Carlos Mortensen has won the 2007 WPT Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas, collecting almost $4 million for first place.
Mortensen becames the first and only player to have won a WPT World Championship and a WSOP Main Event.
Mortensen also became the first player to collect over $5 million in career tournament earnings at Bellagio.
Mortensen also […]

Anna Benson could find herself getting plenty of face time on ESPN in the coming year. Not during baseball games, but more likely during one of the network’s ubiquitous poker broadcasts.
The wife of Orioles pitcher Kris Benson has been polishing her game by playing nearly every day, whether online, on her cell phone or even […]

Three months after the birth of her son Sean Preston, Britney Spears showed up, hubby and little tyke in tow, to the launch party for her father’s new poker venture. Jamie Spears has entered into a joint poker project with the Maloof brothers, owners of the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The partnership […]

An online poker addict stole thousands from a travel agency owned by Phillip Schofield, the television presenter, as she tried to bet her way out of debt, a court was told yesterday.
The Times reports that Schofield, the daytime TV host, is a director and stars in the television advertisement for Lets Go Travel, where Cindy […]

Williamhillpoker is delighted to announce their backing of the 2005 European Poker Awards and the European Ranking Awards. Previously held in the Grand Casino, Helsinki, the awards which started in 2000 have moved this year to the ACF Club in Paris, on Sunday 8th January 2006.
The Williamhillpoker.com European Ranking Prizes will presented for the categories […]

Poker Pro Magazine announced today that it has inked a deal for national syndication of its popular “Pro’s Corner” column. “Pro’s Corner,” one of the most popular columns in Poker Pro, features today’s leading professional poker players answering questions from readers and giving advice on the game. The feature targets beginning and intermediate players.
As of […]

Reuters reports:
The worldwide poker industry appears to have hit every possible inside straight, long-shot flush and unlikely full house that it could, accumulating a large pot of cash in the process.
But as the holiday season nears an end, the industry’s luck seems to be running out as boxed sets of cards and chips are discounted, […]

A innocent game of poker in a mechanic’s garage in Mexico sent everyone running for cover on Monday night when a gunman stormed the garage and started firing away at everyone killing five people.
Police investigating say residents are not talking to police about what happened for some reason and therefore no arrests have been made […]