POKER NEWS

Hey guys, just a quick heads up about Bonus Dollars and Loyalty Points. Effective March 1st, Loyalty Points will be deducted from your MGR at the rate of $0.01 per one (1) point. ...


Posted on February 15th, 2011

Poker celebrity Phil Laak, aka “The Unibomber”, shattered the world record for most consecutive hours playing poker at the Bellagio poker room in Las Vegas this week. T...


Posted on June 8th, 2010

Joran Van Der Sloot, the poker playing, gambling degenerate and all around scumbag has been captured in Chile and passed on to authorities in Peru where he faces a mountain of evid...


Posted on June 8th, 2010

Joran Van Der Sloot, the Dutch man accused of murdering and disposing of the body of 18 year old Natalie Holloway is being sought by Interpol after a woman was found brutally stabb...


Posted on June 3rd, 2010

Party Poker got a bit of free publicity last week when it was included near the top of a list of the top 1,000 most-visited websites on the internet. The list was generated by Goog...


Posted on May 31st, 2010

Phil Hellmuth has officially gone hood. In the new Ludacris video “Sex Room”, Hellmuth can be seen (sticking out like a sore thumb) scooping a pot from Luda, Trey Songz...


Posted on May 27th, 2010

No matter where you go on the internet you know you are taking some amount of risk. The more dubious the site or the source of the program you download, the risk increases that yo...


Posted on February 12th, 2010

UB.com pro Tiffany Michelle appeared on Fox News this week during a creative attempt by Fox at criticizing President Obama’s policies using poker analogies. On the eve of the...


Posted on January 28th, 2010

Airkid3 is a high stakes Sit and Go specialist that has played more poker hands than most players could ever fathom. He consistently makes money at the highest stakes SNG tables on...


Posted on December 21st, 2009

On November 17th, 2009, it was announced that UltimateBet would be rebranded to “tackle the next ten years with a whole new look and focus”. Through the extensive rebr...


Posted on December 15th, 2009

In the world of online poker, November of 2009 will be remembered as the month that “Isildur1″ took the industry by storm. Coming out of absolutely nowhere, this player...


Posted on December 7th, 2009

New players at Full Tilt’s high-stakes tables have become so rare that any soul brave (or crazy) enough to go to battle with the likes of “durrrr” and Phil Ivey i...


Posted on August 25th, 2009

Phil Ivey seems unstoppable at this year’s WSOP. After winning 2 bracelets, one in the $2,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven event and the other in the $2,500 Omaha High-Low/Seven-C...


Posted on August 17th, 2009

Andreas Oscarsson, 36, founder of popular poker affiliate website PokerListings.com, was found shot to death in his boyhood home of Trollhattan, Sweden on Tuesday. Andreas was on v...


Posted on August 6th, 2009

Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet have introduced an original poker variant called 7 Deuce designed to ramp up action at the tables. The goal is to win a prop bet, which each player ...


Posted on August 5th, 2009

Playing multiple tables at your favorite online poker site can be a great way to make a living but it doesn’t come without its challenges. Almost anyone who plays online for ...


Posted on July 27th, 2009

As you’ve probably noticed, things look different around here! We’ve redesigned and updated the whole site to include more rakeback offers, bigger rake races, better st...


Posted on July 4th, 2009

There seems to be a discrepancy in the stats provided to us by AP/UB involving their new policy of subtracting bonus dollars from MGR. At the moment they are subtracting too much, ...


Posted on June 15th, 2009

Just a quick heads up, starting June 1st, AP/UB will be subtracting 50% of any bonus dollars you receive from your MGR. So if your MGR is a little lower than expected, this could b...


Posted on June 3rd, 2009

We’ve been working hard on a total site redesign and are almost ready to launch! The new site will feature a total makeover, better stats integration, bigger rake races, more...


Posted on June 3rd, 2009

Six days into Absolute Poker’s “Race Cards” promo, AbsoluteIncentives.com players are dominating the field. So far, the first two spots are held by APINC players ...


Posted on October 6th, 2008

For the month of October only, Absolute Poker is offering thousands of dollars in cash to it’s top raking players. Leaderboard rank is measured by how many FAME Status Points...


Posted on October 1st, 2008

Ultimate Bet has released a statement today acknowledging the claims that cheating had taken place on their popular online poker site. High stakes players became suspicious after a...


Posted on May 29th, 2008