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WSOPE Schedule Change Causes Tension Among Pros

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time: that’s the phrase WSOPE Tournament Director Jack Effel was...

Part-time Grinder Wins WSOPE Bracelet During Business Trip

Tales of people getting up to no good on a business trip are a dime a dozen, but stories of a businessman taking some time away from his duties to win a poker tournament are less common. New York native Ryan Hefter may be in...

Rafa Nadal and PokerStars Part Ways after Three Years, Sponsorship Said to Be Worth $6.5 Million

Tennis ace Rafa Nadal‘s association with PokerStars has come to an end. After signing with the online poker site in 2012, Nadal appeared in a number of ads for the company and even made some appearances on the felt during...

Phil Ivey v Borgata Legal Tennis Match Continues as Casino Files (Yet Another) Motion

Phil Ivey’s ongoing baccarat battle with the Borgata took another turn this week after yet another motion was filed by the Atlantic City casino. The latest move in a war that’s been raging since 2014 sees the Borgata...

Poker Central Reveals Programming for October 1st Network Launch

Poker Central, the game’s first 24/7 cable television network, is set to launch on October 1st. The highly anticipated channel has been keeping fans in the dark on many details, but this week Poker Central revealed its...

Maria Ho to Host Twitch Show for Poker Central

Poker Central is set to hit the airwaves in October, making it the first television network devoted 24/7 to the game of poker. But the network doesn’t plan to limit itself to TV, and their latest announcement shows how they...

Ben Tollerene Triumphs in Most Expensive Online MTT Ever

The most expensive online poker tournament, PokerStars, came to a conclusion this week and when the betting was over it was Ben Tollerene standing victorious. A week before its $10 million World Championship of Online Poker...

Tobey Maguire Talks Poker Ahead of Bobby Fischer Chess Movie “Pawn Sacrifice”

Tobey Maguire’s latest role in the biopic Pawn Sacrifice sees him playing Bobby Fischer, the American chess champion who famously defeated Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky to become World Chess Champion in 1972. Tobey, on the...

PokerStars Opens Betting Line for $51,000 WCOOP Super High Roller

PokerStars isn’t going to attract thousands or even hundreds of entries for its $51,000 Super High Roller buy-in at the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), but Internet poker’s foremost tournament series is...

MPN to Help Novices Hide from Sharks with New Initiative

The industry-wide trend currently helping to make online poker more appealing to the casual player and the masses, took another step forward recently thanks to Microgaming. Over the last few months the online poker...