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Poker Rooms

888Poker Discontinues Heads-Up Tables

August 26, 2013 at 7:45 PM |

In an effort to find an alternative solution to the problem of bumhunting, 888Poker made a controversial decision to remove all heads-up cash game tables from its offering.

Poker Tournaments

Win Millions in the New PokerStars Micro Stakes Series

March 1, 2012 at 3:00 PM |

PokerStars organises an online series of 100 events between 15 and 25 March for micro stakes players. $5,000,000 will be up for grabs.

Online Poker

Durrrr Challenge 2 Continues with 168 Hands

August 30, 2013 at 4:04 PM |

Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan played on three $200/$400 NLHE tables in the Thursday session of the Durrrr Challenge 2. ‘Jungleman12’ won with $20,000 in profits.

Poker Interviews

Millions on a Frozen Account and Other Issues – Interview with Jungleman12 – Part 2

November 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM |

Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates has participated in a poker seminar in Vienna recently, where he gave an exclusive interview to poker journalist Marius Gartner. Full Tilt Poker, the ‘Girah’ scandal, a feared opponent in the upcoming live challenge and his near future.

Poker Rooms

Partypoker LIVE Events Makes an Exciting Return in 2023!

May 31, 2023 at 3:35 PM |

Explore partypoker’s LIVE Events Series, which returns after an extended hiatus this year. We look at what’s in store for this brand’s poker players this year.Partypoker LIVE Events Makes an Exciting Return in 2023!

Poker Rooms

Exclusive interview with Unibet Ambassador Espen Uhlen

August 13, 2019 at 6:16 PM |

In this exclusive interview with, Espen talks about life/poker balance, brewery science, his Twitch-channel, and other things.

Poker Rake Races

Secret UB Scandal Recordings Surface - Hellmuth Releases Statement

May 13, 2013 at 8:06 PM |

UltimateBet's former programmer Travis Makar released a recording, which reveals several details of the UltimateBet superuser cheating.

Poker Rooms

Biggest ever $50 SNG Jackpot game at Partypoker!

February 20, 2019 at 12:17 PM |

The 'SPINS $2M' offers the SNG Jackpot grinders a top prize of $2,000,000!

Poker Tournaments

Sam Trickett Wins PartyPoker's World Open VI.

September 13, 2010 at 6:09 PM |

The PartyPoker World Open VI. began September 6th, the $10,000 event that took place at the Palm Beach Casino in London featuring 48 poker pros. The tournament ended yesterday so we already have a winner.

Poker Tournaments

WSOP Event #56 and Event #57 - $1,500 NLHE and $5,000 Omaha H/L

July 11, 2011 at 4:31 PM |

The Swedish programmer Hasan Alexander Anter took down the WSOP Event #56 ( in style: he defeated his opponent with a royal flush. The Event #57 bracelet ($5,000 Omaha H/L) went to Nick Banger.

Online Poker

Microulis69 Wins 100 Billionth PokerStars Hand at an NL5 Table

June 14, 2013 at 4:59 PM |

The 100 billionth milestone hand was dealt this Thursday at PokerStars. The Greek player Microulis69 took $103,800 for his winning J-5 hand.

Online Poker

Unibet, Betsson and iGame to Launch Speed Game

March 18, 2012 at 10:57 PM |

The new game to be introduced in these casinos has been developed by Relax Gaming. The future joining of other poker rooms offering this game type is to be expected.

Enjoy a Game of Red Dog at William Hill

November 7, 2013 at 6:44 PM |

Take a break from poker and take a look at William Hill’s casino games portfolio. Have you ever heard of Red Dog?

Poker Players

Worst Player of All Time?

September 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM |

The russian player going by the name 'KP0T0B' has awfully bad stats, he managed to run -336BB/100 in 146,000 hands, on NL2. The brutally bad player might just be the worst player we have ever seen.

Poker Humor

Viktor Blom 2+2 Photoshop Thread Best Of

October 5, 2010 at 7:15 PM |

There is a 2+2 forum thread called 'Blom photoshop potential'. In it, a user called 'ShortstackCat' posted 3 pictures of Viktor Blom playing at the poker table, encouraging fellow users to exploit and 'remix' the photos using Photoshop. There are many very funny ones, we strongly advise you to visit the thread after skimming through our little compilation here. It's worth it, we promise.