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Nominations for Women in Poker Hall of Fame h4t18
While poker is largely dominated by male competitors, women have always been an important part of the game’s world. Unlike in many sports, men and women can compete on equal footing across the ... Read more...

New Bracelet Design Revealed for 2012 WSOP 296442
If you happen to win a bracelet at this year’s World Series of Poker, there’s a good chance you might want to show off your gold bracelet. Sure, this has always been true, but now you might find ... Read more...

Revenues Up Slightly for bwin.party 4d5x5x
After a turbulent year for the newly formed company, bwin.party announced this week that revenues were up slightly in the first quarter of 2012. Overall, the company brought in €215.9 million in ... Read more...

‘The Micros’ Set for Return as Web Comic 471f3x
If you’re like many online poker players, you may have noticed that there’s been a little something missing from the world of online poker over the past few months. No, it’s not Full Tilt Poker ... Read more...

Tax Could Derail Spanish Online Poker 2s1a1c
We’ve talked a lot recently about the plans to regulate Spain’s online poker market. The regulations are set to kick in on June 1st, when Spain will begin awarding licenses to some of ... Read more...

Online Poker for Nevada Expected 2013 3j2u8
It may be slow in coming, but online poker in the state of Nevada will be a reality soon. But according to a meeting held Monday, it may not quite as soon as some players – and potential ... Read more...

Spanish Online Poker Regulation h5t2f
For close to a year now, Spanish online poker players have awaited the beginning of the regulatory scheme that their government was planning to put into place. Now, a date for the beginning of ... Read more...

Belgium’s Restricted Online Poker Sites 571j4n
Sporadically we have talked about certain European countries (see our international countries poker list) and how they have begun to crack down on online poker. While a country like England is ... Read more...

Bwin.Party s up with Indian Tribe 1k4h42
While bwin.party needs online poker to be legalized in the state of California, it is fully ready to enter the US poker market. If the game is made legal bwin.party has already finalized a deal ... Read more...

Regulated Online Poker in Spain 301r2p
Believe it or not, Spain was one of the few European countries that sets irrational laws making it impossible for online poker to thrive there. On June 1st Spain will be running online poker for ... Read more...

French Online Poker Report 2012 5uq
A new report out from ’s online gambling regulatory body shows a mixed bag for online poker in the country, as some segments of the market have done far better than others over the last ... Read more...

Lock Poker Leaving Merge 6z1q4a
Lock Poker has been one of the largest and most independent rooms on the Merge Gaming Network for some time now. The room had built an impressive team of sponsored professionals, and had even ... Read more...

rUabot defeats Negreanu easily 451r2r
Heading into the first ever Limit Hold’em Challenge on PokerStars Saturday, many observers had pegged the encounter as too close to call. On the one hand, you had Daniel Negreanu – one of the ... Read more...

PokerStars 80 Billionth Hand 302h42
It’s hard to imagine 80 billion of…well, of anything, really. So when an online poker site says they’re dealing the 80 billionth cash game hand in the site’s history, that definitely says ... Read more...

Negreanu Limit Hold’em Challenge 211f31
Limit hold’em is a great game, and for a long time, it was by far the most popular betting style in the most popular poker game in the world. But over the last decade, no-limit Texas hold’em has ... Read more...

European Poker Tour’s Ninth Season 2616q
The European Poker Tour has constantly tweaked its formula in order to adjust to the changing poker world. However, their plans for Season Nine, which will begin later in 2012, may mark one of ... Read more...

Online poker and casino software developer Playtech has had lots of good news to share as of late. The Israeli company has seen massive revenue increases in almost every one of their ventures ... Read more...

WSOP Asia-Pacific to Begin in 2013 5b3f2h
When the World Series of Poker first expanded to Europe in 2007, many players thought it would be a relative failure that would never be accepted as a serious part of the WSOP. However, the WSOP ... Read more...

Mohsin Charania Wins EPT Grand Final 6i60m
Mohsin Charania had made several deep runs at major poker tournaments, which made some observers think he was overdue for a big win. Few, however, could have imagined that his first major victory ... Read more...

PokerStars and Mobile Poker in Europe 3j3p5y
PokerStars has launched a real money mobile poker app in , expanding the reach of their growing mobile poker wing. That expansion also included PokerStars.eu, allowing players in Sweden, ... Read more...

Amarillo Slim Dies at Age 83 395a60
One of the true legends of the poker world, Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. – better known as Amarillo Slim – ed away Sunday morning after a lengthy battle with cancer and heart problems. He was ... Read more...

Two Plus Two Poker Forums Hacked 5s4d4x
The twoplustwo.com poker forums, one of the oldest and largest online poker forums in the world, were closed Friday after it was discovered that a hacker had accessed the site’s database of email ... Read more...

Tiger’s Poker Night Fundraiser 5e2167
Around the world, there are millions of golfers who would love to hit the greens with legendary golfer Tiger Woods. Tonight, a special tournament hosted by Woods will give players the chance to ... Read more...

Annette Obrestad s Lock Poker 4e3342
Lock Poker has added Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad to their Lock Pro Elite team of professional poker players, adding one of the most popular young female poker players in the world to their ... Read more...

GBT Out and PokerStars Jumps In 1u5q5n
News came down early Tuesday that Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) – the French investment group that had been heavily involved in negotiations with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to ... Read more...

888 Poker Continues Strong Growth 154i4k
While most of the online poker world has shrunk since Black Friday, 888 Holdings’ poker site, 888 Poker, has been bucking that trend. On Tuesday, the company issued an earnings statement that ... Read more...

Obrestad Signs with Poker Royalty 6g575
Annette Obrestad has been one of the most successful female poker players in recent history – and one of the most successful young players of any gender, too. Now, she’s signed a deal with the ... Read more...

Belgian Davidi Kitai wins EPT 68f6e
Davidi Kitai won €712,000 and earned the second major victory of his career this weekend by winning the European Poker Tour Berlin Main Event. In the process, Kitai also became the first Belgian ... Read more...

Merge Network Pulls Out of Utah 345d4s
There is some bad news for residents of Utah who are still looking to play online poker. Earlier this week the Merge Gaming Network announced that they would no longer be accepting new s ... Read more...

PTR Ends PokerStars Data Mining 504da
Complying with a cease and desist action sent by PokerStars, popular data mining site PokerTableRatings.com has decided to end their data mining operations on the world’s largest online poker ... Read more...