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14-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth answered questions on reddit.com over the weekend. It was a so-called ASK ME ANYTHING (AMA) interview, which made it possible for anyone to ask him anything under the sun. Here are the highlights...

Read more » Phil Hellmuth Answers Fan Questions

Jonathan Duhamel took down his third live poker tournament of the year on Sunday, September 20th. The 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event winner overcame a field of 287 entrants over two days of play to win Borgata Poker Open Event #14: $1,000 Six-Max No-Limit Hold'em for $70,990.

Read more » Jonathan Duhamel Wins Six-Max Event For $70,990

On Sunday, 46 players from many different countries entered the most expensive online poker tournament to date: PokerStars 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) $51,000 Super High Roller!

Read more » Ben "Ben86" Tollerene Wins $51k Super High Roller

Archie Karas, the man who turned $50 into $40 million at Las Vegas casinos in the early 90s, recently became the 33rd person to be written up in Nevada's "Black Book".

Read more » Legendary Gambler Banned From Las Vegas Casinos

Despite the massive buy-in of $51,000, 46 people from all over the globe entered the 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Super High Roller. The tournament, which is the biggest buy-in event in online poker history, concluded with eight players after several hours of play on Sunday.

Read more » WCOOP Super High Roller: Mike "Timex" McDonald Leads Final 8

Earlier this year we reported that Chinese celebrity Guo Meimei had been arrested for running an illegal casino operation. Meimei, who first gained notoriety in 2011 when she was rumoured to be the commercial general manager for the Chinese Red Cross and posed in pictures with expensive cars and designer bags, was facing up to 10 years in prison for her crime but got away with half of that when she received her sentence last week. In addition, she was fined 50,000 yuan (approximately $7,800).

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PokerStars Shark Cage, a televised poker competition where 3 lucky online qualifiers will compete against poker pros and celebrities for a share of a $1 million prize pool, is back with another exciting season! 

Read more » Season 2 of SHARK CAGE Begins Tomorrow

Last week the final 10 candidates for the 2015 Poker Hall of Fame were revealed on WSOP's website, and it didn't take long before everyone's favourite poker player Daniel Negreanu (inducted last year) posted a blog where he talked about PHOF's main criteria* and other things related to the matter.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu Discusses Poker Hall Of Fame

From September 22nd onwards, all players of the Microgaming Network (MPN) will be able to change their tables names every 30 days or after 1000 real money hands (whichever comes first). According to PokerFuse, the new software feature will be available sooner than that on some sites, but it will be available on all poker sites by the end of this month.

Read more » Soon Possible To Regularly Change Your Poker Alias On Microgaming Poker Sites

Poker player and Instagram phenomenon Dan Bilzerian became a taget of burglars last Friday night. According to people magazine, the burglars broke into his Hollywood Hills house by shattering a glass door in the guest bedroom next to pool.

Read more » Burglars Broke Into Bilzerian's House

PokerStars' 2015 World Championship of Online Poker ($45 million guaranteed) kicked off last Sunday and will be running until September 27. Buy-ins range from $215 to $51,000 and you'll find satellites to all 70 events from as little as $1 or a few frequent player points (FPPs).

Besides the massive prize pools that are up for grabs, PokerStars will give cash prizes to top 10 finishers in the WCOOP leaderboard. Click here to view the full schedule. Good luck! 

Nominations for the 2015 Poker Hall of Fame (established in 1979, currently 48 members) closed on Tuesday... and here are the 10 finalists: John Juanda, Carlos Mortensen, Chris Bjorin, David Chiu, Terry Rogers, Matt Savage, Bruno Fitoussi, Jennifer Harman, Max Pescatori, and David "Devilfish" Ulliott.

Read more » 'Devilfish' Amongst 10 Finalist For 2015 Poker Hall of Fame

Last week we reported about EPT Barcelona's biggest and most important events. Aside from all record-breaking tournaments, there were several interesting high stakes cash games running at Casino Barcelona during the poker festival. This might be the most intersting pot, though. On Wednesday, 27th September, Dani "Ansky" Stern wrote on 2+2 about how he was cheated out of €18k in a €100/€200 Pot Limit Omaha cash game.

Read more » Poker Pro Claims He Was Cheated Out of €18k During EPT Barcelona

party poker will be hosting an exclusive freeroll this evening at 19:00 BST (20:00 CET) for all its players located in the United Kingdom. It's FREE to enter the tournament and you can win a Pokerfest Live Main Event ticket worth $530! In total, 100 players (100 x $530 = approx. £34k) will be awarded a ticket in tonight's freeroll! 

About The Pokerfest Live Main Event

The Pokerfest Live Main Event (£620,000 guaranteed - multiple starting days) will be played at UK's largest poker room, Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. Aside from the freeroll, one can qualify for the Main Event from just 10 cents on party poker!

May the flop be with you!

Think live poker games are too slow? Think again, because recently a new concept called Multi Action Poker (MAP) was introduced at Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park in Florida, USA.

Read more » Live Poker Just Got Twice As Fast

Things can change quickly in the game of poker. A great example on that is Viktor "isildur1" Blom's incredible winning streak in the past 2 weeks or so. In the beginning of August the 24-year-old Swede's overall result on PokerStars was about -$1 million ---  today it is almost +$1.8 million! In total, he's up 2.7 million dollars playing on the world's largest poker site in the month of August!

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins $2.7 Million In August

Many records have been set during this year's poker festival in Barcelona, Spain. First, Martio Lopez won the largest ever Estrellas Main Event, then Sylvain Loosli won the record-breaking €50,000 Super High Roller, and another two record events ended yesterday: the EPT Main Event and the EPT High Roller. The latter attracted a field of 506 players despite the expensive buy-in of €10,300!

Read more » Mustapha Kanit Wins EPT Barcelona High Roller (€738,759)

The biggest ever EPT Main Event (EPT Barcelona) concluded yesterday after several days of thrilling and action-packed poker. Poker legend John Juanda bested a field of 1,694 players to lay hands on the trophy and over €1 million in prize money!

Read more » John Juanda Wins EPT Barcelona Main Event (€1,022,593)

Phil Ivey is currently in court over the $9.6 million he won at Atlantic City's Borgata casino back in 2012 using a technique called edge sorting. The casino says that the technique used violate New Jersey casino gambling regulations, while Ivey says he won fair and square.

Read more » Phil Ivey Claims Borgata Used Booze and Sexy Waitresses To Distract Him

Day 3 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event (1694 entries, the biggest EPT Main Event in history) kicked off with 343 players, but only 247 of them would receive a share of the €8,215,900 prize pool.

Read more » EPT Barcelona: Former EPT Champ Leads Main Event After Day 3

The €25,000 High Roller event (a single-day event that required two days to be completed) resumed on Thursday at Casino Barcelona after a one-day break. The returning players were former Main Event winners Martin Finger, Liv Boeree and Mark Teltscher, all of whom had survived 115 entrants on the first day to secure a payday of at least €391,000 each!

Read more » EPT Barcelona: Martin Finger Completes The EPT Triple Crown!

The boards of BetFair and Paddy Power have agreed on key terms of a possible merger to create Paddy Power Befair plc. The £5 billion merger would create one of the world's biggest listed online betting and gaming companies and be the marker leader in the United Kingdom.

Read more » BetFair and Paddy Power To Join Forces

Another day of the EPT Barcelona Main Event has come to an end. Approximately 360 of 1,700 entrants made it through to Day 3, and Nick Petrangelo (picture) bagged up the chip lead with 570k.

Read more » EPT Barcelona Main Event: 360 Remain of 1,700 (approx.)

Although the registation desks are open until the start of Day 2, we already know for a fact that the EPT Barcelona Main Event, with 1,673 entries, is the biggest Main Event in the history of the European Poker Tour! (The previous record was set in 2011 when 1,560 players entered the PCA Main Event).

Read more » EPT Barcelona Main Event: 989 of 1,673 (tbc) Ready For Day 2

Viktor "isildur1" Blom has been doing great in the past few days on PokerStars nosebleed tables. According to HighStakesDB, the 24-year-old Swede's winning streak began on Friday and he's currently up $2.3 million in the past 7 days.

Read more » Blom Wins Big