Legal online poker has been up and running in the state of New Jersey for about a week now and already the signs are promising as the state has already surpassed Nevada in the rankings, despite launching some seven months later than their rivals. Legal online poker officially launched on Tuesday 26th November after an […]

Christmas is traditionally a time of year where friends, family and loved ones get together to exchange gifts, and this year will be no different as households all over the world are already preparing for the forthcoming festive season. Online poker giants PokerStars are also getting into the spirit of things this Christmas too, as […]

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) holds numerous great events throughout the year with three main events now taking place in America, Europe and Asia, but from next year the schedule will see some significant changes to the calendar with both the WSOP Europe and WSOP Asia Pacific WSOP (APAC) now taking place on alternate […]

The Aussie Millions is an event that attracts the top players from around the world, and it is also an event that gets the poker year off to a great start as it is regularly held during January. Earlier this week Crown Melbourne announced, in conjunction with the PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), that the […]

At the end of October we brought you the news that German Professional Philipp Gruissem had just won the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Alpha8 High Roller Event in London, and we said that if he continued his current run of form he would be the player to beat in St Kitts at the next event. […]

Online Poker company’s are always looking at new innovative ideas to attract new players to their sites, and it is also a way of keeping their current client base happy as well. At the beginning of October Full Tilt Poker announced that Viktor “Isildur1” Blom would be putting $100,000 of his own money on the […]

At the beginning of October we brought you the news that Team PokerStars Professional Vanessa Selbst was added to the line-up for this months $125,000 PartyPoker Premier League VII. Today we can tell you that two of the biggest names in the game have also been added to the list and they are Greg Merson […]

On Saturday 6th July Ryan Riess and Jay Farber were just two of the 6,352 players who set out in pursuit of glory at the Main Event of this years World Series of Poker (WSOP). Some 122 days later, on Tuesday 5th November, the pair went head to head to see who would claim the […]

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine reconvened yesterday and after a long and arduous day at the felt the final nine players were reduced to two, with Americans Jay Farber and Ryan Riess left to fight it out for the right to be this years Main Event Champion. Mark Newhouse was the first […]

Canadian poker professional Daniel Negreanu may be the player of the moment right now, but German star Philipp Gruissem is running hot as he has just won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Alpha8 High Roller Event in London, just a few days after his third place finish in the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) […]