The folks over at Unabomber Poker have come up with a way to kick the boss while he’s down – by putting a price on his head. Phil “The Unabomber” Laak suffered the effects of a nasty ATV accident on August 5th during a post World Series of Poker vacation in Oregon. “I easily could… [more]

CryptoLogic Shares Plunge As CEO Quits Following $12.7 Million Q2 LossesCEO Brian Hadfield of Gaming software provider CryptoLogic has just announced his resignation after the company posted a record Q2 loss of $12.7m. CryptoLogic had previously posted a $3.2m loss for Q1 and the huge loss for Q2 of $12.7m was enough to have Chairman… [more]

It’s true! An Albuquerque stock broker accused of fraud has struck a deal that would allow him to play poker in an attempt to win money to repay those he cheated while supporting his gambling habit. Samuel Masters Jr has admitted to 26 counts of securities fraud, all felonies, and has come up with a… [more]

Perhaps bored of the competition, Phil Ivey and Tom “durrrr” Dwan took aim at each other last night. The pair played for over two hours, recording 132 hands in $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha, 108 hands of $500/$1,000 Cap No-Limit Hold’em and 66 hands of $500/$1,000 Cap PLO. Ivey was unstoppable in each game as he won… [more]

There are high hopes for the event from the WPT. Individuals who like to take play poker may be interested to find out a new event is coming to Florida. The World Poker Tour (WPT) has announced it will be hosting a poker tournament in 2011 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. It… [more]

The World Series of Poker is headed to Facebook. Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment entered into an agreement with Playdom this week to re-launch its existing Poker Palace poker game on the popular social networking site with WSOP branding. “We are very excited to bring the thrill and excitement of the World Series of Poker to the… [more]

$1.2 million in guarantees will be up for grabs at Commerce Casino’s 19-day Hold’em Series, set to begin Sept. 1 at the Los Angeles area cardroom. Buy-ins for the series start as low as $120 and two multi-day start events, with a $500,000 and $300,000 guarantee respectively, are planned. The schedule also includes turbo, ironman,… [more]

Tom “durrrr’ Dwan, fresh off a summer of huge WSOP bracelet bets, is back to his day job of crushing high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker. Thanks to large sessions against Patrik Antonius and Rob “Vaga_Lion” Akery, Dwan is officially red hot and has earned $911,148 in the first six days of August. Dwan… [more]

Professional poker players are attracted to the thrill that comes along with the unknown involved in playing poker at a high level. The thrill seekers often do not leave the excitement for only the poker table. Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak were examples of that this week. A vacation camping trip to Oregon started with… [more]

For those poker players who have only known one home for the WSOP (and that’s most online poker players), 2011 looks to be a bit of a shock to the system. The story of Harrah’s attempting to sell the Rio isn’t new; the rumors were floating last year and we reported back a few months… [more]