Penn State is known for its football team and famous head coach, Joe Paterno, as well as for its academic proficiency, but soon it will be known as a card shark’s paradise with its recent ranking as the number one poker-playing campus in the world. The State College, Pa., university received the impressive honor at [...]

Lee Biddulph from Blackpool, England overpowers 3,900 opponents to walk away with $1 million and was crowned Paradise Poker’s first Million Dollar Free Roll online poker tournament champ. The final table, which was played out in a mystery tropical location, was made up of nine amateurs, eight from the U.S. who beat out almost four [...]

Poker Share, an online poker offered $100,000 to have its name stamped on a small Kentucky town. Officials at Poker Share are offering that sum if the western Kentucky hamlet of Sharer — which has no city council, no grocery and no post office — changes its name to PokerShare.com. The proposition has Butler County [...]

Mariah Carey won $27,000 at a poker game in Las Vegas last Friday. Carey, 35, invited at producer Jermaine Dupri’s birthday party at the opening of the Tao restaurant from Venetian Hotel, visited a nearby casino to play some poker. The Diva, who won $27,000 after just three rounds of the game, confessed she’s not [...]

Golden Palace Poker gives away a $7,000 Custom Poker Table for free to lucky online poker players. Every Wednesday night in September Golden Palace awards an impressive piece of furniture: a custom-built Poker Table created by Rye Park, Ltd. Rye Park, Ltd uses only the finest, hand-selected materials for use in the construction of their [...]

The 3rd College Poker Championship, the biggest college online poker tournament launches its largest prize package inlcuding $20,000 scholarships, $10,000 charity donations, and four brand new cars. College Poker Championship (collegepoker.com) is a free online tournament open to registered college and university students worldwide. With weekly Sunday night qualifying events now through May 7, 2006, [...]

It’s an old-fashioned poker showdown between Hollywood star James Woods’ team and poker pro Phil Laak’s team in The James Woods Gang Vs. The Unabombers in Poker Royale. The series is premiering on Friday, October 7 and poker enthusiasts will be able to enjoy two hours of the best poker players in action every Friday [...]

The parent company of the World Poker Tour has sued its outlet, the Travel Channel, for allegedly interfering with plans to develop a new poker series on ESPN. WPT Enterprises Inc. sued the Travel Channel and its owner, Discovery Communications Inc., for alleged breach of contract and intentional interference. The case, filed Monday in Los [...]