Online poker cash game tracking site PokerScout.com released its weekly traffic report on Sunday, showing a rate of growth for the industry at historically low levels.
Last week, the number of cash game players at online poker rooms decreased 1.8 percent from the previous week, pushing the annual growth rate for the industry down to just [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | June 16, 2010

One of the lovely ladies of poker, Lacey Jones, has signed on to be a sponsored pro of Full Tilt Poker.  The world’s second largest online poker room announced the partnership with the 31-year old San Antonio native last Friday, the same day Jones could be seen donning her new Full Tilt patch at the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | June 14, 2010

On Thursday, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier grabbed one of the two sponsor exemptions to the 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (TOC) by winning a nine-player Sit-and-Go hosted by the WSOP Academy.
The single table tournament was put together to give a select few non-bracelet winners a chance to win a seat in the $1 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 11, 2010

It’s not a new version of its software altogether, but as is the case almost every month, Party Poker has made updates to its software client in order to improve the playing experience for its customers. A representative for Party Poker said that most of the changes that have been made will actually be [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | June 10, 2010

It was small and not really all that important, but the Poker Player World Cup of Poker sponsored by PartyPoker was what poker should be: fun.
Held at the Loose Cannon Poker Club in London this past Sunday, the Poker Player World Cup of Poker was organized by Poker Player magazine as a goofy little tournament [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | June 9, 2010

If you are going to break a record, you might as well really break it.  Such was the case with Phil Laak this past weekend, as he shattered the Guiness World Record for most consecutive hours playing poker.  On Sunday evening, “The Unabomber” finally called it quits at 115 straight hours, besting the previous record [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | June 8, 2010

Phil Hellmuth might want to look over his shoulder because someone is creeping up on his World Series of Poker (WSOP) records.  Men “The Master” Nguyen, a fixture in live poker tournaments, captured his seventh WSOP gold bracelet over the weekend, winning the prestigious $10,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship.  For his victory, Nguyen cashed [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | June 7, 2010

Two weeks ago, online poker cash game traffic monitoring site PokerScout.com noted in its weekly traffic report that the iPoker network had passed Party Poker to become the third largest poker network on the internet. Party Poker had previously taken over the third spot from iPoker about five months prior. This week, Party Poker is [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | June 4, 2010

Michael Mizrachi has been going through some tough times lately.  In May, the United States Internal Revenue Service filed a lien against Mizrachi for $339,711 and he had two properties go into foreclosure, both of which were sold at auction.  The problems did not appear to be completely his fault, as he was partially the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | June 2, 2010

Each day, the sun rises, the sun sets, we go to sleep, and a new day starts again. Days turn into a week, weeks turn into a month, and with that new month comes another PartyPoker promotion. This time it is a rehash of a promo from last year, the PartyPoints boost.
The PartyPoints [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 1, 2010