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NAPT 2011 Caribbean Adventure: Super High Roller Eugene Katchalov The 2011 NAPT Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure started on January 6 and will continue until the 16th with 50 events played in a ten day period. The new year in poker already has one big winner and that’s Eugene Katchalov. Katchalov went into heads up play [...]

It was reported this week that Senator Harry Reid, house majority leader, would attempt to add the online gaming legislation to the current tax bill dominating congress during this lame duck season. Next term the republicans will have the floor and the future of this poker legislation may be desperate if not dire. After months [...]

Legislation and lame ducks. House leader Harry Reid is proposing the online poker legislation be address during the lame duck session or quiet season in congress. Politicians from across the aisle sent Reid a letter stating they would not support the bill as it seemed to take advantage of young gamers incapable of making informed [...]

Poker News.com was lucky enough to sit down with this year’s WSOP champion 23 year old Jonathan Duhamel from Canada. He explained to the reporter that he felt a lot of pressure during the four months between the July game and the November final table. Since the start of the November Nine Table, the chip [...]

Here’s are the latest big news stories in the world of poker: Nguyen Fan Tour Schedule :  Scotty Nguyen has begun a fan tour of the United States and continues to add stops to his schedule. His latest is the Prince of Poker event in Iowa and the HPT Championship in Michigan. Nguyen, holder of [...]

We are at the close of day two of the 2010 Poker Stars EPT from Vilamoura in Portugal. This is the seventh season of Europe’s biggest poker tour and the second leg of this year’s event. The tour began on August 11 in Tallinn, Estonia and will finish sometime in the spring of next year [...]

At the close of the fifth day of main event play Andreas Krause became a champion with a pair of fives. This was the first year the Merit Cyprus Classic was sponsored by Full Tilt and the first time it was won by a relative unknown (to Americans at least). Andreas Krause walks away with [...]

It didn’t take long for the original number of applicants for the European Pokerstars tour main event to go from 420 to 25 by today, the end of day three. The players are eyeing the 400,000 euro prize which is about $510,680.00 to us. A lot of big names have already bitten the dust. Here’s [...]

This is a recap for those of you out there who like tables and charts. When it comes to poker, it just makes pattern easy to spot. In this case, it make big winners easier to spot. Check out below for the winners of every event in the 2010 WSOP except for event 57, of [...]

And despite the final game the results of the 2010 WSOP are in and what a ride it has been. For those who like recap without too much drama here are the results of events 53 through 56. Event 53: $1,500 Limit Hold ‘Em Shootout tournament. . It didn’t take long to thin the herd [...]