Poker Stars Nears 65 Billion Hands The 65 billionth hand is about to be dealt at one of Poker Stars' cash tables this July, 2011, and you can win a big cash bonus just for playing in that hand, or any milestone hand leading up to it. .more

WSOP 2011 November Nine Set The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event is almost over. All that's left to be played is the final table, happening this November. The playing field for the event is now down the November Nine - the 9 players who've outlasted the rest, one of whom will claim the 2011 WSOP championship title. .more

Poker Stars Adds New Tournament to Sunday Lineup Poker Stars has added a new poker tournament to its spate of high-stakes online poker tournaments running weekly, every Sunday. The new event on the Sunday schedule is the PokerStars Sunday Cubed and it features a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool..more

Party Poker Gets Rid of Tournament Fees In a bold and generous move (and what might be an industry first) Party Poker has just done away with multi-table tournament fees for the rest of the summer, in some cases boosting the prize pools by those same amounts. .more

Poker Stars Big Game Returns to Television Poker Stars' The Big Game is back on television for a second season, as of Monday, June 27th. Hosted by Scott Huff and Joe Stapledon, the Big Game features five big moneymakers in poker and the business world and one Loose Cannon, a PokerStars qualifier, in a cash game with a $100K buy-in. .more

Congressman Introduces New Online Poker Bill On Friday, a US Representative introduced a new online poker bill into the House. After much delay and defeat, it appears the fight in the legislature for legal online gambling in the United States is not dead in the water. Last Friday, June 24, 2011, US Representative Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas, introduced a new bill to the House of Representatives that would legalize online poker in the U.S..more

Poker Stars Announces First Part of European Poker Tour Season 8 Schedule Poker Stars has just announced the first half of the schedule for the upcoming eighth season of its revered European Poker Tour, with two poker festivals amid stops in Spain, the UK, France, Italy, the Czech Republic and the Bahamas. .more

Phil Ivey Bows Out Of 2011 WSOP While Suing Former Poker Site Phil Ivey is boycotting the 2011 World Series of Poker as he pursues a lawsuit against the site for which he was once a leading team member, Full Tilt Poker. .more

More Gambling Sites Seized in US Raids As of last Monday, May 23, 2011, 10 more online gambling domains have been seized by the Department of Justice, including Bookmaker.com and DoylesRoom.com..more

Player Wins First Cash With WSOPC Southern Regional Championship Players AJ Jejelowo makes his first cash in a major live poker tournament event by winning first place in the Southern Regional WSOPC main event..more

Playboy Playmate Might Lose Home in Poker Seizure Destiny Davis, a Playboy Playmate, might lose her house because of the recent U.S. online poker crackdown..more

Doyle Brunson Leaves Doyles Room Poker Doyle Brunson, the Godfather of Poker, has ended his contract with Doyles Room Poker, the online poker site he sponsored into existence..more

UB and Absolute Poker Makes Difficult Choices: Liquidates Staff After seizure of one of their domains and a raid on their Costa Rican headquarters, the company that owns Absolute Poker and UB.com has denied rumors that it will be declaring bankruptcy, but has confirmed liquidating its staff..more

Poker Stars SCOOP Begins The Poker Stars Spring Championship of Online Poker starts this week, and by its final event, a $2.5 million main event on May 22, the site will have doled out $25 million in cash prizes..more

US Poker Update Recent updates on the dread day in poker history now known as Black Friday, include Poker Stars beginning to pay out US players, Full Tilt's US player funds still in limbo, indictments, and 5 sites expressing that they still serve US players..more

Doyles Room Celebrates Punta Cana Online Extravaganza Doyles Room Poker is hosting the Punta Cana Online Extravaganza, a chance this June for 30 players to win prize packages to the Punta Cana Poker Classic in the Dominican Republic in November. .more

US Government Cracks Down, Closes Top Poker Sites The US government has finally put some bite behind its bark, shutting down three of the biggest poker sites online: Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars and Absolute Poker..more

Bodog Poker Sending Players To 2011 WSOP Bodog Poker is sending players to the 2011 WSOP with three different ways to qualify depending on whether you'd rather get there fast or on the cheap..more

Ultimate Bet Poker's Mini-UBOC 2011 Happening Now The Ultimate Bet Mini-UBOC 2011 is on now, running April 10 - 17 and promising 27 events for a total guaranteed prize pool of $650,000, including a $100,000 guaranteed main event. .more

Full Tilt Poker Take 2 Promotion Awards Double Points From April 8th to April 17th, Full Tilt Poker is holding an event called Take 2 in which they'll be giving away twice the Full Tilt Points (FTPs) for play at certain of their tables..more

Play Game of Your Life at Poker Stars and Win Trip to Sports Event of Your Choice When you play in the Game of Your Life promotion at Poker Stars, the site may send you and all your friends to the sports event of your choice, wherever in the world it happens to be. .more

Newest Land-Based Casino, Internet Poker Marriage Made: Station Casino and Full Tilt Poker In a move that mirrors the recent partnership news between Wynn Resorts and Poker Stars, the company that owns Station Casino, Fertitta Interactive, has just joined forces with Full Tilt Poker. .more

FTOPS XX Satellites Running Now The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is back once again, this time with FTOPS XX featuring a guaranteed prize pool up for grabs of $38 million. .more

Bodog Poker Cash Machine Converts Points To Cash Bodog Poker is offering to turn its players poker points into cash with the Bodog Poker Cash Machine, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week..more

Full Tilt Poker Hosts Onyx Cup Series Qualifiers The Onyx Cup Series is coming up, a high-roller's series of live poker tournaments scattered around the world with a total $30 million in prizes, and Full Tilt Poker is hosting qualifier tournaments into them now..more

Poker Stars Celebrates 60 Billionth Hand Poker Stars is celebrating its upcoming 60 Billionth Hand dealt with a promotion offering cash prizes for players participating in milestone hands leading up to the big sixty billion mark..more

Paradise Poker Holds €25,000 March Giveaway and €70,000 Rake Race This Month Boss Network site Paradise Poker is holding two promotions this month of March 2011 with a collective prize pool of nearly €100,000. These are the €25,000 March Giveaway and the €70,000 Rake Race..more

Absolute Poker Gearing Up For Series 2011 Big Time Absolute Poker obviously takes the World Series of Poker very seriously, as evidenced by the massive promotion, or multi-promotion really, that it's holding in honor of the rapidly approaching Series 2011..more

Doyle's Room Poker Weekly Bounty Tournament Features $5,000 Guaranteed & The Texas Dolly Himself Doyle's Room Poker holds a special weekly tournament based on knocking out some of poker's top talents: Hoyt Corkins, Mike Caro and the Godfather of Poker himself. It's called, appropriately, the Bounty Tournament, and players are wanted for it now..more

Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS XIX Is Back Full Tilt Poker's MiniFTOPS XIX is coming March 6 - 20, 2011 and boasts a guaranteed prize pool of $8 million. Included in the series are multi-entry tournaments and the beloved two-day event. Satellites for all events in the series, and for the MiniFTOPS XIX Satellite Challenge, are on now. .more