Online poker legislation is already “on the front burner” on the federal level according to Nevada Senator Dean Heller. This was confirmed following reports of a draft made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl. Heller named Minority Leader Mitch Connell fromKentuckyand leadership deputies Senator John Cornyn and Senator Roy […]

Ongame, a B2B poker provider, has teamed up with WMS company, Jadestone, to offer players with casino side games. Paf will be the first site to experience this new partnership. They will already be offering casino games as side games within their poker client. Arvid Klingstrom, head of poker at Paf, has told the press […]

French female poker player Gaelle Baumann was almost the first female player to enter the Final Table of the Main Event for World Series of Poker 2012. She lost at around 3:30AM and placed 10th in rankings. Elisabeth Hille was also close to the final table, placing 11th at this year’s Main Event Final Table. […]

In the recent weeks since Lock Poker started their own online poker network, they have been swarmed by a great number of players. They started operations of their online poker network on June 1st and have been attended by a significant number of players already. Lock Poker is a rebranding of the Cake Network. Poker […]

A request for a reduced sentence has been filed by The US Attorney’s Office in New York’s  Southern District for an executive of Absolute Poker, Brent Beckley. He has been said to be cooperative with the authorities following charges of money laundering and bank fraud filed in April of last year. Beckley’s sentencing has always […]

 A story from Forbes.com has recently announced the release of Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar. He was granted bail in New York City on Monday and is to return to California within this week. This will be his first time home in the U.S. for over a year. He will be monitored regularly and […]

The names of the final entrants for this year’s WSOP Main Event are set to be announced officially before the tournament will begin. Although WSOP Communications Director Seth Palansky already gave a hint of who to expect on the Main Event, everything else is still unofficial unless the tournament have started. Palansky had hinted that […]

After its first and second day run, the final table is set for the world’s first $1 million buy-in tournament with Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth leading the pack. Those privileged to be in the final table will be beating each other for the $18.3 million first-place prize. Joining them at the final table are […]

Phil Hellmuth made a last minute entrance at the WSOP $1million Big One for One and took one of the last seats remaining in the tournament. This is the year’s biggest buy-in tournament and also the biggest in poker history. MGM Resorts put up a satellite seat for what may seem as the first ever […]

Sponsors of California’s Online Poker Bill are starting to amend it in preparation for a possible resurrection of the bill. We can recall that this bill has been previously shot down a few weeks ago before it was even voted on by the Senate. They say it is set to have a possible hearing before […]