Poker Player Blog

This week its all about the players. Here’s a quick look at this year’s Poker Hall of Fame inductees as well as whos on top in the GPI. 2011 Poker Hall of Fame Barry Greenstein—Born in Chicago in 1954 Brian Greenstein is the 42nd inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame. Greenstein is known as [...]

WSOP Goes Viral for Main Event—-WSOP announced on Wednesday that they will live stream all 55 bracelet events at this year’s WSOP. There will be a five second delay but who cares about that? The action will appear on the WSOP website letting all fans enjoy the show. The only drawback to the streaming video [...]

Feds Seize Major Poker Sites—The claims of the federal government are pretty serious with Full Tilt, Pokerstars and AB Poker all accused of money laundering, fraud and operating illegally. The websites as well as the bank accounts of the casinos have been frozen by the government. Pokerstars, in reaction to today’s drama, has stopped taking [...]

Proposed Legislation in Florida— This week the politicians down in Florida are looking at two separate bills that could effect the game of poker in the sunshine state. The first bill, SB 1594 is directly related to dog tracks in Florida. SB 1594 hopes to eliminate the requirement that dog tracks must have live races [...]

Poker Legislation Back on the Table: Despite past objections, disgruntled politicians and anxious poker fans the online gaming legislation is about to be back on the table. Barney Frank D-MA has teamed up with John Campbell R-CA to propose the passage of an online gaming bill. The bill would regulate the online gaming industry, provide [...]

Its been quite an exciting year in poker. As the final month of 2010 draws to a close it seems a good time to review some of the highlights of the past year in poker. Yes I know, everyone does end of year highlights. That’s because we all want a recap before we move on. [...]

Here are the highlights from this week in poker or at least what I found to be interesting. Harry Reid Pushes Poker Legislation Capitol Hill is buzzing this week as the online gaming legislation is pushed forward by house majority leader Harry Reid. Finally the issue has made it to main stream media and people [...]

Eastgate Auctions WSOP Bracelet for Charity The net has been buzzing this week as former professional poker player Pete Eastgate placed his 2008 WSOP bracelet on Ebay for auction. The money raised was to go to well known children’s charity UNICEF. Eastgate decided to give away his bracelet to raise money for charity and also [...]

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 [...]

AB and UB poker still having security issues: Cerius Poker has reported to the media and gaming agencies that they have suffered under the weight of lousy encryption codes. Apparently the issues have been fixed but poker gurus are suggesting hardwiring your pc to the internet for at least a little longer until the all [...]