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Players have returned from the first break and the blinds have gone from 50/100 to 100/200. I always hate how tournaments insist on doubling the blinds after one level. It's still 100 big blinds if you have your starting stack, but why can't they throw in a 75/150 level to give even more play. They announced earlier that they had added three levels to the early rounds, in my opinion this is one they missed. read more in pokerworks.com

Over 50 poker players will go down in history as bracelet winners at the 2008 WSOP. No matter what happens to them in life, the fact that they won a bracelet is a major accomplishment. In fact, winning a WSOP event might be one of the many...

Marty Smyth has cashed just about everywhere in the world. His bank has accepted checks from 2007 Irish Open, 2008 PartyPoker World Open, along with dozens of other tournaments. Rumor has it he even took some cookies off a girl scout by beating her pocket Kings with a set of Aces; of course there are also rumors that the moon landing was faked, and Tom Cruise prefers the company of male hair dressers, so we can't really rely on a rumor mill for good information.

The final table of Event #44 was unusual in one particular respect: none of the players seated around the piece of felt covered furniture had ever won a World Series of Poker bracelet before. Something just looks odd when you see nine players competing for one of the sport's most prestigious prizes and none of them has been to the promised land before. It's sort of like watching nine guys who have never had a date chasing after Heidi Klum.

Today is Independence Day in the United States, an issue that is relevant on many levels, including the right to play poker online. One online poker store is celebrating the day with sales of their poker tables, a trend that savvy poker players will find in many other online poker venues. Buy Poker Tables Online is the store, and poker players don't have to live in the US to take advantage of the american Holiday, thanks to the power of the internet...

The World Series of Poker for 2008 is currently running in Las Vegas and players that couldn't make it from Europe are in for some good news - the schedule for the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe has been announced. Taking place in September, the WSOPE will be nine days of poker with four events, including the GBP 10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem event won by Annette Obrestad last year, the first woman and youngest player ever to win a WSOP main event. The other events include a cheaper NLHE, a Pot Limit Omaha and a H.O.R.S.E...

The online poker software company CryptoLogic recently announced two new features that will have online poker players excited. The first is the ability for poker players to set up and host their own tournaments. The second is a filtering and sorting tool that allows players to customize their own preferences...

PokerStars has announced its seventh annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), annually the online poker world's largest championship series. The 2008 edition, scheduled to begin on September 5th, 2008, represents...

The first day of the WSOP Championship is always a double-edged sword. For as many players that walk through the doors of the Amazon Room, about half as many leave before the day is done. But at the end of Day 1A, Mark Garner didn't...

Major online poker site Full Tilt has announced the dates for its next Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. The latest edition of the highly popular tri-annual series, FTOPS IX, will run August 6-17, 2008. FTOPS IX jumps forward...