Online Poker Blog and Poker News

This past weekend Paris, France was not only playing host to the World Poker Tour National Series tournament, but also hosting the 10th Annual European Poker Awards, which has turned into one of the most prestigious awards ceremonies in the poker world.

There was a lot of talk about the changes being made to Season IX of the World Poker Tour, but the poker world has heard this from ESPN and other outlets in the past only to find out the changes are very minor, so for the WPT the proof is in the putting.

Sam Trickett has already established himself as one of the best cash game players in the world, and is now proving his ability in tournaments. With just eight players remaining, Trickett will be amongst the final table competitors in the World Poker Tour National Series tournament taking place in Paris.

After a short-lived retirement of less than one year (actually about 7 months), 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate has announced he will be returning to poker, and even more surprising is that he will once again be sponsored by PokerStars!

A close look at poker’s online winners and losers in 2010 didn’t quite tell the whole story, as Full Tilt Poker’s Draw Games were not measured in the calculations, but now the tracking site www.highstakesdb.com has published the results from these games, and they are quite surprising.

One of the most hotly debated poker topics in the early part of 2011 has been the advent of the Super-High-Roller tournaments. In this article I’ll take a look at the pros and cons of these tournaments, and what they could mean for the long-term success of the game.

We were already aware of a number of changes to High Stakes Poker heading into Season 7; for one there is the absence of any Full Tilt Poker pros from the show, the broadcast moving from Sundays to Saturdays, as well as the location moving from the Golden Nugget to the Bellagio.

Over the next two weeks poker fans will be able to follow the action of one of the largest televised cash games in the history of poker as Poker After Dark airs their $150,000 buy-in cash game. The lineup is full of poker pros, but not quite the names you might expect for this game.

The two most sought after awards in Tournament Poker are the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year Award and the Card Player Magazine Player of the Year Award. I always find it interesting to match-up the two list. Here is a look at the standings up to this point.

The 19th Full Tilt Online Poker Series is set to begin this Sunday. This time around the FTOPS will feature a number of Full Tilt’s latest innovations including Rush Poker tournaments, as well as Multi-Entry tournaments which allow players to register for the same event multiple times.