Poker

Phil Hellmuth’s Ice Bucket Challenge

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is currently sweeping the globe like a wave of water-fuelled benevolence and in the last 48 hours it finally infiltrated the poker world. After targeting some of the world’s biggest stars,...

Santa Ysabel Online Poker Site to Offer Real Money Play

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel made the bold move to launch an online poker site despite the fact that California hasn’t yet regulated the industry (and won’t be doing so this year). This led to plenty of questions...

Richard Roeper Among Celebrities on Poker Night in America

Poker Night in America wouldn’t have been a notable television show a few years ago, when high stakes cash games sponsored by major poker sites doted the late-night television landscape. These days, however, the amount of...

Daniel Negreanu’s $1 Million Poker Bet

Kid Poker, Daniel Negreanu, recently set out to prove he’s a man by putting up $1 million to prove he can beat the toughest online cash games in the world. By now we all know that Daniel Negreanu is one of game’s...

Ulimate Poker Culls Sponsored Pros

It’s night of the long knives at down at Ultimate Poker; the site culled over half of its Team U of sponsored pros this week, representing a change in marketing strategy, perhaps, for America’s first ever legal online...

“Gutshot Straight” To Be Latest in Poker Movie Pantheon

In most poker games, a “gutshot straight” is something of a long shot, and certainly not a safe bet. That might be an appropriate analogy for an upcoming movie of the same name, which hasn’t garnered a lot of...

ESPN Airs Daniel Colman One Drop Victory Non-Reaction

When professional poker player Daniel Colman won the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop over a month ago, many in the poker world were somewhat dismayed by his lack of celebration after his win, which earned him $15.3...

Newsweek Attacks Online Poker, Industry Punches Back

The online gaming industry was united in criticism of the Newsweek cover story that launched a stinging attack on both Internet gambling in general, and online poker in particular, with commentators claiming its arguments are...

Ryan Reiss Joins McLovin in Charity B’Ball Match

Ryan Reiss, who took down the World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 Main Event, recently donned his sneakers and shot some hoops to help out charity outfit Straight But Not Narrow (SBNN). As part of Nike’s Basketball 3ON3...

Humberto Brenes Cuts Ties with Team PokerStars

Humberto Brenes was one of the first round of star players that emerged when the poker boom first hit about a decade ago. The two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner has been a constant force at the WSOP, and his more than...