Archive for March, 2010

Following a series of scandals which rocked instructional poker training site ‘StoxPoker’ to its core, the site has now announced that on May 1st it will be merging with its parent company Cardrunners. In all likelyhood, the StoxPoker brand will now... 

Keeping a secret can be difficult, even at the best of times and when it is a juicy secret it might be near impossible. Therefore, when two of poker’s most famous outspoken loudmouths announce that Viktor Blom is in fact Isildur1, there would seem to be very... 

For a long time now ‘short stackers’ have been considered the scourge of online poker, as they often disrupt the flow and dynamics of a game making many of the more sophisticated moves employed by poker players unprofitable. Short stackers usually buy-in... 

The PartyPoker Big Game has always added a buzz of excitement to the poker calendar, as fans look forward to watching the eight player 48-hour high stakes cash game, where every two hours a player is voted off by his peers to be replaced by a new face. As a PartyPoker... 

Carlos Mortensen has won the WPT Hollywood Poker Open after defeating a field of 143 players over five days to capture the WPT title and the $393,820 first place prize. Carlos Mortensen’s incredible victory at the $10,000 no-limit hold’em tournament in... 

Poker pro and Stox Poker founder Nick “StoxTrader” Grudzien, has resigned from the online poker training site after rumours surfaced about him using multiple accounts on both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. The accusations, which were first levelled against... 

Gus Hansen will take little comfort from showing a $400,000 profit in 2010 so far, having been up nearly $3 million back in January. Hansen will now be trying to avoid deja-vu and a repeat of last year’s performance, which saw him end up the biggest loser... 

Having legalised internet gambling this year, Estonia has now begun blocking online casino and poker websites without Estonian licenses from operating within their market, as part of a two tier strategy to implement the country’s new Gambling Act. Estonia initially... 

A fortnight after a gang of masked men robbed the European Poker Tournament Berlin of 242,000 euros in cash, all four men and the mastermind behind the heist have now been placed behind bars by German police. The robbery took place on March 6th at the Grand Hyatt... 

An Australian woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after her gambling addiction lead to her blowing $545,222 of her employer’s money on poker machines, over a two year period. This latest story is just one of many highlighting the growing concern...