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The latest World Series of Poker Europe event is over, and Theo Jorgensen has captured the crown. The pro poker player from Denmark took the second event of the second WSOPE season with his victory in the £5000 Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) event. Other pros wer

On GSN a new lineup has poker fans setting their digital boxes to record. On Sunday nights High Stakes Poker will run back to back with the World Poker Tour, all starting tonight. HSP will kick off at 7 pm (Eastern Time)...

The schedule for the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has been announced, and as part of the information the buy in amounts were released, with some interesting numbers. There will be buy ins including the following amounts: $1k, $2k, $5k, and a whoppi

In what could be the smartest publicity stunt the World Series of Poker has come up with former two time WSOP Main Event winner Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson faced off against last year’s World Series of Poker Europe winner Annette “Annette_15” Ob

The Horseshoe Casino will be the spot for the next World Series of Poker Circuit, to be held in their entertainment center, called The Venue. The Circuit will hold a baker's dozen events, with a $5k main event and preliminary events running as low as $300

While the online poker industry was on hand for the latest i-Gaming Congress and Expo in Barcelona the Ongame Network Ltd showed off what is being touted as the first game engine "designed specifically for online poker", the P5 Poker Engine. The P5 Poker

In an effort to move forward legal licensed and regulated online poker in the United States grassroots organization the Poker Players Alliance have spent $283,000 in the second fiscal quarter. The PPA has lobbied the federal government to adjust the curre

The World Series of Poker Europe is running strong in its second year, once more playing in London, and the £2,500 H.O.R.S.E event has wrapped up with a winner. The field started with 110 players all gunning for the £76,999 top prize and wound down to o

The Heartland Poker Tour plays in various venues across the United States, and at the latest such event at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Minnesota a husband and wife team can now both say they have won HPT events. Dan Zogman won a HPT event in Gary India

For the fifth time online poker site 888.com and their poker room, Pacific Poker, will be hosting their famous Poker Open. The Poker Open V has a special format that funnels players down by country. First players participate in a $1 tournament with their

Online poker room Bodog Poker is offering a special tournament for their players, the Bodog Poker Open II, which will run for a little over a week and boast 14 events during that time. The buy ins for these tournaments will range from as low as five dolla

In the past pro poker players have come up with energy drinks to help them in their game, but this time an energy drink is inviting poker players to help others. It isn't the first time, as this is the Fourth Annual Monster Energy Holdem or Foldem Celebri

The governor of US State Kentucky Steve Beshear is actively seeking to gain control over the domain names of some of the largest online poker rooms in the world, namely Bodog, Full Tilt Poker, DoylesRoom and PokerStars. The governor filed suit to this eff

The latest freeroll opportunities at online poker room Ladbrokes Poker offer 60 seats in an upcoming preliminary event leading to one of the biggest online poker events of the year: the Ladbrokes Poker Million VII. Daily freerolls are running from now to

Sisap Spa and Playtech Ltd have struck hands on a poker agreement to bolster the former's suite of online poker offerings. Sisal Spa is an Italian company with both land and online based gaming operations, and Playtech is a famous softare provider for onl

In May, 22 year old Hagerstown, Maryland resident Michael Joseph Campher was arrested for an armed robbery on a poker game, with 52 criminal counts leveled against him. According to a recent report, Campher has had that number jacked up to 82, based mostl

Online poker room Everest Poker has recently put out a press release heralding the success of their newly minted pro poker team. The 13 member Everest Poker Team is made up of two pros and eleven players who earned their spot as part of a world wide compe

In the country of Germany, there are plenty of people who love to play poker, and play it online - unfortunately for them online poker play is recently illegal there. Taking part in an illegal activity always carries with it the threat of jail time and fi

Online poker room Bodog Poker has been in the poker news lately, and not for giving away lots of prizes or unique promos, but rather for a string of hits that leave the future of Calvin Ayre's poker room in doubt. This summer the US Government seized mill

The 2008 World Series of Poker Europe is currently going on in London and many poker pros have already hit the rail; the term for when a poker player is busted out of a tournament. This is one of the preliminary events, before the big £10,000 event - the