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It’s been nearly two weeks since poker players around the world awoke to messages from the FBI and Department of Justice at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker stating they had seized the domain names of the three largest online poker rooms serving the US market, and despite many pieces falling into place casualties [...]

Now that all three online poker rooms that were seized on Black Friday -PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker-have issued statements regarding the DOJ and FBI’s actions in seizing the sites’ .com domain names and indicting key people in each company, here is a look at all three sites’ statements side-by-side: PokerStars “PokerStars has [...]

On Tuesday both the Kahnawake Gaming Commission which licenses Absolute Poker and UB Poker as well as the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission, the regulatory body for PokerStars, both issued statements regarding last Friday’s actions by the US Department of Justice and the FBI. With the DOJ and FBI seizing the domain names of [...]

For online poker players from the United States wondering when they’ll see the money from their poker accounts returned to them it might be even longer than first anticipated according to an FBI spokeswomen for the New York office who told Bloomberg.com: “These funds are currently being reviewed by the U.S. as part of an [...]

April 15, better known as “Tax Day” in the United States has seen a number of historical events happen over the years: On April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln died after being shot the previous night at Ford Theater; on April 15, 1912 the Titanic sank to the bottom of the sea; on April 15, 1941 [...]

After hours at the poker tables three players found themselves battling it out for the Full Tilt Poker $1k Monday title that featured Multi-Entries when a Full Tilt Poker representative appeared in the chat-box to inform the three remaining players that the site needed to shut-down for server maintenance and they needed to come to [...]

The European Poker Tour, The World Series of Poker Circuit Series (not to be confused with the World Series of Poker or the World Series of Poker Europe), the World Poker Tour, and the North American Poker Tour. These were just some of the more prominent poker tournaments taking place this past weekend -there was [...]

The top online poker rooms are locked in a serious competition to see who can offer the best promotion, innovation, or offer for their players, and Party Poker’s entry is the Rush Card Instant Win promotion. Party Poker will award 1.8 million Rush Card Instant Win cards during the month of April, and all you [...]

When PocketFives absorbed the now defunct Poker Pwnage to create their online poker training site Pocket Fives Training, they added a number of top MTT players from their site to Poker Pwnage’s already impressive roster. One of the new coaches added was Kevin “1S$ckDisea$e” Eyster, one of the poker world’s top tournament players both live [...]

Eight days, 28 tournaments, $650k in guaranteed prize-money, and an assortment of promotions: Welcome to the 2011 MiniUBOC tournament series that will take place at UB Poker from April 10-17, 2011! The tournaments, which feature buy-ins as low as $10 all the way up to the $75 Main Event, are only half the story of [...]