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If online poker players are looking for an exotic vacation where they can play poker - and go for free - they should check out online poker room Full Tilt Poker's satellites to the Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament. Sun City is the biggest poker to

The biggest card game in the world is No Limit Texas Holdem, but some folks like to play good old fashioned five-card draw, and now they can do it right on their iPhone. The software, which works on the iTouch as well, is called 5 Card Touch and is publis

Online poker room Purple Lounge has announced they are running a race, with the winners cashing in. The race is a $200k; that's the amount of money expected to be in the prize pool - minimum - of the series coming up on Purple Lounge. The five events, in

The $100k buy in event featured the best players out there, such as Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter and David Peat. It was Baxter and Dwar who mixed it up before, and were destined to do it again in this particular ha

All the players at Poker After Dark's the Cash Game show admitted one thing: Durr was hard to read. In the $100k buy in event Phil Hellmuth, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter, and David Peat were playing with a crafty player better known for hi

When Poker After Dark started their new season, they started to bring in some new blood as well. In the Cash Game episode, where players paid $100k to play, Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter, and David Peat were invited

Online poker room bwin poker is running a promo that can get players to a weekend trip on Poker Island, and the winners will get to mix and mingle with the girl band the Pussycat Dolls. Players who come to Poker Island will have to compete to stay, enjoyi

The upcoming Macau leg of this year's Asian Poker Tour (APT) will include a number of big name poker pros, including J.C. Tran and Nam Le. This is good news for the organizers of the event, who can count on the draw and attention the big name pros bring w

The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma has been issued a subpoena regarding the details of a poker tournament held in Akela by the tribe about a month ago. The July 15 subpoena is asking for a description of the event to include the names of those who pla

Watering down the talent pool has made it tough for the good players to shine. A world class player who has to face down 6500 opponents in a big tournament like the World Series of Poker Main Event is still a heavy underdog to make it to the final table.

The all in bet has been a staple of big poker tournaments ever since the ESPN cameras became part of the sport's reality. There are a number of reasons for this that can be explained from a tactical point of view, but the reality is that the all in bet is

So does a plumber have an unfair advantage when he uses a wrench to stop a stubborn leak? Well perhaps the leak thinks so, but in reality the tradesman is just using the proper tool of the trade to solve a problem. People might look a little sideways at t

Online poker room Full Tilt Poker is returning their popular Sit and Go game series called Sit and Go Madness. SNG Madness Part IV will kick off Friday August 1st and run through Sunday August 3rd, and will feature a $75k prize pool to be shared out via l

Woman poker player Dianna Donofrio has launched a new pod cast on Yaktivate.com, a pod cast that will feature the ladies of the poker world. The name of the pod cast is WomensPokerYak, and will feature interviews with well know female poker players such a

The National Deaf Poker Tour made some noise at the Venetian in Las Vegas in a two day finale to the four stop 2007-2008 season. The event was created by Nathan Montoya, Jarrod Musano, James Rydstrom, Joey Seifner, Alok Doshi, and Andy Foster to provide a

Security and financial software group QFX Software is offering a "software shield" they say will offer an extra layer of protection for the online poker player that is useful across many online poker sites - such as at Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, PokerRo

The fifth Poker Open hosted by 888.com, also known as Pacific Poker, is coming this fall and the online poker room is currently hosting qualifiers to get in to the event on the cheap. Buying directly into the event will cost much more than buying right in

Some players have been reporting that they are getting payouts from online poker rooms that seem to be printed on rubber checks. The checks have been bouncing that were processed from Zip Payments, an online payment processing company that handled payouts

Online poker room Bodog Poker offers its players a chance to travel to Macau to play in the Asian Poker Tour, if they can win the APT Macau Seat Giveaway Finale, set to play on August 2nd. To get into the Finale players can play in a direct qualifier for

The next big thing for the World Series of Poker is the WSOPE set to start on September 19th, and online poker room Full Tilt Poker is offering their players a chance to qualify. The World Series of Poker Europe will play in London like it did last year,