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The Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, has seen some top poker players in action during the 2011-2012 World Series of Poker Circuit. Recently, however, when the last card was dealt, the winner was not one of the well known poker players, but rather an out of work poker player. Abraham Araya, the 44-year-old who became a new poker champion, is currently unemployed, after having been laid off from his...

John Duthie, until now, has been a member of Team PokerStars Pro, and also the Chief Executive Officer of the European Poker Tour. He and PokerStars have decided to part ways, and there will be a newly appointed European Poker Tour CEO. The new CEO is the European Poker Tour President, Mr. Edgar Stuchly, who was recently appointed to that position. Duthie had the following to say: “It...

Online poker traffic in the first week of 2012 has increased by almost 10 percent, according to an independent online poker study performed by PokerScout, an online poker traffic monitoring website. Although the general trend was to have an increase in traffic at online poker sites, it seems that the French PokerStars site had somewhat of a decline in its player base. It has been said that the reason for...

At the end of Day 1 in the 2012 World Poker Tour Ireland, the Irishman, Dave Callaghan found himself at the top of the leaderboard. The World Poker Tour in Ireland is currently taking place at the Citywest Hotel that is located in Dublin. Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Ireland started with 195 players remaining out of the original 338 players that started out playing in the poker tournament....

PokerStars will be changing the way its VIP program works as of 1st January 2012. For some players, the change is very good, and for others, they may be somewhat disappointed. The change will bring more balance to the program, and in the long run, the changes look positive. The old PokerStars VIP program awarded points known as the VIP Player Points (VPPs), which gave those VIPs with a...

Online poker players dream of the chance to participate in one of the big land based poker tournaments. The entry fees, and the traveling and accommodation costs, can be prohibitive for some, but William Hill Poker online may be just the place to visit in order to win a place for one of the big land based poker tournaments. William Hill Poker is hosting satellite events, the winners of which...

The World Series of Poker may not have its schedule announced yet, but one huge new tournament has been announced, and will be taking place as part of the WSOP 2012 tournament. The new tournament will be known as the Big One for One Drop, and the buy-in is a whopping $1 million per player. In order to make any new WSOP tournament an official bracelet event, there needs to...

Titan Poker is hosting a great online poker promotion that will last for two months. The online poker promotion is known as the Winter Edition promotion, and Titan Poker players will stand the chance to win a share of over $50,000 in prizes over the promotional period that coincides with the holiday season. The promotion covers a wide range of games, and is therefore likely to be an attractive promotion...

PokerStars.com has released a poker product designed especially for mobile phones and other mobile devices. The new poker application has been released only in Italy for now, where there is a very high usage of mobile devices. The new mobile poker application from PokerStars is free for players to download, and can easily be found on the Apple iTunes site. Those who wish to play mobile poker for real...

The World Poker Tour stops in Morocco this week, in Marrakech. There will be top poker players competing for some great prize money. Last stop was Jacksonville, and the next stop is Prague, giving the WPT players very little time to take a break and catch their breath, but the possibility of winning the prize money certainly makes up for that. The tournament will be hosted at the very...