Take 12 of the best poker players in the world, split them in small groups and make them battle each other until the best one remains. Sounds exciting? This is exactly what Party Poker’s Premier League is all about, and it has now reached the final table, which will be broadcast starting on June 24.
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Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | June 18, 2008

On and on and on, there seems to be no end in sight for Antigua’s complaint against the US before the World Trade Organization, as yet a new protracted deadline is set to end the talks and settle the dispute.
After the US passed the UIGEA in 2006, Antigua’s economy took a serious hit, since a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 17, 2008

Ganjasx took home the first prize for the June 15 Party Poker $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool No Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament, winning more than $40,000 in a deal that ended the tournament at 8:30 PM EST last night.
Here are the rest of the top ten finishers:
1. Ganjasx2. Thegumboss3. BRUNZI99 4. no_IQ5. sharam_nuts6. Shubrath7. xPOTRIPPERx8. Mr_Daydream 9. Dino_Hermann10. stess111
1417 players bought in for $215 to leave [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | June 16, 2008

I wrote an article on the ten greatest poker players in the history of the WSOP and can’t say I was surprised by the response – long before publishing my editor said, “Really?!”
“Yes, Maria, really. There is really no argument against Phil Hellmuth Jr. being the greatest WSOP player in history. And it’s not even [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | June 16, 2008

The European Poker Tour announced its Season 5 lineup this week, releasing a schedule that features nine tournaments spread across nine different countries.The tour will begin September 10, 2008 with the EPT Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.
A newcomer to the EPT is EPT Deauville in Deauville, France.It had actually been on the Tour in the past [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | June 13, 2008

HeadsUp Entertainment announced Wednesday that it has purchased the Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) and Canadian Poker Player magazine from Fifth Street Publishers Ltd.The CPT and the magazine became dormant in February due to lack of funds.Fortunately, both will now be able to spring back to life under new ownership.
HeadsUp Entertainment already operates Canadian Championship Poker, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | June 12, 2008

This is for the nerds.
This is for the people who think that poker is like life. For the people who see the suckouts on the streets and the bluffs in their own homes. This is for the poker philosophers.
Party Poker people, this is for you.
I was watching more of the unending coverage of Barack Obama, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | June 11, 2008

Online poker room UltimateBet is sure trying to clean up its image in a hurry.First, it signs Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy to its newly-created Star Player team.Now it has inked another online star respected both for his skillful play and character: Eric “Rizen” Lynch.
Lynch is one of the coolest customers at the poker table - seemingly [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | June 11, 2008

Following in the steps of the major online poker rooms such as PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and most recently UltimateBet, PKR.com has launched its new player rewards program.Club PKR, as it is called, boasts one features that the others don’t – the site’s “always up, never down” policy.
Other loyalty programs also have status levels, with [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | June 11, 2008

Last week, Absolute Poker released a new version of its software client.Big news: Absolute does this every other day, or so it seems.This time, however, a couple new features were added that should please all but the most staunch super-user haters.
First, and most interesting, is the ability to make deals at the final table of multi-table [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | June 11, 2008