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Near the end of a continuing beta-test period which saw increasing levels of content added to the site, PokerStars interactive video portal, PokerStars.tv, officially launched this week. The site's features, which center on...

PokerStars host a $17,000 Weekend with Daniel Negreanu Freeroll this Saturday, July 12 giving players the chance to spend a weekend with the poker legend, plus $2,000 cash for travel.

Online poker room Chili Poker is spicing up this coming Autumn with a $2,500,000 Mega Mega Prizepool, offering their players a chance at paying for their Christmas presents a few months early. Satellite qualifiers are available, giving players a chance to get a seat in the $1,500+$80 Main Event for far less - as low as $2.75. A new feature spices up the event even more - running antes...

The Player of the Year at the World Series of Poker for 2008 is 3rd place finisher in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event Erick Lindgren. Lindgren has been known as one of the best poker players in the world to have never won a bracelt at the World Series of Poker, but he changed that this year with a victory and five cashes, including coming very close to winning the famous H.O.R.S.E...

The World Series of Poker main event is running now in Las Vegas, with the third Day One event starting today. Day 1C will likely have its fair share of TV, movie, and sports stars sitting down with the amateur and pro poker players, but so far not many of those taking a shot have lasted. Most notable are former baseball legend Orel Hershiser and Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, both of whom did not last their first day in the event...

The poker boom has peaked according to a published report from the University of Pennsylvania. The report said that the number of college aged men playing poker has declined...