2008 December 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings

An uptick in player turnout marked action in the Sunday online majors, with Full Tilt running a special $1 million guarantee with a $500+35 buy-in, and PokerStars drawing over 8,000 players to its rich Stars Sunday Million event…

Some people claim they can practically smell the anxiety coming off someone who has gotten suckered into a good bluff. For some players, fear and anxiety are ideal tools in bluffing, as it plays upon some of the oldest instincts in the human psyche.

With the 2009 Aussie Millions just around the corner, PokerNews is taking a look back at some of the Aussie Millions past, explaining how it grew from a modest AUD $74,000 event to the preeminent AUD $7,800,000 tournament…

HAGERSTOWN A prosecutor on Monday dropped charges against a man charged in a May 30 robbery in which two men took about $4,000 from 18 people, including a State Police trooper, involved in poker game.

Another controversy has come to light over the weekend for online poker website UltimateBet.com.

March brought both a smattering of major poker events and plenty of news on the legislative front on both the state and national levels. Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson won the most prestigious title of the month in capturing the 2008 NBC…

In our assessment of the winners and losers of the Mats Sundin Derby, we determined that PokerStars.net was a winner because it went from “having a bald, Swedish former NHL player as its VIP ambassador to having a bald, Swedish current NHL player as its VIP ambassador.” A few of the comments questioned that, claiming Sundin would have to give up the sponsorship deal with the gaming …