The wait is over. We now know the names of the poker luminaries added to the prestigious Poker Hall of Fame list. It has been announced that the 2008 inductees are Duane “Dewey’ Tomko and Henry Orenstein. The two will be the Poker Hall of Fame’s 36th and 37th inductees. Tomko and Orenstein will [...]

The Money Mad Cash Giveaway promotion by mansionpoker.com this week has boosted its reputation as one of the world’s most thrilling poker rooms by giving away by as much as $200,000.

The Money Mad Cash Giveaway which ran for 5 weeks starting from September 2008 to October 2008 had options for its participants/customers [...]

So he can swim like a fish and he can win gold medals just like that in the Olympics. But really, who cares? The question is, “Can Michael Phelps play poker?” Well, if we’re going to judge him based solely on event No. 2 at the Caesars Palace Classic, our version of Aquaman certainly can.

The [...]

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The PokerStars.net APPT Auckland Main Event was the largest poker tournament ever held in New Zealand. A total of [...]

Jason Mercier beat back a tough field of 85 poker players to take down the PokerStars EPT London £1 Million Showdown. If you think I’m exaggerating about how tough it was, think Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, David Negreanu, David Benyamine and Gus Hansen. Let’s make it even tougher. Mercier had to go heads up [...]

It’s not as though online poker doesn’t have its hand full thanks to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Now, thanks to fears of global economic instability that are emerging due to fears of a prolonged U.S. recession, some poker sites are left with no other choice but to close down. Duplicate Poker [...]

When an agency calls itself Poker Royalty, it will be hard-pressed to live up to its title. It’s a good thing that the high-profile agency for professional poker players is meeting expectations and working double-time to beef up its roster of clients. Poker Royalty’s newest client is David Chiu, considered by [...]

Thanks to the thousands of dollars that can be stored in online poker accounts, it is no wonder that the poker community is now the target of high-technology crime. Still, despite the stories you’ve heard about stolen passwords and account hackings, you never really think it could happen to you. Well, this story [...]

While other poker sites are forced to shell out cash from their tills to meet tournament guarantees, PokerStars isn’t sharing in their woes entirely. In its second week, PokerStars’ 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is still drawing in players like bees attracted to honey—particularly the No-Limit Hold’em tournaments.

WCOOP Event [...]

World’s largest online poker site, PokerStars.com has announced their successful completion of beta testing on their downloadable Mac poker software and have launched it just in time for the seventh edition of the World Championships of Online Poker.
The software is compatible with Mac OS 10.4.1 (or Tiger) and is available in more than 15 languages [...]