These days major poker tournaments are getting cooked up faster than you can say tournament. Organizers are scrambling to put up the brightest, most prestigious poker tourneys with equally massive buy-ins and media blitz. And Paradise Poker wants some piece of the action. The top online poker site is running a record-setting $1.1 million tournament [...]

$15 million grand prize. That is what’s at stake in the largest poker tournament in history dubbed, The Quest. Presented by the Las Vegas-based PokerQuest Entertainment, The Quest is set for January 2006 and will be held at The Palms Hotel with a tournament buy-in of $250,000. Already, the line-up includes 5 World Champions, 8 [...]

It wasn’t just the WSOP main event that was a success, as organizers for the first ever World Series of Poker Robots said their tournament, which pitted the best computer programmers–via their poker “robots”–against each other, was a smashing success. Longtime I-gaming executive Steve Latham helped promote the event, which invited programmers from India, Canada, [...]

Australian poker player, Joseph Hachem, grabs the $7.5 million pot and wins the 2005 World Series of Poker World Championship title on Saturday, July 16 at Binion’s Horseshoe. Like past champions, Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer before him, Hachem was a WSOP first timer, but the difference is Hachem, and runner-up Steve Dannenmann, was part [...]

Poker News – A true legend of the game is putting his money where his heart is. Already having made history at this year’s World Series of Poker by winning his tenth bracelet, Doyle Brunson is looking to make poker history yet again. The poker heavyweight is leading a group of investors who have made [...]

London’s Old Billingsgate Market will be the venue of the biggest and brightest poker tournament in the world, the London Open 2005, on August 3-6 spearheaded by the World Poker Exhange and to bebroadcast at the Bravo Channel. Celebrity poker enthusiasts and top poker pros are set to play in the 4-day event. First round [...]