Six of the world’s best poker professionals and one online qualifier from Full Tilt Poker.net met at the poker table on Thanksgiving Day last week to compete for a $1 million prizepool in the Full Tilt Poker.Net Championship at Red Rock Resort and Casino...

The Poker News website has announced the signing by Mansion Poker of big time cash player David Benyamine on Saturday...

PLAYING poker for money in pubs is finally to become LEGAL. Thousands of punters have been pour into local boozers for the late-night card schools...

Online casino paddypower.com has opened betting on the WSOP 2007 Main Event. The first markets to go live on the world's largest and most prestigious poker tournament are 'number of entrants' and 'to make final table...

What do you get when you combine the NFL with the World Series of Poker? A team style variation of Texas Hold’em, called the PokerBowl. It’s a competition being organized by the U.S. Poker League in which 6-player teams from 25 cities will compete in Las Vegas for bragging rights and one million dollars...

Now, the company has taken its 'add to player value' philosophy to a new level. Between December 4th, and January 1st, Mansion is adding $250,000 to the prize pools of tournaments. This isn't $50 added to a bunch of different tournaments, either, this is at least $5,000 added to one tournament each day, every day until the first day of the new year...

Titan Poker have announced there are now only thirteen seats available for the popular site's richest ever Sit 'N' Go: the 'Tournament Titan'. With a million dollars on the table seats are understandably going fast. Another two places have been snapped up in the past week. Only thirteen seats are unclaimed from the original twenty made available...

If anyone ever had a doubt that women poker players have really arrived on the scene and proved their equality in the game, it is being erased by the first ever appearance of two superstar women poker players at a WORLD POKER TOUR (WPT) Final Table at Foxwoods Casino Resort Thursday night...

One of the things Senator Bill Frist was probably counting on with his forcing through of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was that he would be cheered by conservatives. Frist may be preparing for a White House run in 2008, and desperately needs the conservative vote on his side...

Gambling software maker Playtech agreed to buy rival Tribeca for $75 million (39 million pounds) on Monday to create a company twice the size of its nearest competitor...

Three Canadian founders of Sportingbet's Paradise Poker business yesterday shared a payout worth more than £20m after operating profits reached a milestone...

In a typical cash poker game, you don't face the pressure of having to win every last chip on the table. Instead, you can play a steady, solid game, looking to make a small profit on the night by playing conservatively and making sure you have top hands when you do play...

Rumors have been swirling on the internet this week about a possible merger of two online poker powerhouses, but all rumors went unsubstantiated. This morning, we can safely say that the rumors are, in fact, true. Absolute Poker is going to purchase online poker rival, Ultimate Bet...

UK's Ladbrokes and USA's MGM Mirage, two of the world's largest gambling groups, have begun exploratory takeover talks with online gambling companies whose stock value plummeted with the passage by US Congress and signing into law of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA)...

The Poker Dome is no place for the faint or the flinching. It's a soundproof pressure chamber where players are strapped with anxiety-tracking heart monitors and have 15 seconds to make all-in or fold-'em decisions that determine who plays on and who heads home...