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World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Day 2: Hellmuth Commands the Lead
The World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star resmued on Wednesday with 126 players having made it throught to Day 2. After six levels of play, we are in the money and only 27 players remain. Emerging to the top of the chip counts was none other than...

The PokerNews Top 10: The Top 10 Online Poker Innovations, Part 1
Think back to the first time you played online poker. Were you on the Moneymaker bandwagon in late 2003? Or riding the WPT wave in 2004? Maybe Joe Hachem inspired you to start playing in 2005 or “Isildur1’s” run convinced you to ante up three months

The Nightly Turbo: Maxim's Hottest Girls of Poker, PokerStars Ladies Club, and More
It seems like it's ladies night in the Nightly Turbo tonight. We're bringing you the hottest girls of poker as decided by Maxim magazine and a ladies club promotion brought to you by PokerStars. Ok, we won't single out the ladies, there's news...

The PokerNews Mailbag: Annie Duke's NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship and EPT Berlin
It's been a busy week in poker, with Annie Duke winning the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship this past weekend, and a major robbery taking place at the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin. Both topics were on the minds of our readers, and we...

World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Day 1b: Katchalov Shines the Brightest
On Tuesday morning, another 196 players bought into the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star, creating a field 332 players strong. Among the Day 1b starters were 25 namesake “Shooting Star” bounty players whose knockouts were worth $5,000...

$2,000 PokerNews Cash Freerolls at PokerStars
The PokerStars $2,000 cash freerolls are running through April. Just sign up for a PokerStars account through PokerNews and earn at least 150 VPPs in March to receive a ticket which can be used to register for the $2,000 freeroll of their...

The Nightly Turbo: PartyPoker Women's World Open IV, Ladbrokes Poker's Newest Team Member, and More
The PartyPoker Women's World Open IV has just confirmed a few players, the Ladbrokes Poker Team has just signed its newest member, and more, all in tonight's Nightly Turbo.

The Online Railbird Report: Wild Weekend for Dwan, Sahamies and Isildur1
Full Tilt Poker hosted some huge action this weekend, largely driven by the presence of everyone’s favorite online poker punching bag “Isildur1.” There were epic heads-up matches, swingy six-max games, and as many as eight tables of $300/$600...

World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Day 1a: The Sharks Smell Bounty Blood
The unique format of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star makes it stand out from the tournament crowd during this blossoming springtime poker season. Day 1a of the $10,000-buy-in event ran on Monday, and the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose...

The "durrrr" Challenge: Dwan Widens Lead to $1.75 Million
Patrik Antonius capped off a miserable day at the online tables with another losing session in the "durrrr" Challenge, his tenth in their last eleven meetings. Antonius and Tom "durrrr" Dwan met for only a bit over an hour and 364 hands, but the...