The 2008 edition of NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) has been slated to run February 28 through March 2.For the third straight year, the tournament will be held at Caesars in Las Vegas, after debuting at the Golden Nugget in 2005, the only year it was held at the downtown casino.
The NHUPC is a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | December 12, 2007

According to the High Stakes Poker Database, a website that functions to monitor high stakes online poker games, world renowned poker star Phil Ivey lost one of the biggest pots in recorded online poker play history. He actually ended up losing two sizeable pots, but only one of them was big enough to earn a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | December 12, 2007

Nancy Cartwright, the seldom-seen voice of television cartoon character Bart Simpson, is inviting anyone and everyone to her home on December 15 for a night of charity poker.For a $75 donation to Happy House, guests can participate in a poker tournament, as well as help themselves to a barbecue.This is the second charity poker event [...]

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

Despite efforts to come clean and professionally address the scandal created by Chris Vaughn and Sorel Mizzi, where the two friends were found guilty of account selling during a big-money online poker tournament, Bluff Media has decided to terminate Chris Vaughn’s position as Managing editor of their renowned magazine.
According to a statement by Bluff Magazine, [...]

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

For the second consecutive year, poker was the most frequently searched term at Lycos.com, topping the site’s year-end Lycos 50.Poker has appeared in the Lycos 50 for 412 straight weeks, behind only Pamela Anderson, Dragonball, and Britney Spears, each of which have been on the list for 421 weeks, since its inception in 1999.
The rest [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | December 11, 2007

It’s not ready just yet, but sometime in early 2008, players on the Microgaming Poker Network (Poker Rewards, Doyle’s Room, etc.) will get to enjoy a new-look poker room.Attendees of the International Casino Exhibition January 22-24 will get the first peek at the beta version of the software update.
The changes should appeal to both the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | December 11, 2007

The US Congress is slowly gaining support in the fight against last year’s controversial UIGEA bill, which outlawed all forms of online gambling except for horse betting. The reversal in the House of Representatives can likely be attributed to the fact that the WTO recently deemed the UIGEA bill unlawful, and will hold the US [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | December 10, 2007

If you have ever dreamed of touching the same deck of cards that Phil Hellmuth touched (and who hasn’t?) SkyMall just might have the item for you.For the not-so-low price of $149 plus shipping, you can own two authentic decks of cards that were used in the 2007 World Series of Poker.We’re going to assume [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | December 10, 2007

In February 2007, PokerStars rolled out a new funds transfer method for its poker room, the payTru Visa debit card, which allowed U.S. players to both deposit and withdraw from their accounts easily.Ten months later, PokerStars has dropped it, much to the chagrin of American customers.
PokerStars will still permit deposits with payTru through December 14, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | December 10, 2007

The headline of the article says it all.Online poker room PokerStars has made Mac users very, very happy by releasing a new version of its software for the oft-neglected segment of the poker playing population.
The software client is still a beta version, but it is almost as complete as the standard, PC version.Mac users, as [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | December 10, 2007