On Thursday night, the pairings were drawn for the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship at PURE Nightclub at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.  The first round of the 64-player tournament will commence on Friday, March 5th at Caesars and will continue through Sunday, March 7th.
Many of the faces in the $20,000 buy-in competition are household [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | March 5, 2010

Achilleas Kallakis, a Greek property tycoon who has also appeared on poker television, was charged Monday in London with defrauding two European banks.  He was required to post £140,000 in bail and must report to Chelsea police station once per week in advance of a May 4th court appearance.
Kallakis has been one London’s biggest real [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | March 4, 2010

Full Tilt Poker is bringing back one of its most popular recurring promotions, Sit & Go Madness.  The Madness will run this coming weekend, beginning at 4:00pm ET on Friday, March 5th and ending at 4:00pm ET on Sunday, March 7th.  During the 48 hours, Sit & Go players will be competing not just for [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | March 3, 2010

PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, is running two promotions that will give its customers a chance to travel the world to play poker.
The first, Dream Job Australia, offers the opportunity to become a PokerStars sponsored player.  The path to the Dream Job begins with the Freeroll Qualifiers, held once daily, Saturday through Thursday, [...]

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

In November 2009, Party Poker ran an encore performance of its popular “Gladiator” promotion and now, after a few month hiatus, The Gladiator is back. Running from March 3rd through April 1st, The Gladiator is designed to reward Party Poker customers for loyal, daily play at the online poker room.

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

Party Poker announced Thursday that it has signed two new pros to its team: Dragan Galic and Francesco Totti.
Galic becomes the newest member of Team Party, joining recent additions Antanas “Tony G” Guoga and Kara Scott, along with 2009 Poker Hall of Fame inductee Mike Sexton, Ian Frazer, Felipe “Mojave” Ramos, Bodo Sbrzesny and Remy [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | February 26, 2010

Millions of Americans are currently in the process of trying to wade through the thousands of rules, deductions, exemptions, and credits of the federal tax code in an effort to file their tax returns by April 15th. Senators Ron Wyden (D – OR) and Judd Gregg (R – NH) are trying to make things [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | February 25, 2010

Earlier this week, PokerStars released the schedule for the 2010 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), unveiling a line-up with 50% more tournaments than last year’s edition.  The inaugural SCOOP in 2009 was a smash hit, attracting almost 200,000 players across 22 triple-tiered events.  $30 million in prize pools were guaranteed, but the popularity of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | February 24, 2010

PartyPoker.com sent a small army to the World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational, but it wasn’t enough to get any of them to the televised final table. David McGrail, a 24-year old surveyor from Edinburgh, Scotland, was eliminated in within sight of the final table in 13th place on Monday, making him the last [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 23, 2010

Players normally flock to PokerStars on a daily basis, but from February 10th through February 21st, the world’s largest online poker room gave its players an extra incentive: the chance to win big in its 40 billionth hand promotion, dubbed F40.

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 22, 2010