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From January 19th, 2012 through January 29th, 2012 the world’s largest online Poker Room will be hosting its newly created Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP), bringing the site’s total of major online tournament series to an impressive three, joining the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP).
Over [...]

The Epic Poker League hosted their third tournament during their inaugural season this past weekend, and while attendance in the Pro/Am increased dramatically, the EPL Main Event saw only a minimal increase in attendance over Event #2, both falling well below the high-water mark set during the inaugural EPL Main Event.
A total of 100 players [...]

Last week the Danish Gambling Authority (DGA) granted 38 online poker licenses which will take effect in January 2012 when the country’s new online gaming regulations are put in place. Among the online operators who will receive a Danish license will be PokerStars, bwin.party, 888 Poker, and PKR Poker, with upwards of 200 individual sites [...]

Questions are still being asked by current members of BlueFire Poker and the poker world at large, even after the site released their official statement on the departure of Phil Galfond. Despite promising to explain the situation, the statement made by BlueFire Poker co-founder Billy Murphy was vague in details regarding Galfond’s departure, but explicit [...]

In a bit of a shocker Monday, Phil Galfond posted a blog on the online poker training site that has become synonymous with his name, BlueFire Poker.com. After the blog post was deleted (later reappearing in the forum) a complete firestorm of drama and speculation hit the site.
First let’s take a look at what Galfond [...]

The $100k Super-High-Roller tournament at the 2011 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Championship saw a solid turnout of 23 players willing to part with the $100k entry-fee, and a total of 25 entries -two players, Rick Salomon (yes, THAT Rick Salomon) and Roger Sippl, actually paid $200,000 in entry-fees as the participants [...]

It will be a busy day at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday as the 10th anniversary of the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic enters Day 4 with just 49 players remaining -including some of the biggest names in poker-and at the same time the WPT will hold their [...]

In Tuesday’s Boston Globe they ran a story detailing a proposed casino plan put forth by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Steve Wynn of Wynn Casinos that would be located in Foxborough, Massachusetts across from Gillette Stadium.
Massachusetts recently passed legislation that would bring up to three resort-style casinos into the commonwealth, and apparently [...]

Yesterday it was reported that the proposed $1 million buy-in tournament that will take place at the 2012 World Series of Poker -dubbed The Big One for One Drop-has reached the 22 player threshold set by WSOP officials and will now be held as a full-fledged bracelet event. The bracelet awarded will be a specially [...]

In its latest bid to topple the record for the largest online poker tournament in the history of the game, PokerStars (which is the current record-holder) ran a special $1 tournament this past Sunday with a guaranteed prize-pool of $250,000 for its 10th Anniversary celebration. This would be the first attempt for the site to [...]