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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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

While 2011 was a year of turmoil for the online poker world, at least one major gambling company saw major gains in that sector. 888 Holdings, the online gambling firm that operates 888 Poker (as ...  Read more...

The Grand Series of Poker, otherwise known as the GSOP, is having its grand final in the Dominican Republic. Beat the winter weather and head to the islands where you will be treated like a king ...  Read more...

Vadzim Kursevich had come close several times before. But on Monday, he finally broke into the winner’s circle, winning the Main Event at the European Poker Tour Deauville. Kursevich battled for ...  Read more...

A royal flush bonus is exactly what it sounds like; a bonus for players who record a royal flush during real money poker cash games. LuckyAce, like most other poker sites, has a royal flush ...  Read more...

With just eight players remaining in the European Poker Tour’s Deauville Main Event, Paul Guichard has taken a narrow lead over his competitors heading into the final table. Guichard holds a ...  Read more...

Celeb Poker is one of the best poker rooms in the industry right now, and for good reason. Recently they announced that players who play with a currency other than USD will be rewarded. As is the ...  Read more...

Poker players around the world with money stuck in Full Tilt Poker accounts received some good news this week, as a key figure in the investment group looking to purchase the poker site says the ...  Read more...

All over the world there is a constant struggle as to whether poker is a game of chance, or a game of skill. Poker players will tell you that it is a game of skill, but the players who lost a lot ...  Read more...

While March 4th is still a month away, it is never too early to begin preparing yourself for a tournament series of this proportion. On March 4th, the Merge Poker Network, who plays home to sites ...  Read more...

Day Three of the European Poker Tour’s Deauville Main Event was dominated by locals, as French players took firm control at the top of the leaderboard. At the end of the day’s play, there were ...  Read more...

A lot of sites offer a huge weekly tournament and Bovada is no exception. The Bodog Poker Network who recently rebranded is offering a weekly tournament that guarantee a prize pool of at least ...  Read more...

Day Two of the European Poker Tour’s Deauville Main Event saw more than half of the remaining field eliminated, as just 178 of the 546 players who came into the day will be continuing on to Day ...  Read more...

The World Series of Poker released their 2012 schedule on Wednesday, revealing a slate of 61 bracelet events that will be held between May 27 and July 16. The schedule culminates with the Main ...  Read more...

888 Poker, like most bigger online casinos nowadays, is one of Celtic FC’s many affiliates. Because of that special relationship, they are able to offer you some great deals on a boat load of ...  Read more...

The European Poker Tour swung back into action Tuesday, as EPT Deauville saw 339 players take to the felt in northern France. Tuesday was day 1A for the Deauville Main Event, which carried a ...  Read more...

The PokerStars Network is the world’s largest without a doubt, and probably the most well-known too. They recently celebrated their tenth year providing online poker, and now they’re celebrating ...  Read more...

William Dorey won the first ever Asian Poker Tour event in Europe this weekend, topping a field of 125 players to win a £17,130. As you might expect given the name, the Asian Poker Tour has ...  Read more...

Starting tomorrow, February 1st and running for the entire month, Card Rush at PartyPoker is a promotion that rewards cash game players for playing like they would on any other day. Every time ...  Read more...

Internet poker laws, as much as we hate them, are everywhere. In virtually every poker country selection, there is some special requirement or restriction for players who wish to play poker ...  Read more...

A long while after Black Friday, nobody wanted to hear about Full Tilt anymore, but somehow it continued to happen.  A deal with a French Investor, Groupe Bernard Tapie, was in the works and ...  Read more...

The world is well aware of the dire online poker situation that exists in the United States, but few people know a similar situation is looming over the heads of Germans too. 15 of the 16 German ...  Read more...

Party Poker is sponsoring a warm-up event for the World Poker Tour’s stop in Vienna, Austria. The event is known by players and fans alike as the WPT Premier League V and will be held at the ...  Read more...