Category Archives: Poker News

Just because the WSOP is over with doesn’t mean that there aren’t still plenty of great casino poker events going on.  PokerStars is making sure of this as they are sponsoring a huge event this year called the Balkan Poker Festival.  Much like any other PokerStars event, the Balkan Poker Festival is going to offer lots of cash since over 200 players are expected to play in the Main Event.  But for once, poker tournament players might be interested in the host city of Varna, Bulgaria more than they are in the actual money. That’s because Varna, which is located …

As if numerous online poker deals and a Loyalty Program offering up to 36% weren’t enough to play at 888Poker, this extremely popular poker room recently added even more incentive by performing a massive upgrade on their software.  In fact, over 100 features were added to the poker software at 888, which makes it one of the best sites to play poker at in the world! The updated software will take effect as of July 26th, and people will now be able to take advantage of the new 3D poker lobby.  What’s really cool about this 3D online poker lobby …

Another day and another schmuck trying to sully the good name of poker: this time it’s Marcus Bebb-Jones, a 46 year-old UK poker player who has been accused of murdering his American wife, Sabrina in 1997, interring her body in the soils of a national park near Douglas Pass in Colorado and then treating himself to a weekend in Las Vegas. The poker enthusiast subsequently moved back to the UK only to be arrested in a police raid of his home last year.  There’s nothing funny about what happened here; it was a case of cold-blooded murder seemingly carried out …

When it was announced that both SportsBook Poker and PlayersOnly Poker were leaving the Cake Poker Network to join the MergeGaming Network, things looked pretty bleak for Cake.  However, things haven’t dropped off a bit at Cake Poker as evidenced by the fact that they are opening four new online poker rooms.  One might even say their incredible 33% rakeback deals are they main reason why Cake Poker can lose two huge rooms and still be doing great. The four internet poker rooms that Cake will be opening include WingsPoker, Unleashed Poker, PokerXRC, and Broadway Tables.  Each poker room has …

If you’re tired of listening to Lon McEachern and Norman Chad ramble on about the 2009 WSOP, then don’t worry because ESPN will be airing new episodes starting on July 27th.  The 2010 installment of the world’s largest casino poker event will begin running at 8pm ET on the 27th with the $50,000 Player’s Championship.  If you followed the Player’s Championship this year through poker news, then you already know that Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi won this poker tournament and the $1.56 million prize.  But now you have a chance to see the tournament on TV! Besides the Player’s Championship, …

Online poker is great because you can make all kinds of money by beating up on fish without ever having to step foot outside of your house.  What’s more is that you will get a lot of money back through all of the great rakeback deals that are always being offered by poker sites.  But even with all of the perks and great online poker deals that internet rooms have to offer, it’s still nice to get away and play casino poker at a huge land-based tournament. So if you find yourself longing for the canals of Venice, Italy or …

With all the millions of stunningly beautiful tropical islands dotted around the globe’s major oceans to choose from, why on Earth would poker players end up jetting to one of the coldest destinations on Earth to engage in a poker tournament? The North Pole Poker Championships (NCCP) was surely coined by someone or a group of people desperate for a new and interesting way to engage in their favorite occupation. This is fine and all, if you are determined to have it on your poker resume that you’ve played in one of the coldest places on earth, but environmentalists are …

After nearly two grueling weeks, the biggest poker tournament in the world has finally played down to a final table.  The 2010 November Nine was set when Brandon Stevens figured his poker odds were better than anyone else’s and went all-in with A-K.  Unfortunately for Stevens, Matthew Jarvis used some no-brainer poker strategy in calling Stevens’ all-in bet with pocket queens.  The board didn’t help Stevens at all, and he was eliminated in 10th place with a measly $635,011 prize.  With Stevens gone, the WSOP Main Event final table is now set with the following players: 1. Jonathan Duhamel: 65,975,000 …

While many eyes were focused on the WSOP Main Event, Phil Ivey was focused on winning his second World Poker Tour title at Bellagio Cup VI.  Unfortunately for Ivey, his bid for a second title fell short, but he did manage to make a record ninth WPT final poker table after finishing in third place.  In taking third, the Full Tilt Poker pro earned a nice cash of $363,650, which probably isn’t that much to Ivey. Another Full Tilt player in Justin “Boosted J” Smith had the good fortune of playing for the title against Moritz Kranich.  Smith was at …

Very few people ever dream of having their lives disrupted in one way or another by a volcano on the rampage. Now, thanks to a rather tempestuous volcano beneath the Eyjafjallajokull Glacier (yes, that’s a name) in Southeast Iceland, air traffic all over Europe has been grounded by massive amounts of volcanic ash in the atmosphere. As a result, millions of tourists are stranded in countries the world over while the airline business is staggering under the weight of countless hotel bills, grounded flights, loss of revenue and other conundrums such as: what to do with a million disgruntled passengers? …