Not everyone has the time to stay on top of all of the news that breaks daily in the poker world, but that doesn’t mean you have to be out …

Leave it to PokerStars to come up with another “COOP” tournament.  The world’s largest online poker room and king of the online poker tournament series has announced its newest offering, the Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) .  Filled exclusively with turbo and hyper turbo tournaments, TCOOP will kick off January 19, 2012 with the first of 50 events, culminating with the $700 NL Hold’em Main Event on January 29. Like all of PokerStars’ “COOP” tournament series, a wide variety of game and tournament types will be represented, from Hold’em and Omaha to Stud and mixed events, re-buy tournaments, knockout tournaments, six-max, heads-up, and more.  There are even a few low buy-in events, costing just $5.50 or $11 to enter, so there should be something for everyone.  Across all 50 tournaments, $10 million in prize money will be guaranteed, with $1.5 million guaranteed for the Main Event

Tri Nguyen, author of ‘How I Made My First Million from Poker,’ joins the podcast to talk about the book, coaching, and not letting your opponent see a free showdowns.

Local player Edoardo Alescio experienced an unbelievable journey on his way to winning the World Poker Tour Venice €3,300 re-entry main event at the Casino Di Venezia Ca’ Noghera. Alescio …

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Welcome to Part 2 of PokerNews’ Breakout Players of 2011. In Part 1 , Pius Heinz , Ben Lamb and Sam Trickett were among the players highlighted

When most people think about their first live tournament cash, they have fond memories of a low buy-in tournament, probably at their local casino, when they were able to just eek out a profit.  It’s an exciting time, even if the cash is so tiny that the cost of food and drink that night makes the player a net loser.  Now imagine how Edoardo Alescio must feel.  He scored his first ever live tournament cash this weekend, not in some $60 shove fest, but in the €3,000 World Poker Tour ( WPT ) Venice Main Event .  By World Poker Tour standards, it was rather small with just 213 players registering, but it’s still the World Poker Tour and Alescio is now €175,000 richer. Edoardo Alescio entered the six-handed final table in second place with 1,714,000 chips.  There was a clear divide between the “haves” and “have nots” at the table, with three players over a million chips ( Michele Caroli led the way with over 2 million) and three players at half a million or under.  Here were the chip counts to start the day: Michele Caroli – 2,097,000 Edoardo Alescio – 1,714,000 Andrea Benelli – 1,143,000 Steve O’Dwyer – 501,000 Alex Dovzhenko – 480,000 Andrea Dato – 461,000 Alescio started quickly, winning the first pot and taking a one million chip lead in less than an hour.  It was American Steve O’Dwyer who took the first pelt, though, eliminating Alex Dovzhenko in a race: O’Dwyer’s A-K outflopped Dovzhenko’s 9-9.  Dovzhenko was out in 6th place, while O’Dwyer was right back in the match with a million chips

The Phil Ivey divorce situation is getting downright nasty. We’ve already seen a petition with the Supreme Court, lawsuits against Ivey and two lawyers, a seven-figure purse collection and a multimillion dollar gambling debt exposed.

Lock Poker is giving its players a reason to play a high volume of hands — you can earn a bonus up to $1,000 for hitting a royal flush. The …

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Monday that details of the 2009 divorce settlement between Phil Ivey and his ex-wife Luciaetta Ivey are being debated in court.

2010 World Series of Poker Champion Jonathan Duhamel was the victim of a home invasion Wednesday morning in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada, according to CyberPresse.ca . Although police did not identify Duhamel as the victim, CyberPresse reports that Duhamel’s agent confirmed the news

The third Epic Poker League Main Event came a conclusion on Sunday at Palms Casino Resort, with Chris Klodnicki emerging as the last man standing after five days of play. Klodnicki …

According to a report by the Associated Press, Brent Beckley , co-founder of the online poker room Absolute Poker , pleaded guilty Tuesday to the criminal charge of Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud.  The charge was one of nine listed in the indictment of a total of eleven principals and financial intermediaries of Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker , and PokerStars , which was unsealed in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York on April 15th, known in the poker community as Black Friday . Appearing before Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis in the U.S.

‘Tis the season for giving and in honor of the ongoing holidays, we’re taking a look at the top ten televised poker gifts. 10

Download Carbon Poker now and start playing in the $15,000 Carbon Poker League ! There are only a couple of weeks left in the $15,000 Carbon Poker League and you should hit the tables so you don’t miss out on the huge value that’s up for grabs. Last week, “pbokss” took down the points and cash in Friday’s league event.

Absolute Poker co-owner Brent Beckley has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges filed as part of April’s Black Friday, Reuters reported Tuesday. Beckley has admitted to conspiracy to commit …

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The latest edition of Card Player Magazine is now available online and features this year’s action at the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event won by American Elio Fox.

PartyPoker is going to come out of the gates swinging in the year 2012.  Starting at the stroke of midnight (ET) on New Year’s Day and running through the month of January, the top-three online poker room will make all of its multi-table tournaments rake free . We would say that this is unprecedented, but we said that in July when PartyPoker ran a similar promotion during the summer.  The poker room did not offer up many details this time, simply saying, “…100% of your money will go straight into the prize pool, with no fees to pay across the whole multi-table tournament schedule.