The action has been non-stop for almost a month at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia as the 2010 Aussie Millions is in full swing.  The preliminary events saw a number of familiar faces taking down big prizes including Erik Seidel, Mike “SirWatts” Watson and Dan Shak, who defeated Phil Ivey heads-up to take down [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | January 30, 2010

A new month is almost upon us, and with it comes a new promotion from PartyPoker.  February’s promo, dubbed “Hit or Run,” combines a little bit of grinding with a little bit of luck to produce some elevated heart rates.
Compared to most PartyPoker monthly promotions, Hit or Run is quite simple.  Starting February 1st and [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | January 29, 2010

The roster of the upcoming Party Poker Premier League IV is almost complete and three new big names in the poker world have agreed to take part in the upcoming televised tournament.  Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu and Vanessa Rousso have been added to the list of participants as has high stakes online cash game [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | January 27, 2010

Party Poker is the latest online poker room to dedicate time and effort to helping those affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti earlier this month. At least 150,000 lives have been lost, though Haitian government officials are predicting as many as 300,000 people died as a result of the brutal natural disaster. [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | January 26, 2010

In addition to offering seats to the upcoming Los Angeles Poker Classic (LAPC), PartyPoker is also giving users a chance to take part in the other World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament taking place at the Commerce Casino next month, the WPT Celebrity Invitational. The freeroll event boasts a $200,000 prize pool and the winner [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | January 23, 2010

When Full Tilt Poker announced the launch of Rush Poker this week, I thought to myself, “Seriously? It’s going to be video game poker!” I thought it was going to be terrible. I was both right and wrong.
It is kind of like video game poker, but you know what? It’s also [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | January 22, 2010

Just one week after announcing that Party Poker added poker player and presenter Kara Scott to their roster of pros, the online poker room revealed yet another player who would be joining their team.  News broke Thursday that Antanas “Tony G” Guoga would be joining Team Party Poker effective immediately.  Not only will Tony G [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | January 21, 2010

Online poker players often complain that the hours at the tables can be monotonous and, oftentimes, kind of boring.  Full Tilt Poker has come up with a new variation on cash games aiming to provide literally non-stop action for its participants.  The newly launched Rush Poker feature promises users that they will log a couple [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | January 20, 2010

The big names in poker are continuing to sign on to the upcoming installment of PartyPoker’s televised poker tournament, the Premier League IV. Some of the new names added to the roster of pros in the past two weeks include Roland de Wolfe, Phil Hellmuth, Luke “FullFlush1” Schwartz and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.
Several of these players have [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | January 19, 2010

I am not a heads-up Sit-and-Go player. I’ve played them before, but they aren’t really my cup of tea (read: I’m awful at them), so I generally stay away.  I read something about them recently, however, that I thought was interesting.  In four-player heads-up Sit-and-Go’s (these consist of semi-finals and finals matches – think NCAA [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | January 15, 2010