Marcus Bebb-Jones, a British Poker player, has been jailed for 20 years for the murder of his wife, a murder that took place some 16 years ago in Colorado. In 1997 Bebb-Jones’ wife Sabrina went missing after the couple went on a day trip, and it wasn’t until 2004 that a Rancher found her skull […]

Tonight is the night that the first legal hand of online poker will be dealt in The United States of America, with Nevada based UltimatePoker.com having the privilege of dealing the historic first hand at 9pm PST this evening. Two years and 15 days on from that fateful day in April 2011, a day that […]

The 2013 World Snooker Championships in Sheffield are well under way now, but that is not the only big tournament being played on the green baize in The Steel City over the next two weeks, as The Grosvenor Casino Sheffield are to host their own World Championship Snooker Poker Tournament to run along side the […]

888 Poker continue to take the world of online poker and internet gaming to a new level and today have announced record profits for the first quarter of this year, proving that last years record figures were no flash in the pan. This time last year poker revenue at 888 was reported at $21 million, […]

The Crown Casino in Melbourne has just played host to the first ever Asia-Pacific World Series of Poker (WSOP APAC), an event that started on the 4th April and climaxed on April 15th when Canadian Daniel Negreanu took down Daniel Marton to claim the Main Event. Today here at pokernet.com we ask was the tournament […]

Yesterday was the second anniversary of ‘Black Friday’ the day that shook the world of online poker, and a day that is still having a serious effect on the way many people used to make their living a whole two years on. To cut a long story short The United States Justice Department closed down […]

The second anniversary of Black Friday is just two days away now, but one state in particular is going all out to try and get legalised online poker up and running again as soon as possible, with Nevada being the state in question. Caesars Interactive Entertainment and 888 Holdings have been in partnership for a […]

Poker has always been a popular game in pubs and clubs and it is a game that is played by all different kinds of individuals all over the world. There are large tournaments taking place right now in Australia and America for instance, tournaments that have six figure sums available to the winners, but the […]

Zynga Incorporated are probably best known for their partnership with social media site Facebook and the games they provide them, games like Farmville, Cityville and Hidden Chronicles to name just a few. Well they have now moved into the real money gaming world as well because they have just launched web and download versions of […]

Poker giant Phil Ivey is a name that has been on many peoples lips of late. At the weekend it was reported he won around $750,000 in a little over 48 hours whilst playing online last week, in addition to the news about his long standing divorce settlement finally come to an end with his […]