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Jeff Lisandro Nabs Third Career WSOP Bracelet and Second This Year
With his win of 2009 World Series of Poker Event #37, the $10,000 World Championship 7-Card Stud 8 or Better High-Low event (his fourth final table this season) Jeffrey Lisandro became the fourth player this year to win two WSOP gold bracelets. The other three players are former Magic: The Gathering Card Game pro Brock Park...
Titan Poker Offering 3 Hot New Sit ‘n’ Go Progressive Jackpots
The tried and true Bad Beat Jackpot isn’t the only Progressive Jackpot going on over at Titan Poker. Because the site now has not one but three huge Jackpot Sit ‘n’ Gos running now, as we speak (so to speak), and they’re all Progressive Jackpots to boot. Each one offers its own ongoing opportunity to...
New PartyPoker Software Has Massive Improvements
Party Poker has just improved their poker software, adding a slew of new features to make playing poker at the site even more rewarding, in every sense of the word. Let’s start with the Lobby: Now in the Party Poker lobby, players can find tables even easier with a Quick Search feature, and players can save their Favo...
PartyPoker Adds 3 More Pros To It’s Team
Party Poker has added three new names to its list of sponsored professional poker players. Joining World Poker Tour commentator, World Series of Poker bracelet winner, and Party Poker ambassador Mike Sexton on Team Party Poker most recently will be Ian Frazer, Felipe Ramos, and Remy Biechel. Hailing from England, Ian Frazer...
Carbon Poker Deposit/Reload Bonus For Free Seat in Weekly $50K Guaranteed
Carbon Poker is offering a new bonus worthy of taking notice. In an effort to entice more players–current and prospective–to participate in its weekly $50,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament, Carbon Poker is offering free seats in the event worth $109 each to any player, new or existing, who makes a deposit of at le...
Dan “Wretchy” Martin Banned But Not Out
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat, right? That’s the message Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker are sending to the online poker community via Dan Martin, aka Wretchy. Dan got caught doing what he claims “everybody does,” namely playing online poker under more than one name and playing at the same tab...
Finn Ville Wahlbeck To Quit Pro-Poker While He’s Ahead
Ville Wahlbeck is giving up profesisonal poker. But don’t feel sorry for the 33-year-old from Finland. Because he’s giving it up $900,000 richer from just this year’s World Series of Poker alone. Before the 2009 WSOP, Wahlbeck had accumulated fewer than $200,000 in cashes, but this year was clearly Wahlbec...
Barney Frank Gains Strength With PPA and PokerStars Support
Barney Frank says that the government’s recent seizure of some $34 million in online poker payouts only strengthens his argument for the legalization, licensing, regulation, and taxation of online gambling in the U.S. Even his primary opponent in Congress, Representative Spencer Bacchus of Alabama, who gives Franks tw...
UltimateBet Star Player Matt Graham Picks Up 2nd WSOP Bracelet
Matt Graham, member of Ultimate Bet Poker’s Star Players Team as of this past March 2009, has earned his second World Series of Poker bracelet. The first time it was Event #53 of the 2008 WSOP, a Limit Holdem Shootout for a $278,000+ payout. This time it was Event #40, the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship, b...
Poker Stars Wants Tom McEvoy To Be Next Poker Hall of Fame Inductee
PokerStars is edging for Tom McEvoy to be the next inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame. Run by the World Series of Poker organization, the Poker Hall of Fame is accepting nominations from the general public until July 2. From these votes, the organization will compile a final “short list” of nominees from which...
