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If there is one thing this poker show does not suffer from it is shyness; with a name like The Best Damn Poker Show, it is no wonder. The second season of this show will begin on FSN October 27, with filming currently taking place in California at the San

The Barcelona Open, part of the much heralded European Poker Tour, is on its Day 2 and the leaders are players from Germany. The top leaders at the end of the day included three Germans, which was the largest group from a single country in the ten players

Online poker room Titan Poker has announced their guaranteed for the third Titan Poker European Championship of Online Poker, and the number beats their old guarantee soundly. Last year the ECOOP guarantee was at $3.6 million, and this year the guarantee

Tampa, Florida will be the spot where poker players will come to play in the third annual Vincent Lecavalier Texas Holdem Celebrity Poker Tournament. The event will be held in the popular Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, with a $10,000 top prize for t

Candida Mumford will be instructing two upcoming classes at the College of Southern Idaho's Community Education program on poker. The 36 year old coordinator of student disability services at the school has played in two World Series of Poker seasons in L

The land of wooden shoes wants to kick up some tax revenue from online poker and other online gambling sites, and has levied a tax to that effect starting September 9. In addition to Dutch players paying a 40.85% tax on online winnings (which is the same

The World Championship of Online poker is going strong and the number 12 event nearly had a big name winner when Aaron Kanter - a final table finisher in the 2005 World Series of Poker - came in second. His opponent, Randy Haddox, made a deal with Kanter

The first Texas Holdem Tournament put on by the Solano Association of Realtors will be held today, and the money gathered will go to the SAR scholarship fund. Local high school and college students are eligible for this scholarship if they plan on going i

An Auckland casino will be boasting a big prize purse soon if SkyCity Entertainment Group has its way. SkyCity will host the inaugural Skycity Festival of Poker next month, shooting for a $1 million, the largest ever prize pool in New Zealand. The event w

Poker runs have become popular ways to raise money, and the Elkton Emergency Squad (EES) is going to that well to raise the money for a new ambulance, but they have added a twist - the cruise in. A poker run has participants on motorcycles run a predeterm

The first event of the Borgata Poker Open will commence this Sunday, September 14th, at the Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The players will all be vying for a big payout as well as a seat in the World Poker Tour final season event,

The Asian Poker Tour recently announced a signing of three poker pros in order to spread the word of the APT around the globe. The big names all have Asian ancestry, making the choices seem apropos, and include champions. Nam Le, JC Tran and Quinn Do are

When the online poker boom hit, PartyGaming was the biggest company running a poker room online, and now they are looking at layoffs for their Gibraltar employees. Based out of Gibraltar, PartyGaming runs a number of online gambling sites, including Party

Poker is no longer just a man's game, as anyone who peeks into a poker room or turns on some poker TV can plainly see, but the game still offers unique challenges to women players when it comes to dealing with the guys. To that end a poker school for wome

This month the Wynn Casino poker room will be giving away $50,000 as a reward of sorts for its cash game players. Drawings are being held every Friday for $2,500 each, and there will be five every week. The drawing times are 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m

When big storms threaten online poker rooms look for a boost in their attendance numbers, and the Hurricane named Ike may serve this purpose this week as it leaves Cuba and heads for the Untied States. Southern Florida will be buffeted by windy and stormy

The city of Cannes is best known for their film festival, but poker festivals draw crowds, too. Such was the case when one player walked away from the €8,500 buy in Partouche Poker Tour No Limit Holdem main event with a prize of nearly one and a half mi

In 2003, the biggest name in poker was Chris Moneymaker, a new online poker pro who managed to win a seat into that year's World Series of Poker and win it. His success rate has been on again, off again, but recently he final tabled in the World Champions

Online poker room Poker Stars has brought on board a former pro hockey team captain to gain some clout with Canadian poker players. Joining the international gang of celebrity ambassadors will be former Toronto Maple Leafs' captain Mats Sundin. This forme

While some online poker rooms have offered to pay the way of 2008 Olympian Gold Medalist Michael Phelps into the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe, one poker room went so far as to send their founder to meet the young swimming superstar. Doyle Brunson, al