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Full Tilt Poker is one of the biggest online poker sites and is currently celebrating its fifth anniversary. When FTP started back in 2004, they focused on offering an excellent services, top graphics and software and an opportunity for online players to play alongside some of their poker heroes such as Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey,

Shane Warne and Darren Gough will be leading their teams out to do battle in the Ashes from the 15th to the 19th July 2009. The difference this time is that the cricket ground has been replaced with that of the poker beize. The Poker Ashes, sponsored by 888.com, promises to be a highly entertaining

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) must be pleased so far with the response to their online petition which has already surpassed the 300,000 mark. The petition is due to be presented to President Obama on the 22nd July, during National poker Week, ‘while requesting his support to exempt poker from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement

The payment processor company, Account Services Corporation (ASC), has filed a suit for the return of its funds taken by the US government from its Union Bank and Wells Fargo accounts. The motion has been sent to the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. In June 2009, around $13 million was

Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt had his amateur standing revoked by the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) after he had posted a $1 million prop challenge to any golfer or poker player. The challenge was for any player who could defeat him over 72 holes and 10 heads-up poker matches, and although the challenge was never enacted the

This year saw a change to how nominees were selected for the Poker Hall Of Fame whereby the public were able to vote for their top ten choices. This accolade was originally started by Benny Binnion back in 1979 when the organisers were responsible for the decision but with the greater and broader appeal of poker

The chief operating officer at William Hill, Peter Marcus, recently called for poker sites to get together and be strict on stopping affiliates from offering rakeback deals to their customers. The rake is a valuable source of profit for the online operators and is a percentage they take on each pot played. Rakeback, then, is

This autobiographical book tells the story of the Lebanese born Australian  poker professional Joe Hachem. He became the 2005 WSOP champion and the title of his book relates to his catchphrase he had used throughout his career but became most poignant and significant during his victory run in Vegas that year. The book begins as he

For those not familiar with this event, the Ceasars Cup is the poker equivalent to the Ryder cup where teams from North America battle it out against the best Europe has to offer. The Ceasars Cup will make its debut at the 2009 WSOP Europe event, and each team will comprise eight players who will

Thang Luu, the two times WSOP bracelet winner, allegedly broke a dealers hand on June 3 and was banned from the Rio Casino. The incident occurced after Thang Luu, in late position during a cash game, was heads up in a hand with another player, with the action going all the way to the river,

From August 5th to the 16th 2009 Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will be running 25 events and offering around $16 million as a guaranteed prize pool. As you would expect the majority of the events scheduled are No Limit Hold ‘em,but also featured along with the heads up and rebuy competitions are knockout,

The Aussie Millions poker tournament is hoping to be upgraded to the status of major sporting event and the Crown casino, where the annual event is held, is considering submitting their proposal to the Victoria Major Events Company. This would place the poker competition alongside the other prestigious events associated with Melbourne, such as Formula

Monday 6th July at 12 ET saw the start of the PartyPoker Genius promotion at the cash game tables applicable to the 10c/25c  levels and above. Every 50,000 hand played will receive a bonus of $100 up to $5,000 with all players in the hand receiving an equal share of the bonus. The bonuses then escalate

Monday saw over 500 irate players told that they could not enter the WSOP 2009 tournament as its capacity had already been reached. Players are given four opportunities to enter which is divided into day 1A, 1B, which were down on the previous year, but day 1C picked up momentum attracting over 1,700 players and

The U.S. Investment bank Goldman Sachs said it believes online gaming will eventually be legalised in the U.S., and although the process will be slow, the attraction of revenues from taxes should be enough for the federal government to allow online gambling. The firm announced, “We believe it is logical to assume that the US

September sees the return of the 8th PokerStars.com World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) which, with a prizepool of $40 million,  makes it the biggest online series of tournaments in the world.The Main Event last year was won by Carter “ckingusc” King who walked away with an impressive $1.2 million first prize. The competition has