LAS VEGAS–The World Series of Poker, the planet’s most prestigious poker tournament, is extending its international reach this year by launching the World Series of Poker Europe, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. announced Tuesday.
The inaugural WSOP Europe is scheduled to debut in London September 6-16, 2007. The new tournament will be held at three casinos operated by [...]

The L.A. Poker Classic Championship (LAPC) event at Commerce Casino smashed records for largest field and largest prize money ever for a $10,000-buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) event and for a WPT event in the continental U.S. The 790 field of established pros and aspiring amateurs swelled the prize money to a whopping $7,593.600.

LAS VEGAS, NV (February 20, 2007) – Sixty-four of the world’s best poker players are set to converge on Las Vegas March 1-4 as the 3rd National Heads-Up Poker Championship brings its distinctive, confrontational style to the Caesars Palace Poker Room.

Sportingbet has announced on Friday that it will close its Paradise Poker online poker platform, incurring a write-off cost of 55 million pounds (USD$107million or 82.43 million Euros), and transfer Paradise players to its existing Sportingbet poker platform which runs off Sweden’s Boss Media platform.
Sportingbet cited the reason to transfer Paradise players to the Boss [...]

Poker legend and all-time great, Johnny Chan, is partnering with Las Vegas hotelier, Liko Smith, to create 5th Street, “The World’s First Poker Hotel.” The first location will open in 2007. A site has been selected in Los Angeles county, other sites in California, Illinois, New York, Florida and Macau are under development.

Asia’s richest poker tournament, the Asian Poker Classic (APC), have guaranteed a minimum top-up of $250,000 to the prize pool, meaning more than $1 million could be available at the first professional poker tournament ever staged in India. The Asian Poker Classic, is set to be one of the biggest events on the poker calendar. A host of top pros, celebrities, and online qualifiers are expected to turn out for the festival of poker which is being held at the five-star Intercontinental Grand Resort in Goa, India from March 1 until March 5.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. John “Johnny World” Hennigan makes history winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event at the Borgata Winter Poker Open. Hennigan joins Daniel Negreanu as the only player to win a World Poker Tour title, a World Series Of Poker (WSOP) Bracelet (Hennigan has won two), and the US Poker Championship. Not only did “Johnny World” win $1.6 Million for first place, he re-established himself among today’s poker elite [...]