Helena Brett has lately been crowned as the Britain’s queen of card rooms, subsequent to her win in the 2011 Bedfred Ladies’ Poker Tours Grand Finale. As the winner she received a cash prize of £20,000. 31-year-old Helena Brett, a resident of Staffordshire, works for a charity. She defeated Raine Hilson at the Western Club of London. Read the rest of this entry »

RISE Clothing, a new company that has recently been launched, designs attractive poker apparels. Noah Heller, who is the founder and the president of the company, believes that RISE has the capability to create new designs, which has not yet been seen in the poker apparel industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Joe Tehan gave a tough competition to all his opponents, and at the final table he snatched the first spot and winded up winning $725,000 at the North American Poker Tour at the Los Angeles most important event. Joe Tehan managed to outlive both Christopher DeMaci as well as Jason Mercier in the $5,000 worth buy-in event and won the title. Read the rest of this entry »

Very recently, an innovative and special “Christmas Comes Early” ad has been launched by William Hill Poker, which is allowing online casino games players to earn huge amounts of cash prizes, at each second, as you are engaged in reading. Read the rest of this entry »

Last weekend online Poker saw a very busy and exciting weekend. At Full Tilt Poker the event started on Sunday and went on until the early morning hours of Monday. This clearly proves that excitement that was there in the air during the events that transpired. Event 13 of the day was won by “not_ya_friend”. The Sunday prize for this event amounted to a whooping $227,574.65 and this event went on until early morning of Monday. “Kopek3” won a gold jersey and so did Kory Kilpatrick, “s00tedj0kers89”. This was Kory Kilapatrick’s second gold jersey. Read the rest of this entry »

It is good news at UB.com because the last woman that stood till the very end of the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, Maria Ho is signing in to join the group. This is surely going to be the silver lining among the dark clouds for UB.com. Very recently, some major pokerstars departed from the group. The entry of Maria Ho into the group is surely going to change the negative aspects and move the limelight towards the group once again. Read the rest of this entry »

Zynga, the software developing company famous for its online poker game is planning to launch the same game for the Android smartphones that are there in the market. Zynga is famous for the online poker game of Texas Hold’Em that is available on social networking site Facebook. On Facebook this game from Zynga has nearly 6 million users who daily play this wonderful online poker game. The conversion of this game for the smartphones is nothing new because it has already launched the iPhone version of the game. Read the rest of this entry »

Very recently, the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League has decided to relocate its head office next to Eastgate Plaza, which is situated close to Rock Road and Kellogg. It has also decided to open its very first retail store not far away.

According to Kurt McPhail, who is the President of the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League, the innovative World Poker retail shop will be opened prior to Black Friday. His company organizes poker contests in five different countries.

The new World Poker store will spread across an area of almost 750 square feet and will retail tradition poker tables and poker equipment. It will also enable its customers to book special poker cruises directly from there.

The majority of the things sold by the store are normally the type of equipments that the company tends to purchase for association owners, inside its group.

At present the company’s head office is located at 144 N. Oliver and spreads across almost 600 square feet. But, the new chosen location at Eastgate covers an area of about 1,100 square feet, which is far spacious than the previous one.

McPhail also declared that the company will be launching a new discount rewards club. Here, the members need to pay $69, on a yearly basis and in return, will get access to more than 20,000 day to day products, excluding poker supplies, at wholesale rates.

The store will have separate kiosks from where you can purchase those day to day products. You can also buy these products at their online at site, which is www.wptapl.com.

The World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League organizes almost 30,000 poker contests, on a yearly basis.

McPhail along with his associates, are still petitioning a verdict that their card game, known as Kandu Challenge is unlawful. With the IRS, they are trying to negotiate the interest expenditure on in excess of $435,000. According to McPhail this issue is expected to settled within this year.

Titan Poker is offering a unique referral award for all its players. If you have a group of friends who like playing online poker then all you need to do is direct them towards opening an account with Titan Poker and you could make some cool extra referral bonus apart from winning online poker games at Titan Poker. The system of this referral is quite simple. All you need to do is make sure that your friends or referrals join Titan Poker by opening an account with a minimum of $20. After that they need to earn 100 Titan Poker points. For this process you will be getting a $100 payment. Moreover, you will be getting this bonus for every referral. Read the rest of this entry »

Woman Poker Player Magazine brings all its readers, a chance to get guidance from the very popular Vanessa Selbst. Selbst is one of the leading poker pros known today. She had a magnificent poker career with above $2, 000, 000, earnings added to her account. Read the rest of this entry »