Daniel Christopher Alaei was named the grand prize winner of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker classic that ended this week. He had outdone the other 328 players who are on the field and take home an astounding $1.4 million in bag money.

Alaei specializes on NLHE cash games and has already collected more than $3.7 million dollars in live games during his poker career. He has 2 WSOP bracelets to his name and had won the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better event and made 18 cashes in the WSOP earning him an amount of $1,533,917 respectively. more…

Poker production has no limit with regards to their poker show in NBC called Poker after Dark. They are going all out by assembling the best of poker players in the world playing high stakes game in their Railbird Heaven theme in two weeks time.

In this show, Poker after Dark – the most popular players in the poker world will be up against one another. The show will also feature the best of online poker. The buy in will start with $100,000 and will not be more than $250,000. more…

Someone from the high rankings of the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) asserted that internet poker is prone to fraud and manipulation.

A note written by Sawn Henry, FBI Assistant Director to Alabama Representative Spencer Bachus has declared: “There are several ways to cheat at online poker, none of which are legal,” more…

College student and known poker player Brian Hastings will be taking his final exam for Economics this coming Monday. He will surely try to study more for this subject because it’s the last exam for the semester but he will definitely have time to celebrate his unprecedented win in the online playing arena wherein he made history.

He shared his experience with Kristy Arnett – host of Card Player TV for their new Poker Buzz edition – regardless of his demanding schedule between school and at Full Tilt. Hastings described the hard work he gave to research more for his bout with Isildur1, the grounds for his triumph, and how he assessed the other players who have played with Isildur1 in the past. more…

It’s been a while since the PPA or the Poker Players Alliance has seen steps to improve the gaming experience of American poker players. The passing of the UIGEA has definitely starved the people in the United States who wanted to play poker online. This is due to the fact that the UIGEA has categorized poker along with other non-skilled gaming in the internet world.

At the moment people assume that they are obtaining what they desired when the Democrats took over the House in 2006, however, what occurred was not the direction they desire to take. more…