Poker News

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2012 is being held this year at the Atlantis Resort and Casino located on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The PCA has been part of the international poker circuit since 2004 and last year’s event saw Galen Hall take an outstanding $2,300,000 home with over $15,000,000 shared among 200 players. The [...]

On January 5 2012, the Nevada Gaming Commission took the gambling by surprise when announcing that a regulatory framework for online poker has been approved.

888poker has been voted Poker Operator of the Year by eGR. This prestigious award recognizes the changes that have taken place at the internet poker giant. Read more here.

Find out how to play Texas Hold’em Shootout and where to play this new table game. The new game developed by IGT is suitable for experienced and novice Texas Hold em players.

The news of the acquisition of Fox Poker Club by The Genting Group stirred quite a ripple in the online poker community.  Genting Casinos UK Ltd. has become the new owners of the highly popular Fox Poker Club, although not a peep has been heard about the sum involved in this take over. The Fox [...]

The acquisition of Full Tilt Poker by the Groupe Bernard Tapie is not yet a done deal.  It does look like the online poker community breathed a sigh of relief a bit too soon following the news item published by CNN Money last Friday to the effect that the sale of FTP by GBT had [...]

It has been 10 years already since Aussie Millions started to work its magic on the poker world and this unique tournament has fast garnered the reputation of being the most friendly and richest poker tournament outside of the US. This year’s Aussie Millions promises to be even more spectacular in celebration of the 10th [...]

The new World Series of Poker champion is Pius Heinz, a professional poker player born 22 years ago in Euskirchen, Germany. Against many odds, the poker player won the WSOP Main Even which was held at the Penn and Teller Theatre at the Rio in Las Vegas cashing in a total of $8,798,924 in prize [...]

Following the Black Friday events, 11 people were indicted by the US Department of Justice and four of them were actually arrested. Amongst these are John Campos and Chad Elie who have been arraigned and who have submitted not-guilty pleas. Following the latter’s contention as to poker being a game of skill and consequently not [...]