Poker

PokerStars Adds Jaime Staples to Twitch Streaming Stable

PokerStars seems to be committed to making the most of the growing popularity of live streaming poker on Twitch. The leader in online poker has already signed Jason Somerville to Team PokerStars, ensuring that they had the first...

Sexy Men Bring Out the Inner Gamble in Average-Looking Male Poker Players, Researchers Claim

Attention, male poker players: don’t play poker against sexy men unless you’re prepared to lose your not-quite-as-sexy shirt. That’s the advice from University of Technology Sydney researchers, following a...

Poker Community Mourns Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, Dead at 61

Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, the exuberant British poker pro who was as big a celebrity in the US as he was in his native UK, has died at the age of 61. The poker legend died in his home town of Hull, in the north of...

Ioannis Triantafyllakis Wins the 2015 Irish Poker Open

The 2015 Irish Poker Open, Europe’s longest running live poker event, reached its final table on Sunday night after welcoming 321 players over the Easter weekend. Generating a prizepool in excess of €1,000,000...

United California Indian Gaming Front Could See PokerStars In, But Racetracks Shunned, in Online Poker Scramble

What unites a California Indian gaming coalition the most? It appears it could be the simple threat of more competition, looming with the possibility of the Golden State’s own racetracks jumping into the online gambling and...

Lock Poker Reportedly Reaches One Year Without Processing One Withdrawal

Lock Poker has become, quite possibly, the least trusted name in online poker. That would have been hard to believe just a few years ago, considering the Absolute Poker “super user” scandal was still fresh in the minds of the...

Sweden Cracking Down On Unlicensed Internet Gambling Companies

Sweden is one of the more tightly controlled online poker markets in the European Union, as the national government really only allows Internet gaming through one licensed firm: the state-backed Svenska Spel. That hasn’t...

Guinness Flows as Irish Poker Open Gets Underway in Dublin

The Irish Poker Open, Europe’s longest-running live poker event, gets underway today inside Dublin’s Double Tree by Hilton Hotel. The  series is backed by Paddy Power and set to welcome a slew of travelling pros,...

Maryland Poker Pro Says He Was Banned from WSOP for Card Counting

Card counting in blackjack is a contentious issue for casinos. While the practice isn’t illegal, as it only involves a player keeping track of the cards they’ve seen on the table and reacting accordingly, casinos have the...

PPA Confident In Pessimism Towards RAWA

We went in with fear, but came out with hope: that was the sentiment of the Executive Director of the Poker Players Alliance, John Pappas. Reflecting on last week’s hearing of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act...