Poker Stars began its celebration of the anniversary of the Stars Sunday Million by dropping a little extra something into the night’s prize pool. Or a hundred thousand extra somethings — dollars, to be more precise.
Poker Stars Sunday Million
6,672 players signed up for the anniversary edition of the Poker Stars Sunday Million, and with the [...]

For only 10 Summit Points, you can enter our exclusive $500 PokerNews Cash Freerolls running all year round at Everest Poker - it's that easy!
Just sign up to Everest Poker through PokerNews, register a new account and earn 10 Summit Points to use to 'buy-in' to the freeroll. So if you've currently got points in [...]

Despite the fact that PokerStars players were busy leaving the Atlantis Casino & Resort in the Bahamas after watching Poorya Nazari win $3 million and the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure the Sunday Million was still the busiest tournament of the week with 8,268 players, many of whom were playing from the hotel lobby. The big winner was [...]

Thousands upon thousands of newlyweds have celebrated their Honeymoons in the Niagara Falls area. Next month, when the World Poker Tour comes to town, the Honeymoon will definitely be over for top local poker players.
Former Miami Dolphins quarterback, and current network football analyst Dan Marino hosted a celebrity poker tournament at the Niagara Fallsview Casino, [...]

James Giordano, winner of the $1,000 buy-in event at the Bellagio Cup II in August, was arrested last week in Miami for allegedly heading one of the largest illegal gambling operations in U.S. history.
On Wednesday, the Queens District Attorney’s Office and the New York City Police Department made several arrests following the filing of 33 [...]

The Durrrr Challenge resumed for a few hours recently and the pendulum swung in a direction it seemed to have forgotten recently: that of Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
Dwan had sustained some pretty heavy losses recently in his million-dollar, 50,000-hand challenge with Patrik Antonius. At his lowest point so far in the contest durrrr was down over [...]

After eleven months of battle ranging around the world, the Poker Player of the Year race comes down to three tournaments during the month of December. The three tournaments (the Bellagio's Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas, the Trump Classic in Atlantic City (both have preliminary events going at this time) and the [...]

Three hours into the final table of Event #41, $1,500 Mixed-Limit Hold'em, Nick Binger had eliminated six players and seemed destined to win his first WSOP bracelet. But Frank Gary had other plans. An amateur poker enthusiast, he sat back and bided his time, nursing his chip stack, as Binger cleared out the final table. [...]

WPT Player of the Year Gavin Smith is taking a big chip lead into the final table of the World Series of Poker Circuit event at Harrah’s New Orleans.
Smith (pictured) will be the heavy favorite when the final table begins play tomorrow, as he has almost triple the chips of the second place player.
Smith took [...]

The Crown Poker Room in Melbourne was host to an action junkie's wildest dream as Event 3 of the 2008 PokerNews Cup Australia kicked off on Monday, Australia time. The Pot Limit Omaha tournament, Event #3, featured some big names and more importantly, some big rebuys. With unlimited rebuys for the first three levels, several [...]

The world’s leading poker magazine, Bluff is launching in South Africa in April 2008. As the official digital media partners for the World Series of Poker, Bluff boasts a monthly print-run of over 200,000 copies in the USA and will form the cornerstone of the local poker community in South Africa.
Bluff features content from top [...]

Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. today announced the 38th annual World Series of Poker presented will begin June 1, 2007 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, with the final table of the $10,000 buy-in No Limit Texas Hold’em World Championship beginning July 17.
A complete schedule of events will be announced before the end of this year.
“The [...]

With just over half of the WSOP events completed, BLUFF MEDIA, publisher of Bluff Magazine and producer of Bluff Poker Radio, announced today its top broadcast moments thus far from the WSOP.
At the top of the list was the star-studded final table of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event. New to the WSOP this year, the event [...]

When Troy Weber starts Day 2b he'll do so with twice as many chips as any other player in the field.
If Jeffrey Pollack and the rest of the World Series of Poker management team have anybody to thank for taking some of the attention away from the near riot at the Rio on Monday it’s [...]

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day … teach him how to play poker and watch the chips fly. Now Daniel Negreanu and FullContactPoker.com will ante up again with the launch of Negreanu’s Protege 2, a contest where one lucky member of the FCP community will win the chance to become a [...]

“Ambassador of Poker” and PartyPoker.net host Mike Sexton fortified his honorary title when he donated half of his $1,000,000 Tournament of Champions winnings at the official WSOP party at the Voodoo Lounge at the Rio in Las Vegas on Friday night.
Sexton awarded $100,000 each to the Special Olympics, The Buoniconti Fund to help cure paralysis, [...]

Wed, Jul 8th, 2009 @ 12:00am
The combined survivors of Days 1A and 1B of the World Series of Poker Main Event- 1,476 of them- returned at noon Tuesday July 7th to play Day 2A. 2004 Main Event champion Greg Raymer and actor/comedian Jason Alexander shared the felt on ESPN's feature table one today. Feature table [...]

Team PokerBlue Co-Captain Yosh Nakano announced today the addition of poker superstars Gank (aka Bret Jungblut), Don Zewin and Thor Hansen to an impressive Team PokerBlue line-up that will compete in the upcoming 2006 World Series of Poker.
“Only a tremendous idea can generate the tremendous response level and enthusiasm Team PokerBlue is receiving from players [...]

213 players joined the field at the Casino Hohensyburg in Dortmund, Germany for Day 1b of the PokerStars.net EPT German Open, bringing the total field to 411 players. Among the stars taking to the felt were EPT Prague champion Arnaud Mattern, 2007 German Open champ Andreas Hoivold, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure winner Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier and [...]

Exactly one month ago Vivek Rajkumar captured the Borgata Poker Open and the $1,424,500 first place prize that came with the World Poker Tour title. Now he’s only two days away from capturing his second WPT title and his second million dollar payday after taking the chip lead at the North American Poker Championship in Niagara [...]

WPT Enterprises, Inc. and Fallsview Casino Resort announced that the anticipated field of 300 local and U.S. players at the inaugural WPT Canadian Open will also include three of Canada’s premier poker pros - Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Smith, and Isabelle Mercier.
Adding more excitement to the much-anticipated event, the three recently confirmed that they will return [...]

Layne Flack, who was arrested Thursday night and charged with DUI, has released the following statement through a publicist:
“I attended the Draw Party at Pure on (Thursday) night and then met with my brother, who had flown into Vegas for Heads Up. I was under the impression that I was to play in the last [...]

Sat, Jul 4th, 2009 @ 12:00am
Welcome to the World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1A. This is the event that everyone has been waiting for all summer, and it is finally here. Thousands of people have registered to prove their skills in this world famous event, and today survival of the fittest comes into [...]

Fri, Apr 10th, 2009 @ 12:00am
Florida's House of Representatives just released their pari-mutuel plan, with provisions that could stimulate high-stakes poker games in Florida. Highlights include extending the maximum hours for poker rooms from 12 hours to 24 hours a day, and raising the limits of poker wagers tenfold, from $5 to $50 on standard [...]

Tue, Jul 7th, 2009 @ 12:00am
The special guests at the Main Event of the World Series of Poker for today were ESPN announcers Lon McEachern and Norman Chad. Lon issued the order to "Shuffle Up and Deal!" shortly after noon.Day 1D saw 2,809 players hit the felt, bringing the total player count for the main [...]

Di Dang is a 25-year-old poker pro who makes his living playing the highest stakes cash games on the Internet under the moniker “Urindanger.” He plays as high as the $500-$1,000 half pot-limit Omaha/half pot-limit hold’em games on Full Tilt, and specializes in heads-up action. Dang sat down with Card Player to discuss an interesting [...]

In a live FullContactPoker webcast, fans from around the world watched ten amateur poker players vie to become Daniel Negreanu’s first-ever prot,g,. Throughout the summer, ‘Kid Poker,’ one of the most recognizable and successful individuals in professional poker tournament history, will now mentor Brian Fidler, of Derby, Connecticut, as he plays in four $10,000 buy-in [...]

The online poker room has a $28,000 Bellagio, World Poker Tour package on offer, but how can you qualify for it?
CD Poker, the innovative online poker room, which offers players a unique 3D perspective on the play, has announced a special offer for players this spring time. Up for grabs is the chance to play [...]

While most people spent the day barbecuing in their backyard to celebrate the Fourth of July, there were still 873 people that wanted to spend America’s birthday in the Rio’s Amazon Room, as day 1b of the World Series of Poker main event kicked off.
The 873 players is a considerable drop from the 1,158 players [...]

Kara Scott has been a part of the poker world as a television hostess since 2007 on shows such as Sky Poker in the UK and EPT Live for PokerStars. In the past year, the Canadian turned Brit has transformed into a successful poker player, going deep in the 2008 WSOP main event and the [...]