With just over 100 days remaining in 2006, the Bluff Magazine Poker Player of the Year race is heating up. Ten poker pros are still in the hunt including John Juanda, David Williams, Gavin Smith and Barry Greenstein.

“Winning the 2006 Bluff Player of the Year Award would be a tremendous honor, said poker pro Gavin Smith, currently third in Bluff’s Player of the Year Standings. Bluff’s poker standings are a true measure of a poker player’s performance over the course of a year. I’m hopeful I will play well enough in the remaining tournaments over the next three months to earn this award.”

Leading online poker site, Ultimatebet.com, has expanded its team of poker professionals with the signing of one of the hottest new talents on the international poker circuit.

Johan Storakers, 35, has risen from the poker explosion in his native Sweden to become one of the new breed of professionals currently transforming the global poker scene. From humble beginnings just outside Stockholm, Storakers undertook national military service before entering jobs in telemarketing and retail. However, poker had become an increasingly large part of his life and he soon took up the game professionally with spectacular results.

Officials with Fallsview Casino Resort announced today that the resort will host the first-ever World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Open from October 22 to October 24 - just days before the giants of the poker community arrive in Niagara Falls for the WPT North American Poker Championship, beginning October 25.

Launched last December at the Bellagio’s Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, “The Circuit” is the place get up close and personal with poker’s biggest superstars.

The hour-long show features special guests such as Phil Hellmuth, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, and Mike “The Mouth” Matusow. Hosted by Card Player’s Scott Huff and co-hosted by two of poker more comedic superstars, Gavin Smith and Joe Sebok, “Circuit” listeners get a healthy does of poker strategy, news and entertainment.

Today marks the beginning of a new era in online poker for the thousands of players around the world who regularly log in to play on the Live 3D Poker web site. Beginning immediately, anyone attempting to visit www.live3Dpoker.com will be redirected to www.livepoker.com, a brand new online poker site launched by Fun Games International N.V., which launched Live 3D Poker in April 2005.

Playing poker at a regular poker table is evidentially becoming old
hat. In Jean, Nevada, some poker players got together for a little
extreme poker. Patrick Neary, Prince Edward Island, Jaimie Glasser,
Fraser Linkleter, Nick “Stoxtrader” Grudzien, and pro Phil “the
Unabomber” Laak all piled into a plane and flew up to 15,000 feet for a
little poker. If all […]

Drew Barrymore is another Hollywood star that wants to become a
poker expert. She’s recently been filming an upcoming movie called
“Lucky You.” The movie is set at the World Series of Poker. In the
movie she’s a lounge singer, but the lure of the game intrigued her. She
really wants to becoming a great poker player.
The actress recently […]

Perhaps nothing can be more exciting than winning a poker tournament. For 10 poker players, the excitement of winning seats to the 2006 WSOP turned into a nightmare. They won their seats from ChecknRaisePoker.com. Unfortunately, the site was all about hype and promises. The players did not get their seats as promised.
Fortunately for them, poker.com […]

Seven poker players file suit against World Poker Tour - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

Seven big time poker players are suing WPT Enterprises. The seven involved in the law suit are Phil Gorden, Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Chris Ferguson, Andrew Bloch, Joseph Hachem and Grey Raymer. Apparently WPT is not playing fair. It’s just […]

The 2006 WPT World Championship at the Bellagio is now over and it was a historic event. There were a WPT record 605 entrants into the event. The prize pool ended up being a record setting $15 million. The winner was local Joe Bartholdi. His trip to the WPT World Championship started with a $25 satellite victory. He set a new WPT record by winning the most money as a $25 satellite entrant. Joe Bartholdi turned his $25 satellite entry into a whopping $3.76 million. He’s also the 2006 WPT Champion and has a guaranteed free entry into the 2007 WPT World Championship at the Bellagio.