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How to Qualify The qualifying events to win A Shot At Poker’s Main Event will run from April 1 through June 20th on Bodog. There are a variety of ways in which you can win your Shot At Poker’s Main Event. You can pay as little as $1.10 and work your way through a number of [...]

Governement Ruling The US Government is indicting Full Tilt‘s Nelson Burtnick and Ray Bitar and 9 others and as a result Full Tilt will suspend real-money play for American players until the case is resolved, in addition to PokerStars, UB, and Absolute Poker. The allegations from the US Government are that Bitnar, Burtnick, and 9 others [...]

No Objections by Government The District of Columbia will be the first part of the United States to allow and offer regulated intrastate online poker. The bill proposing the regulated online poker has just finished a period in which objections or rejections could have been posed, but were not. The bill for intrastate online poker [...]

Your Own Private Tournament This feature is exactly what it sounds like, players can create tournaments and choose who is and is not allowed to participate. If you are in a rush and need to set a tournament up very quickly, you can choose from 1 of 7 tournament templates, these include No Limit Hold [...]

Unfair Compensation This lawsuit, which is being handled by Canadian Supreme Court, stems from 2 of the “brains” behind Cake Poker‘s creation not being fairly compensated for their work on the site. The two men who are fronting this lawsuit are Ryan Bennett and Francois Piette and among the long list of complaints are accusations [...]

PokerStars Game of Your Life During the months of April and May PokerStars will be offering a free tournament where the prize is front row seats to a sporting event of your choice. Additionally you are able to bring as many friends as you would like and all expenses are paid, the worth of the [...]

Regulated Poker In the US In recent weeks there has been talk and action moving towards regulated online poker in parts of the United States. In light of this recent possibility Wynn Resorts would work with PokerStars to form PokerStarsWynn.com. In the details of the proposition, which was released earlier this week by Forbes Magazine, [...]

First In the US The District of Columbia could be the first part of the United States to regulate the play of online poker. DC could regulate online poker ahead of states like Nevada, New Jersey, Florida, California, and Iowa; this business is capable of making an estimated 13 million dollars in revenues by 2014. [...]

ChiliConnect ChiliConnect will allow players to link their Facebook and Twitter accounts to their account on ChiliPoker. This is beneficial for people who would like to share their results with their friends as well as set up challenges in the social networking forum. Before the addition of ChiliConnect players had to set up games and [...]

How To Win at Party Poker Card Rush PartyPoker.com is offering an instant game called Card Rush starting on April 1st and ending on the 30th of April or until 1.8 million cards have been given away. To earn a Card Rush card you have to simply collect 15 points, every card you get contains [...]