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Black Friday has left more than the US online poker industry thrashing around in its wake, with a number of televised poker show left decimated by the government crackdown on online poker back in April.  Another victim (albeit on a lesser scale) has been US poker tours: The PokerStars North American Poker Tour folded, and [...]

One of the biggest myths in the world (especially in the United States) is that you will be justly rewarded for your hard-work and skill, but after even the slightest amount of time in the real-world most people come to the understanding that meritocracies are few and far between, and getting ahead often depends on [...]

To casual poker fans Jean-Robert Bellande appears to be one of the superstars of the poker world, always partying and surrounded by beautiful women, but “Bobby” (as he is known in the poker world) has a dirty little secret (well it’s not really a secret since he points it out all the time) that is [...]

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 [...]

Since Black Friday one of the biggest mouthpieces for Full Tilt Poker has been Attorney Jeff Ifrah, who has been front and center, giving interviews and offering opinions, whenever news breaks about the site or its potential sale. Most recently Ifrah spoke to EGaming Review Magazine regarding the potential problems that may arise during the [...]

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, [...]

Aside from the World Series of Poker there are two behemoths in the world of tournament poker, The World Poker Tour and The European Poker Tour; interestingly both tours are owned by competing online poker rooms with the EPT a subsidiary of PokerStars while the WPT can claim Party Gaming as its parent company.
Initially the [...]

On November 22 two Team PokerStars Pros, Lex Veldhuis and Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier will square off in five-round Kickboxing match. The match has been a few years in the making with the basic outline of the wager being formulate at the 2009 EPT Barcelona, so if the idea seems a bit juvenile just remember the [...]

A report on CNN Money Thursday apparently jumped the gun, as the story was not supposed to be released until early Friday morning, but even in the brief period of time before the story was taken down from the site it spread like wildfire, with everyone from Yahoo Finance to poker websites across the Internet [...]