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Of all the poker hands you could be dealt, 7-2 is no doubt the worst one. This is something that everyone finds out as soon as they learn to player poker.  But Ultimate Bet is putting an offer on the table that will make it pretty hard to fold 7-2 next time it’s dealt to you.  Ultimate Bet is offering side jackpots to players who can win a pot with the worst hand in online poker at their “Seven Deuce” poker tables.  To get started with this extremely fun promotion, you just need to visit the lobby in the UB …

The Poker Players Alliance, which is the biggest lobbying organization for online poker, recently unveiled a new iPhone application that costs just $0.99.  Unlike many other poker-related iPhone programs, the application offered by the PPA has nothing to do with playing poker games or teaching people poker strategy.  Instead, this iPhone program was created with the intention of promoting internet poker worldwide, and convincing governments in countries such as the United States to pass favorable poker laws. Some features of the PPA’s new iPhone app is that it alerts players about starting times for various poker tournaments, delivers messages from …

The World Series of Poker* is the biggest casino poker event in the world since it offers millions of dollars.  Last year’s event offered over $180 million alone!  Unfortunately though, the average player doesn’t get the chance to compete in Las Vegas because they can’t afford the plane ticket and hotel accommodations – let alone the poker tournament buy-in.  But the good thing is that Full Tilt Poker is offering an alternative route for players who can’t afford to play in the real deal. From May 28th until July 11th, Full Tilt Poker will be holding the Mini WSOP, which …

Already the top two online poker rooms and largest providers of rakeback in the world, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars might be getting even bigger by launching their own TV shows.  PokerStars’ TV show will be called “The Big Game” and it will air on Fox Television.  The Big Game is a takeoff on the popular show “High Stakes Poker” where some of the world’s best known players engage in poker games against each other.  At this point, PokerStars-sponsored player Daniel Negreanu is the only person who’s been confirmed for the show. The show will be formatted in $200/$400 holdem …

Every online poker room runs freeroll poker tournaments in an effort to keep players happy and entice new people to their room.  Unfortunately, most of these freerolls only offer $50 or $100 prize pools, and the large amount of players involved means that one would have to play thousands of poker hands just to win some money.  Carbon Poker doesn’t believe in wasting players’ time with pointless poker games so they’ve decided to hold a massive freeroll poker tournament that will offer $100,000!  The winner of this free poker tournament will cash for $20,000 while the rest of the placers …

World Team Poker is set to be one of the most entertaining poker tournaments in the world since teams from all around the globe are gathering to compete in this international event.  And many of the teams that will play in the event have finished selecting their team members. Team USA, which is captained by Phil Hellmuth and Doyles Room personality Doyle Brunson, is the latest team to pick their members.  Hellmuth and Brunson selected Allen Cunningham, Annie Duke, Jennifer Harman, Erik Seidel, Mike Matusow, Chris Ferguson, and Howard Lederer.  Team Australia members include Tony G, Jeffrey Lisandro, Steve Topakas, …

People argue all of the time over who the best poker players are in both live and online poker. Unfortunately, there are few places that attempt to settle this argument outside of say a few rogue Internet poker websites. Luckily, there is now a legitimate source to settle these arguments since the professionals at ESPN.com are releasing a monthly list of the top 10 poker players in the world. Whether these people are live players or strictly Internet grinders who like to sit back and collect rakeback money, they could be featured on the list. What’s interesting about this top …

Michael McDonald is one of the best poker players in the world….or at least was one of the best.  McDonald’s career is seemingly at an end after he announced through his blog that he will no longer be playing live or online poker anymore.  In the blog, McDonald stated that he knew few people outside of the players he had met through Internet poker or at live poker tournaments.  McDonald wrote the following in his blog, “I think in all honesty I should be a fairly interesting person given the amount of time, resources, experience and opportunities I have but …

While most players today are making their money by playing online poker and taking advantage of rakeback deals, Carlos Mortensen is sticking to the old-fashioned way by earning his cash through live tournaments.  And Mortensen recently earned a lot of cash when he took the $393,820 top prize at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open. This was the third World Poker Tour win for Carlos Mortensen and this ties Gus Hansen for the most all-time wins in the WPT.  Perhaps even more important than this is that Mortensen was able to move past Daniel Negreanu on the all-time WPT money list.  …

Apparently there aren’t enough rakeback deals going around in online poker so people are resorting to robbing live poker tournaments to make money.  Four armed gunmen stormed the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin, Germany the other weekend in pursuit of the €1.36 million prize pool that was up for grabs in the European Poker Tour Berlin tournament. The robbers broke up the €5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event as they ran into the ballroom.  At least one of the men had a gun and another was holding a machete when they interrupted one of Europe’s biggest live poker tournaments.  When they …