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One of the newest online poker sites to enter the market is Victory Poker, which operates on the US-friendly Everleaf Poker Network. The difference between Victory Poker and the hundreds of other upstart online poker-rooms is how they first entered the market: Victory Poker came in with a bang, and not a whimper. Victory Poker [...]

With 11 World Series of Poker bracelets to his credit Phil Hellmuth was selected as the captain of Team USA, but the “Poker Brat” decided to defer to 10-time bracelet winner Doyle Brunson. The decision -a rare glimpse at the humility of Phil Hellmuth who said, “If he accepts I’m going to give him the [...]

What began as yet another televised poker event -taking the high-stakes cash-game route-has suddenly turned into perhaps the most anticipated event in poker history. Party Poker’s Big Game IV will be starting soon, and the 48 hour cash-game will feature some of poker’s biggest names: Tony G, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, and Luke “Full_Flush” Schawartz [...]

In the wake of another major scandal involving online poker many of us are coming to the realization that the game needs to be cleaned up. While cheating and unethical behavior are far from rampant in the online poker world, there have been enough incidents that it’s time to hold the online poker sites -and [...]

With countries like Italy, France, and Switzerland having passed legislation that on the one hand has legalized and regulated online poker; at the same time these measures have limited competition to within their countries borders. Basically poker players in these countries are limited to online poker games against their own countrymen. And it seems the [...]

Following the epic ratings the 2003 World Series of Poker produced, a lot of people tried to cash in on the poker “Boom”, and a slew of poker related shows started appearing around the television dial. In the beginning these poker telecasts focused on major tournaments -basically imitating the WSOP telecasts– and eventually moved into [...]

It’s hard to believe that this will be the 6th Heads-Up Poker Championship, and the once novel idea has turned into one of the most prestigious titles in all of poker. The invite-only format blends together a great mix of Poker Pros, up-and-comers, celebrities, and a few online qualifiers gives fans to root on their [...]

After winning in the neighborhood of $6 million at the Full Tilt Poker tables in November only lose all of it plus a few million of his own money in December, the mysterious Swedish poker player known only as Isildur1 has found his way back to the nosebleed tables on Full Tilt: And is up [...]

The poker player everyone loves to hate, Phil Hellmuth, gave his detractors more ammunition after the first episode of Season 6 of GSN’s High Stakes Poker show. Hellmuth, a tournament specialist, has struggled in his appearances on the show, which is played as a cash game, and season 6 kicked off for Phil the way [...]

Jeff Madsen, perhaps best known for his back-to-back World Series of Poker wins in 2006, was able to capture the Borgata Winter Poker Open title after besting a pretty stacked final table that included Tom “KINGOFCARDS” Marchese and Matt Matros. The win was worth over $600k and was Jeff’s biggest win since 2006, when he [...]