When an agency calls itself Poker Royalty, it will be hard-pressed to live up to its title. It’s a good thing that the high-profile agency for professional poker players is meeting expectations and working double-time to beef up its roster of clients. Poker Royalty’s newest client is David Chiu, considered by most as the most […]

Thanks to the thousands of dollars that can be stored in online poker accounts, it is no wonder that the poker community is now the target of high-technology crime. Still, despite the stories you’ve heard about stolen passwords and account hackings, you never really think it could happen to you. Well, this story about notable […]

While other poker sites are forced to shell out cash from their tills to meet tournament guarantees, PokerStars isn’t sharing in their woes entirely. In its second week, PokerStars 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is still drawing in players like bees attracted to honey—particularly the No-Limit Hold’em tournaments.
WCOOP Event # 23 had a […]

As the battle for online poker Sunday domination continues, FullTilt poker found itself having to add a whopping $21,400 to meet the $750,000 guarantee in the popular site’s Sunday tournament. Don’t think this makes the tournament any easier. A total of 3,643 poker players aspired for the top prize, building the prize pool to $728,600. […]

When PokerStars.net EPT Barcelona ended, one thing was certain: professional poker player Sebastian Ruthenberg is having a great poker year. He won a World Series of Poker bracelet this year, and he now has an EPT trophy to go with it. Aside from bragging rights, the young German also takes home €1,361,000 in prize money.
Ruthenberg […]

World’s largest online poker site, PokerStars.com has announced their successful completion of beta testing on their downloadable Mac poker software and have launched it just in time for the seventh edition of the World Championships of Online Poker.
The software is compatible with Mac OS 10.4.1 (or Tiger) and is available in more than 15 languages […]

U.S. poker player Yevgeniy Timoshenko bested 257 entrants to the APT Macau Main Event to win first prize and $500,000 in prize money. The 20-year old Timoshenko, known as “Jovial Gent” in online play, was in full control of the last stages of the game as he eliminated all but one of the eight who […]