Online Poker Blog and Poker News

It seems unanimous that online poker has gotten tougher over the past few years. There are more sharks, and the fish supply is relatively low. When you combine these two factors, you are going to find that there is less money to be made in online poker nowadays.

After poker players lined up in force against the Commerce Casino’s stand against online poker legislation, it would have been a fairly good bet that the other California card-rooms would take a different approach. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

It is no secret that poker is a game that can and will grind just about anyone down. There are few areas in life where you can do everything right and still fall short. It didn’t take many frustrating poker sessions for these three high-profile players to call it quits.

PokerStars has released an official statement to clear up any misconceptions on where the company stands regarding Daniel Negreanu’s recent comments that occurred during an interview with www.pokerplayer.co.uk, where he referred to Annie Duke as “F***ing C***”.

Tournament poker is a funny thing. One year you can be on top of the world and the next you could be broke. If you don’t run hot, there is little you can do. For the following poker pros, however, the 2010 WSOP was a major success from every viewpoint.

We’ll have to wait for this week’s episodes of the PokerStars.net Big Game to see how much of Tony G’s blog post is bravado, and how much is reality, but it appears that Tony annihilated the other competitors on the show this past week.

Poker hasn’t been around forever, but that doesn’t mean that the game hasn’t had its share of legends. Unfortunately, as time goes on these legends move on, but their legacy remains forever. These players may have died, but no one can debate that they were among the best ever.

This week’s episodes of The PokerStars.net Big Game once again featured a murderer’s row lineup of professional poker players, and the lone “Loose Cannon” online qualifier – who is staked $100,000 and allowed to keep any profits he or she makes.

With the summer months rapidly coming to a close, I figured this would be a good time to see which tournament poker pros are having a stellar 2010 campaign, and take a look at the top 10 players on Card Player Magazine’s Player of the Year leader-board.

This week saw ESPN’s 2010 WSOP Main Event coverage begin with episodes one and two out of 27, and focused on Day 1a and 1b action. The usual suspects were calling the action, and for the most part ESPN’s coverage remains the same as it has since 2003, with a few minor enhancements.