Poker

After almost two years of waiting, Kahnawake Gaming Commission has finally issued an official statement   confirming that cheating occurred at the online poker room UltimateBet, naming the accounts used to fleece UB players out of their bankrolls, and stating that the individual who bears responsibility for that cheating is 1994 WSOP Main Event winner Russ Hamilton.

In the late stages of a poker tournament, big pairs are generally pretty easy to play. When you have 20, 30 or 40 big blinds in your stack, and you find a pair of Queens or Kings, you usually just want to play aggressively, force a fold, or play a big all-in pot and hope things work out in the end.

If you’re looking to top off your CarbonPoker account, now is a great time. Deposit $300 or more at Carbon Poker and you will receive a FREE $109 Tournament Coupon.

The Poker Hall of Fame has recently informed that online poker pro and heads up expert Tom "durrrr" Dwan has been removed from its list of nominees

NBC's "Face the Ace" poker show will return on Saturday, September 12, at 2:00 ET. The poker-themed show gives contestants the chance to play a series of heads up matches against some of the best poker players in the world for a $1 million prize.

The Heads Up Grand Slam from PKR Poker is your chance to face stars such as Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Luke "Full Flush" Schwartz in a heads up battle in London, England. With buy-in for the satellites at only $7.28, there is no excuse not to take part in this glamorous poker tournament.

When beginning poker players are describing a hand they’ve played, they usually start by saying what their hole cards were before moving on to talk about the betting. A professional poker player, however, would never describe the dynamics of a hand without first talking about his position at the table because in games like Hold ’em and Omaha, position can be even more important than the cards in your hand.

The third annual World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Betfair will be back to the Casino at the Empire in London's famed Leicester Square from September 17th to October 2nd for another tournament series offering a total four gold bracelet events as well as two special events, including the fist Caesars Cup No-Limit Hold'em Event and a Heads Up World Record event featuring British poker pro Paul Zimbler.

Organizers of the Sports Legends Challenge have recently informed that its inaugural Celebrity poker event scheduled to take place from September 14th-17th at the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas,  has been postponed. Sports Legends Challenge CEO Bruce Bibbero, said the event will be  reprogrammed in 2010 and relocated to a new site somewhere within the United States.

Win a ticket to the Men's Hockey Gold Medal Final Game of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. The winner of this TigerGaming promotion gets a package prize totaling $7,450! And the best part of the prize? Getting the VIP treatment with sight-line, Category B seating to the most highly coveted event of the Winter Games - the Men’s Gold Medal Hockey Final.

Join the exciting poker action this Sunday as Poker Heaven presents their €15,000 Sunday Head Hunter. Buy-in for the poker tournament is only €50 and the bounty prize will be split equally on all the players' heads.

Poker legend and 11 time World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will once again host the annual Hold'em for Heroes charity poker tournament set to get underway on November 19th at Fort McDowell Casino in Arizona.

Mike Caro once said that when you join a poker game, you should say to yourself, “I am a great poker player; a powerful winning force surrounds me.” I believe it’s a technique worth trying.

As you may already know, Pitbull Poker has been running a Comp Points Race every week.  The race starts every Thursday at 12:00 (Noon) EST and ends Thursday at 11:59 EST the following week.  Lots of cash prizes to be won!

Ceasars Cup Team Captains, Daniel Negreanu and Annette Obrestad have called four more players for the first team poker event featuring the best players from both sides of the Atlantic competing against each other to determine whether the Americas or Europeans are home to the best tournament poker players.

SunPoker.com is putting up $10,000 for the month of September in two exciting $5,000 races. In the "Double Dip" Cash Race, the top ten poker players at the end of each race will receive cash in their SunPoker account.

The Monthly Million GP will get underway on September 13th, and there is $1,000,000 up for grabs each and every month at Victor Chandler Poker. The winner will walk away with at least $200,000 and satellites are underway for as little as 48 cents.

Is it time to top off your CarbonPoker account? This weekend they are offering five different deposit bonuses that are perfect for any poker bankroll. At deposit levels of $20, $50, $100, $250 and $500, depositing players will receive tournament coupons, 3x the VIP Point rate and great chances to enter this weekend's Guaranteed $50,000 Tournament on Sunday.

Unlike the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, in where the online poker site PokerStars.com dominated the field with  six sponsored players at the final table, this year most poker sites had to compete against each other to have their brands exposed at the final table.

If you love poker AND football, you are not alone – the folks over at Aced are football fanatics! So to celebrate the first football season since their launch, they are offering a limited time instant deposit bonus, with no play-through requirements. This means the money will be available in your account the instant you deposit.

The online poker site, Poker Share is proud to announce the unveiling of their new look and new poker bonus scheme. Also on the 29th of August, they will be hosting a $1,000 poker freeroll which is open to all players.

Many players new to online poker find multi-tabling – playing more than one table at once – intimidating. While it might seem this way at first, there are several things that you can do to get the most out of your experience right from the start.

VC Poker recently announced the return of their eagerly-anticipated "Beat Victor Challenge"; due to the popularity of the first poker challenge, Victor decided to repeat the event for a second time. The idea of the poker challenge remains the same, however the prizes are bigger and better this time around.

WPT Enterprises, Inc., owner of the World Poker Tour has informed that a subsidiary of PartyGaming Plc, Peerless Media Ltd. ("Peerless Media"), has agreed to purchase substantially all of WPTE's operating assets, investments and certain excluded assets. According to a press release, WPTE's previous acquisition agreement with Gamynia Limited was terminated after further consideration of the Peerless' new proposal.

Officials of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour  have informed that the 2009 APPT Seoul event set to take place from September 17th to 20th, 2009 at 7-Luck Casino in Seoul, South Korea, has been postponed due a series of construction delays at the casino.