Today PokerStars announced that Natalie, who is the sister of well-known pro poker player Mark Teltscher, has withdrawn her claim in the Isle of Mans Courts against PokerStars over the WCOOP main event scandal.
Natalie, who owned the account TheV0id, was rumored to have let someone else play her account for the entirety of the WCOOP main event and because that breached tournament rules PokerStars opted to disqualify her and let the remaining top finishers move up one place in the...
A player who has only been playing poker since December took down the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour in Punta del Este, Uruguay, this weekend, winning $241,735. Jose Miguel Espinar, from Valencia, Spain, had to beat poker veteran Alex Brenes heads up to claim the title. A total of 351......
Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) Event No. 10 With three FTOPS events in full swing at Full Tilt, the normal $750,000 Guarantee tournament took a short hiatus to make room for three championship events, the biggest of which was event No. 10, a $300 buy-in affair hosted by man in red Erik......
On Friday Andrew Smith, a popular blogger for the Dallas News, published an article title "Will computer programs destroy online poker? Probably."
The article referred to a recent competition where Polaris, a poker bot made by the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group, beat several Stoxpoker.com pros in a series of heads-up matches.
This was in stark contrast to the competition a year ago where Phil Laak beat a poker bot after a heads-up competition that lasted...