Progress for US Poker Bill

Barney Frank’s poker bill, HR 2267, was passed on Wednesday by the House Financial Services Commitee, by a margin of 41-22.  The passing of the bill has been viewed as a victory for those gambling proponents battling to see online poker and gambling legalized. This bill is just one small battle, however.  The passing of [...]

New Women’s Poker League Coming Soon

PokerStars has announced a new women’s poker lague, which it hopes will provide a way for female poker players to enjoy competing against women from all over the world to win some great prizes. Women’s poker has gained a lot of attentio recently, after a group of men entered the Ladies World Championship at the [...]

PartyGaming and bWin to Merge Next Year

PartyGaming and Bwin have announced that they will be merging next year.  The merger is expected to take place early in the year, and will benefit both companies, solidifying their status in the top three list of the largest online poker rooms. Both companies are publicly traded, and it is expected that their combined worth [...]

Playing Free Poker on Facebook

The World Series of poker may bee over for the year – well, except for the final table of the Main Event, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy some Texas Hold’em poker games. The World Series of Poker have launched a Facebook Poker game which gives you the opportunity to play hold’em games [...]

Cake Poker Admits to Security Breach

Following a security breach, the Cake poker Network has issued a statement admitting that their security standards were not as high as had been claimed, and that they were urgently working on changing the current status. On Tuesday, Poker Table Ratings publihed a warning on their site stating that they had managed to breach Cake [...]

WSOP 2010 Poker Season on ESPN

Today saw the World Series of poker 2010 season begin on ESPN.  The first episode of the season is two hours long and will feature the $50,000 Player’s Championship – which saw 116 players sit down to compete for a share of a $5.6 million prize pool, with the winner of the tournament taking home [...]

Michael Cera – Actor and Poker Player

The list of celebrity poker players is ever growing.  According to recent reports, Michael Cera, the star of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, played poker with his co stars during downtime on set. Cera, aged 22, told People Magazine “I wouldn’t say I’m great”, but, he added, his co-stars “didn’t know what they were getting [...]

Optimisim from US Poker Players

The saga of Barney Frank’s proposed US poker bill HR 2267 has been extensively documented.  Last week, the bi-partisan group of senators who endorsed the bill went up against some of the opponents of the bill.  The meeting took place on July 21st, 2010, and the proceedings were followed by a huge group of poker [...]

The Crown Australian Poker Championship

The Crown Australian poker Championship is more commonly referred to as the Aussie Millions.  It is a series of poker tournaments which takes place once a year at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.  The tournament is noteworthy because the Main Event of the series has a prize pool of more than seven million Australian [...]

The History of the World Poker Tour

Now that the World Series of poker is over,  all eyes are on the World Poker Tour, the next big event on the poker calendar. The World Poker Tour orignally started in the United States, but now has events which cover most of the world.  The tournament attracts the majority of the world’s professional players. [...]

Playing Australia Poker Tournaments for Money

There are lots of sites wich market themselves as offering poker games for Australians, but those sites mostly premote free play games.  That doesn’t mean, however, that you can’t play Australia poker tournaments for money. One of the best options is to play poker tournaments as part of a poker league.  The Australia Poker League [...]

Evander Holyfield at Poker in the Park

WBF Heavyweight title holder Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield will be making an appearance at poker in the Park this year.  The event, which takes place in London’s Leicester Square, is an annual celebration of all things poker. Poker in the Park will be taking place on the 2nd and 3rd September, and will feature [...]

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