After 10 years of business, PokerRoom.com has decided to shut its doors. Launched in 1999 PokerRoom was at one time one of the biggest online poker sites. It was the first site I ever downloaded to play online poker back in the early 2000’s so its a big shock to see them go.

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WSOP 2009 is nearly upon us, and it’s time to start speculating about which players are going to make all the headlines this year. There are so many famous players now it’s tough to call out a select few to emerge as the big winners. One can’t avoid mentioning the obvious names like Hellmuth, Brunson, and Chan; they’ve all earned that right. But besides the big three, who looks like they’re poised to play well at the right time this year? Read the rest of this entry »

Following months of preparation, the new poker training site ProPlayLive.com was introduced this week, distinguishing itself from the pack of other educational sites thanks to the credentials of its impressive roster of instructors. Among those creating training videos for ProPlayLive are two World Series of Poker Main Event champions, Greg Raymer and Tom McEvoy, as well as WSOP bracelet holders Erik Seidel, Bill Chen, John Lukas, and Annie Duke.

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This year’s edition of the World Series of Poker will be structured in a deeper stack format a little more than it has been in the past. With the natural aggression of the internet player changing the tempo of the lower buy-in events, the small chip stacks were not providing players with enough room to operate, and many felt that the events forced the action too early in the tournament. To change this WSOP tournament director Jack Effel announced that players will receive 3x the buy-in as a starting stack for all events. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Bigger chip stacks. The 2009 WSOP will be giving players three times the buy-in amount as a starting stack. Last year the stacks were two times the buy-in. There will also be extra blind levels added to many of the events. These changes will allow players to go deeper into the tournament, therefore getting more from their buy-in.
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The Asian Poker Tour has announced it has received government approval to expand its offerings at APT Macau. As a result, the 2009 APT Macau event coming this August has been expanded from six days to 12 and has been renamed the Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival. The event will run August 12-23 at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau. The APT also sponsors the poker room at the StarWorld.

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Full Tilt Poker today released the schedule and assorted other details for the site’s upcoming twelth Full Tilt Online Poker Series. FTOPS XII is scheduled to run May 6-17, 2009, and will again feature 25 events across a variety of poker disciplines, as with other recent FTOPS series. The collective guarantee for the 25 events will be $18 million, highlighted by the final-day Main Event ($2.5 million guarantee) and the star-packed two-day high roller event, which spans the final weekend of the series and features a $2,500+120 buy-in this FTOPS. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems, that PokerStars decided to end their year with an record attempt. That’s right, they even will have a Guiness team to verify their record attempt, as they are trying hosting the world’s most largest online poker tournament, this Sunday (28th of December).

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Finally, the four-month break is over and the famous WSOP 2008 November Nine returned to Las Vegas to resume their race for the WSOP Main Event bracelet. All the players came to the guaranteed $900,670 table (which already had been paid in July), but they all were hungry for the top prize of $9.1 million. Read the rest of this entry »