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GSN’s popular poker show High Stakes Poker is picking up some competition in the form of PokerStars and Fox, called The Big Game. The show’s format follows a similar model to High Stakes Poker in that it is a deep-stack cash game -The buy-in is $100,000, with $200/$400 blinds and a $100 ante-and will feature [...]

So far woman have been lighting up the scoreboard in the poker world with three major championship wins, and we are just hitting the end of the May and the 57 event World Series of Poker! It started with Annie Duke capturing the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship; followed by Vanessa Selbst dominating performance at [...]

There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the looming UIGEA legislation, and the ramifications for the online poker world. And, while there has been no request for a further extension -and none seems to be forthcoming-there are a couple of grassroots movements being pushed by the Poker Players Alliance, and the online poker community as [...]

For those of us who don’t have the bankroll to take part in the World Series of Poker -or the travelling time/expenses to fly to Las Vegas for a month and a half-Full Tilt Poker has announced an alternative to the WSOP, The Full Tilt Mini Series of Poker.
The 57 tournaments features low to mid-level [...]

After a landslide vote to legalize two casinos and thousands of slot machines across the state by the House of Representatives -now we’re just waiting for the Senate to vote… sound familiar???– Many Massachusetts residents are wondering what exactly this means for them: Where will the Casinos be? When will they be open for business? [...]

Perusing the lineup for Party Poker’s Big Game IV poker fans will find some of the biggest names in all of poker, but even more interesting are the storylines that are forming around the game itself.

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 [...]