The World Series of Poker announced during the opening festivities of this year’s poker event that next year will see the debut of a new tournament with a $1 million buy in fee. The tournament, which will be appropriately named The Big One, is set to benefit the charity One Drop, which provides access to [...]

Phil Ivey, usually a deeply private poker player who seeks to keep out of the limelight, made a dramatic statement through his official Facebook fan page, hitting out at Full Tilt Poker’s refusal to return their players’ money and revealing that he has filed a lawsuit against Tiltware that is related to unsettled accounts. “I [...]

Tomorrow sees the official start of the 42nd World Series of Poker at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Set to run from Tuesday until July 19th, this WSOP will be bigger than ever, with 58 gold bracelets up for grabs and millions in prize money waiting to be won. The question that [...]

It seems that things are finally starting to move in the right direction for Full Tilt Poker, which has yet to pay out a single cent to its increasingly impatient account holders. According to eGR, a single account belonging to co-founder Raymond Bitar has been unfrozen at the Bank of Ireland, freeing up $150 million [...]

Update: Doylesroom was liquidated and all assets were sold to the Winning Poker Network. If you want to play on this new Network we recommend True Poker. Otherwise you can choose from a proper site if you live in the United States on this page. The popular well known poker site for its previous backer, [...]

Newer Update: Bookmaker.com is being sold by the US government through a US attorney and his company, who was in connection with illegal gambling himself! Update: Bookmaker is now using a new URL after the FBI seized theirs, but about 1% of players from the US can actually deposit at the new URL because of [...]

According to an announcement issued by Poker Stars before the weekend, over $100 million has been returned to players from the United States who had money in their online poker accounts at their site. The site continues to process payments and return funds to US players, thanks to an agreement reached with the site’s owners [...]

DoylesRoom.com, the online poker room that has been endorsed for so many years by WSOP bracelet winner, Doyle Brunson, has been told that the Godfather of Poker no longer wishes to be affiliated with the site. According to industry sources, Brunson wants to distance himself from an online poker room that is US facing, following [...]