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The Durrrr Challenge 2 has already gotten off to an explosive start and within just two encounters, the dynamic duo have managed to complete 15% of their marathon 50,000 hand battle. Tom Dwan, having lost $518,000 to his young opponent after their first meeting  was hoping to redress the balance yesterday, and prior to getting

Eight poker playing buddies got a surprise home visit by North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement officers on Thursday, who then proceeded to arrest them and confiscate their assets. Many states in the US allow social gambling as long as no entry fees are collected or any entry fees taken are  paid out as winnings. However,

Saturday night, Tom Dwan and Dan “Jungleman12” Cates began their highly anticipated “durrrr” Challenge 2 as an army of rail birds gathered round to watch the action on Full Tilt. With 3:1 odds offered by Dwan, Cates had already put up his $500k stake and so the two high stakes pros sat down for the first

This week, the Commerce Casino caused outrage amongst members of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) after it’s revelation that it was against any federal licensing of online poker. The Commerce Casino’s opposition to Barney Frank’s HR 2267 and McDermott’s HR 2268 bills may have caused a furore in the poker playing community, but now more

California’s Commerce Casino is currently experiencing a whole lot of heat from the US’s vast poker community, after revealing it was supporting a ban on a federal licensing of online poker. Every year, the Commerce Casino hosts such prestigious tournaments as The L.A. Poker Classic, California State Poker Championship and The L.A. Poker Open. In

Sheryl Wallace, of Auburndale, Florida has never been so happy to lose a hand at poker after scooping the lion’s share of a $535,459 “Bad beat” jackpot at Caesars Atlantic City on Thursday. Sheryl was playing poker at the casino that morning when at 11:16 a.m she made one of the strongest hands in poker;

German pro Andreas Krause has won the Full Tilt sponsored Poker Merit Cyprus Classic championship 2010, after defeating a field of 181 players over six days to take down the title and the $415,780 first place prize. Many top pros were drawn to the $10,000 buy-in tournament, including  David Benyamine, Sorel Mizzi, Michael Mizrachi, Filippo

Sergio Castelluccio has won the IPT San Remo 2010, after defeating a field of 396 players over five days to take down the title and the €200,000 ($286,903) first place prize. As the €2,200 buy-in event got underway, 146 players survived the two Day 1 flights to make it through to Day 2. By the

Andy Frankenberger has just won the WPT Legends Of Poker 2010, after defeating a field of 462 players over five days to take down the title and the $750,000 first place prize. As the $5k WPT main event got underway, the giant field had been reduced to 60 hopefuls by the end of Day 2.

PokerStrategy.com has just announced that Thorsten Schafer aka Thorsten77, will be joining the site as the pro team’s latest recruit. With over 220 full time employees, 2 million members and 20,000 forum posts a day, PokerStrategy.com boasts the title of the world’s biggest poker school. Thorsten Schafer has been a member of the site since

The war of words has heated up once more following last week’s spat between Annie Duke and Daniel Negreanu in which he called her a “f***ing c**t.” PokerStars had originally responded to the feud by posting the statement: “Daniel and Annie are both passionate about poker, and both aren’t afraid to speak their mind. I

Following the August 20th ruling at the North Gauteng High Court, online poker and all forms of online gambling are now strictly prohibited in South Africa. The Gauteng Gambling Board (GGB) had been fighting for a ban on online casinos for a while, and has sought to protect the country’s R16 billion (US$2.2 billion) gaming

Top instructional poker training site CardRunners has just announced that the Danish online poker prodigy Mickey Petersen will be adding his considerable experience to their site. Petersen enjoys playing in live tournaments and has amassed $170,710 in winnings since his first cash in Jun 2009. However, it is online where Petersen under the name of

Having reached $3.33 million in profits for 2010 at Full Tilt’s cash games, Phil Ivey suffered a huge setback after dropping a massive $786,935 at the weekend. August had started well for the poker legend and he had notched up around $1.6 million for the month before the weekend’s action which saw him mixing it

The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (MTSU) senior quarterback Dwight Dasher has thrown his season in doubt following revelations about an “ongoing investigation” of the 22 year-old by campus police. At the heart of his problems would seem to be a love of high stakes poker despite apparently not possessing the necessary skills to be successful at

In the wake of the Chinese cheating scandal which hit PokerStars earlier this year, the world’s biggest poker site has finally answered some of the burning questions surrounding the incident via e-mail with Poker News Daily. A PokerStars’ Game Security team member called “Jackson” confirmed that the site had discovered discrepancies in the “Double or