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The second annual World Series of Poker Europe has come to a close, and the winner of the coveted main event is an American poker pro, John Juanda. The buy in was £10,000 and 362 players took part, creating a prize pool of £3,620,000. Juanda, the first

Online poker room Mansion Poker, established in 2004, recently announced they have switched networks, moving their operation over to the iPoker network. The move will be mostly transparent as far as their poker players are concerned, although it has been

While the specific evidence has yet to be forthcoming, Russ Hamilton has been named as a party in the cheating scandal that has involved online poker room UltimateBet. Hamilton won the 1994 World Series of Poker main event, which paid him a prize of $1 mi

The US State of Kentucky had supported an effort to take control of 141 online gambling site URLs, including some of the more popular online poker sites like Full Tilt Poker and Pacific Poker, stating they encroach on the state's own gambling businesses.

The €250,000 Guaranteed online poker tournament at online poker room CelebPoker will start in just two days, and online qualifiers are still running. The buy in is €200+15, but qualifiers can get players in for less. There are rebuy tourneys and sit a

The World Series of Poker Europe Main Event continues apace and the pro poker players continue to knock each other out of the running for the top prize. The biggest pro killer was John Juanda, who knocked out fellow pros Erick Seidel, Andy Bloch and Mel J

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez recently introduced an act that, should it be made into law, would eventually allow online poker to be legalized, licensed and regulated, something the poker fans in the US have been hoping for. The Internet Skill Game L

While he didn't finish the day at the very top of the stack, he was close enough: Kid Poker showed his stuff at the World Series of Poker Europe main event, sponsored by Betfair and currently running in London. Plenty of big names were still in the event,

The FNS network has joined forces with the WPT to launch a new poker show, a series based on a subscription poker site. The ClubWPT will be the show and is the name of the site, a US positive effort by the World Poker Tour that does not require gambling t

The Bicycle Casino in California, better known simply as "The Bike", has started their Big Poker Oktober tournament series, which will run through October 12. The main event, which starts on October 10, has a $500 buy in, is a No Limit Holdem championship

Hit NBC poker TV show Poker After Dark typically has six pro poker players pay $20k of their own money to form a $120k winner take all prize, but this week the show is dropping an amateur at the table. This will be the second "Dream Match" week, where a q

The World Series of Poker Europe main event is coming along and many top pros are holding out as chip leaders after the first two days. The biggest chip leader is a big name in poker, Andy Bloch, with more than 300k in chips. Right behind him is online po

Online poker room VC Poker has announced the second Prague Poker Palooza, the Czech poker event that was very popular last year. The Prague Poker Palooza II will run on November 24 and the following three days, with a $25,000 live freeroll on the last day

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is trying to seize online poker room domain names, claiming they are hurting his state's gambling properties, and the court case where the issue is being heard was granted a continuance. The judge issued the continuance to

For the third year online poker room Party Poker is hosting the Party Poker Den, a thirty six hour cash game poker marathon with some of the biggest names in poker. Timed to coincide with the World Series of Poker Europe running now in London, the Party P

Over the last two years the popularity of poker has dropped among the young, according to the research of a social trends organization. With its origins in the UIGEA in the United States, online poker has taken a number of hits in recent years, including

The Casino Affiliate Programs poker tournament was in full swing with the police stopped by, and they were not interested in taking a seat and drawing some cards. The Barcelona police raised the Hotel Princesa and started shutting down the conference, whe

The second annual World Series of Poker Europe is running its main event now in London, and many pros from around the world are competing for the cash and glory won last year by young pro Annette Obrestad. With big guns like Phil Hellmuth, Joe Hachem, How

An online poker apparel store continues to show their support for US soldiers by donating goods to the free poker tournaments held every Sunday for soldiers, Marines, airmen and civilians. The idea was to have a poker tourney for the soldiers to have a li

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