With the record bail out package that tops seven hundred billion US dollars about to (presumably) pass a house vote, there’s no question that the turmoil has spilled over to a global stage. European markets have suffered, Asian markets have suffered, and certainly the US market has suffered with housing taking the worst of it. […]
PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour made its way to Seoul this past weekend for what was sure to be some amazing poker in what has become a dominating poker tournament series in its second year. Taking advantage of the massive explosion of Asian poker players, the tournament saw a nice sized field considering they were […]
Well known Danish professional poker player Peter Jespen was recently the target of some very savvy fraud. The problem began when Jespen was contacted via email by a supposed representative of a well known Swedish media company. The perpetrator disguised themselves as a representative of Sweden’s OTW media which also happens to produce the popular […]
Barney Frank, online poker in America’s reigning congressional hero is at it again trying to get some issues from the ill worded UGIEA straightened up in an attempt to make the American business environment more accepting and viable for online poker and online gaming. The bill seeks to define exactly what types of online gaming […]
There is nothing more exciting in tournament poker than a heads up format. Each year the World Championship of Online Poker has a heads up event that has everyone seeing tournament brackets and big chip counts. Unlike most traditional poker tournament formats where players compete until there is one person left standing, a heads up […]
The field has been narrowed down to thirty players as event twenty of the World Championship of Online Poker finishes up. Humberto Brenes and Bertrand Grospellier are two of the big names left vying for the first prize of $468,000. Earlier today Brenes topped the two million chip mark while Grospellier was hovering just under […]
Ultimate Bet.com’s Best Damn Poker Show will be making a sophomore return when it airs on Fox Sports Net this November. The Best Damn Poker Show is a reality type television show that puts some of Ultimate Bet’s top pros against each other, but not how you would normally expect. Rather than battling it out […]