The organizers of the World Poker Congress last week announced that Steve Lipscomb, president of the World Poker Tour, will deliver a keynote speech at the event, scheduled for June 27 - 28, 2006 at the City Conference Center in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lipscomb joins the leader of the other leading poker tour, Jeffery Pollack, the first commissioner of the World Series of Poker, for a keynote exacta at the World Poker Congress.

GSN has partnered with gaming company Shuffle Master Inc. to air the finals of the first ever Three Card Poker National Championship Tournament. The two one-hour specials, hosted by Mark L. Walberg ("Temptation Island," and "Russian Roulette") and Danielle Demski (Miss Arizona 2004 and Miss USA Finalist), are slated to air on Friday, April 21 and Friday, April 28.

Edited from Press Release – The World Poker Association (WPA), joins the MLB, NFL, FIFA, NHL and PGA as the sports world’s latest and most needed governing body. Where television and the Internet have fueled the multi-billion dollar poker boom, the WPA will unite the poker community under one banner.

The Pennsylvania State Lottery has taken a bite at the poker popularity by using their lottery to help players make their trip to the World Series of Poker.
The Pennsylvania Lottery has been running their own scratch-off Hold ‘Em Poker game as a part of their lottery offerings, which now could help to send five people [...]

Royal Vegas Poker is giving away a seat to the world’s premier poker event – the brand new, 3-day, $50,000 buy-in, WSOP 2006 H.O.R.S.E Tournament. To be held at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, on Tuesday, July 25th 2006.

Bravo Network has announced that nine-time World Series of Poker champion Phil Hellmuth will take over the commentary chair that has been vacated by longtime co-host Phil Gordon on Celebrity Poker Showdown.

Around 600 top poker players from all over the world are expected to converge at the The Bellagio Hotel and Casino for the World Poker Tour’s Season IV finale, The WPT World Championship. The prize pool is expected to reach anywhere between $12 - $15 million, with the winner taking home as much as $3.5 million.

On April 1st, the 2006 Masters Series gets underway at Paradise Poker with a bang!
Masters 1 week is set to start on Saturday, April 1st and will feature over $4million in tournament guarantees for the week. Paradise is offering ‘BIG MONEY’ guaranteed daily tournaments along with a Final Main Event on Sunday, April 9th that will carry a $1million guarantee.

The World Poker Tour World Championships on April 18 – 24 at Bellagio in Las Vegas is boasting a massive prize pool of close to $12-$15 million – with a potential $3.5 million for the winner.
If a player can afford the $25,500 buy-in to join professionals such as Phil ‘The Unabomber’ Laak and [...]

If you have the desire to play with poker’s cream of the crop, then the place to be is the World Poker Tour World Championship, April 18-24 at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Then, of course, there’s the other incentive — a possible whopping WPT prize pool of close to $12-$15 million — with a potential $3.5 million for the winner!