Amit Makhija, who is slowly but surely making a name for himself in the world of poker, has captured the “High Rollers’ title at Full Tilt’s Online Poker Series (FTOPS X) last Sunday. Makhija paid the steep $5,000+200 buy-in (after all, there needs to be a reason why this was called the “High Rollers” event) [...]

So he can swim like a fish and he can win gold medals just like that in the Olympics. But really, who cares? The question is, “Can Michael Phelps play poker?” Well, if we’re going to judge him based solely on event No. 2 at the Caesars Palace Classic, our version of Aquaman certainly can.
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Jason Mercier beat back a tough field of 85 poker players to take down the PokerStars EPT London £1 Million Showdown. If you think I’m exaggerating about how tough it was, think Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, David Negreanu, David Benyamine and Gus Hansen. Let’s make it even tougher. Mercier had to go heads up against [...]

It’s not as though online poker doesn’t have its hand full thanks to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Now, thanks to fears of global economic instability that are emerging due to fears of a prolonged U.S. recession, some poker sites are left with no other choice but to close down. Duplicate Poker is the [...]

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.
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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 [...]

Are you sick of bad beat stories? Along with the rest of the world, of course. Party Poker, however, has one bad beat story that even the most jaded poker player would want to hear. Particularly, since it involved the biggest bad beat jackpot in history.
Judith75 was playing in a $0.50/$1 Limit table. Yes, those [...]