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The journalists at Big Edge Poker are committed to bringing you the latest poker news from around the world, and online. These articles are written by professionals and are geared at giving you insight into the ever expanding world of poker.

Get Set for the Wynn Poker Classic 2012

The number of live poker tournaments it hosts makes Las Vegas the place to be in for some poker action. Joining the numerous casinos offering live poker tournaments is Wynn Las Vegas, which will be hosting the Wynn Poker Classic from Thursday, February 23, 2012.  … Read the rest

Party Poker Premiere League V to be Joined by Patrik Antonius

Party Poker’s Premiere League Poker V to be held in April at Vienna will be joined by Patrik Antonius. The Finish poker star is the newest player to register for the event. The player had been the winner of a European Poker Tour event in 2005. He will be competing against a 16-player field comprising of other eminent poker pros like Sam Trickett, Vanessa Selbst, Tony G from team Party Poker and Andy Frankenberger, who won the Premier League Poker … Read the rest

Win upto $1,000 with Bet365′s Premium Cash Ladder

If you enjoy playing poker, there is no dearth of online poker competitions that you can benefit from. Starting this month, Bet365 poker will be giving away up to $1,000 in cash prizes, as a part of its Premium Cash Ladder promo. This offer, which is exclusively available to Bet365 players, had begun on February 3 and will end on March 8, 2012. Players will be awarded a cash prize depending on the level or rung of the ladder they … Read the rest

Attractive Card Rush Promotion at PartyPoker

An attractive promotion is currently on offer at Party Poker. Through the offer, players can add huge sums of cash to their account. The promotion commenced on February 1st at Party Poker. It will be valid for the rest of the month.

Real Money Poker Feature in Promotion

To be a part of the Card Rush Promotion, players have to wager on real money poker games. Points are rewarded to players when they bet on games that the site has … Read the rest

888Poker Records Rise in Revenue and Customers

The online gambling website 888 Poker recorded a significant rise in its revenues, according to 2011 end of year results. In the highly unstable British economy, such an impressive financial result is encouraging for the gambling industry.

The British gambling firm experienced 26.33% rise in its revenues. A large number of new customers joined the site last year. This resulted in a significant growth in the second quarter. A key reason behind the growth recorded by 888 Holdings is the … Read the rest

Freerolls from PokerStars and PokerNews

PokerStars is one of the most popular online poker sites today and is known for the exciting poker games it offers to its customers. The poker room has got into a collaboration with PokerNews, a popular poker news site to launch an exciting freeroll promotion and giving away $67,500 to the participants. The PokerStars PokerNews Freeroll Series will be held every week starting from the 8th of February. The Promotion will last until the 25 of April and will be … Read the rest

Phil Ivey Not in GPI Top 300

Phil Ivey has been out of the Global Poker Index (GPI) TOP 300 for about 4 months. This time, it was expected that the player will make his way to the top 300 list. However, Ivey missed it this time as well. This is primarily because his success in a Super High Roller event with a buy-in worth AUD$250,000 was not counted by GPI. The event didn’t have the qualifying player field of 21. Hence, GPI didn’t consider the Super … Read the rest

French Rapper wins Euro Finals of Poker

A well known French rapper, Bruno Lopes won the Diamond Championship at the Euro Finals of Poker (EFOP). The player walked away with the winning prize of €100,000. Lopes is a gifted break dancer and a graffiti artist too. He can now add poker to his skills list. Lopes played marvelously at the EFOP Diamond Championship where he outlasted a field of 109. The prize pool created for the event was €517,750.

Lopes refuses to be called as a Poker … Read the rest

Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands

This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.

Caesars Extends 888 Partnership

888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest

Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest

Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.

Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest

Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker

PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.

Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest

Joe Hachem to Continue Playing in Major Poker Tournaments

Joe Hachem has announced that he will continue participating in major poker tournaments. This dispels the belief many held that he will limit his tournament activity and focus on developing the Asian Poker Tour and AsianLogic Group, now that he is on board as their new ambassador.

Hachem, who briefly held the record for the all-time biggest tournament prize when he won $7.5 million at the 2005 World Series of Poker, has said that most of the tournaments he’ll participate … Read the rest

Abraham Araya Wins WSOPC Choctaw Main Event

Abraham Araya emerged the winner of the WSOPC Choctaw Main Event. After playing at the tables on all three days of the event, Araya took home close to $270,400. He also won a seat to play for the National Championship. On Day 3, the field opened with 30 players. This is the first time this season so many players have been a part of the third day of the event. The number was reduced to just eighteen at the end … Read the rest

Day 3 of Aussie Millions to Start with Tim O’Shea Leading Ten Players

Aussie Millions Main Event Day 1C had a field of 317 players. The starting flight was bigger than that of Day 1A and 1B. By the end of Day 1C, two players emerged at the top in terms of chip count. They were Robin Ylitalo and Robert Lam with 192,600 and 198,400 chips each.

Lam Loses Place on Leaderboard

Day 2 of the event saw Lam lose his place at the top on the leaderboard. Over the course of the … Read the rest

Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge Winner – Dan Smith

Melbourne hosted some of the top professionals from the field of poker, who are participating in the Aussie Millions Poker Championship 2012. One of the events that recently took place in the tournament was the $100,000 Challenge. Dan Smith took home the Championship title this year. Some of the other professionals who entered the event were Jason Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Tony G, Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen. Barry Greenstein and Patrik Antonius were among the few players who … Read the rest

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