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Carlos Mortensen, who had a great chiplead before the final table, went to everyone's surprise out on 5th place. Instead it came to be a battle between Tom McEvoy (1983 Main Event winner) and Robert Varkonyi (2002 Main Event Winner) in heads-up.

Read more » Champions Invitational: Tom McEvoy becomes the WSOP champion of all time!

20 poker players that all have won the WSOP Main Event took part in the same tournament (Champions Invitational) yesterday. In the lead before tonight's final table is Carlos "The Matador" Mortensen (42,375 chips) with Tom McEvoy close behind (31,000 chips).

Read more » Champions Invitational: A battle between 20 WSOP Main Event winners!

After 3 hours of heads-up play Vitaly Lunkin from Russia managed to beat Isaac Haxton and take down the epic $40K buy in Event #4.

This is the second WSOP bracelet that Lunkin have won. The first prize in this tournament was $1.891.012.Read more » WSOP Event #2 Recap

A professional poker player in USA is suspected to have killed both his parents. But the poker player denies and claims that he's innocent. The motive for murdering both his parents is that the poker player had a lot of debts and wanted to inheritance his their fortune of $1,3 million dollars.

Read more » Poker player denies to have killed both his parents

We have now launched the poker part of our new Reviews section. In this section you will find reviews on most of the poker rooms that we offer some kind of bonus for (no deposit bonus, deposit bonus, gift offers, rakeback). Though we are still adding data here and there, the most interesting sites are already completed.

But, what we think about a site is one thing - what do YOU think?  You can add your own review as well. In order to keep the reviews interesting, we require a minimum of 100 characters to be posted along with your overall rating of the site (1-10, 10 being the best there is!). If you decide to write more than 500 characters, you will be awarded with some MobPoints. You can only have one review for each site, so if you post two, the oldest will be removed.

So, go check out our reviews and feel free to add your own comments at the bottom of every review and also post a comment below this article...

Scotty "The Prince of poker" Nguyen has earlier this year said that he will never play poker again if he doesn't manage to win more than $4 million in this year's World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Now Scotty has revealed what he will do with the winnings if he reaches his $4 million US dollars goal in WSOP 2009.

Read more » WSOP: Scotty is putting up new goals

Today is the opening day of the 40th Edition of the World Series of Poker. This is going to be celebrated by having a special even where the buy in is $40.000. This tournament is going to be played on Thursday at 18:00 CET.Read more » WSOP 2009 is here!

Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies and Tom "durrrr" Dwan have now played the second biggest pot ever in online poker history! Both of them have had some really bad months with hundreds of thousands dollars lost almost every week, but still they didn't let the negative start of 2009 affect their game on the high stakes they are famous to play on.

Read more » HighStakes: "Ziigmund" wins a $723,938 pot!

The successful poker players from Johennesburg is a former golf pro who is now focusing all his efforts on poker. Ryan "Rhino" Dreyer is now a member of Team FullTilt.Read more » Ryan Dreyer Joins Team FullTilt

Full Tilt's $750,000 guarantee tournament attracted a huge starting field this time. Not less than 3,646 players signed up and took on the fight for the first prize of $132,757.

Read more » "tophy4life" takes home Full Tilt's $750k Guarantee

On Monday, June 1st at 19:00 GMT, RummyRoyal is hosting its month opening freeroll with a private BRM $100 freeroll, featuring your favorite rummy game – Kalooki 51. So here you go, start your month with a good card skill game by winning some freeroll cash, and if you have yet to collect your free $5 no deposit bonus (where have you been…?), then click here to claim it now. For those who are still new to this game, we have a flash demo for you to check it out here.

There you have it, another exclusive $100 private freeroll, to start your month with a good vibe!

The winner of the 2009 Full Tilt Poker Heads-Up Championship with a $25K buy in has been crowned. After beating David Benefield in the last head-up match it was "theASHMAN103" that took down the first prize in this tournament which was $551.250.

In total there were 63 players who participated in this tournament and a lot of these players were some of the biggest names in poker.Read more » theASHMAN103 Wins $25K Heads-up Event at Full Tilt Poker

Jesper "KipsterDK" Hougaard from Denmark won his second PokerStars Sunday Million tournament this weekend and received $206,000 for his amazing achievement. In total he has now won almost half a million dollars from the Sunday Million tournament.

Read more » "kipsterDK" wins PokerStars Sunday Million, again!

Phil Hellmuth's own publishing house has just released a new book called "Deal Me In". The book is about 20 poker players, their way to success and their lives before making it pro. Players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Scotty Nguyen's life time storys are included in the book.

Read more » "Deal Me In": A book about 20 poker player's way to success

The American TV channel G4 is launching a new poker show by the name of "2 Months, $2 Million". Four young high stakes players that have had great success in internet poker are going to have their lives broadcasted on this new reality show.Read more » Internet Poker Players in New Reality TV Show

Vitaly Lunkin won RPT (Russian Poker Tour) in Moscow after surviving a starting field of 206 players. It wasn't an easy fight for Vitaly when he finally made it to the final table, because there he had to face players like Alexander Kravchenko and Ivan Demidov in the battle of the first prize close to half a million dollars.

Read more » Russian Poker Tour: The winner is Vitaly Lunkin

On the 23rd of May it is once again time for the yearly Full Tilt Poker Heads-up Championship. The buy in for this tournament is $25.000 which means that there will be some really good players in this tournament looking to make a good score.Read more » Full Tilt Poker $25K Heads-up Championship

Last week, after a 2 year long court case in Sweden, Texas Hold'em tournaments was finally classed as a skill game, like chess and backgammon. This means that any poker club and poker site in Sweden now can organize poker tournaments with real money buy-in. The first legal poker tournament was organized last week in Stockholm and celebs like Dregen, Peter Swartling, Dilba and many more took part in this historic poker tournament.

Read more » Historic poker tournament in Stockholm, Sweden

ESPN have recently released the TV schedule of the 2009 WSOP and it turns out that only four of the events are on the list, and out of those four event only two are bracelet events.Read more » TV Schedule for 2009 WSOP Released

If you haven't tried out our Party Poker freerolls yet, you really owe it to yourself. With an average of less than 110 players in each of our exclusive $200 freerolls so far, there's some really good money to be made, rather than sticking to the usual non-exclusive $100 freerolls with thousand of players.
 
We usually host one $200 Party Poker freeroll once a week on Sundays, check out our Freerolls section for dates and passwords.
 
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It's not enough for Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies and Tom "durrrr" Dwan to play extremely high stakes like $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha. Last weekend they raised the stakes to $3000/$9000 and one got to see some huge pots, many of them around 300,000 US dollars!

Read more » HighStakes: "Ziigmund" and "durrrr" plays $3000/$9000 Pot Limit Omaha

Poker professional and Team PokerStars member Daniel Negreanu let the world know through his blog that he is interested in participating in the third season of Donald trump's Celebrity Apprentice.Read more » Daniel Negreanu Aiming for a spot on Celebrity Apprentice Season 3

Thursday was a great day for Swedish poker players as a court took the decision that tournament poker is a skill game like chess and backgammon. This means that Swedish poker clubs now can organize their own real money poker tournaments. Before only the government owned casinos were allowed to.

Read more » A big day for Swedish tournament poker

Jody Garaventa, a 33-year old poker professional form North Carolina managed to turn his $10.000 stake into $300.000 by taking down the first price in the World Series of Golf in Las Vagas.Read more » World Series of Golf Winner Crowned

PokerStars and the Russian Poker Tour is going to make their next stop in Moscow where they will host an event of the RPT.Read more » Russian Poker Tour in Moscow