Top female poker pro Annie Duke on Sunday will begin her quest to gain employment with billionaire Donald Trump.

That’s when the new season of the NBC television show “Celebrity Apprentice” kicks off–specifically, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time in the USA. (more…)

An analysis by American accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that the USA could receive as much as $52 billion in Federal revenue over the next decade if Internet gambling is regulated and taxed.

The study was commissioned by the UC Group, a British online payment processor. (more…)

A professional poker player suspected of killing his mother and poker pro father last year in California has been arrested and charged in the slayings.

According to media reports, police on Tuesday arrested Ernest Scherer III, 30, of Brea, California, USA, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and charged him in the murders of his parents, Ernest Scherer Jr., 60, and Charlene Abendroth, 57. (more…)

When PokerHelper.com speaks, Hollywood listens!

PokerHelper.com recently ran a news story about the upcoming release of a new poker-themed movie called “The Poker Club.” (more…)

A professional poker player who participated in the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event has pleaded guilty to drug charges.

According to media reports, poker pro Daniel “Gomez” Schleben of Ten Mile, Tennessee, USA, last week pleaded guilty in Federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, to conspiracy to distribute cocaine. (more…)

This time Hansen wasn’t so great.

Danish poker pro Theo Jorgensen defeated fellow Danish poker pro Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen Saturday in a boxing match held in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to media reports. (more…)

Top government officials in the State of Pennsylvania are feuding over video poker.

Specifically, the state’s two highest-ranking elected officials, the governor and the state attorney general, are clashing over the governor’s plan to legalize video poker in the state, according to media reports. (more…)

A series of prestigious poker tournaments will be held in London, England, over the next eight months as part of the London Poker Circuit (LPC).

And anyone can qualify. (more…)

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Professional poker player Zachary “Carter” King has been identified as one of the eight people arrested in connection with the now-famous photo of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps smoking pot.

According to media reports, eight people were arrested on February 7, 2009, on drug charges and all were connected to an off-campus house party last November at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, where Phelps was photographed smoking marijuana from a bong or water pipe. (more…)

A former poker room supervisor at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for his role in a sports betting operation that was run out of the Borgata poker room and later busted by police.

According to media reports, former Borgata poker room supervisor Joseph Wishnick, 44, of Brigantine, New Jersey, USA, was sentenced Friday to nine months in prison followed by 27 months of probation. (more…)

A Montana woman who was arrested for stabbing a man is the sister of professional poker player Jesse Petrakis, PokerHelper.com has learned exclusively.

Sarah Petrakis, 22, of Butte, Montana, USA, was arrested last month and charged with assault with a weapon after an altercation at the Kingpin Lounge and Lanes, a combination bar and bowling alley in Butte. (more…)

An American online poker room that went out of business last year is being investigated by police.

According to media reports, former online poker room Zosoz, which opened in October of 2008 and folded two months later, owes money to numerous former customers. (more…)

A man who held a charity poker tournament for the family of a child killed in a crash has been arrested for keeping the tournament proceeds.

According to media reports, Matthew William Keysacker, 30, of Aurora, Colorado, USA, was arrested Monday and charged with computer crime and theft by deception, both felonies, after allegedly keeping $3,455 in proceeds from a charity poker tournament he held in December of 2008 for the family of Marten Kudlis. (more…)

Dream Team Poker (www.dreamteampoker.com), a poker marketing firm that promotes team poker tournaments, announced that it has hired Katherine Kowal to be its new director of business development.

According to a press release issued by Dream Team Poker, “Kowal will be charged with further advancing Dream Team Poker’s casino presence and enhancing brand recognition among poker players…(she) will help Dream Team Poker identify and target new casino partners to license the patented Dream Team Poker system as well as oversee Dream Team Poker’s event marketing, player relations and strategic partnerships. In addition, she will be responsible for maintaining relationships with top casinos and leverage those relationships to build the Dream Team Poker brand.” (more…)

Online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com) announced that it will soon deal its 25 billionth hand of Internet poker.

And the lucky winner of that hand will win a cool 100 grand! (more…)

In a bizarre posting on his blog (web log), poker pro Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu, one of the most successful poker players on the planet and a multi-millionaire, claims his cheap-but-ailing mother won’t let him pay her medical bills.

After recently suffering a heart attack and a stroke at home in Las Vegas, where both now live, Negreanu’s mom decided to return to Canada, where both used to live, because medical treatment under the Canadian socialized medicine system is cheaper than in the USA, Negreanu writes on his blog at Full Contact Poker (www.fullcontactpoker.com.). (more…)

Eight people have been arrested in connection with the now-famous photograph of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps smoking marijuana.

And one of them is a professional poker player. (more…)

The first poker-themed movie of 2009 is called “The Poker Club.”

Most movies about poker are bombs, and this one is likely no exception. (more…)

More than two dozen celebrities are scheduled to participate in a charity golf and poker tournament, as part of the festivities surrounding next Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The tourney, dubbed “Par and Poker,” is scheduled for Friday, February 13, 2009, in suburban Chandler, Arizona, USA, event organizers announced.

The twin tourney kicks off with an 18-hole golf tournament at the Whirlwind Golf Club and then concludes with a no-limit Texas hold ‘em poker tournament at the Gila River Indian casino. (more…)

Poker legend Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson has come to the defense–sort of–of disgraced Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, who recently lost a sponsorship deal with Kellog’s after being photographed smoking marijuana.

On his blog, his web log or online diary, at Doyle’s Room (www.doylesroom.com), the online poker room he flacks, Brunson wrote: “Michael Phelps is getting a lot of flak about his picture smoking dope. It’s too bad, he is a nice kid but he has to realize his every move is scrutinized and he can’t make mistakes like that. He has lost lots of money because he has lost some major endorsement deals. I think Michael will get back on track. Remember, he is a 23-year-old kid.” (more…)

In a market cluttered with more brands than one can remember, much less patronize, new online poker room Aced (www.aced.com) has scored a coup.

The room announced that it has signed controversial poker pro Jamie Gold to an endorsement deal. (more…)

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Online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com) has signed two finalists from last year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event to be celebrity shills for the room.

Dennis “Fordman” Phillips and Ylon Schwartz, who both made the Main Event final table of nine at the 2008 WSOP in Las Vegas, have been hired to flack for Poker Stars, the room announced. (more…)

The 2009 Canadian Open Poker Championships (COPC) will be held May 13-17, 2009, at the Stampede Casino in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, organizers announced.

The COPC, a stop on the Canadian Poker Tour (CPT), will consist of five separate poker tournaments, including the signature Main Event, a $5,000 buy-in, no-limit Texas hold ‘em heads-up tourney. (more…)

Two noted poker pros are part of a group that has formed a new poker-themed charity.

Poker pros Linda Johnson and Mike Sexton, along with Lisa Tenner and Jan Fisher, have formed Poker Gives, a non-profit charitable organization. (more…)

A professional poker player who is in the Poker Hall of Fame is among the thousands of investors who were scammed out of money by con man financial manager Bernard Madoff.

According to media reports, poker pro Lyle Berman, who was elected to the Poker Hall of Fame in 2002, is one of thousands of names on an official list of clients scammed by Madoff. (more…)

Danish poker pros Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen and Theo Jorgensen are getting ready to square off.

But it won’t be at the poker table. (more…)

The former mayor of a British town has admitted to embezzling almost $60,000 in order to play online poker.

According to media reports, Jayne Prewitt, 49, who was mayor of Carlisle, England, from 1993 to 1994, admitted in court this week to stealing 38,000 British pounds, equal to about $56,000 U.S., from a social club in Carlisle called the South End Constitutional Club, where she was a bartender. (more…)

The sheriffs have learned their lesson.

Finally. (more…)