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What are some of the hottest headlines in the world of poker? Here you will find all the latest juicy stories along with other important news and tournament results. A must read for the poker enthusiast with articles published throughout the day.

Granny Poker Game Broken Up in Idaho

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - The odds were stacked against retirees at the Twin Falls Senior Center earlier this month when police arrived to break up a long-running poker game after receiving an anony

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/27/2010

Tatjana Pasalic Interview With Woo

Tatjana Pasalic hasn't made her complete worldwide debut...yet but your very own Jenny can't wait until she does.  Tatjana has been in the Balkin local poker scene, here and there in the states as

Submitted by Jenny Woo on, Feb/26/2010

Legal Online Poker Rooms Thriving in the United States

Several bills which would legalize online poker and other forms of online gambling in the USA are currently languishing in the U.S. Congress.

Submitted by Thomas Somach on, Feb/25/2010

Tony Parker Signs With French Online Poker Site

The online poker world is welcoming it's highest profile sports celebrity sponsor to its community.

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/25/2010

Alex Kamberis Signs with Doyles Room.com's Brunson 10

 After rumors that one of online poker's most celebrated players had been scooped up by Doyle Brunson spread like wildfire on the online poker forums, DoylesRoom.com has confirmed that Alex Kamber

Submitted by Payton on, Feb/25/2010

New Poker Bill –Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act

After several weeks of inactivity, poker legislation officially returned to the bargaining table with the announcement of new legislation being introduced before Congress.

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/24/2010

DoylesRoom.com to run Super Satellite this Sunday

 

 DoylesRoom.com's ThaBeast86 lived up his to name on Sunday.

Submitted by Payton on, Feb/24/2010

Poker’s Sexiest Shana Hiatt: Durrrr a Dud, Antonius Mud

Okay folks so I would have thought the feedback for Tom Durrrr Dwan and Patrik Antonius as "Sexiest in Poker for 2010" would be much greater by now and both these fine looking men stand a

Submitted by Jenny Woo on, Feb/24/2010

AbsolutePoker.net & Hooters Team Up for Poker Academy

 

AbsolutePoker.net & Hooters Team Up for Poker Academy in Hollywood, California

Submitted by Payton on, Feb/23/2010

NBC’s Heads-Up Poker Championship Field Set

The field for the 6th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship presented by GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, is flush with a who's wh

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/23/2010

PPA Before MA Committee on Poker as Game of Skill

Washington, DC (February 23, 2010) -The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide and over 25,000 members in Massachuse

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/23/2010

Durrrr Drops $1 Million in One Session

Forwards and backwards, backwards and forwards. Just as a pendulum swings up and down, so do the poker bankrolls of the participants of the biggest online poker cash games online.

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/23/2010

Amanda Leatherman No Longer With WPT

Amanda Leatherman will no longer play hostess for the televised event of the WPT tour. This news was released by Poker News Daily.

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/23/2010

Fossilman to Conservatives: More New Taxes?

From Pokerati.com

Greg Raymer is still alive in the NAPT main event (with 128 of 872 remaining). He made it just in time for the tournament ... via Washington DC, where he was at CPAC 2010, bringing "our issue" to the people who came to see the likes of Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, John Ashcroft, Glenn Beck, and Tucker Carlson.

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/23/2010

Probe Involving Full Tilt Poker: What a Shock!

This week a number of websites and online poker forums are reporting on a possible "FBI probe" of the world's number two Internet card room, Full Tilt Poker. 

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Feb/22/2010

Sportsbook .com Moves to Merge: 6 Times Growth Expected

The Merge Poker Network just received a serious injection to help in its aggressive growth plans.  

Submitted by C Costigan on, Feb/22/2010

Online Poker Player Ziigmund Wins $720K in Under 500 Hands

One of the leading online poker players, a gentleman who goes by the name of Ziigmund (real name Ilari Sahamies), managed to make a fast $720K in a high stakes poker match with Brian Hastings. 

Submitted by Ace King on, Feb/21/2010

Visa Looks to Block Online Gambling Transactions

Following in the footsteps of Mastercard, Visa has also decided to start blocking online gambling transactions (all of them).  Many establishments have long gotten around these efforts through the

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Feb/21/2010

Isildur1 Quickly Loses $1 Million Online

No one inspires more action at the tables than Isildur1.

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/19/2010

PokerStars 40 Billionth Hand Dealt

The world's largest online poker room has broken yet another record by dealing its 40 billionth hand.  (see PokerStars here)

Submitted by Ace King on, Feb/19/2010

Doyle Brunson: Most of These Kids On The Net Don’t Have a Clue

I've never sat around the house doing nothing constructive. Since the 1st of the year, I sit at my desk all day with no plans for travel or even looking for cash games.

Submitted by Doyle Brunson on, Feb/19/2010

David Benyamine Wins Premier League IV title

David Benyamine has won the Party Poker Premier League IV title. 

Benyamine, a French poker legend and a resident of Las Vegas, overcame a final table that also included Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak, Roland De Wolfe, Luke 'FullFlush' Schwartz and Party Poker online qualifier Giovanni Safina, a 44-year-old lawyer from Palermo, Italy , who qualified through an online satellite for just 100 euros. The total prize pool was $1.5 million, with $300,000 added by PartyPoker.com.

Submitted by Ace King on, Feb/19/2010

Iowa House Takes up Online Sports Gambling

The Sioux City Journal reports that Iowans could legally play online poker against their neighbors and bet on sports events under a proposal by Iowa House members.

The plan, which may get a hearing in the House State Government Committee next week, may expand sports betting language approved by a Senate committee to include legalized betting on collegiate sports - except Iowa colleges, according to Rep. Brian Quirk, D-New Hampton, who is part of a seven- member bipartisan gambling working group.

Submitted by Payton on, Feb/19/2010

Poker Host.com Poker Tournaments Heat Up MidAtlantic

Last week PokerHost.com wanted to warm up those affected by the snowstorms. In the mid Atlantic states.

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/18/2010

Poker Domain Sells for $1 Million

It's the most money sold for a .org domain name.  Poker.org sold for $1 million this week.

According to TechCrunch.com:

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Feb/18/2010

Isildur1 Storms Back, Profiting $1 Million Over 3 Days

The mysterious high stakes online player, Isildur1, came from out of nowhere in the latter stages of 2009 and turned the nosebleed games upside down with his ultra-aggressive poker

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/17/2010

Good Job Poker Nordica: CEO Responds to Complaint

Gambling911.com readers might recall we had one online poker operator recently threaten a lawsuit against us after we criticized his company's new policies regarding its showing certain "winni

Submitted by C Costigan on, Feb/17/2010

Sky Dive With Poker Pro Joe Sebok and Win Big Cash

The adrenaline were pumping faster than ever for online poker players around the world Tuesday night. Team UB pro Joe Sebok announced the password to his online poker freeroll on his website SkyDiveWithSebok.com at 9pm ET. The free online poker tournament, scheduled for Wednesday, February 17 at 9pm ET, will include a $2,000 prize pool plus a Las Vegas Skydiving experience with Joe Sebok for the winner.

Submitted by Guest on, Feb/16/2010

PokerStars Player Jayde Nicole Not a Hooker

TMZ.com has reported that 2008 Playmate of the Year and PokerStars poker player Jayde Nicole is being t

Submitted by Patrick Flanigan on, Feb/16/2010

Breaking News

Say No to Sportsbook Blacklist

Since Gambling911.com revealed that seven sportsbooks had gotten together to share player information, everybody in the industry is talking.

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