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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.