A 19-year-old from North Carolina takes his shot at poker glory Thursday night when he faces Josh Arieh, one of the top players in the world, for $12,000 at Bodog Poker Room.
Justin Hendricks of Chapel Hill, N.C., qualified to play a Team Bodog poker pro by finishing atop the online poker site’s Tournament [...]

A former Utican, Joseph Tehan, won the Mandalay Bay Poker Championship in Las Vegas, a stop on the World Poker Tour, and the 25-year-old Tehan pocketed the top prize of $1,033,440.

The televised Vegas Open Poker Tournament will definitely help acknowledge unrecognize poker players an open opportunity to be one of the big guns in Poker.
LAS VEGAS, NV–(MARKET WIRE)–Jun 14, 2006 — Gone are the days when televised poker tournaments require huge buy-ins to compete; now players with lots of game and a smaller bankroll can [...]

The Poker Players Alliance has announced on Tuesday that well-respected professional poker player Howard Lederer has joined the organization as one of its their Board of Directors.

Full Tilt Poker’s  June Iron Man Challenge is in full swing! This coming weekend you can see how just playing at Full Tilt Poker can reap huge rewards.

A record-breaking prize pool of $5 million and at least $1 million for the final winner! That’s what awaits the lucky finalists at the Poker Classic live event in Barcelona on Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2006. Poker Room gives you the chance to be part of this huge poker event. Buy-in starts at only $1+0.10 and there are seven different qualifiers to start with.

Harrah’s Entertainment announced today a Harrah’s subsidiary has signed a letter of intent with Bluff Magazine and producers of Bluff Poker Radio, for production of live radio broadcasts from the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Presented by Milwaukee’s Best Light.

The Professional Poker Tour will debut on the Travel Channel beginning July 5. The show guarantees that you’ll see the best players in the world. And only the best players.

A Washington State law criminalizing online gambling went into effect yesterday, June 8. This development gives the state power to charge residents gambling online with a Class C felony punishable by a possible five-year sentence and/or a $10,000 fine.

On June 6, Harrah’s Casino unveiled World Series of Poker bracelets that will be awarded to this year’s WSOP events winners. These bracelets not only recognize the achievement of winning a WSOP tournament but also have become the benchmark of success in the poker community.