Online poker room Only Poker (www.onlypoker.com) has signed basketball bad boy Dennis “The Worm” Rodman as a paid spokesman.

Rodman, 48, played for five National Basketball Association (NBA) teams in a long career and won five NBA championships. Read the rest of this entry »

Police in Germany are still looking for four armed bandits who robbed a major poker tournament in Berlin Saturday afternoon that was being broadcast live on television.

According to media reports, four masked men wielding guns and machetes invaded a European Poker Tour (EPT) event being held at the Berlin Grand Hyatt hotel and made off with 240,000 euros, equal to about $328,000. Read the rest of this entry »

Annie Duke, the top female professional poker player in the world, proved once again Sunday why she deserves that moniker–she won NBC’s sixth annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

The event, held at the Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas, featured 64 top poker pros in a single-elimination, one-on-one, no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

Party Gaming PLC, the parent company of online poker room Party Poker (www.partypoker.com), reported this week that its profits for 2009 were down 6% from 2008.

The Gibraltar-based company, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, reported that its profits for the calendar year 2009 were $135 million, down from the $144 million the company reported in profits in calendar year 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

The sixth annual NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship gets underway Friday at the Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

The made-for-TV event features 64 top poker pros squaring off in a March Madness-type, single-elimination, no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament, until two pros remain and play a best-of-three match for the championship on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

A new movie that premiered in the USA this month features online poker.

The film, “From Paris With Love,” opened in American movie theaters on February 5 and has a scene where an Internet poker player is playing at online poker room Titan Poker (www.titanpoker.com). Read the rest of this entry »

Online poker room Poker Stars announced this week that it has signed an exclusive agreement with American cable television network ESPN to televise the new North American Poker Tour (NAPT).

The NAPT, which was created by and is sponsored by Poker Stars, will appear on ESPN sister channel ESPN2, beginning in April of 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

British poker pro Julian “Yo-yo” Thew has been hired as an a official representative of online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com), the room announced.

He had previously served as a paid flack for Internet poker site William Hill Poker (www.williamhill.com) since 2004. Read the rest of this entry »

A contrite Phil Hellmuth Jr.?

That’s sort of like imagining an angry Mr. Rogers or a soft-spoken Donald Trump–in an oxymoronic kind of way–but it has happened. Read the rest of this entry »

Professional poker player Bernard Lee has been hired by the Foxwoods Resort and Casino to flack its poker room.

The Pequot Indian tribe-run casino-hotel is located in Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA. Read the rest of this entry »

Phil “Poison” Ivey is one of the world’s greatest poker players.

When it comes to another type of gambling, however, he’s not so great. Read the rest of this entry »

A song about poker won two Grammy Awards Sunday night.

The hit song–titled “Poker Face”–by American pop singer Lady Gaga, was nominated for five Grammies, the music industry’s top award. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2010 Borgata Winter Open is underway and one of the participants is Olympic swimmer and wannabe poker pro Michael Phelps.

The Open is a massive annual poker tournament at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, N.J., USA. Read the rest of this entry »

Has MasterCard finally mastered the system?

Apparently so, at least when it comes to Internet poker. Read the rest of this entry »

Piece of cake!

Cake Poker, which operates 55 online poker rooms, has purchased a World Series of Poker (WSOP) championship bracelet that was once owned by T.J. Cloutier and which was put up for sale last month on the online auction site eBay (www.ebay.com). Read the rest of this entry »

The little state of Delaware has become a big problem for New Jersey.

At least pokerwise. Read the rest of this entry »

The chant oft heard ’round Dixie is, “The South will rise again!”

In this case, it’s a Southerner who’s risen to the top. Read the rest of this entry »

Only in America!

An American poker pro who patterns his persona after a notorious killer has been rewarded with his own online poker room. Read the rest of this entry »

Warm beer has triumphed in the land of champagne.

Jake Cody has won the Main Event on the latest stop of the European Poker Tour (EPT). Read the rest of this entry »

Times are tough these days, apparently even for champion professional poker players.

Poker pro T.J. Cloutier, who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) championship gold bracelets and more than $9 million playing offline tournament poker in his career, is selling one of those bracelets on online auction site eBay (www.ebay.com). Read the rest of this entry »

A poker player in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, has earned more than a quarter of a million dollars–for losing a hand!

The gambler, Steve Gedney of Dover, Delaware, USA, was playing poker at the Caesars casino in Atlantic City last Friday when he pulled four of a kind and managed to lose the hand. Read the rest of this entry »

Aid for earthquake victims in Haiti is coming in from an unlikely source–online poker rooms!

Several major Internet poker rooms are donating directly, making it easy for their patrons to donate or both. Read the rest of this entry »

Professional poker player Amir Vahedi, who won a championship gold bracelet at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP), has died.

According to media reports, Vahedi, 57, who lived in Los Angeles, California, USA, died Saturday, January 8, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, of complications from diabetes. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the expectations of many within the poker world, there will not be another professional poker player on the next season of the reality television series “Celebrity Apprentice,” it was announced.

Poker pro Annie Duke appeared on the second season of the show, last year, and finished as runnerup in the competition to become Donald Trump’s celebrity apprentice. Read the rest of this entry »

The Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure, the largest annual offline poker tournament run by online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com), will be held this year beginning on January 4, 2010, at the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

The 10-day, 50-event tournament will feature poker of all types and buy-ins of all levels, with thousands of poker players entering and millions of dollars of prize money up for grabs. Read the rest of this entry »

The largest online poker tournament in history was held Sunday at British online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com).

According to the room, the record-setting tourney drew a whopping 149,196 participants. Read the rest of this entry »

As 2009 comes to a close, numerous poker publications and poker news websites have been rehashing the year by listing the Top 10 poker stories of 2009.

PokerHelper.com thinks they’re all missing the boat, and we don’t mean the full kind. Read the rest of this entry »

It has again been shown–marriage and poker do not mix.

The latest casualty? Read the rest of this entry »

The folks who run the World Series of Poker (WSOP) have dodged a bullet.

A bullet of bad publicity that is–a bullet that could’ve become a fusillade. Read the rest of this entry »

Professional poker player Phil “Poison” Ivey winning two championship gold bracelets at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and then making the ‘09 WSOP Main Event final table is the top poker story of 2009, a leading poker magazine has declared.

Well-respected poker mag Card Player (www.cardplayer.com) has listed what it sees as the Top 10 poker news stories of the year, and Ivey is No. 1. Read the rest of this entry »