Poker

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the largest poker grassroots advocacy group in the U.S with more than one million members nationwide, today applauded the ruling of a South Carolina court that confirmed that poker is a game of skill, and it should not be considered gambling under the state's law.

Milwaukee's Best Light, the official beer sponsor of the WSOP, has launched a new promo that gives consumers a chance to win a seat at the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event, taking place in July at Harrah's Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Card Player Magazine CEO Barry Shulman is the new World Series of Poker Main Event Champ after outlasting a lineup featuring 6 World Series of Poker Gold Bracelet winners and two members of the "November Nine".

After a long break, the 50,000 hand durrrr Challenge at Full Tilt Poker cranked back up yesterday with heads-up specialist Tom "durrrr" Dwan taking the lead against Full Tilt Poker Pro Patrik Antonius.

Online poker site PokerStars.net has released  new details of its upcoming Million Dollar Challenge show, including the celebrity guest line up and the show's prizes and structure.

This month at CarbonPoker, you'll see that Trick or Treating isn't just for kids anymore. No costumes required - all you need is a CarbonPoker account to get involved with the spookiest promotion of the year. Watch for surprises, hidden items and the best treat of all - free cash.

We’ve all played poker against those guys who are relentlessly aggressive, who’ll make moves with any two cards. The fact of the matter is that you have to make a stand against those guys sooner or later. The key is picking the right time to do it. There’s nothing more painful than being the sucker who pays him off when he finally has a monster. But it’s a gamble you have to take on occasion in order to be the guy who gets all of the maniac’s chips when he runs an ill-advised bluff.

Now you have a chance to join the PokerStars EPT Warsaw Main Event thanks to Hollywood Poker, where the expected prize pool is over $1,400,000. You will have a chance to win one of these two celebrity-class poker packages valued at $10,500 with an investment of only $1.20.

Online poker players at Full Tilt Poker now have a great bounty tournament to look forward to each Friday evening. Friday Night Fights is a No-Limit Hold 'em tournament that will feature a guaranteed prize pool of $75,000 with a buy-in of $535, or players can also work their way through the many satellites from as little as 50 FullTilt Points.

The online poker site Pitbull Poker has shut down today amid rumors of alleged cheating on the website. This small poker site on the Flash Poker Network has been under the spotlight recently due to suspicions of poker players with superuser accounts and players not being able to request detailed hand histories on request.

Party Poker's online sportsbetting division, PartyBets.com is offering odds for the World Open V running from October 11th to 15th at the the Palm Beach Casino in London.

Last Sunday's $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament at Bodog Poker was surprisingly won by poker newcomer "giertje" and earned the novice an incredible $25,000 cash prize.

Take part in the $500,000 Guaranteed Tournament and you could win your spot in the Live High Roller's Freeroll and then the 2010 WSOP Final Table. Just join Everest Poker this October 4th for their 5th anniversary poker tournament, where the last 9 players standing will be off to Vegas.

The inaugural Caesars Cup, an elite team poker tournament featuring the best players from Europe and North America, has finished this afternoon with a stunning victory for Team Europe.

IMG Sports & Entertainment and Harrah's Interactive Entertainment, Inc.  today announced a four-year contract extension for global representation of the World Series of Poker (WOSP). Thanks to this new agreement, IMG will guide the international expansion of the brand, including sponsorship, event management, licensing and global distribution of the WSOP.

Card Player editor and 2009 WSOP November Nine finalist, Jeff Shulman, said that 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet-winner and UltimateBet sponsored pro World Champion Phil Hellmuth as agreed to serve as his poker coach and trainer in preparation for the 2009 WSOP main-event final table in November

Professional poker player and member of UltimateBet Poker Team, Annie Duke, is teaming up with the famous Commerce Casino in Los Angeles to present a special charity poker event on benefit of the Decision Education Foundation (DEF), a non profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of young people by empowering them with effective decision skills.

Twenty seven year old Canadian pro and member of Full Tilt Poker Pro, Erik Cajelais, has claimed his first WSOP bracelet after taking the World Series of Poker Europe Event 2, winning $169.000 in prize money.

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It’s been said many times that the weakest play in poker is calling – that it’s better to be raising or folding. In my opinion, there are situations where that statement simply isn’t true. I recently played a hand online at Full Tilt Poker that served as a perfect example of how checking and calling can win you a hand that you would have lost by folding (obviously) or raising.

CarbonPoker.com has recently paid out over $600,000 on one of its Bad Beat Jackpot tables and to mark this happening, the online poker room is offering poker players two special Bad Beat Reload Bonuses.

Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game has set a new record for the biggest pot in TV History with more than $1.1 Million.

PokerStars.com is glad to inform that CBS Sports will dedicate this next weekend to air a special one hour show covering the action of the the 2009 Ante Up for Africa (AUFA) Monte Carlo held in Monaco during the 2009 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final.

The 2009 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) kicked off yesterday with Betfair's Free Million Dollar Game special event held at the Empire Casino in Leicester Square, London. The action will resume today with the £1,000 NL Hold'em Four-day  Event #1 and continue for the next two weeks with the remaining three bracelet events running on September 21st , September 23rd and Saturday, September 26th

Hollywood Poker is giving away two ALL Inclusive Main Event Packages to the Pokerstars' EPT worth $11,000, and you can participate by playing in $1+.20 satellites at HollywoodPoker.com.