Armed robbers stormed the European Poker Tour’s tournament in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, reportedly making off with $1.1m.
At 2:15pm, four men believed to brandishing a handgun and a machete burst into the Grand Hyatt Hotel where the tournament was being hosted in partnership with Spielbank Berlin Casino. No shots were fired and nobody was seriously [...]

Norwegian pro Johnny Lodden scored a 5th place finish in the Poker Stars Sunday Million a week ago, cashing in for 72k dollars.  Shockingly this couldn’t have come at a better time for him.
“I’m having a really shitty run,” Lodden said to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. He’s been losing at poker and sports betting.
“I’m worse [...]

LeBron James plays a little heads up action on Poker Stars in Drake’s newest music video “Forever”.  The video also features the likes of  Eminem, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West. I wonder if LeBron gets rakeback?

Online powerhouse  Poker Stars has just signed a deal with female hockey player Fatima Moreira De Melo.

Fatima Moreira de Melo LL.M. (born 4 July 1978 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch field hockey player. She has played 191[1] international matches for the Dutch national team, where she has scored 30 times. Her debut match was [...]

The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is in full swing on PokerStars. The WCOOP will consist of 45 online poker events spread out over the course of 18 days, with over 40 million dollars of guaranteed money. There will be at least 1 million guaranteed in 17 of these events. This years main event [...]

According to study done by Poker Players Research (PPR), America is still the # 1 online poker market despite the UIGEA being passed in 2006. There are currently more than 10 million Americans with real money accounts.
I guess we can all thank  Full Tilt and Poker Stars for making us # 1
Runner ups
UK 1.9 [...]

Full Tilt Poker tried to set a new Guinness record for the largest online tournament on this past Sunday. However, their rival and online powerhouse PokerStars decided to show why they are still the number 1 poker room by throwing a $1.00 buy-in record breaking tournament on the same day. Talk about a glass of [...]