Two new Andorid, BlackBerryy and iPhone poker apps have been released in the last quarter of 2011.  Terminal Poker and mFortune have both released real money poker apps for a range of smartphones and tablets.

Our friends over at have written a very topical article that looks into the development of real money poker apps for Android smartphones and tablets.  The Android betting article asks some very pertinent questions.

Paddy Power have become the latest Bookmakers to get a betting app approved by Apple.  The new Paddy Power iPhone betting app is now free to download from the iTunes App Store. 

A question that gets asked frequently is "What are the best poker apps for the iPad?"  Before we begin to answer this question I think we first need to differentiate between the 2 main types of poker apps.

William Hill, one of the world’s largest sports betting companies, have announced that they will be releasing a sports betting app for Android smartphones and tablets.  Up until now, William Hill mobile players could place via the mobile version of the William Hill website.  The new Android sportsbook app will be a fully functional app, that will need to be downloaded and installed rather than just being web based.

According to our friends at iPhone Poker Apps, Apple have finally allowed a real money poker app into their App Store.  The bad news is that the app will only be available to iPhone owners in Austrian, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Have you just got your hands on a shiny new iPhone and was wondering what real money gambling apps you can download for it?  Well if you're based in the United States I'm afraid you won't find any real money gambling apps in the iPhone App Store because Apple will not authorise them.

With over 25 million active BlackBerry users worldwide, BlackBerrys are still the most popular smartphone on the planet.  So it goes without saying that the BlackBerry SportsBook is also one of the most popular SportsBooks formats.

Although a real money Poker app for the iPhone still appears to be a distant possibility for the iPhone due to Apples restrictions on gambling apps, a number of iPhone SportsBook apps have already been approved by Apple.

Full Tilt Poker look set to become the first major poker rooms to release a real money mobile poker app for their players.  The major poker rooms like Full Tilt, PokerStars and UB have been uncharacteristically slow when it comes to mobile poker.

At Poker Websites Review we have trawled through all the major poker rooms to find out which poker rooms have the worst players.  Poker rooms with plenty of poker fish can be a very profitable place for experienced poker players to play at.

Party Poker, the onetime giant of online poker, may be making a return to the lucrative U.S. market in the not too distant future.  The online poker room has hinted at a possible return if the Obama administration succeeds in relaxing the draconian online gambling laws.

Next-generation online poker site PKR.com has nominated Ante Up for Africa as its charitable partner for the next twelve months. The long term partnership will see PKR and its 3.5m strong player base support poker’s best known charity through a series of activities designed to raise both funds and awareness.

Full Tilt Poker, is pleased to announce the launch of Steps Tournaments, offering players the chance to win entry to larger buy-in tournaments - and claim shares of bigger prize pools - by working their way up the steps of a progressive series of tournaments.

PokerStars the largest online poker site in the world, has announced four new additions to their Team PokerStars.net Pro Canada Team – to join Daniel Negreanu and Darus Suharto. The four new Canadians will represent PokerStars.net in North America and across the world. They are Greg DeBora, Patrick Pezzin, Marcello Del Grosso and Anh Van Nguyen.

A new bluetooth poker app will be launched in November for both the iPhone and Blackberry.  Hold'em Legend is based on the World Series Of Poker and promises to give players an exciting new way of playing poker on their phones.

The world's second lartest online poker room, Full Tilt Poker, have released a schedule for the 14 installment of their Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS).  The latest series will run over 25 events and boasts a $16,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Mac users out there who like to immerese themselves in 3D poker graphics will be glad to know that PKR poker have announced that they have launced a Mac version of their ultra realistic poker room.

A World Poker Tour app has been released for the iPhone for the first time.  The Texas Holdem game will be available from the App Store today and retails at £2.39.

The wildly popular TV poker show High Stakes Poker looks set to return to our screens for it's sixth season next year.  News leaked out this week when Barry Greenstein let slip that the shows makers were planning to gather the players together for filming in October and November 2009.

The 3rd season of the world's richest highest cash stakes game boast the strongest line-up yet.  The event will take place tonight in London and will be broadcast on Sky television in January.

The 9 finalists for this year’s Poker Hall Of Fame were announced today.  The special Induction Ceremony will take place at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas on November 9th during the dinner break from the WSOP Main Event final table.

With the rise in popularity of the Apple Mac over the past few years, it was only a matter of time before the poker industry began to take notice.  Snow Leopard, the latest OS for the Mac, was released last week and now Apple devotees have another reason to get excited

The London leg of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (ETP) will take place this year between September 30th and October 7th 2009 and looks set to be the biggest event yet boasting a total of 16 events.

PokerStars look set to become the safest poker room on the internet following the announcement of a new inniative with security specialists RSA.  PokerStars players can now order a RSA Security Token which is a small deviced that can be attached to a keyring which randomly generates a six digit code that changes every minute.

Europe's largest poker event will kick off this week when the Poker In The Park festival returns to Leicester Square, London for it's third year.  This year’s poker extravaganza will take place on Thu 13th August from 5pm – 9pm and on Friday 14th from 12pm – 9.30pm.

Andreas Oscarsson, the founder of influental poker website PokerListing.com and WSOP Bracelet Winner, has been murdered while on holiday in his hometown of Trollhättan, Sweden.

The two giants of the online poker world, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, have been competing in a game of one-upmanship for the past month, which is reaping benefits for online poker players.

Full Tilt Poker have launched a new version of their poker software that includes a new-look lobby and a large bonuses for current players.  The new software allows players to customise their poker environment and find the games they want to play faster and easier than ever.

Now that the final 9 finalists for this year's World Series Of Poker (WSOP) are known, American sports network ESPN has released its broadcaster schedule for the tournament with a total of 4 events set to be televised.

Dublin has been awarded the title of European Poker Capital 2008 by Bluff Europe for the second consecutive year. The Irish capital pipped London again to claim the ahead of other runners ups Vienna, Tallin and Irish city Galway.

As we reported last week, the future of EPT Moscow looked uncertain because of a decision by the Russian Ministry of Youth, Sport and Tourism to remove poker from its list of official sports. PokerStars have now confirmed that EPT Moscow has been cancelled and will be replaced by a tournament in Kiev (Ukraine).

The future of EPT Moscow looked uncertain last night following a decision by the Russian Ministry of Youth, Sport and Tourism to remove poker from its list of official sports.

If you've ever dreamed of going heads-up against some of the world's greatest poker players, then the new "Face The Ace" poker show might be for you. The new show, hosted by Steve Schirripa ("The Sopranos"), will premiere on Saturday, August 1 (9-10 p.m. ET) on NBC

Full Tilt poker broke the record for the world’s largest online tournament on Sunday and then proceeded to lose it again to PokerStars, who broke the record again a short time later.

Full Tilt Poker are hoping to make history this weekend by staging the world's largest online poker tournament.  The record breaking attempt is part of the online poker rooms 5th birthday celebrations and will take place on July 19th at 15:05 ET.

Thirty poker players in Denmark owe the local tax authority over $3 million dollars (20 million kroner) after failing to declare their winnings.  As a result, SKAT (the Danish equivilant of the IRS), has issued a set of guidelines to educate poker players about their responsibility to file income tax returns on their winnings.

Leonardo DiCaprio looks set to star in a new poker film that explores the darker side of online poker.  The move is a gamble for the Hollywood star, as poker movies have traditionally not performed well at the box office.  Anyone remember 'Lucky You', 'Deal', 'Shade' or 'High Roller'?

The European Union this week urged the United States to drop its ban on non U.S. online gambling companies because it does not comply with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and it discriminates against foreign Internet gambling sites.

According to a report by ABC News, Full Tilt Poker have confirmed that they have begun reimbursing poker players who's winning were frozen this week when the federal government ordered 5 banks to freeze in excess of $30,000,000 in payments owed to online poker players using the Instant eCheck option.

There was much speculation last week among the online poker community when the world's largest poker rooms PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and UltimateBet withdrew the Instant eCheck option last week.

Ultra realistic 3D poker room PKR.com today unveiled an exclusive deal with Bluff Media that will allow PKR.com to exclusively broadcast 24 bracelet events from this year’s World Series Of Poker.

The latest instalment of this patent pending event will have a $560 buy-in per player ($1,680 per team) and the first 300 to register at dreamteampoker.com will receive their very own personalised jersey for the tournament.

Online poker room, Ultimate Bet, will be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon this Friday when they host a free online tournament that is open exclusively to those who follow the poker rooms twitterings

Don Cheadle, the star of movies such as Oceans Eleven, Crash and Hotel Rwanda, has been signed up by Full Tilt to become a “Friend” of the poker rooms.  The Hollywood stars name will now appear in red anytime he plays at the site.

The World Poker Tour WPT continues to extend it global reach with the announcement of a Slovakian event later this year.  The €4,000 WPT Solvakia event will take place in Bratislava from August 31st - September 5th.

The twelfth instalment of the highly popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will get under way again tomorrow, with a guaranteed prize pool of over $18,000,000.  The action kicks off on May 5th with a total of 25 events to suit the bankrolls of most players.

Frence poker pro, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, set a new world record today for the most Sit and Go tournaments played in 1 hour.  The extraordinary event took place on PokerStars yesterday at the PokerStars European Poker Tour's Grand Final in Monte Carlo.

The 2009 World Poker Tour came to a close last night when Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko became the second youngest player ever to take the title.  After 8 days of play the 21 year old walked away with the $2,149,960 first prize and his first WPT braclet.

A host of new celebrities have been confirmed for the inaugural Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament which, will take place on Monday, April 27th, during the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Week.

PKR Poker broke the mould again today when they announced their first ever, professional poker team. Rather than going for a group of established household names, the trail blazing poker room opted instead to sign 6 rising stars from the PKR.com community.

The World Poker Tour, who have already announced stops in the Italian city of Venice and the Moroccan city of Marrakech, have added 2 new dates to their already busy events schedule.

The world's largest poker room, PokerStars, have announced that they will be holding a special charity poker tournament in support of the humanitarian effort in Darfur. The event, to be called Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Poker Tournament will take place on April 27th.

Details of the World Series Of Poker Europe were announced today and once again 4 highly coveted bracelets will be awarded throughout the series.  The event will take place at the Casino at the Empire, which is conveniently located in Leicester Square.

Popular 3D poker site PKR poker have lauched a series of upgrades to their already ground breaking software.  PKR Poker has revolutionised online poker by innovating a 3D poker platform that closely resembles the experience of playing in a real Casino.

Everest Poker are offering a unique bonus to all it qualifiers for this years World Series Of Poker.  Everest Poker are the official sponsor of the WSOP this year and to mark the event they will match the total WSOP winnings by its players and split it evenly among player that qualifies for the tournament through their poker room.

The remarkable growth of social networking sites has also sparked remarkable growth in online social gaming.  Facebook, the worlds most popular social networking site now boasts almost 200,000,000 active members

The Bluff Online Poker Challenge came to an end yesterday when Brian 'Sno0owman' Hawkins was crowned the eventual winner.  The month long event saw 25 of the best online poker players compete against each other to see who could create the biggest bankroll from an initial $200 deposit.

A new study conducted by software company Cigital supports the idea that poker is a game of skill, not chance.  The study entitled “Statistical Analysis of Texas Hold’em” was carried out to conclusively prove that skill was the overriding factor in No Limit Texas Holdem.

888 Pacific Poker are offering their players to play against A list celebrities like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon at this years Cannes Film Festival.  The charity poker event is being held to raise money for the children's charities "One Voice For Freedom" and "Not On Our Watch".

With the World Series Of Poker less than 3 months away, Full Tilt Poker have begun running regular qualifiers for this years event which kicks off on May 27th.  By signing up with Full Tilt Poker, players can now can qualify now for 1 of 150 Main Event prize packages worth $12,000 in a a $500 + $35 buy-in satellite tournament.

Italy will play host to the World Poker Tour for the first time in its history this summer when the northern city of Venice will stage the WPT main-event from May-6th through to May-10th.

The 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship has been won by Huck Seed, cementing his reputation as one of the best heads up players playing today.

The World Poker Tour have announced that a WPT Event will be staged in Africa for the first time this year.  WPT Marrakech will take place at Morocco’s famous Casino de Marrakech this October.

The 7th Annual World Poker Tours Celebrity Invitational took place at the Commerce Casino in Los Angles this weekend.  The $200,000 freeroll event attracted a field of 433 players, made up of a wide range of poker players, including many big name poker professionals, celebrities, athletes and VIPs.

The popular television show, High Stakes Poker, returns to our TV screens on March 1st when the new season premieres across the US on the Game Show Network (GSN).

PokerStars have announced a brand new spring tournament called the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). What makes the new series different is that each event will have 3 buy-in levels, allowing players of all levels to compete.

A South Carolina judge ruled yesterday that poker was a game of skill and not chance. In his judgement, Mount Pleasant Municipal Judge Larry Duffy, said that there was "overwhelming" evidence that Texas Hold 'em poker is a game of skill.

When the 8th season of the World Poker Tour returns to our TV screens later this year, it will once again be broadcast on the Fox Sports Network. A deal was announced today between the WPT and the cable network which will see them extend their broadcast agreement for at least another year.

As part of its 10th Anniversary celebrations, UltimateBet is offering players a chance to win a seat at this year's World Series Of Poker (WSOP) and convert the $0.10 entry fee into a  $10 Million sponsorship deal with the poker room.

Online poker room, Ultimate Bet, have announced that they will be the official Canadian sponsor for this years WWE Wrestlemania. The special 25th Anniversary event will be held at the Reliant Stadium in Houston on April 5th, 2009.

The world's largest poker room, PokerStars, are on the verge of dealing their 25 billionth hand. The poker room, who reached their 10 billionth hand only 18 months ago, are marking this historic occasion by running one of their biggest promotions ever.

The PokerStars sponsored Latin American Poker Tour have announced that Argentina will now be the last stop on their Season 2 schedule. The final event of the LAPT will take place at the seaside resort of Mar del Plata from April 16th - 19th.

Paddy Power Poker, one of Europes leading bookmakers and poker rooms, have announced that they will be running a special $1 rebuy tournament, which will see the winner gain a place at this years Irish Open.

The eleventh edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XI) got off to a flying start last night when the first event easily surpassed the $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The $200+$16 no-limit hold'em event a field of 6,275 players and generated a total prize pool worth $1,255,000.

William "Kai" Landry, an amateur player from Biloxi MS, has won the World Series Of Poker Circuit Main Event at Harrah's Tunica. Landry took home the first prize of $183,974 as well as a diamond laced gold WSOPC ring and a $10,000 entry to the 2009 WSOP Main Event next July.

The 11th Full Tilt Online Poker Series kicks off tonight, February 4th, with a $200 + $16 no-limit hold’em tournament and a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million. FTOPS XI will run over 12 days and each of the 25 events will be hosted by a Full Tilt pro player.

The inaugural Russian Poker Tour event was won by local player Oleg Suntsov who walked away with the first prize of $300,000 / 10,616,000 (Russian Rubles). The PokerStars sponsored tournament made its debut in St. Petersburg this weekend and attracted over 200 players.

Following the success of the first Dream Team Poker event, held back in November, organisers have announced that the tournament will be returning in 2009. For the first time the event will be open to the public and will take place from March 27th - 29th at the World Series of Poker room at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

The schedule for the annual World Series Of Poker (WSOP) 2009 has been announced which will run May 26 – July 15 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. To mark its 40th anniversary, the WSOP will run 57 bracelet events, 2 more than last year.

There was speculation last week that DoylesRoom would be moving to a new network after their customers received an e-mail promising "big changes" in the near future. Today DoylesRoom have announces that they are moving to the Cake Network and will be ACCEPTING US PLAYERS again.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 5 Deauville was won by Moritz Kranich, a 28 year old online pro from Germany. Kranich, the only PokerStars qualifier at the final table, came out on top after a tough heads up with France's Arnaud Esquevin.

Carbon Poker, the US friendly poker room, has been attracting a lot of attention recently because of their Bad Beat jackpot. The poker room has set a world record for the biggest ever bad beat jackpot online.

The online gaming industry breathed a hugh sigh of relief on Tuesday when a three judge panel ruled that Kentucky will not be allowed seize 141 international online gambling domain names.

Popular online poker room, DoylesRoom.com, plan to move to a new network before the end of the month. Doyles Room look set to ditch The Microgaming Network in favour of a poker network that is friendly to new US players.

A Pennsylvania Judge ruled on Friday that pokers most popular game, Texas Hold’em, is a game of skill and therefore does not constitute gambling under state law. The Poker Players Alliance fell that the case sets a useful precedent and is a positive step towards legalizing online poker.

PKR Poker have just launched an updated version of their already advanced poker software that includes more than fifty new features as well as numerous refinements and improvements. The new 1.7 Version is the poker rooms biggest update so far.

Popular TV show, Best Damn Poker, returns to our screens tonight (January 12th) on the Fox Sports Network at 9 p.m. across all U.S. time zones.  The reality TV is sponsored by Ultimate Bet and the second series is set to run for 7 episodes.

John "Razor" Phan has been named Player Of The Year 2008 by both Bluff Magazine and Card Player.  Phan took this years award after taking a World Poker Tour title and 2 World Series Of Poker Braclets. He also managed to take home over $2 million in tournament winnings in 2008.

Paddy Power Poker have just lanuched a new Instant Play Version of their existing client that does not require a download. The new version is also Linux and Mac friendly and boasts the same functionality as the existing client.

The next installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or FTOPS gets underway next month. The 11th edition of the popular Full Tilt Poker series will run over 25 events and have a guaranteed prize pool of over $15 million.

ESPN have confirmed that they will be broadcasting the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOP Europe) main event over 8 hours, beginning on February 1st, 2009.  The event attracted 362 of the world's best players and took place at London's Casino at the Empire.

The World's largest poker room, PokerStars, has entered the records books (again) by hosting the worlds largest online tournament. The poker room easily broke their previous Guinness World Record of 20,000 by attracting a field of 35,000 simultaneous players on Sunday, Dec. 28th.

The 5th season of High Stakes Poker is set premier on March 1st 2009.  The popular cash game programme will feature as part of 'Poker Night' on GSN. New episodes of the High Stakes Poker series will debut at 9 pm.

Visitors to online gambling websites are up 11% according to recent statistics released by comScore Media Metrix, a leader in measuring the digital world. Despite predictions that internet gambling is on the decline, it would appear from these lastest figures that the number of visitors to online gambling websites in the U.S. is growing dramatically.

The Carbon Poker Bad Beat Jackpot broke a new record this week when it reached $770,000.  The jackpot, already the biggest of its kind online, is expected to break the $800,000 mark by the end of the month.

PokerStars.com, the largest online poker room, will make a Guinness Book of Records attempt later this month by staging the world's largest online poker tournament. PokerStars set the current world record last year when they attracted a field of 20,000 players to a single tournament.

Ladbrokes Poker Million VII, Europe’s richest televised poker tournament, came to an exciting end last night when Belfast man Marty Smyth came back from a very short stack to take the title and the $1 million first prize.

For for the 3rd consecutive year, "Poker" has been named "Top Search Term Of The Year" on popular search engine Lycos.  The "Lycos 50 Top Search Terms of 2008" list also includes Golf, Facebook, Pamela Anderson, Clay Aiken, YouTube and Sarah Palin.

High Stakes Poker is returning for its 5th season and this years bumper lineup is already creating quite a buzz.  The show will feature poker legends such as Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson, as well as newcomers such as 2008 World Series of Poker Champion Peter Eastgate and runner up Ivan Demidov.

PokerStars have announced that they will be offering a freeroll to all players left in the LAPT Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, event when it was cancelled last week by local officials. They will also be be adding $50,000 in prize money to existing prize pool.

The European Championship of Online Poker III Main Event was won by Eoghan 'Intruder123' O’Dea, son of WSOP bracelet winner Donnacha 'The Don' O'Dea. The young Irishman came out on top of a field of 1,283 players to take home the first prize of $315,000.

PokerStars have confirmed that their Latin American Poker Tour event in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, has been cancelled due to issues with the Mexican government. The announcement follows Fridays dramatic events when..

St. Petersburg and Moscow have been confirmed as the host cities for the inaugural PokerStars Russian Poker Tour RPT series.  Poker has become massively popular in Russia in recent times, boasting some of the fastest growth rates worldwide.

PokerStars have introduced a new game called Badugi (BA-DOO-GEE) that is a weird mix of draw poker, razz and lowball.  What makes Badugi unusual is that the object of the game is to hold the lowest 4 card hand of each suit, meaning that the best possible starting hand is a 4-3-2-A.

The CEREUS poker network, home of Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, has become the lastest poker network to block IP addresses of Kentucky players.  They have followed other poker networks such as Merge Poker, Microgaming Poker and Cake Poker by excluding residents of the state.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) has issued a statement in response to 60 Minute's investigation into the cheating scandals at Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet.  The statement seeks to draw attention to elements of the Sunday night segment that it considered to be incorrect or misleading.

Following weeks of speculation, the World Poker Tour (WPT) have officially announced that the Borgata Poker Open has been removed from their tour schedule for Season VII.  The popular $10,000 main event tournament was due to take place at the end of January and be broadcast on the cable TV station Fox Sports Net.

According to the CBS News website, the long awaited 60 Minutes expose on  cheating scandals at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker will air this Sunday, November 30th 2008.

Daniel Negreanu, Canada's most famous poker player, had a home victory this weekend when he won the BC Poker Championships Main Event title.  Negreanu took home $371,910 and claimed the title at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C., winning the second largest Canadian poker tournament of the year.

The long expected merger between the Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet networks looks set to go ahead this week.  The player bases of each poker room will join later today to create a new poker network called CEREUS.

After a two year break the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT) have confirmed they will be putting France back in their schedule. Next years EPT French Open will take place at the Casino Barriere Deauville and will run for 4 days from January 20th, 2009.

João Barbosa of Portugal this week claimed the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT) Polish Open title and the Euro 367,141 ($457,489) main prize.  The €5,200 buy-in event, held in Warsaw, attracted 217 entrants

The big winners at this years eGaming Review Awards were Ladbrokes, Everest Poker and PKR Poker.  This was the eGaming Review Awards 4th year and as always was adjudicated by an independent panel of gambling industry experts.

The Editor of Bluff Europe, Philip Conneller, walked away with a $20,000 first place prize at the 1st ever PKR Live main event last weekend.  Conneller, whos PKR username is escalope, came out on top of a field of 150 players who decended on  London’s Loose Cannon Club to play for a share of the $90,000 prize money.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series 10 (FTOPSX) came to a successful end early Monday morning whenUS player, Julian Verse, won the headsup against Irish player sckilla. For his win, Julian Verse took home $450k, while sckilla received $273k for finishing in second place.

Europe's largest online poker school, Everest Poker School (www.everestpoker.net) is organizing 27 events across the continent plus dozens of more online tournaments in one of Europes biggest ever free poker competitions.

ESPN's ratings for this week's World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table were up about 50% to almost 1.9 million households, compared with 1.25 million households in 2007.

Zynga, a social gaming network, recently announced they are releasing a multi-player Texas Hold ‘em game for Apple’s popular iPhone that promises to leave its competitors in the dust. 

Peter Eastgate has defeated Ivan Demidov to win this years World Series of Poker (WSOP) to become the youngest champion in the history of the no-limit Texas Hold 'em main event.

German Poker Pro Michael Keiner claimed the 888 Poker Open V trophy and the $250,000 first prize after topping the field of 96 players and ultimately winning a heads-up battle with Craig Young, who qualified on 888.com for just 1c.

A television sponsorship deal has been announced between the World Poker Tour (WPT) and FullTiltPoker.net, the educational website owned and operated by Full Tilt Poker.

Traffic to Full Tilt Poker.com saw a massive increase on Tuesday with a recorded average of 9,704 poker players per 24 hours, it's busiest day so far this year according to Market Pulse.

To celebrate the launch of Europe’s longest running poker festival, Paddy Power Poker have announced the launch of their biggest ever Irish Open promotion, called the €100,000 Sole Survivor.

FTOPS X will take place from November 5-16 with a total of 25 events scheduled. Each event will have different buy-ins and will being hosted by a different Full Tilt Poker Pro,  so there is something for everyone from Pot Limit to Fixed, Stud to Omaha, Hi/Lo Split to Razz.

In his first major tournament outing, Will Fry has been crowned the first-ever PokerStars European Poker Tour Budapest champion and claimed its €595,839 top prize.  A total of 531 players paid out the €4,350 buy-in for a shot at the PokerStars EPT Budapest title.

According to The Online Poker Traffic Report at the independent poker tracking website MarketPulse the online poker sector has show significant growth.  It reports that all of the ten top websites all showing gains.

The highly anticipated 60 Minutes online poker expose is expected to air on November 9th, coinciding with the 2008 WSOP Final Table playing out.  The show promises to "spotlight cheating scams that were discovered over the past year at online poker sites, Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet."

PKR Poker, the poker room which recently announced it 2 millionth member, has broken the mould again by annoucing it will be hosting a "Singles Poker Night" in conjunction with LoveStruck.com.

The Paddy Power Poker Irish Winter Festival came to a close, with Fiachra Meere of Limerick being crowned the Irish Masters Champion, who survived a field of 423 poker hopefuls to scoop the €150, 000 main prize.

Merge Poker was the first Poker Network to publicly announce that they would be blocking IP addresses of Kentucky residents to any of their poker rooms. Microgaming Poker Network has has followed suit, announcing that they too will begin blocking Kentucky residents, starting from Oct 30, 2008.

This week, lawyers representing the 141 online poker and gambling sites asked the state Court of Appeals to dismiss the case.  The appeal was filed by the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA).

Poker fans who had been looking forward to this weeks highly anticipated feature story that 60 Minutes has been preparing on online poker will now will now have to wait until November.

Ladbrokes European Online Championship Of Poker starts on Sunday 26th of October with an estimated $2,000,000 in prize money, making it the biggest added money Poker Festival on the Internet.

The World Poker Tour WPT and MySpace, the worlds biggest social network, have teamed up to create the first fully integrated online poker destination for the MySpace online community.  The new site will be called ClubWPT  and will offer "must-see content for poker die-hards and casual fans alike."

Full Tilt Poker, the second largest online poker room in the world, has just announced that their FTOPS X Series will take place from the 5th to 16th of November with a total of 25 events scheduled.  Poker variants will include  Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, Razz and H.O.R.S.E. and the series is structured to pay out a minimum of $15 million over 25 events.

PokerStars, the largest online poker room in the world, today announced the launch of an Italian only version of their poker site.  PokerStars were granted a license to offer online poker in Italy by the Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato (AAMS).

A Kentucky judge today moved not to deny the state the right to seize the domain names of dozens of Internet gambling sites.  Judge Thomas Wingate denied a motion by Internet gambling Web sites, online trade associations and Internet poker players to stop the state from taking over the domain names of 141 online gambling sites.

PaddyPowerPoker.com have just announced that Andy Black and Irish Open winners Marty Smyth and Neil Channing are among the poker professionals pre-registering for the Irish Masters which headlines the Irish Winter Festival.

This Friday PKR.com Poker lauch their Oktoberfest 2008 Poker Festival where players will be treated to twelve with $270,000 in guaranteed prizes to be won. The 2nd annual Oktoberfest is designed to appeal to every type of player with Hold’em and Omaha, deep stack and six-seater tournaments included.

A Lower Hutt plasterer has snapped up a cheque for more than $250,000 after winning New Zealand's biggest poker tournament.  Daniel Craker was crowned champion by outplaying 305 rivals over four days.

Dedicated gaming TV network, The Poker Channel, has announced the relaunch of Poker Europe.com in partnership with the online video platform Brightcove. The partnership will facilitate the delivery of video content on the game.

Some of the biggest and most controversial companies in the online poker industry could be stripped of their internet domain names after state officials in Kentucky won a seizure order from a US court.

Jason Mercier the EPT4 San Remo champion has won the PokerStars.com EPT London £1 Million Showdown and a first prize of £516,000. His victory against some of the best players in the world comes only a week after he made the final table of the WSOP Europe Pot Limit Omaha event.

An effort by the state of Kentucky to seize more than 140 online gambling Web site names is raising novel legal questions about the physical location of digital property and the reach of local and regional governments on the global Internet.

PKR.com has unveiled PKR.tv an internet channel dedicated to broadcasting episodes of the popular PKR TV series.  The PKR TV programmes have enjoyed a great deal of success and are currently broadcast to millions of homes across Europe via cable and satellite channels.

Capacity-busting 832 entrants create a prize pool of €416,000 at the Killarney, Ireland tournament - the largest European ranking event ever. The €500 + €50 buy-in main event at the Ladbrokes.com Irish Poker Festival has been won by Jimmy McSweeney from Cork, Ireland.

Duplicate Poker, one of the few legal online poker room in the United States, abruptly shut down as of Sunday due to the “global financial crisis,” according to a statement posted on its website.

The European 2008 World Series of Poker final table took a record 484 hands to decide a champion and, for the first time ever, an American player has captured the continental crown.

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey announced plans to introduce a bill before the Senate which would regulate and legalize online gambling games of skill, including poker.