The sixth annual World Championship of Online Poker begins this Friday, as the first two of twenty-three events gets underway.PokerStars began the WCOOP back in 2002 with nine events and just under $800,000 in total prize money.Now, in 2007, PokerStars has ponied up no less than $15,000,000 in total guaranteed prize pools.
The 2006 Main Event [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | September 13, 2007

When it comes to the big play, competition between the Americas and Europe is fierce. Consider the top money winning countries in the WSOP: 

USA

UK

Canada

Sweden

Very evenly matched, huh? The WPT records are not very different – while Daniel Negreanu tops most winning and earning charts, he is closely followed by Europeans such as Juan Carlos Mortensen [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | September 13, 2007

The first ever WSOP Europe is designed to celebrate the cultural differences between European and American style casinos. WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack said the WSOP Europe have a very different spirit from Vegas because “the London club properties are fairly intimate and exclusive […]. And we also want to be authentic to the European marketplace. [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | September 12, 2007

According to those in the know, playing cards first appeared in 9th century China, and they took Europe by storm in the late 14th century. The four suits – as we know them – stem from 15th century France, and face cards were changed to represent European royalty around that time too. 
The King used to [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | September 11, 2007

The poker world has become globalized. There is no arguing this: just a look at this year’s WSOP Main Event final table should be proof enough: the final nine covered four continents and five different countries including the US, Great Britain, South Africa and Russia.
Poker’s rise in popularity all over the world has many causes, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | September 10, 2007

In an effort to boost memberships to try to hit the million member goal, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) and PokerStars have formed their own alliance.PokerStars is holding a series of freeroll tournaments through September 13th to promote the poker lobbying organization.
Each freeroll features a $5,000 prize pool and will run three times each night, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | September 9, 2007

PartyGaming, operator of Party Poker, announced this week that it has launched white-label online gaming offerings on UK broadcaster ITV’s website.
The games, which are almost carbon copies of what PartyGaming already puts out under the Party brand, are part of an effort by the company to add revenue streams as it continues to pull itself [...]

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

Kirk Morrison heads the leaderboard after the Day 1 of the first ever World Series of Poker Europe event.Morrison is one of only two players with over 50,000 chips, with 55,900.Jan Sorensen is in second place, barely breaking that 50,000 chip mark by a measly hundred.
The event is a £2,500 buy-in, three-day H.O.R.S.E. tournament, which [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | September 7, 2007

Well, not exactly.He is underage, after all.Not to mention the fact that he is a cartoon.In reality, the voice of Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright (who also serves as honorary mayor of California’s North San Fernando Valley), has invited poker players, celebrities, and the general public to her home on September 29 for the second annual [...]

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

The World Poker Showdown (WPS) has inked a deal with United Sports Media, a Los Angeles based media and television syndication firm, and World Poker Entertainment Network to broadcast its next four major events internationally.
The first event will be the WPS Costa Rica Poker Showdown at the Hotel Amapola in Jaco Beach, Costa Rica from [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | September 6, 2007