Category Archives: Poker News

For those of you who have been waiting for a decent poker movie outside of “Rounders,” your dream might finally come true when the movie “Cogan’s Trade” hits the big screen. Headlining Cogan’s Trade is long-time movie star Brad Pitt, who is going to play Cogan – a mob enforcer sent to investigate poker games that got robbed under the mob’s protection.  Since this is a relatively new project, few details are known in regards to the other actors.  However, Casey Affleck and Sam Rockwell are rumored to be joining the movie that’s already making poker news.  Acclaimed director Andrew …

As Vienna ($4 million prize pool) and Festa al Lago ($3.2 million prize pool) have recently proven, the World Poker Tour is running some of the biggest casino poker events in the world.  And many online poker players are wishing they had the funds to travel to WPT events and play for multi-million dollar prize pools. If you find yourself longing to play in one of these huge poker tournaments, you should visit Absolute Poker.  That’s because Absolute Poker is going to give away a $12,000 prize package for the Five Diamond World Poker Classic.  This prize package will cover …

If you aren’t currently a Full Tilt Poker member, now is the best time to download their poker software.  That’s because Full Tilt is giving away $150,000 this weekend through Super Sit N Go Madness.  If you want to win a piece of the $150,000, you don’t have much time to waste because the Super Sit N Go Madness online poker deals only last for 48 hours.  Super Sit N Go Madness starts at 16:00 ET on November 5th, and the poker games go on until 16:00 ET on November 7th. One of the biggest prizes in this event is …

EPT Vienna is officially the largest casino poker event in Austrian history after 587 players paid the €5,300 to buy into this event; this created a €2,935,000 ($4,087,868) prize pool.  Whoever wins this poker tournament will walk away with €700,000 ($974,960)! The tournament is already 309 players closer to crowning a winner since only 278 players remain after two days at the poker tables.  UK player Laurence Houghton leads the field right now with 190,000 poker chips, but there is still a lot of poker left to play.  Several notable players have a chance to win this tourney since Daniel …

PokerStars recently signed a deal with Fox Sports to offer a free poker room on FoxSports.com.  In addition to the poker room, PokerStars will also offer several other services such as poker rules, poker strategy, and poker news. Popular speculation is that FoxSports.com made this deal so that they could compete with ESPN.com, which leads all mainstream online sports sites in poker content.  Now Fox Sports has the benefit of having the world’s largest online poker room providing content for them.   The obvious benefit to PokerStars is that they get to advertise their brand name on a mainstream sports website.  …

Sometimes it’s tough finding Omaha promotions since everything in online poker seems to revolve around holdem poker.  Thankfully, there are places like Everest Poker where people can go to find Omaha promotions.  Everest’s latest deal involving Omaha poker is called “Omaha Nights.” Omaha Nights happens every Thursday at 18:00 GMT and 20:00 GMT, and both times offer a separate poker tournament.  The 18:00 GMT tournament is only $5 + $0.50 to enter with the prize pool offering $1,000 guaranteed.  Those who play poker in the 20:00 GMT tournament only have to pay a $2 + $0.20 buy-in, and the prize …

The two variants of the poker game Omaha, known as Omaha High and Omaha Hi-Lo have some differences that can be easy to understand when simply stated and finding the one that is the best fit for you can lead to a long time relationship of good gaming fun. A quick look at some of the differences and similarities can easily help you decide which version of the game is best for you. First of all, while the hand selection in Omaha Hi-Lo does have some similarities to Omaha High they are actually completely different. In Omaha High the real …

If you play micro stakes poker games, you don’t expect to play for lots of money at this juncture.  In fact, you are probably just hoping to improve your poker strategy before moving on to higher stakes.  But at Ultimate Bet Poker, you don’t have to wait for the higher stakes before playing for lots of cash.  You can play poker for major money right now through their Perfect Play promotion! Altogether there will be over $100,000 worth of prizes offered with the money spread out over several different promotions.  In Perfect 10, you will compete in $10 +$1 tournaments …

Just a couple of weeks after Russian spy Anna Chapman released her new iPhone game Poker with Anna Chapman, Full Tilt Poker is said to be working on a new application for the Android. Full Tilt has been developing this mobile phone game for the past several weeks, and it’s rumored that the app could be done in as few as a few weeks.  News of Full Tilt going mobile first broke when they sent out an email to Black Card members earlier this week inviting them to participate in the mobile Rush Poker beta testing.  Now it appears as …

After offering a $7,460,000 prize pool last year, the Aussie Millions is easily the biggest casino poker event in the Southern Hemisphere.  And Tyron Krost was certainly glad to be a part of this poker tournament in 2010 when he took the $2 million top prize!  Obviously there is a lot of money involved in the Aussie Millions and if you’d like to play poker for this enormous amount of cash, you should visit Full Tilt Poker.  Full Tilt is currently giving away $16,000 prize packages for the Aussie Millions where $10,000 goes towards the Main Event buy-in, and the …