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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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

The latest casualty? (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

A New York City police officer who was severely injured in the 9/11 terrorist attacks has won a million dollars playing poker on a TV game show.

The officer, Mike Kosowski, 53, of Staten Island, New York, USA, won the money on the “PokerStars.net Million-Dollar Challenge,” which airs on the FOX Network. (more…)

Las Vegas poker pro Daniel Alaei on Saturday won the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic–and $1,428,430.

The event, officially a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), was a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tourament with a $15,000 buy-in and a prize pool of almost $5 million. (more…)

The 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) will commence on May 27, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with two major changes slated for the 41st annual rendition of professional poker’s signature event.

WSOP officials made the announcement Thursday in Vegas. (more…)

Internet poker this week was once again in the international spotlight as an American television network that airs worldwide broadcast a special program on gambling.

The Consumer News and Business Channel–CNBC for short–an American cable television network, on Wednesday night presented “CNBC Investigates: The Big Business of Illegal Gambling.” (more…)

The initial event of a new poker tour has won by Irish poker pro Padraig Parkinson.

The new tour, called the United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour or UKIPT, kicked off on December 11, 2009, with a three-day tournament at the Radisson Hotel in Galway, Ireland. (more…)

The only poker tournament in the world named after a professional poker player is underway in Las Vegas.

The event, the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Classic, began today at the Bellagio casino in Vegas and runs through Saturday. (more…)

Aaron Benton has won the final stop on this year’s Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT).

Benton, from Australia, won APPT Sydney, which concluded this week and was held at the Star Casino in Sydney, Australia. (more…)

The lobbying group looking to get online poker legalized and regulated in the USA has blasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for saying online poker is too crooked to make legal.

In fact, the group said, that’s precisely the reason online poker should be legalized and regulated. (more…)

Czech-mate!

Jan Skampa of the Czech Republic has won the Main Event at the Czech stop on the European Poker Tour (EPT).

The stop, officially called EPT Prague, concluded this week at the Prague Hilton in Prague, the Czech Republic, in Eastern Europe. (more…)

America’s top law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has told the U.S. Congress that online poker is easy to cheat.

In a letter to U.S. Congressman Spencer Bachus, the FBI’s cyber division assistant director, Shawn Henry, said Internet poker is rife with cheating and manipulation. (more…)