Read more...

Just days after bwin.party made the decision to move forward with paying four years of back taxes to the Spanish government, it seems that they have gotten good news – in another European nation. ...  Read more...

Over the last three years, Germany professional Marvin Rettenmaier has been one of the most prolific players in European poker. He had done most of this as a member of the Titan Poker team, until ...  Read more...

When Spain revealed recently that operators seeking online poker licenses in their newly regulated market would be expected to pay taxes on their last four years of operations in the country, ...  Read more...

Bodog Poker and professional poker player Tatjana Pasalic – known as “TattyTats” in the online poker world – have extended their sponsorship deal for a second year, with Pasalic set to remain a ...  Read more...

While poker is largely dominated by male competitors, women have always been an important part of the game’s world. Unlike in many sports, men and women can compete on equal footing across the ...  Read more...

If you happen to win a bracelet at this year’s World Series of Poker, there’s a good chance you might want to show off your gold bracelet. Sure, this has always been true, but now you might find ...  Read more...

After a turbulent year for the newly formed company, bwin.party announced this week that revenues were up slightly in the first quarter of 2012. Overall, the company brought in €215.9 million in ...  Read more...

If you’re like many online poker players, you may have noticed that there’s been a little something missing from the world of online poker over the past few months. No, it’s not Full Tilt Poker ...  Read more...

We’ve talked a lot recently about the upcoming plans to regulate Spain’s online poker market. The regulations are set to kick in on June 1st, when Spain will begin awarding licenses to some of ...  Read more...

It may be slow in coming, but online poker in the state of Nevada will be a reality soon. But according to a meeting held Monday, it may not quite as soon as some players – and potential ...  Read more...

For close to a year now, Spanish online poker players have awaited the beginning of the regulatory scheme that their government was planning to put into place. Now, a date for the beginning of ...  Read more...

Sporadically we have talked about certain European countries (see our international countries poker list) and how they have begun to crack down on online poker. While a country like England is ...  Read more...

While bwin.party needs online poker to be legalized in the state of California, it is fully ready to enter the US poker market. If the game is made legal bwin.party has already finalized a deal ...  Read more...

Believe it or not, Spain was one of the few European countries that sets irrational laws making it impossible for online poker to thrive there. On June 1st Spain will be running online poker for ...  Read more...

A new report out from France’s online gambling regulatory body shows a mixed bag for online poker in the country, as some segments of the market have done far better than others over the last ...  Read more...

Lock Poker has been one of the largest and most independent rooms on the Merge Gaming Network for some time now. The room had built an impressive team of sponsored professionals, and had even ...  Read more...

It’s hard to imagine 80 billion of…well, of anything, really. So when an online poker site says they’re dealing the 80 billionth cash game hand in the site’s history, that definitely says ...  Read more...

Heading into the first ever Limit Hold’em Challenge on PokerStars Saturday, many observers had pegged the encounter as too close to call. On the one hand, you had Daniel Negreanu – one of the ...  Read more...

Limit hold’em is a great game, and for a long time, it was by far the most popular betting style in the most popular poker game in the world. But over the last decade, no-limit Texas hold’em has ...  Read more...

The European Poker Tour has constantly tweaked its formula in order to adjust to the changing poker world. However, their plans for Season Nine, which will begin later in 2012, may mark one of ...  Read more...

Online poker and casino software developer Playtech has had lots of good news to share as of late. The Israeli company has seen massive revenue increases in almost every one of their ventures ...  Read more...

When the World Series of Poker first expanded to Europe in 2007, many players thought it would be a relative failure that would never be accepted as a serious part of the WSOP. However, the WSOP ...  Read more...

Mohsin Charania had made several deep runs at major poker tournaments, which made some observers think he was overdue for a big win. Few, however, could have imagined that his first major victory ...  Read more...