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One of the top honors for any online gaming provider is to win a coveted EGR Award, which are given out every year by the online gaming publication EGaming Review. This year a total of 28 EGR Awards were handed out in a variety of categories covering everything from Marketing Campaign of the Year to [...]

Over the past two months, most of the major headlines on Full Tilt Poker have had to do with the potential sale of the company to the French investment group Groupe Bernard Tapie. Since the takeover by Groupe Bernard Tapie still in limbo, I thought I would bring you up to speed on what else [...]

On January 25th, 2012 the European Poker Awards will be handed for the 11th straight year, and the historic Aviation Club in Paris will be the host of the long-standing awards ceremony. In all, nine awards will be handed-out in the midst of the Euro Poker Finals tournament series, including the highly coveted Player of [...]

Just a couple weeks away from their third Main Event Championship the Epic Poker League made a major announcement stating they will be partnering with USA Today Sports Media Group and Big Lead Sports in a press release.
The new partnership will see USA Today list the Global Poker Index (now known as the USA Today [...]

If you are a fair-play online poker advocate like myself than today’s news that Bodog has implemented a site-wide policy that will keep all players anonymous to their opponents is like getting that shiny new bicycle on Christmas morning. The new Anonymous tables were part of a larger software upgrade, and could change the way [...]

In a statement released this past weekend the Microgaming Poker Network announced that the site 24 Poker had been taken offline after the Kahnawake Gaming Commission pulled the long-time Poker Room’s license. While not as devastating a development as the Aldernay Gaming Commission pulling Full Tilt Poker’s license in late June, the suddenness of the [...]

Sorry for the incredibly cheesy title of the article, but come on, how could I possibly resist! Going into the final table of the World Poker Tour Marrakech Main Event the big story was the three Team PokerStars Pros still in the hunt, Arnaud Mattern, Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier, and 2010 WSOP Main Event Champion Jonathan [...]

What a difference a year has made for one of online poker’s top players, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies (now known by his PokerStars handle of “Ilari_Fin”. In 2010 Sahamies went on a horrible down-streak that saw him first quit Full Tilt Poker (perhaps his only play in 2010 that worked out since he had very little, [...]

Massachusetts has toyed with the idea of opening up to casinos since 2008, and on Tuesday the idea finally became a reality when Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill that had already passed the Massachusetts House and Senate. The bill will allow up to three resort-style casinos in the Commonwealth -one in the southeast region, [...]

What happens when you give young kids a lot of money, a warped sense of their place in the world (contrary to popular belief, pwning the poker world does not get you mentioned with names like Michael Jordan, Pele, and Babe Ruth), and then take away their computers? Well apparently you get this: Challenge matches, [...]