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Aliro Diaz battled past a field of 651 players to take down the Latin American Poker Tour Chile Main Event. Diaz, who hails from Chile, was one of three countrymen who finished in the top 4 spots ...  Read more...

PokerStars has released a preliminary schedule for the Spring Championship of Online Poker, giving players some insight into what they can expect in one of the two largest tournament series in ...  Read more...

Last year was the inaugural Poker Open and with almost 1000 entrants, the event was a huge success. In fact, the prizepool of over $470,000 last year is expected to be shattered this year. This ...  Read more...

888’s live tournament series, “Super Stack” has recently announced that the Playground Poker Club in downtown Montreal will be the newest addition to the list of stops. The Super Stack Tournament ...  Read more...

William Hill is all about pleasing their customers and it is never as evident as now. If you want to experience all that the site has to offer you probably want to play in the site’s marquis ...  Read more...

Most people do not realize it but by the time June comes the only online poker being played in Spain will be regulated by the government. This is not necessarily a bad thing because many of the ...  Read more...

Several of the world’s top poker players are lined up to participate in iSeriesLIVE, a poker series that will give fans of the game (and other gamblers) the opportunity to bet on the results of ...  Read more...

Playing online poker in the UK  is a beloved pastime by a majority of citizens. The UK government is well aware of this and they do a fairly good job at regulating and controlling the gaming ...  Read more...

In a major setback for gambling advocates in the island state, Hawaii’s legislature has declined to act on several bills that would have brought a variety of gambling options to the state – ...  Read more...

Viktor “Isildur1” Blom may have lost for a second time against Isaac Haxton last week, but the high-stakes Swedish pro was back to his winning ways on Sunday. Blom defeated Alex “Kanu7” Millar in ...  Read more...

Before Full Tilt fell victim to the United States’ Department of Justice last April, one of the best parts about their site was Rush Poker. The fast paced game was unlike anything offered on any ...  Read more...

Bodog’s anonymous online tables have come under scrutiny recently and players are not too happy with it. What Bodog is trying to prevent is collusion amongst players who are at the anonymous ...  Read more...

Danish pro Frederik Jensen had come close to winning a major title on several previous occasions. In the last two years, several final tables, only to fall short of the ultimate prize – the ...  Read more...

There’s only one local Spaniard still in the hunt at the European Poker Tour Madrid Main Event, but he has a great shot at taking down a major title on Saturday. Ricardo Ibanez may be the only ...  Read more...

888Poker cares a lot about students who are attending universities throughout Canada and the world. To show how much they care, they are hosting what they call the “888Poker University ...  Read more...

If you’ve never heard of João Paulo Simão, don’t feel like you’re missing something; the Brazilian had come into the 2012 European Poker Tour Madrid Main Event with just three small cashes on his ...  Read more...

Day 2 of the European Poker Tour Madrid Main Event saw just over six hours of play, but that was enough to eliminate over half of the remaining field. When the dust settled, only 112 players ...  Read more...

Viktor “Isildur1” Blom likely spent the last day believing he was poised to gain revenge against Isaac Haxton, the only person who had so far emerged victorious against the Swedish pro in ...  Read more...

The Poker Maximus event that is running on the Merge Gaming Network has really caught the attention of a lot of players. This past Sunday there was quite a few tournaments who had high buy ins ...  Read more...

If you logged into PokerStars on Sunday afternoon hoping to see whether Viktor “Isildur1” Blom could gain some measure of revenge against Isaac Haxton, you may have gotten a partial answer. But ...  Read more...

Making it to the World Series of Poker is a dream for most poker players around the world, but for many, the combined cost of traveling to Las Vegas and paying a tournament buy-in is just too ...  Read more...

Lock Poker Voted Best Merge Poker Site The year 2012 may only be a month or two under way, but that does not mean it is too early to give a site some praise. So far in this year, Lock Poker has ...  Read more...

After a long period when amateur players seemed to be winning tournaments left and right, the last few years have seen poker pros dominate major events around the world. But that doesn’t mean ...  Read more...

When Viktor Blom first joined Team PokerStars – a time when Blom wasn’t conclusively known to be the nosebleed stakes player who went by the name “Isildur1” – he immediately began playing ...  Read more...

The 2012 World Series of Poker Europe will see the tournament series once again return to Cannes, France, awarding seven bracelets over the course of two weeks this autumn. All events will be ...  Read more...

ESPN calls themselves, “the world-wide leader in sports” and that would not be true if poker was not thrown in there somewhere. Poker is prominent on ESPN and every month they release who, in ...  Read more...

PokerStars appears nearly ready to begin real money play in their Zoom Poker format, a fast-based version of normal poker games that many players have speculated would be coming to the poker ...  Read more...

Over the past year we have seen a lot of turbulent times in the online poker industry. For the tough times we primarily have the US government to thank and now some of the top online poker rooms ...  Read more...

Bwin.Party, the parent company of Party Poker, has formalized their efforts to return to the USA online poker market by applying for a Nevada online gaming license. The license would allow ...  Read more...

This past Sunday marked the beginning of Merge Gaming’s tournament series known as Poker Maximus. The series is being played across all of the different online poker skins owned and operated by ...  Read more...