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Melanie Weisner Rises to EPT Copenhagen Lead
While the European Poker Tour’s Copenhagen event may not have drawn the largest or most star-studded field of the year, big names have definitely dominated the tournament in the early going. ... Read more...

Cash Crazy Freerolls at Celeb Poker
A lot of online poker sites give host tournaments and events that guarantee the participants a certain amount of cash as a prizepool. The downside to these tournaments and events is that usually ... Read more...

Mads Wissing Tops EPT Copenhagen Day 1B
While attendance is still down compared to recent years at the European Poker Tour’s Copenhagen Main Event, Day 1B boasted a drastic improvement in the size of the field, and saw Denmark’s Mads ... Read more...

Free Poker Training at Carbon
Carbon Poker and DragTheBar are teaming up to help you step up your game. The Poker training they will be offering for free has a monthly value of at least $30. The only thing you have to do to ... Read more...

Steve O’Dwyer Claims Early Lead at EPT Copenhagen
The European Poker Tour was back in action on Monday, as EPT Copenhagen held Day 1A of their Main Event. A total of 83 players turned out for the first of two starting days, with American poker ... Read more...

Champion Chip at Guru Play
Big tournaments are happening at sites all the time, and these tournaments are constantly giving away boatloads of cash. The Champion Chip poker tournament at Guru Play is no different, except ... Read more...

Teams Poker at 888
If you are a big soccer fan, there is no better promotion than 888’s Teams Poker. This event is just like any other tournament you have played in before, except you are on a team with other ... Read more...

888 Poker Ad Causes Controversy for Shane Warne
Australian cricket legend Shane Warne has had a controversial career both on and off the pitch. It might not come as a surprise, then, to find that Warne has once again caught some negative ... Read more...

Black Diamond Poker Open at Bovada
The Black Diamond Poker Open is a huge series of events guaranteeing at least $750,000 over the course of the series. Whether you play Hold’em or Omaha, or even 7 Card Stud, there is an event in ... Read more...

Nearly 700 Turn Out For UKIPT Galway
While there isn’t much major tournament poker action in the world this week, there’s at least one event worthy of note happening in Europe. The UK/Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) stop in Galway saw ... Read more...

Canadian Man Finds Duhamel’s WSOP Bracelet
In December we reported that poker pro Jonathan Duhamel had his house broken in to and robbed, while he was home. If that was not bad enough, one of the perpetrators was actually Duhamel’s former ... Read more...

U.S. Online Poker Bill Unlikely in 2012
If you were hoping to see online poker return to the United States in the near future, it looks as though you may be in for a longer wait. According to analysts, it appears as though any attempt ... Read more...

Charity Tournaments for Thor Hansen
A few weeks ago, the poker world learned that Norwegian poker legend Thor Hansen had been diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer. Despite undergoing surgery, doctors told Hansen that he could ... Read more...

Ladbrokes’ Online Poker Struggles Continue
Ladbrokes may be one of the biggest names in British gambling, but they’ve struggled to find success in the world of online poker. According to the company, Ladbrokes Poker saw its poker revenue ... Read more...

Problems for iPoker Network
The iPoker network, which is home to some well-known poker sites like Celeb Poker and Bet 365 is having a bit of a falling out recently. The problem is that bigger poker rooms on the network, ... Read more...

More Pros Signed to Lock
Pedro Maia was the most recent player to join Lock Poker’s pro team, but already that is overshadowed by two even newer pros joining the squad. Jason Lee and Tim West are the two newest additions ... Read more...

Mobile Poker Options Expand in Europe
One of the largest growth areas for online gambling in the last year has been mobile gaming. And while online casinos have been ahead of the curve in providing gaming options for mobile phones ... Read more...

PokerStars.eu Launched in Sweden and Finland
PokerStars.eu is now up and running for all poker players in Sweden and Finland. Despite the domain change, the new PokerStars site is set up much like the old .com one. The catalyst for ... Read more...

10 For 10 at Everest Poker
Most online poker sites offer attractive sign-up bonuses that reward a player for depositing a certain amount of cash on the site. Typically this type of bonus is called a match bonus where the ... Read more...

PokerStars Obtains Maltese License
European poker players will soon have a new option for playing at the world’s largest online poker site, as PokerStars announced that they have received a Malta Remote Gaming License that will ... Read more...

Everleaf Leaves US Market
American poker players were surprised to learn Thursday that one of the larger online poker networks still accepting U.S. players, the Everleaf Network, would be excluding players from the United ... Read more...

Lock Poker Signs New Pro
Over the past year Lock Poker has added a number of players to the LockPRO Elite team and the newest addition goes by the name of Pedro Maia. Maia, who hails from Portugal is just another name ... Read more...

Churchill Downs Purchases Bluff Media
Churchill Downs, the Kentucky-based racetrack operator best known for staging the Kentucky Derby, became the latest gambling entity to stake a potential claim in the online poker world by ... Read more...

Everest Poker Receives Big Award
Everest Poker is one of the leading poker rooms in Europe and the world, and now they are giving players another reason to play there. Recently at the iGB Awards in London, Everest Poker was ... Read more...

Bogdanov Victorious at WPT Venice
Rinat Bogdanov survived 12 hours of aggressive competition at the final table to win the World Poker Tour Venice Grand Prix. The final table began at 14:00 local time on Friday, and went into the ... Read more...

888 Poker on your Android
No this is not a joke, 888 poker is the newest mobile poker site to have real money play available on your mobile phone. They launched their trial version and are asking players to start playing ... Read more...

Poker Regulation in Spain
Everyone around the world is by now familiar with the adverse situation that most American online poker players are currently stuck in. More recently though, the newest government crackdown on ... Read more...

Andrea Dato Leads WPT Venice Final Table
The final six players at the World Poker Tour Venice Main Event will return to fight for a title and a €229,800 first prize Friday, with Andrea Dato holding a significant chip lead heading into ... Read more...

Belgium Awards First Online Poker Licenses
PokerStars announced yesterday that they have secured one of the first full licenses to operate an online poker site in Belgium, giving the online poker giant a foothold into yet another ... Read more...

Negreanu Gets Hacked
Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker pro who is currently sponsored by PokerStars ran into a bit of trouble lately. While on his journey back from playing in the Aussie Millions, his email account was ... Read more...