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First there was the shock of AJ Benza being dropped from High Stakes Poker (HSP) Season 6 only to be replaced by Kara Scott. Next, came the news that Season 7 would be absent of Full Tilt pros due to a dispute between the shows new sponsor PokerStars and their... 

Poker enthusiasts and movie buffs would have been delighted to hear the news last week that the sequel to cult poker movie Rounders is now in the developmental stage and is scheduled to be released by 2012. Miramax Films announced the exciting news last Thursday... 

Next year, poker fans will find themselves treated to a new TV reality show called ‘Young Guns’ which is expected to air in the second half of 2011. The show will follow two months in the lives of four online poker pros living together in the same villa... 

Following the news that Pokerstars.com is the new main sponsor of High Stakes Poker season 7, and that Full Tilt have probably pulled away from letting their pros appear at the venue, other details have begun emerging about the show’s upcoming season. One... 

Popular TV show ‘High Stakes Poker’ may leave their viewers feeling a little bit underwhelmed in the upcoming season, if the host of pros usually associated with the show are not allowed to participate. At the heart of the wrangle is the fact that PokerStars... 

The poker animation series known as ‘The Micros’ has got off to a good start after the seven minute pilot episode released on December 1st has already received over 93,496 views, as well as rave reviews. The mini-series is the brainchild of CardRunners... 

Cash poker specialist Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt has just written a book which, as he says, aims to overturn “flawed conventional poker wisdom” and make the reader a more profitable player. However, Schmidt’s title leaves no room for doubting... 

There have been two announcements recently which are sure to come as welcome news to fans of the hit TV show ‘Poker After Dark.’ Firstly, POKER PROductions and NBC Universal have agreed to extend the popular show through to the  year 2014. Secondly,... 

A 90 second PokerStars commercial made in Germany has been banned from TV, after it was deemed too violent for public viewing. The ad carries the strapline “Play Online Poker; It’s Safer PokerStars – Awarded Safest Online Poker Site,” and it then... 

It has been announced in the last couple of days that GSN has given the go-ahead for shooting to start soon on Season 7 of the highly popular poker show ‘High Stakes Poker’. The show’s primary face Gabe Kaplan and co-host Kara Scott, who will...