Party Poker’s unique new promotion is called “The Grind”, and it rewards you for playing. As simple as that! As a Party Poker spokesman put it: “It’s quite simple, the more you grind the more we can pay. All you have to do is play!”

So what is this about?

In this one off promotion,
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Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | August 25, 2007

European players, rejoice!
Betsafe Poker is now licensed and regulated in Malta, a certified EU nation, so if you are playing from any other EU country your poker winnings are now tax-free. Isn’t that good to hear?
This development, along with the outrageous Threedom promotion, should help make Betsafe Poker one of the top poker sites [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | August 24, 2007

The Poker Players’ Alliance (PPA) announced recently a change of leaders and location, to be in a better position to work towards legalizing online poker. The PPA will leave its San Francisco headquarters and move to Washington D.C. to be closer to the decision-makers and in a more central position to lobby for the poker [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | August 24, 2007

The WSOP always starts a frenzy of promos among poker sites, and the WSOPE is not different in this respect. But the official sponsor, Betfair, has upped the ante in a rather spectacular way by offering a chance to win a Threedom Pass: free entry into the WSOP Europe Main Event for three years!
The Threedom [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | August 23, 2007

One of the main arguments wielded by those trying to ban online poker is “compulsive gambling”: they claim that players who can easily access poker games from their homes and mobiles are much more likely to develop gambling problems than those who have to drive miles to their nearest casino.Most of us disagree with this, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | August 23, 2007

Online poker rooms Absolute Poker and UltimateBet have announced that their customers now have the ability to move money between the two rooms, essentially allowing players to have one combined Absolute/UB bankroll.
The transfer option is in the cashier of each room and is processed like a normal withdrawal.Instead of choosing a cashout via check or [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | August 22, 2007

Hands-on Mobile recently launched WPT Texas Hold’em 2 for web-to-wireless, and the experts have been heaping praise on it: it has been named Wireless Game of the Month in July, IGN.com and WGWorld Editor’s Choice award, and it also has a Mobile Game gold award.
The second version of the game is “easily one of the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | August 21, 2007

It took him almost seventeen months, but poker pro Chris “Jesus” Ferguson finally accomplished his goal to make $10,000 on Full Tilt Poker, starting from nothing.
For Ferguson, it was both a challenge and a lesson in sound bankroll management. Once he actually had a few dollars from placing high in freeroll tournaments, Ferguson made himself [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | August 16, 2007

No, the update referenced in the title of this article is not the run-of-the-mill quick update that downloads every other time you login to Absolute Poker.This is an update, as in bringing the software up-to-date.Currently, the new poker client is in beta mode, but word is that all customers should see the revamped software within [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | August 16, 2007

Bad Beats are the ultimate insult in Poker - those rare or not so rare occasions in which your sound game and superior cards are busted by a probability freak, and Lady Luck seems to have it against you like a vengeful ex-wife. We have all heard and told the stories, and there are even [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | August 16, 2007