Barney Frank’s poker bills are gaining strong support in Congress, and it looks like this coming year, 2010, might be the year that the current impact and future threat of the oppressive 2006 UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act). After getting 13 cosponsors in one fell swoop (bringing the number to 34), a congressman from [...]

Chalk another win up for poker, says the PPA (Poker Player’s Alliance), as friend to poker, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gambling Association (iMEGA) successfully sues Minnesota State Department of Public Safety, Alcohol and Gambling Division head John Willems to take back an order made to the world’s biggest internet service providers–like Verizon, Sprint, Qwest, [...]

Joan Rivers – that is. After the winner of the Celebrity Apprentice this year had such awful things to say about poker players, her heads-up opponent, Ultimate Bet Cardroom Correspondent Annie Duke, is giving the community a chance to redeem their good name – and have some fun doing it. The Hard Rock Casino Poker [...]

World Poker Tour Season 7 is upon us – having just started last Wednesday, May 6 – and the largest poker room in the world, PokerStars, is upping its stake in the series. Now Poker Stars will be the title sponsor and have exclusive in-show branding in any Season VII World Poker Tour event that [...]

Now when on-the-go Cake Poker players have to leave their computers, they don’t have to leave their poker game behind too, thanks to Cake Poker’s newly announced mobile poker client. A mobile poker client is a piece of poker software that allows Cake Poker players to play at CakePoker cash ring games and tournaments on [...]

PokerStars is now giving its players a chance to win a seat in one of the many widespread European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 5 Events. The PokerStars EPT Season 5 has been running since September of 2008 and made stops in Barcelona, Spain; London, England; Budapest, Hungary; Warsaw, Poland; Prague, Czech Republic; Deauville, France; Copenhagen, [...]