Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Online Poker Security

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Introduction.
Being a keen online poker fan you’ll no doubt be registered with several online poker websites and will enjoy playing multiple games during your poker sessions. A problem with belonging to a lot of different websites is that in finding the ones you like and trust, you will inevitably come across ones that you don’t [...]

Poker Schools

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Introduction.
For any one living in the big cities of America like New York, Denver, LA to name but three – chances are you’ll be able to find a poker school nearby that will include access to poker games and workshops with the top professional poker players. Which is all well and good for the big [...]

2011 PCA

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Introduction.
The 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure was completed last weekend – resulting in a Main Event win for Galen Hall, a 24 year old from San Francisco. In the final game he managed to overturn a massive chip deficit held by Florida’s Chris Oliver to scoop the $2.3 million winner’s check.
The build up to the final [...]

WSOP Bracelet Sale

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Introduction
Last week, at a special Thanksgiving Day auction, Peter Eastgate sold his 2008 WSOP Main Event Gold Bracelet for $147,500. Fortunately the 2008 WSOP champion, having won over $9 million before even his mid-20s, didn’t need the money. In fact the auction was to raise funds for a very worthy cause instead – UNICEF. Although [...]

Canadian Poker Fortunes

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Introduction.
The first week in November that saw one Canadian crowned as the 2010 WSOP champion, also saw another top Canadian poker playing professional in effect barred for life from entering the USA and, therefore, the more lucrative poker tournaments. So how do the fortunes of these two Canadian poker players compare.
Poker winner.
At just 23 years [...]

Hall Of Fame 2010

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Introduction.
Two poker players have been announced as having the honor of being inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame 2010 – Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington. The two players are great friends having both started out on their poker careers, having begun playing the game around the same time at the Mayfair club in New [...]

Free Online Tournaments

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Introduction.
No matter what your favorite online poker game is one thing you can be utterly sure of is that you won’t need a massive bank-roll to start playing online poker. However, did you know that many of the better online poker websites will offer you totally free poker games, even better these free poker games [...]

WCOOP 2010 Update

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Introduction.
With the World Championship of Online Poker 2010 well under way, we thought it time to give you an update on the big winners and games so far. WCOOP is, of course, sponsored by pokerstars and is every online poker players dream event, as anyone might find themselves sitting at a poker table with the [...]

State Sponsored Online Casino

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Introduction
You know all those jokes about Canadians, like this one; If you ask a Canadian how many Canadians does it take to fix a light bulb, the answer you get is  “What’s a light bulb?” – Well I now officially take them all back and apologies for them whoever may have spouted them first. Why? [...]

After The WSOP

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Introduction
Although we won’t know who the nine players to go through to the 2010 WSOP final poker table in November will be until after the weekend, many poker players are already turning their thoughts to what they can be doing after the WSOP this year has finished. Well, the news is now out that the [...]