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Yet another poker pro is offering up some advertising space on his clothing for the upcoming World Series of Poker final table for 2008, but this time its for charity. Unlike the pro putting up an eBay ad for multiple spots, chip leader Dennis Phillips is

Defense efforts to have the case dismissed by Judge Thomas Wingate of the Franklin County Circuit Court did not go forward, as the Judge cited November 17 as the date the case will go to trial. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is attempting to seize contro

Online poker room Lucky Ace Poker will be hosting weekly poker tournaments with a $100k guarantee. This means that regardless of how many players pay in to the prize pool, Lucky Ace Poker will make sure there is at least $100k to be paid out to the winner

Habitat for Humanity will be shuffling up and dealing soon with their latest fund raising effort, a "Habitat for Humanity's Texas Holdem Poker Tournament" to be held in California. Saturday, November 1st is the date in El Dorado when players will plunk do

American new program 60 Minutes is known for hard hitting investigative journalism, so it should come as no surprise that they have prepared a program about online poker. They seemed to wait for a scandal to launch it however, and it seems the focus of th

The winner of the World Poker Tour Borgata Open is the current chip leader in the currently-running World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship. Should he win, Vivek Rajkumar will do what no other player in the history of the World Poker Tour has b

The Poker Channel in Europe has announced they have relaunched their online version, Poker Channel Europe.com, along with online video company Brightcove. Brightcove will help facilitate video content from the Poker Channel to viewers for free. They will

There is no question that the nine players that will be fighting at the final table of this year's World Series of Poker main event in November are in an enviable position. On top of this one player has decided to capitalize early by offering space on his

When the weather turns cold, online poker room William Hill Poker will be sending players to the tropical sun-drenched sands of the Caribbean. Ten Caribbean Poker Classic packages will be added to the suite of offerings at the poker room. A number of free

A new form of tournament poker is on the schedule at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, "Dream Team Poker." This tournament poker game is, as the name suggests, team based and it starts with a private invitational tournament on November 7-9. The new team poker

The Horseshoe Southern Indiana (formerly known as Caesars Indiana) has completed the remodeling of a riverboat casino, now known as the "Glory of Rome." This is an official World Series of Poker circuit poker room, with a 30 table spread, and it is the In

The final round of Poker Den: The Big Game III has come and gone and the results are in. 21 players bought in for a $10k minimum to play for a straight 36 hours to see how well they could do, and plenty of them wound up down for the session. This means th

Online poker room UltimateBet is currently running a race to see which of their players can accumulate the most points. Promoted by UB pro Annie Duke, the Points Race has put up $115k for their players, who would cash in until October 31st. By playing in

Online poker has come to Bulgaria with a fully customized site designed to entice local players. Bwin, a Vienna listed online gambling outfit, has created the site in the Bulgarian language. While Bulgarian poker players have always been able to access Bw

The online poker room famous for their amazing computer game like graphics is now offering an interactive, on-demand TV channel for their players with shows that highlight events from high stakes tournaments. PKR is the name of the poker room, and PKR TV

The Auckland, New Zealand Skycity Festival of Poker Main Event, heralded as the biggest poker event in that country, is over and the winner is a Kiwi himself. When 30-year-old Daniel Craker sat down to play it was thanks to a satellite game, one that got

The second season of the Latin American Poker Tour has recently been announced, and the action gets underway in early November. Next month poker players from around the world will flock to San Jose, Costa Rica, where the first LAPT kicks off on Nov 3-5. P

Tiffany Michelle took some flak during her run for the big time during this year's World Series of Poker's main event. She went further than any other woman this year, but when she hit the TV table, she dropped her first sponsor and wore gear from a new s

JC Tran is no stranger to the World Poker Tour. He was one of those players who managed to make it to the final table time and time again without winning until last year, and on day one of the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship it looked l

Kicking off the SkyCity Festival of Poker was MTV host and former Miss New Zealand Amber Peebles, and she not only looked like a million bucks, she was wearing a million bucks. At least, that was the value of the poker chips cleverly joined together to ma