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Last year was a banner year for poker professional Steve O’Dwyer. The young pro had a string of impressive results including a win at the $5k Bellagio Cup and the first Epic Poker League Pro Am event. He also scored 2nd place results at both the EPT... Read more
During March 1-4th, the annual Laak & Esfandiari open will be taking place in Montreal, Canada and will feature a “humiliation” penalty for the losers. Both Laak and Esfandiari are well known for their practical jokes and at one time had a TV show where they would challenge... Read more
Last week, rumours began to arise that Senator Harry Reid would attach legislation for legalizing online poker in the US to the upcoming payroll tax bill. However, Reid has recently told the Las Vegas Review Journal that it will not be happening at this time. Poker forums... Read more
Red Spade Open III: $1M Guaranteed! The $55 Red Spade Open returns this month with a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, including at least $200,000 in prize money for first place, plus $100 bounties on all Team PokerStars Pro and Team Online players taking part! It’s your chance to test yourself... Read more
Players in Sweden and Finland have traditionally had issues playing on PokerStars since both countries enforced huge tax rates on gross winnings from any site outside of the European Union. Well, that has finally changed as PokerStars announced the addition of www.pokerstars.eu under a newly obtained Malta... Read more
Your weekly break down of events you may have missed this week: ELG pulls out of the US, chip dumping at Harrah’s Tunica WSOP circuit event and Brad Booth calls out Phil Hellmuth. Everleaf Gaming Network Pulls Out Of US The ELG network, home to such skins... Read more
The World Poker Tour Venice Grand Prix Main Event is now officially over and Russian Rinat Bogdanov survived the field of 155 players to win the €229,800 first prize and a seat in the WPT World Championship in May. This was the young professional’s first ever WPT event, which... Read more
Andrea Dato has made back to back final tables in a World Poker Tour Main Event, a feat very few players can brag about. Just two months ago, Dato had made the final table of the WPT Venice stop on the tour. He ended up in fourth... Read more
Back in 2011, the Belgian Gaming Commission allowed PokerStars the use of the domain www.pokerstars.be for a trial period. PokerStars announced today that the test phase is now complete and they have become the first online poker site to receive a full A+ online poker license for Belgium issued... Read more
Poker forums around the world mourned the passing of Russian professional player Nikolay Evdakov at the age of 47. His wife, Nataliya, made the announcement on the poker forum he helped create, CGM,ru. The funeral will be held at 14:00 on February 8th, 2012 at Troekurov Cemetery. The... Read more
The European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event is heading into its sixth and final day with Paul Guichard holding a slim chip leader over current second place holder, Vadzim Kursevich. 24 players started the day but only eight would survive to compete for the €875,000 first place prize and... Read more
Behn Dayanim, a lawyer for Group Bernard Tapie, is claiming several well-known professional poker players owe a substantial amount of money to Full Tilt Poker. The debt is estimated to be between $10 and $20 million and many of the players are reluctant to settle the matter.... Read more
Norman Chad is well known amongst poker fans as the wise-cracking commentator during the World Series of Poker on ESPN. He recently was sequestered for jury duty, but got into a little hot water from the acting judge. Declaring it “a mockery of the justice system,” the... Read more
U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand dismissed most of the charges, brought forth by Todd Terry and other professional poker players almost seven months ago, against several defendants named as owners of Full Tilt Poker and other companies in their corporate tree. The complaint had stated that... Read more
Although much of the talk at the Aussie Millions is geared toward Ivey’s huge run at the 2012 Main Event, a native of Melbourne, the host city of the annual event, created his own buzz by winning the event and the A$1.6 million first place prize. Oliver... Read more
