This past weekend the poker room at Caesars Palace looked more like a sports bar than a casino as nearly 450 players donned team jerseys for the second annual Dream Team Poker Tournament. The unusual event is one of the only poker tournaments in the country that turns the game into a team sport.
The $1,650 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | March 31, 2009

In a decision rendered on Monday, the state appeals court of the state of Washington upheld the 2006 law which banned online gambling and poker and made it an offense equal to that of child molestation.
Leading the charge in the Washington case was former gubernatorial candidate Lee Rousso, who is also an attorney and the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | March 27, 2009

With the 40th edition of the World Series of Poker coming in just two months, satellite tournaments are kicking into gear at poker rooms across the internet. Some rooms, like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, make grand spectacles of their WSOP promotions, and make it their goal to fill every seat at the Rio with [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | March 27, 2009

PartyPoker has introduced a new promotion for the month of April and this one has a Roman motif. From April 1st to April 25th, Party will be running “The Gladiator”, a promotion that rewards players who log hours on the site on an almost daily basis with anywhere from $5 to $1,000.
The Gladiator will offer [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | March 26, 2009

In a surprising move, the mixed martial arts organization Ultimate Fighting Championships looks to be banning all fighters from accepting sponsorships from Full Tilt Poker, apparently due to a deal worked out with a rival online poker room picking up sponsorship of UFC promotions.
According to the website MMAPayout.com, the UFC has sent out an e-mail [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | March 25, 2009

The 2009 WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship proved to be a memorable affair, both for its star-studded lineup and for its record-setting final table. The event kicked off last Monday and concluded Friday, with the final table running into the early hours of Saturday morning before Steve Brecher emerged as the champion.
The Shooting Star [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | March 24, 2009

This past weekend, one of the stars of the online poker world screwed up. He screwed up to the tune of one thousand dollars. And the worst part is that it he did not lose the money at the poker tables.
Eric “Sheets” Haber, who, along with Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy, is one of the founders of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | March 20, 2009

Over three months after the tournament began in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Mexico has finally found a champion in American Rory Cox. The initial $2,500 buy-in event was cancelled unexpectedly back in December when local gaming officials suddenly suspended play in the middle of the tournament and revoked the gaming [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | March 19, 2009

Two prominent poker tours completed their latest events over the weekend, with one featuring a rare championship and the other featuring one of its largest fields of their current season.
On Sunday in Dortmund, Germany, the European Poker Tour featured a final table that included such players as Team PokerStars members Luca Pagano (from Italy) and [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | March 18, 2009

Party Poker has launched a new promotion during the month of March that could find one of its customers winning $1 million. The Million-Dollar Hand promotion began on March 11th and will continue until 11:59 PM EST on March 22nd. While there is no guarantee that anyone will take home the full million dollars, players [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | March 17, 2009