Durrrr Widens Lead Over Antonius

When it first was announced, the poker world was very excited about Tom “Durrrr” Dwan’s Million Dollar Challenge. Within a week, players were lining up to accept the challenge. However, now, almost 9 months later, it seems that unless you are Patrik Antonius, you are going to be waiting a very long time for [...]

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PokerStars LAPT Schedule and Dates

The world’s largest online poker site just keeps it coming. This week, PokerStars has announced the scheduled for yet another tournament series. This time, it is the return of the highly successful Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) which will be entering its 3rd season. The popular international series this year will also be [...]

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Full Tilt Introduces “Run It Twice” Feature on Its Poker Software

What is “Run It Twice”?
Two weeks ago, it was announced that as part of its latest software upgrade, Full Tilt Poker has enabled the ability for players to “Run It Twice”. As it’s sometimes commonly known as “doing business”, running it twice occurs when players are all in on the flop and agree [...]

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Gladiator Promotion at Party Poker

PartyPoker customers need to get ready to engage in some serious battle throughout the month of November. This is because the popular online poker site is launching a new promotion called the Gladiator promotion which runs from November 1st through the 30th. At its core, participation

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Shana Hiatt Will Not be High Stakes Poker Host

So, who will be the next host of High Stakes Poker? The answer of who will host remains unanswered, but we now know of one person who won’t have the job, and that is Shana Hiatt. The former hostess of the World Poker Tour telecasts representatives have confirmed that she is not up for [...]

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New Bounty Tournaments at Party Poker

On the heels of exciting enhancements released by it’s leading competitors, PartyPoker has stepped up its efforts in revamping its site through its own most recent release. In an exciting development, Party now offers brand new Bounty tournaments to its online poker tournament lineup.
Basically, how a bounty tournament works is rather intuitive. [...]

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Clonie Gowen Lawsuit Again Falls Short

Female professional poker player, Clonie Gowen’s widely publicized lawsuit recently hit another major obstacle last week as her latest $40 million lawsuit against the world’s second largest internet poker site (Full Tilt Poker) was dismissed outright by Federal Judge Robert Jones.
Originally, Gowen filed a $40 million lawsuit naming Full Tilt Poker, Tiltware, a series of [...]

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Durrrr’s 2009 Has Been Full of Action

2009 has been an action packed year for poker pro Tom “Durrrr” Dwan. It seems that every other day, the player heralded as one of the gutsiest players out there finds his name in the headlines. He has been involved in most of the year’s largest online poker pots, both on the receiving [...]

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Ultimate Bet Looking to Increase International Exposure

In the not too distant past, it had become almost expected that any news coming out regarding online poker site UltimateBet would center around some type of negative publicity. Over the past year, UltimateBet has been working frantically to restore it’s once good name in the minds of players and interested parties in the [...]

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Bodog Poker Open IV Schedule

When it comes to online poker tournament series, Full Tilt has its FTOPS and PokerStars has the WCOOP. Those two events bring out the best of the best of both professional and amateur players alike. However, Bodog is making the case for having the 3rd best series out there as it has just [...]

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Barney Frank Launches Preemptive Strike on UIGEA Rules

As the day to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) rules quickly approaches, Representative Barney Frank has shifted his attention back towards the highly controversial debate. Last month, Frank’s reps revealed that as a result of more urgent issues had moved to the forefront of Frank’s agenda, he needed to temporarily back [...]

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Full Tilt Adds Unique Enhancements with Latest Upgrade

Full Tilt Poker just keeps on making enhancements that make their software even better. Mostly known as the poker site which possesses the largest online cash games anywhere in the world, the site is always looking to make improvements to set it apart from its rivals. With their latest upgrade, they seem to have [...]

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Who Will Host High Stakes Poker?

Following the introduction of the UIGEA, television was chock full of poker on TV. It was not uncommon to be channel surfing to find 3 or more channels showing different poker shows. ESPN and ESPN 2 had a plethora of World Series of Poker related programming. ESPN Classic would have poker marathons [...]

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Doyle Brunson Not a Fan of Poker Game Shows

It seems that poker icon Doyle Brunson watches television, and based on what he has seen from two high profile network shows relating to poker, he just does not like what he is seeing.
Responding to seemingly no one in particular, Brunson chimed in on the topic on his latest blog which is published on DoylesRoom.com. [...]

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