Poker legend Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson is the latest professional poker player to get all atwitter.

The seventyish Texan, who now resides in Las Vegas, admits he’s no technophile. (more…)

A former Red has won enough green to put him in the black.

The winner of the recent Foxwoods Poker Classic Main Event was Vadim Trincher. (more…)

Poker pro and TV poker host Mike Sexton, who formerly shilled for online poker room Party Poker (www.partypoker.com) but parted ways with the room after it ran into legal trouble, will shill for the room again.

Party Poker announced this week that Sexton, best known as the TV host for televised World Poker Tour (WPT) events, is returning as a paid flack. (more…)

Six years after an unknown Tennessee accountant named Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event and sparked a poker boom throughout the world, poker is coming to prime time network television in America for the first time.

NBC announced this week that it will air a show about poker in prime time in August. (more…)

The commissioner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has blasted a comic who made jokes on television about poker players.

WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack said Tuesday he is miffed at comedienne Joan Rivers for making disparaging comments Sunday on the American reality television show “Celebrity Apprentice.” (more…)

Two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event winner Johnny “The Orient Express” Chan will host a charity poker tournament in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 2, 2009.

According to event organizers, the charity tourney is to benefit the Andre Agassi Foundation, the charity run by Las Vegas native and former tennis pro Andre Agassi. (more…)

Top female poker pro Annie Duke is as lucky competing on a reality TV game show as she is competing at a poker table.

For the ninth straight week she has survived elimination on the celebrity-laden reality program “Celebrity Apprentice.” (more…)

Poker pro Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr.’s name shows up in the strangest places.

Such as on the American reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice.” (more…)

Poker pro-turned-reality TV star Annie Duke is blasting billionaire Donald Trump for his actions on the latest episode of their reality show.

On last Sunday’s episode of “Celebrity Apprentice,” host Trump fired celebrity contestant Khloe Kardashian. (more…)

The former mayor of a British town has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing 38,000 British pounds (about $56,000) to feed an addiction to online poker.

According to media reports, Jayne Armstrong-Yeomans, 49, the former mayor of Carlisle, England, stole the money in 2007 from a social club where she ran the bar, after becoming addicted to Internet poker and racking up gambling debts of about 60,000 pounds (about $90,000). (more…)

Casey Reese, the 20-year-old son of late poker legend David “Chip” Reese, has died of a drug overdose.

According to media reports, Casey was found dead Monday night in his apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (more…)

Law enforcement officials raided a house in South Carolina on Monday and charged 21 people with gambling offenses.

According to media reports, members of the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office’s Vice and Narcotics Unit raided a private house in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, on Monday night that was suspected of hosting illegal poker games. (more…)

A new professional poker tour that will travel around Latin America is set to debut in August.

The Latin Series of Poker, or LSOP, is set to debut with an event at the Majestic Casino in Panama City, Panama, August 3-9, 2009, LSOP officials said. (more…)

The parent company of online poker room Party Poker (www.partypoker.com) and other online gambling websites has agreed to pay the U.S. government more than $100 million in fines for illegally offering online gambling to U.S. residents.

According to media reports, Party Poker parent company Party Gaming PLC, a British firm, will pay $105 million to the U.S. government for offering online poker and other online casino games to U.S. residents in violation of U.S. law between 1997 and 2006. (more…)

In recent days, two top poker professionals have begun regularly disseminating their thoughts via Twitter, the latest E-method of instant communication.

Twitter messages, called Tweets, are similar to short e-mails and can be received on Blackberries and other electronic devices, or be viewed on the Internet. (more…)

How many sour grapes does it take to make a good whine?

Just ask poker pro T.J. Cloutier! (more…)

The Women in Poker Hall of Fame has announced its 2009 inductees.

The Hall announced in a press release that three women–Cyndy Violette, Jan Fisher and June Field–are to be inducted into the Hall on Friday, June 5, 2009, at 6 p.m. (more…)

In conjunction with its annual awards ceremony, which is to be held this year for the first time in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, the National Hockey League (NHL) announced it is to hold a charity poker tournament.

The charity tourney is to be held on June 17, 2009, at the Palms casino in Las Vegas. (more…)

At the end of each of the first five episodes of the American reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice,” host Donald Trump kicked a celebrity contestant off the show.

At the end of last Sunday’s show, Episode #6, he did something different. (more…)

Whiney poker pro Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr. has revealed the secret of his mass media appeal–his life’s a car wreck!

Hellmuth regularly appears on television. (more…)

The State of Texas on Thursday officially took the first step towards legalizing poker.

According to media reports, a bill that would legalize the game was approved by the Texas State House of Representatives committee that oversees gambling issues, the Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee, by a vote of 6 to 3. (more…)

Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu is the latest delusional poker pro to think that the world is interested in his every thought.

Negreanu announced this week on his blog at www.fullcontactpoker.com that he has begun Tweeting. (more…)

A two-day poker seminar, intended to help poker players improve their game, is to be held on the Mediterranean island nation of Malta later this month.

The first-ever Malta Poker Seminar was announced in a press release by a group called Malta Poker Events, which is organizing the seminar. (more…)

Similar to the way the New York Yankees gobble up the world’s best free-agent baseball players for their team, online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com) is gobbling up the world’s best free-agent poker players for its team.

Its team of shills, that is. (more…)

Backlash!

Two armed men who tried to rob a home poker game in South Carolina were shot dead by one of the intended victims. (more…)

The Florida State Senate is considering a gambling bill that would bring major changes to the state’s gambling industry.

And one of the key changes involves poker. (more…)

Police in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, are looking for a pair of poker thieves.

According to media reports, police were called to the Parnell Poker Palace, a Fort Wayne card room, on Sunday evening after employees of the card room discovered some counterfeit poker chips. (more…)

In a shocking post on her blog, poker pro Annie Duke admits her mother is an alcoholic!

Writing on her blog at www.annieduke.com this week about the latest episode of her TV show, “Celebrity Apprentice,” Duke expresses sympathy for show castmate Dennis Rodman, whose own alcoholism was not only the focus of last Sunday’s show but also got the former NBA player kicked off the program. In expressing that sympathy, Duke opens up about her own family and reveals publicly for the first time that her own mother is also an alcoholic, albeit in recovery. (more…)