The 2011 WSOP Main Event wrapped up on Tuesday night in Las Vegas. Going into the final, everyone from Pokerlistings to Daniel Negreanu were singing the praises of Ben Lamb and continued to do so until the start of the final three on Tuesday. The thing is that Ben Lamb was clearly off his game [...]

David ‘LacieK’ Menz will this afternoon compete at the final table of the $1,000 buy-in NLHE event at the Event #4 at Sydney Poker Championships.  We can’t find anywhere that is covering the event live, but as always he will be tweeting his progress. Menz is playing a lot of events in September, he will [...]

We finally have some news to report on Full Tilt Poker and would you believe an official statement? The statement offers some insight into money that Full Tilt lost before Black Friday on top of what we already knew about the payment processors. The statement offers very little in the way of an apology to [...]

Party Poker has announced that as of the 24th of August, 2011 they will be changing the way that they assign rake to each player at the table and will additionally be increasing their rake. Rake calculation will go from a ‘dealt’ method of calculating to a ‘weighted contribution’ method of attributing rake to a [...]

You may have noticed many changes to our site recently and we hope that you are enjoying them. We are pumping out a lot more content including the addition of poker news item summaries and guest bloggers. We have integrated Twitter into our site, adding a whole new level of interactivity and we have some [...]

For those of you that haven’t caught up with the news in the last few days, the self-proclaimed ‘Portuguese Poker Prodigy’ José “Girah” Macedo has admitted to cheating his ‘friends’ out of $30,000. Macedo built up friendship and trust as part of a Skype strategy chat group. He impressed fellow members with his detailed analysis of [...]

On Saturday afternoon Barry Greenstein checked his olive green Aston Martin DB9 into the valet parking of the Mission Hills Marriott in San Diego. When he went to pick it up, he was informed that someone had already taken it. Most people would never have seen their car again, but Barry took to twitter and [...]

It has come to light that only now Full Tilt Poker are laying off their American work force. This comes nearly 4 months after Black Friday when FTP ceased US operations and they have been paid that entire time. If you want to look at this news positively, it appears that the wheels are still [...]

What They Tweeted KevF780 Kevin Flute @RealKidPoker Wow, I just watched week 6 of the Big Game. The hand between you and Tilly (A2 – 86). Unbelievable!!! Oh, one word – Epic! TheEurekaKid Andrew Ferguson Tilly v. Negreanu hand. Not sure who comes off looking worse, Tilly for making a horrible fold or DN for [...]

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission has given Full Tilt Poker players some fresh hope with the release of their latest official statement. They have revealed that FTP has paid the reported £250,000 they owed in back dated licence fees. US players have been waiting for their money since the DoJ action on April 15th, while [...]