For quite some time, there have been two major software tools to help online players analyze their games: Poker Tracker and PokerOffice.Now, the folks behind the popular poker training software, Poker Academy, have introduced a third option, called Poker Academy Prospector.
Prospector is very similar to both Poker Tracker and PokerOffice, in that it allows you [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | June 30, 2007

The "sit-and-go" tournament is a more informal type of event, since their schedule is indefinite.  Usually these events have just one or two tables some sites offer up to five table sit-and-go’s. You can choose from a list of sit-and-go events at the tourney lobby and they cover a wide variety of buy-ins. As soon as [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 29, 2007

For two days only, online poker room Bodog.com is awarding seats to the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event for as little as one dollar, provided you don’t need to re-buy.
On both Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, Bodog is hosting two gigantic tournaments, each with at least one $10,000 seat (plus $2,000 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 15, 2007

The European Poker Tour announced its Season 4 lineup this week, releasing a schedule that features ten tournaments spread across ten different countries.The tour will begin August 28, 2007 with the EPT Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.
A newcomer to the EPT is the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, which takes place in the Bahamas, which, while a member [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | June 15, 2007

This week, Full Contact Poker (FCP) will be ending its relatively short life as an online poker room and merge into PokerStars.Along with FCP, the original website’s founder, Daniel Negreanu, will become part of Team PokerStars.
FCP had fled the Ongame network after Ongame closed its doors to U.S. citizens.Searching for a new, American-friendly home, FCP [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | June 11, 2007

Florida Congressman Robert Wexler has introduced a bill into the House of Representatives that would carve out poker, mahjong, chess, and other skill-based games from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that became law in 2006.Wexler’s bill joins Congressman Barney Frank’s recent bill in trying to allow Americans to “…play poker online as they should [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | June 7, 2007

Bill Frist and his cronies may have won the first round in the online gambling fight, but supporters of the pastime continue to attack the UIGEA.The latest punch thrown is by the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA), which is a new online gambling lobbying group.

The group has filed a lawsuit against the United [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | June 7, 2007

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee will be holding a hearing on Friday, June 8 at 10:00am entitled, “Can Internet Gambling Be Effectively Regulated to Protect Consumers and the Payments System?”Rep. Barney Frank (D – Mass.), who introduced the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 in April, was the one to spearhead the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | June 7, 2007

Care for a cup of tea with those pocket Aces? London will host the first European-based WSOP, starting on September 6. This is a historical event, as it will be the first time ever that a bracelet is awarded outside of Las Vegas.
The inaugural WSOP Europe will be held at at three of London's most [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | June 6, 2007

It won’t be long until a preschooler wins a WSOP bracelet, as soon as they remove that old-fashioned age minimum. Steve Billirakis won the Mixed Hold’em tournament at the ripe age of 21 years and 11 days, breaking Jeff Madsen’s record – he was 21 and a month when he won last year.  Billirakis takes [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | June 5, 2007