Poker

Reddit Says that Poker Not A Sport

Is poker a sport? It’s a question that poker players have wrestled with for a number of years, but one that doesn’t appear to have a clear answer. However, thanks to Reddit, we may now have more of an idea of where...

Allen Kessler Boycotts Quantum Reload Tournaments

Quantum reload tournaments are a relatively new innovation in the world of tournament poker, allowing players to buy in at a high level to enter the tournament at a later level with more chips. But while such entries may give...

Bitcoin Online Poker Transactions Refused by Coinbase

Bitcoin seems ideal for online poker in many ways: it’s a virtual currency that usually comes with a high degree of anonymity, while also giving American players a way around financial institutions that can’t legally...

PokerStars Confiscating Funds of Americans Playing for Real Money

When PokerStars was forced out of the American market by the US Department of Justice after Black Friday, many poker players in the United States looked for ways around this restriction. PokerStars itself was willing to keep...

Live Poker Tournaments Breaking Attendance Records

Live poker tournaments first started seeing their numbers explode about a decade ago, when online poker satellites allowed players to earn seats from the comforts of their own homes. Now, with global online poker traffic...

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...