Poker’s newest champ needs a good tax attorney.

Fast. (more…)

Gambling’s Bad Boy of Poker, Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr., has come up with another way to exploit his success at the poker table–he’s launched a clothing line of poker-themed apparel!

In a news release, the line manufacturer–Poker Brat Clothing Co.–announced that the full line of Hellmuthwear is now available for purchase online at www.pokerbrat.com. (more…)

The long-awaited expose’ by American television program “60 Minutes” about cheating in online gambling is scheduled to air this Sunday, November 30, 2008, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time in the USA.

PokerHelper.com previously reported that “60 Minutes” was investigating the issue and working on a segment about it for an upcoming telecast. (more…)

Peter Eastgate recently earned over $9 million by winning the Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.

But that’s just small potatoes for the 22-year-old, multi-millionaire college dropout from Denmark who is the youngest person ever to win a WSOP Main Event. (more…)

Poker Royalty, a talent management firm for poker players, recently announced it had signed 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Peter Eastgate of Denmark.

So what exactly does a talent management firm do for a poker player? (more…)

Canada’s best-known poker pro, Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu, has won the Main Event at the 2008 British Columbia Poker Championships (BCPC).

The Main Event, a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament that had a buy-in of $2,500 and a field of 690 entrants, concluded Sunday at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. (more…)

Evern van Niekerk is the winner of the All-Africa Poker Tournament, a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tourney that was held November 13-16, 2008, at the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland, a country in southern Africa.

It was one of the richest poker tournaments ever held on the continent of Africa, featuring 117 participants and distributing a total of 3.5 million South African rand–about 350,000 U.S. dollars–in prize monies. (more…)

Thousands of books have been written over the years on how to play winning poker.

The latest poker tome, however, is nothing less than a pure sign of the times. (more…)

Professional poker player and beauty pageant winner Cyclona “Clonie” Gowen has filed a $40 million lawsuit against online poker room Full Tilt Poker (www.fulltiltpoker.com), whom she flacked for until being fired earlier this month.

The twice-divorced Gowen, of Dallas, Texas, USA, given her first name because she was born during a cyclone, has won nearly a million dollars in her career playing tournament poker. At age 15, she won the Miss Teen Oklahoma beauty pageant. Still photogenic at age 37, she is a staple of televised poker matches. (more…)

A woman has been sentenced to 10 years to life in prison for stabbing her husband–a professional poker player–to death in a Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, condominium last year.

According to media reports, Jill Rockcastle, 50, was sentenced Tuesday by Clark County District Court Judge Michael Villani. (more…)

The Internet’s newest poker room is picky about who its customers are.

Not only does it ban customers from the USA, as many online poker rooms do, it also bans customers from ten other countries! (more…)

Poker legend Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson is taking some heat after publicly announcing that he voted for John McCain for President.

Some are even calling him a racist for not voting for Barack Obama. (more…)

After a lengthy legal battle, the folks who run the World Series of Poker (WSOP) have gained control of a critical website.

The website? (more…)

An American college basketball player who lost $600 gambling online will not be disciplined because he lost the money playing poker, not betting on sporting events.

According to media reports, Nick Calathes, a guard on the University of Florida basketball team in Gainesville, Florida, USA, was investigated by the school’s athletic department, after rumors swirled on campus that he had run up a large debt gambling online. (more…)

Television viewer ratings for Tuesday’s telecast on ESPN of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) final table were up about 50% over last year’s telecast, ESPN announced.

ESPN credited the ratings increase mainly to the fact that the telecast aired on the same day final table play finished instead of months later, as had been done in the past. (more…)

It took five months to finish, but the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is finally in the books.

Here are some facts and figures about the ‘08 WSOP Main Event, courtesy of the WSOP: (more…)

The luckiest player among the nine at the final table of the just-completed World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, was not the player who ended up in first place and won the tournament.

It was the player who ended up in seventh place! (more…)

Despite finishing in second place in the just-completed 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Ivan Demidov may be the hottest poker player on the planet right now.

Just weeks ago, he finished in third place in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) in London, England. (more…)

Peter Eastgate, who earlier this week won the Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is the first Danish poker player ever to win a WSOP Main Event.

And he is also just the second Dane to win any WSOP tournament. (Earlier at this year’s WSOP, Jesper Hougaard of Copenhagen, Denmark, won a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tourney. Hougaard also won a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tourney at the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe in London, England.) (more…)

Four months after it began, Peter Eastgate has won the Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.

At age 22, he becomes the youngest person ever to win the WSOP Main Event. (more…)

After playing coy all through the U.S. Presidential campaign regarding who he was supporting, poker legend Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson has finally come clean.

He has admitted he voted for John McCain for President. (more…)

American cable television sports network ESPN will televise final table play of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event just hours after it concludes.

After a 117-day break, the WSOP Main Event resumes Sunday, November 9, 2008, with the start of final table play for the nine remaining players. (more…)

The eyes of the world will be on the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event when it resumes on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with nine players at the final table.

But those eyes won’t just be looking to see who will be the Main Event winner–they’ll also be looking to see if the cops are there to pounce on one of the participants! (more…)

For the nine players making up the final table at the Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP), which resumes next week in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, all but one are guaranteed to become millionaires–if they aren’t ones already.

Thousands of people entered the WSOP Main Event when it got underway in July. (more…)

After an unprecedented 117-day break, the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is scheduled to resume in Las Vegas on Sunday, November 9, 2008.

Action was suspended at the WSOP in July after the starting field for the WSOP Main Event was whittled from 6,844 players to a final table of nine players. (more…)

With the election this week of Barack Obama as President of the United States, there will be a poker player in the White House for the first time since Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968.

Obama’s election has online poker players especially pleased–many see his Presidency as a possible catalyst towards more lenient U.S. laws regarding Internet gambling. (more…)

A major poker seminar and gaming expo has been scheduled for 2009 in Malta, a tiny island nation in the Mediterranean Sea.

The dates for the event are April 18 and 19, 2009, and the location is the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, the capital city. (more…)

Canterbury Park, a combination horse racing track and card room in Shakopee, Minnesota, USA, recently held its 2008 Fall Classic, an annual no-limit Texas hold ‘em poker tournament with a buy-in of $1,000.

This year’s event had 263 entrants and a total prize pool of $255,110. (more…)

The Poker Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, which is to add two new members later this month, is a bizarre collection of historical poker names from past and present.

Among others, there are a brat (Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr., enshrined in 2007), a child molester (Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston Jr., enshrined in 1992) and even a 19th-century murderer who himself was murdered while playing poker (James B. “Wild Bill” Hickok, enshrined in 1979). (more…)

The Poker Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, will add two new members this month.

Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., owner of the Poker Hall of Fame as well as the World Series of Poker (WSOP), announced Friday that the 2008 Hall of Fame inductees are Duane “Dewey” Tomko and Herb Orenstein. (more…)