Poker Stars has made two changes to its UK & Ireland Poker Tour schedule, both of which should be welcomed by PokerStars players. The first is the addition of a new stop on the UKIPT 2010 schedule, and the second is a reduced buy-in for an existing stop on the tour.
The new stop for the [...]

In spite of all the younguns picking up the top World Series of Poker title of Main Event champ year after year lately, it seems senior citizens are getting their poker games on too, as evidenced by this year’s largest player pool ever at a WSOP Seniors event.
The event is the $1,000 Seniors’ No Limit [...]

The 16th semi-annual Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XVI) starts this week, on April 23, and runs through the $3 million guaranteed main event on May 2, giving away in total a guaranteed prize pool of $18 million dollars. (And for those of you counting, that’s $1 million more than it was for FTOPS [...]

Full Tilt Points, as you no doubt already know, are the player rewards points for Full Tilt Poker. And for the one week lasting from Saturday, April 3 through Sunday April 11, Full Tilt Poker is giving players a chance to double up in points and earn a cash bonus of up to $25.
During the [...]

Barney Frank spearheaded the issue in 2009, introducing two new bills into Congress—one, in essence, delaying implementation of the law passed in 2006 that would make it illegal for poker sites to allow U.S. players; the other, setting up regulations for legalizing online poker in the U.S.—but neither one has seen the light of day, [...]

The 2010 WSOP schedule is out now, and it’s got a few interesting changes in store for players, the first of which is two rooms in the Rio to compete in instead of one. The 51-day schedule of 57 events (at least gold bracelet events) starts May 27 and runs through July 17, with the [...]

So now that Congress has pushed back the date that the UIGEA is supposed to go into effect, 6 months from its original Dec. 1 deadline for online poker operators to comply with its restrictions against allowing US players on their sites, Barney Frank and his colleagues on the pro poker side of the argument [...]

Online poker players and providers alike can take a big sigh of relief as the start-date for implementing enforcement on the 1006 UIEGA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) that would punish online poker operators severely for allowing U.S. residents to play on their sites. All online gambling companies, online poker at the top of the [...]

isildur1 might be the name on everyone’s lips these days, as the unknown players sweeps $6 million off the tables last week (mostly from NL Holdem superstar Tom durrrr Dwan, of the self-named Million Dollar Challenge), but there’s another “old-timer” (comparatively speaking) on everyone’s lips today, and it happens to be another poker pro who [...]

As the only 3-D poker room online, it seemed inevitable the PKR Poker would eventually receive the acclaim it deserves. Over its three year history, the site showed a steady increase in its membership with the PKR Poker player pool jumping to 1 million around the 1 year anniversary, up to 2 million by its [...]