The 2009 European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) is underway.

Sponsored by several online poker rooms, the fifth annual ECOOP is a massive online poker tournament open to the public that runs from November 23, 2009, through December 6, 2009. (more…)

A Canadian poker pro who won a major Canadian poker tournament last week was arrested shortly after the victory and charged in connection with six murders.

According to Canadian media reports, Sophon Sek, 30, of Cloverdale, British Columbia, Canada, last week won the 2009 British Columbia Poker Championships (BCPC) at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia, earning $364,364. (more…)

William Brindise has won the United States Poker Championship (USPC) Main Event.

The USPC is an annual event at the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. (more…)

The largest cash pot in the short history of online poker was won this week by poker pro Patrik Antonius.

According to media reports, Antonius was playing online Monday night at Full Tilt Poker (www.fulltiltpoker.com) with an unknown player from Sweden. (more…)

For the second time in recent weeks, a man has won a women’s poker tournament.

This time the spectacle occurred in Stateline, Nevada, USA, when a 22-year-old college student named Greg Sessler on Monday won the tourney at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe hotel and casino. (more…)

World Series of Poker (WSOP) Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack has resigned.

According to media reports, Pollack turned in his resignation on Thursday, just three days after the 2009 WSOP concluded in Las Vegas. (more…)

Yesterday he was a virtual unknown.

Today he is one of the most famous people in the world. (more…)

After two days of final table play at the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas, two men are left standing–or sitting, as the case may be.

Americans Darvin Moon and Joseph Cada will go head-to-head Monday at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino for the right to be called Main Event champion–and earn just over $8.5 million in cash. (more…)

The “November Nine” is down to a “Final Five.”

After one day of final table play at the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas Saturday, the final table of nine players has been whittled down to five. (more…)

The four-month wait is over!

On a break since the final table of nine was determined in July, the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event resumed today at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (more…)

With the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event final table resuming today, poker is again in the spotlight, so it’s a good time to look at some of poker’s fiercest rivalries.

In fact, some of these rivalries are so intense that they could qualify as feuds. (more…)

The 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event resumes in Las Vegas Saturday, after a four-month break.

There are just nine players left from an original field of several thousand, the so-called “November Nine.” (more…)

Can Phil “Poison” Ivey win his eighth career World Series of Poker (WSOP) championship gold bracelet–and more importantly–his first WSOP Main Event?

That’s the question poker fans are asking as the 2009 WSOP Main Event is set to resume on Saturday, November 7, 2009, after a four-month hiatus. (more…)

Is poker superstar Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr. endangering the Stanford University football team?

Looks like! (more…)