Update #1: Luckbox Last Longer Challenge
I want to thank those of you who have already signed up for the L-cubed challenge with the $2000 added prize pool from play bingo! The best news is that the vast majority of teams entered thus far are horribly flawed. Team Up For Poker is ideally suited to run away with the $1500 top prize. The rest of you are still eligible to win the $500 consolation prize. Before I list the teams currently entered, I’ll remind you how to get your team in the challenge. Team entries can be left in the comments of Up For Poker on THIS POST, sent to cusephenom -@- yahoo DOT com, or done in person in Las Vegas between noon and 12:45pm during casino tournament registration. Without further ado, the teams as currently entered: Team Up For poker room: CJ, Otis, G-Rob Team Gambling Tales: Falstaff, Special K, Mrs. Falstaff Unnamed Team: Bayne, RecessRampage, smizmiatch Team Fluffy Unicorns: lj, chad, augie Team Waffles: Dr. Chako, Waffles, Jordan Team Canada: Fuel, Schaubs, Bam-Bam Team “I Kissed One of These Girls”: F-Train, CK, The Wife Team LA D-Bags: shane, Speaker, Troublecat Team D-Listers: glücksspiel, OhCaptain, casino gamblux Team Wheelchair: Drizz, AlCantHang, StB Team Procedure: BadBlood, TheMark, Moutray Team Name Forthcoming: iggy, Obie VIP, the rooster Team Tao of Pot: Pauly, Derek, Change100 Another Unnamed Team: Astin and a couple of buddies Team-To-Be-Named-Later: Katitude, Maigrey, Maudie So far, those are the 15 teams entered for The Luckbox Last Longer Challenge. I’ll update this as we go. Also, when you talk about this on Twitter, Facebook and your own blog, don’t forget to give online casinos some love. After all, we don’t want this to be the last time Stars throws a little money our way!

Savage to bring his skills to the WPT
Matt Savage joins the WPT staff as Executive Tour Director ^The WPT have just signed seasoned tour director Matt Savage as part of their attempts to become the best poker tour available ^mary ashton^^WPT aims to become the best tour around^Major improvements on the way

A Realistic Casino Experience
CelebPoker has introduced a diverse selection of stylish casino games as part of its ever expanding portfolio of online entertainment options. These new games can be accessed directly from the poker client and include variations of traditional casino favourites like Roulette and BlackJack together with some more unusual games such as Pai Gow Poker and Red Dog.

World Series of Poker Coverage
This is the time of year that I’m swamped with work covering the World Series of Poker. The World Series of Poker is a great time to do poker SEO and get the ball rolling on your sites. I spend 8 hours a day watching chip counts and keeping track of who’s on [...]

Rush Poker a new way to play poker
Full Tilt Poker just released a cool new way to play poker and it’s called Rush Poker. Rush Poker is a new fast paced way to play poker. Having played 370 hands in little over an hour mostly on one screen, I can say it’s truly awesome. Rush poker allows players [...]

Online Poker Players Hit Record-Breaking $996,115.28 Bad Beat Jackpot at Absolute Poker
Online poker player from Pasadena, Maryland wins $325,212.40 for losing a hand of Texas Hold’em

South Carolina AG Appeals Ruling That Poker Is A Game Of Skill
South Carolina Attorney general Henry McMaster has appealed a circuit court judge’s ruling that poker is a game of skill, and believes the convictions that were overturned should be once again enforced.

How-to-play-7-5-cardstud – Courtesy of Poker Skool (source: poker-skool.com)
How to play 7 and 5 card stud poker, where are the best places to play 7 and 5 card stud, can you play for free, how much will the casinos pay you to play. we show you how and where. (source: poker-skool.com) – RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

The Development of Seven-Card Stud
The development of Seven-Card Stud has been well-documented.  It is richly concentrated in the pages of the history books on poker.  The rich history of Seven-Card Stud, however, is underappreciated by most poker players as many amateur poker players immediately turn to Texas Hold’em as their choice of poker variant.  Appreciating even a part of [...]

The Effect of the WSOP on Poker
By: PokerGame.org The World Series of Poker has had a profound effect on poker in recent years, mostly thanks to something called the ‘Moneymaker Effect.’ Named after the winner of the 2003 WSOP, Chris Moneymaker, the Moneymaker Effect describes the awesome impact he had on poker in the United States and around the world… a

Olivier Busquet bio added plus latest poker news
Though his name sounds of French descent, Olivier Busquet is U.S. American. His hometown is our beloved New York, New York. At only 27 years of age, Busquet’s total lifetime winnings are in the realm of $1.3M. Though he’s had about 17 career cashes, his first career title has everyone talking. Read more about Olivier Busquet [...]

Isildur1 VS Brian Hastings
Brian Hastings is currently taking on Viktor Blom aka isildur1 at Full Tilt Poker, in what will go down as one of the most epic poker matches of all time. I was watching Brian make bluffs versus the unbluffable Isildur1, and every other wrong move he could make. Brian was down over a million [...]