The 2006 World Series of Poker opened with a bang. The world’s largest and most prestigious poker spectacle began with the first open event on the schedule – the $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em competition...

Changes have been made to the schedule for next season's World Poker Tour (WPT), it has been announced. A total of three new events have been added to the WPT's season V calendar and other dates have changed.

The mother of all poker tournaments kicked off in Las Vegas on Sunday. The World Series of Poker began with a two-day Tournament of Champions featuring 27 elite players. In all, more than 20-thousand people are expected to play in the World Series, which wraps up on August 10th.

PokerRoom has long dominated the online poker game for Mac computer. It’s amazing as a customer to see all the unique things PokerRoom comes up with. Their Mac compatibility stemmed from over 9 years of site development back when it was just a site some Swedish college kids made...

While watching televised poker is an excellent way to learn how to play the game, you really need to be careful about how you interpret what you're seeing. The key point to remember is that you're watching an edited-down poker show. You're not seeing all the hands played, and that can give you a skewed version of what is really happening.

Fox Sports Net (FSN) will be airing more live poker tomorrow (Thursday) with the Full Tilt Poker Pro Showdown, during which a Magnificent 7 group of poker pros will be battling for a $1 000 000 prize pool. The winner will receive $600 000, with the second place winning $280 000 and third place winning $120 000.

Confidence, luck and lots of practice proved to be a winning combination for Scottish-born Aucklander James Anderson, who walked away from SKYCITY Auckland's World Series of Poker Satellite final yesterday with an amazing prize package worth nearly $40,000.

Casino poker room managers will describe the huge growth of their business (US).- The poker industry will be examined in an entirely different way at the World Poker Congress (WPC) to be held in Stockholm on June 26 and 27. With experts from the Internet poker world and real-life poker rooms, the WPC will, for the first time, look into issues that affect them jointly.

The Venetian Poker Room is continuing to offer poker players some terrific promotions and unique amenities throughout the month of June. (also see our freeroll poker page)

During the presentation of the grand prize package, PokerRoom.comspokesperson Glenn Cademartori announced that Tunney would receive a buy-infor the "World Series of Poker" main event worth $10,500 and a spot on TeamPokerRoom.com, a group of more than a hundred up-and-coming poker playerswho compete at some of the most prominent poker tournaments, including theWorld Poker Tour Finals.

Part of the 13 th annual Cancer Challenge, the poker run and motorcycle show will be held at Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville...

If you're looking for a feel good story about an amateur who fulfills a lifelong dream of winning the World Series of Poker - this is not your poker book.

Unlike most shows of its kind, the Professional Poker Tour can guarantee that you'll see the best players in the world. And only the best poker players.

Ace King ... It's monster hand and you plan to get as much money out of everyone as you can. Big Slick is called Big Slick for a reason. Yes its a monster drawing hand but it is a drawing hand all the same. (also see our Poker Starting Hands Chart)

Starting June 7, playing poker online in the state of Washington is a Class C felony. Players can be fined $10,000 or sentenced to up to five years in prison, or both, thanks to a new law that is designed to curb online gambling in the state.

A group of poker players arrested for gambling in Mount Pleasant have asked for a jury trial in an effort to change the state's 200-year-old ban on games of cards and dice.