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There has been yet another sale/merger in the online poker industry as it was announced this week that UniBet would be acquiring Nordic Betting Ltd, better known as Bet24 and all of its related sites. This comes on the heels of last year’s mega-merger between Party Poker and bWin, and the later sale of the [...]

Titan Poker pro Sam Trickett may have been the first player eliminated from the Party Poker Premier League V final table on Tuesday, but don’t feel too bad for the UK poker pro, considering Tuesday saw the Titan Poker blog publish a story regarding a $2 million pot Trickett scooped in the uber-high-stakes poker games [...]

With the proposed High-Roller poker tournament in Macau (aptly named the Macau Millions) falling through, the Asia Poker Tour (APT) has decided to rebrand the event and host it in the Philippines under the name the Manila Millions. The $1,000,000HKD buy-in event (which is equivalent to about $130k USD) already has two big names on [...]

Now that both groups in the Party Poker Premier League V have finished their four Heats the final table lineup is set with qualifier Matthew Frankland and Daniel “Jungleman” Cates the group winners. Six of the 16 contestants will now move on to the final table, where they have a chance to play for the [...]

Last week we gave you the foundation of the 2012 PokerStars SCOOP schedule, with the site announcing they would soon be finalizing the details of the prominent online poker tournament series. All of the details for the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP for short) at PokerStars, save one, have been finalized by the [...]

Bodog Poker may not have the most talented group of poker players on their roster, or a roster sporting a number of impressive resumes, but they do have the most eye-pleasing roster in poker, especially after adding Jeanette “Jay” Tan to their roster this week. Tan, an American-born poker player now living in Hong Kong, [...]

In part 1 of this series I detailed how statistics, a seemingly non-arbitrary fact, can lie to people citing baseball and basketball examples. Now it’s time to move on to poker. This same issue of cherry-picked statistics that only tell part of the story can be found everywhere in poker, whether it’s a player’s tournament [...]

The saying that you are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts is often backed up by statistics, but I have news for you: Statistics can, and often do, LIE! Maybe lie is too harsh a word; perhaps a better way to understand statistics is to say that they can be easily [...]

Yesterday the recent departure of Thomas “SrslySirius” Keeling from QuadJacks.com took an ugly turn as the two sides each issued statements showing that their original statements that the parting had been amicable may not have been an accurate reflection of the entire story. Keeling left QuadJacks roughly a month ago and all seemed to be [...]

If you haven’t heard, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Isaac Haxton (two of the top heads-up No Limit Holdem players on the Internet) began a $1,000,000 freezeout challenge match this weekend. Beginning on Saturday, the two will be playing $200/$400 NLHE for four hours each day until one of the Team PokerStars players has felted the [...]