It was announced today that the two top online poker tournament schedules in existence – PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and Full Tilt Poker’s Online Poker Series (FTOPS) – will be running their events in consecutive months, offering online tournament players the opportunity to gain prestige in the online poker world.
Both tournament schedules [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | July 4, 2009

U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs said this week that it believes that online gambling will eventually be legalized in the United States and several European gaming companies could benefit.
In a report to investors, Goldman Sachs used PartyGaming, operator of Party Poker, as a basis for determining the U.S. market’s size, saying, “Based on a simple [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | July 3, 2009

It is that time of year every poker player and poker fan looks forward to: The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is finally here. Friday marks the start of the biggest live tournament of the year and, according to the PartyPoker blog, over 100 PartyPoker qualifiers will be participating in the event.

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | July 2, 2009

Already in a dominant position in the world of online poker, PokerStars made additions to Team PokerStars that look to also challenge the live poker world.
It was announced today that veteran poker professional Marcel Luske and up and coming player Jason Mercier are the latest additions to a roster that already sports some of the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | July 1, 2009

Not only is the final table of the prestigious World Series of Poker (WSOP) $50,000 buy-in HORSE event packed with familiar faces and live poker pros, it also keeps the Player of the Year race after many thought three-time 2009 bracelet winner Jeffrey Lisandro had it in the bag.
The HORSE event drew only 98 runners [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 30, 2009

After staying out of the sponsored player wars for its entire existence, Party Poker is rapidly expanding “Team Party Poker” after the announcement of two more players to its roster.
Earlier this week, Party Poker announced that England’s Ian Frazer would join Party Poker ambassador and World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton as a sponsored player. [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | June 27, 2009

I’m going to honest with you. I’m not going to sugar coat it. Historically, Party Poker has not been known to blow away its players with its customer service. Things have generally improved over the last year or two, as noted in an article now and again on this website, but in years past, you [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | June 26, 2009

Over the past few months the World Poker Tour (WPT) has announced expansion into several new and exotic locales including Cyprus, Marrakesh and Venice. In the past two weeks they’ve added yet two more locales to their tournament schedule: Bratislava, Slovakia and Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
The WPT and the Slovak Poker Sport Federation joined forces to put [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | June 25, 2009

For the first time in its illustrious history, PartyPoker has announced that they are stepping into the player sponsorship pool by tapping English poker professional Ian Frazer to represent the company.
Besides their decade long sponsorship of their poker ambassador, professional player and World Poker Tour announcer Mike Sexton, PartyPoker has traditionally stayed out of the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | June 24, 2009

On Tuesday the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) announced that July 19th-25th will serve as National Poker Week, a week dedicated to promoting the game and advocating for the rights of card players in the United States. The announcement was made at a press conference at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas shortly before [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 23, 2009