With the dust barely settled after stepping down as one of the faces of Ultimate Bet, Annie Duke has announced her next title will be Poker League Commissioner.Duke, along with  former World Series of Poker commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, have paired to created the private company Federated Sports + Gaming, which lays the groundwork for a  Read more »

Poker fans who are tired of watching televised events weeks or months after they complete should tune into ESPN on Saturday.The worldwide leader in sports will air same-day coverage of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) final table on ESPN2 and ESPN3.com.  On Saturday, Jan. 15 at 5 p.m. ET, ESPN3 will televise the PCA final  Read more »

HighStakesReport is giving away another $500 this Saturday on PokerStars.Our second $500 freeroll will take place this Saturday, Jan. 15, at 3 p.m. ET.  The freeroll will take place on PokerStars and the invite-only event is open to qualified HighStakesReport.com grinders.If you have compiled at least 100 Frequent Player Points (FPP) in the last month  Read more »

Now you can legally buy more than one seat in the same tournament thanks to Full Tilt’s new Multi-Entry events.Increase your chances by multi-tabling the same tournament in events marked with the Multi-Entry symbol.  Each entry will have its own chip. Register multiple entries at the start of the tournament, or use save entries as  Read more »

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is back for its nineteenth installment.Full Tilt Poker is guaranteeing $22 million in prize money for the series, along with a new batch gold FTOPS jerseys to the winners.  Forty-five events will be spread between Feb. 6-20, including the $2 million guaranteed two-day event and the $3 million guaranteed  Read more »

It’s official.  Jonathan Duhamel, winner of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event, is now a member of Team PokerStars Pro.Duhamel earned nearly $9 million and the poker world’s most coveted piece of jewelry for his historic win.  And while many of you may have believed Duhamel, the first Canadian to take down the  Read more »

The stage was set for “Kid Poker” to make history in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller tournament.Daniel Negreanu, the poster boy for PokerStars, entered the final table of the $100K PCA High Roller event with a shot at overtaking Phil Ivey as the highest grossing tournament player in poker history.  As players fell by  Read more »

With Day 1A of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event kicking off, you’d think all the media attention wouldn’t be on just one player.But that’s what happened in the Atlantis Luxury Resort & Casino in the Bahamas.  More than a year after the mystery pro took the high stakes cash games by storm, 20-year-old Swedish  Read more »

Ultimate Bet announced a big signing to Team UB this week.Just a week after faces of UB Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke made their splits with the poker site, Prahlad Friedman has been brought in to help anchor the team.Friedman, who can usually be found playing nosebleed cash games online, has both a World Series  Read more »

Monday marks the return of everyone’s favorite short-handed, late night card game; Poker After Dark.The new season kicked off on Monday, January 3, in its normal 2:05 a.m. EST (11:05 p.m. PT) time slot on NBC.   Season seven opens with a $100,000 freezeout titled “Big Heat,” pitting Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Erick Lindgren, Huck Seed,  Read more »