The little state of Delaware has become a big problem for New Jersey.

At least pokerwise. (more…)

The chant oft heard ’round Dixie is, “The South will rise again!”

In this case, it’s a Southerner who’s risen to the top. (more…)

Only in America!

An American poker pro who patterns his persona after a notorious killer has been rewarded with his own online poker room. (more…)

Warm beer has triumphed in the land of champagne.

Jake Cody has won the Main Event on the latest stop of the European Poker Tour (EPT). (more…)

Times are tough these days, apparently even for champion professional poker players.

Poker pro T.J. Cloutier, who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) championship gold bracelets and more than $9 million playing offline tournament poker in his career, is selling one of those bracelets on online auction site eBay (www.ebay.com). (more…)

A poker player in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, has earned more than a quarter of a million dollars–for losing a hand!

The gambler, Steve Gedney of Dover, Delaware, USA, was playing poker at the Caesars casino in Atlantic City last Friday when he pulled four of a kind and managed to lose the hand. (more…)

Aid for earthquake victims in Haiti is coming in from an unlikely source–online poker rooms!

Several major Internet poker rooms are donating directly, making it easy for their patrons to donate or both. (more…)

Professional poker player Amir Vahedi, who won a championship gold bracelet at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP), has died.

According to media reports, Vahedi, 57, who lived in Los Angeles, California, USA, died Saturday, January 8, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, of complications from diabetes. (more…)

Despite the expectations of many within the poker world, there will not be another professional poker player on the next season of the reality television series “Celebrity Apprentice,” it was announced.

Poker pro Annie Duke appeared on the second season of the show, last year, and finished as runnerup in the competition to become Donald Trump’s celebrity apprentice. (more…)

The Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure, the largest annual offline poker tournament run by online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com), will be held this year beginning on January 4, 2010, at the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

The 10-day, 50-event tournament will feature poker of all types and buy-ins of all levels, with thousands of poker players entering and millions of dollars of prize money up for grabs. (more…)