Two players on recent hot streaks are among the chip leaders after Day 1A of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament. A total of 17 bounties took to the field on Day 1A, with 25 more expected today.

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…

On Monday, Poker News Daily learned that the Eighth District Court in Nevada dismissed a lawsuit filed by Brandon McSmith, who claimed ownership of the idea for the NBC poker game show “Face the Ace.”

Large pots were few and far between on Sunday night’s episode of the GSN series “High Stakes Poker.” Instead, a vegetarian prop bet between Full Tilt Poker pros Phil Ivey and Tom “durrrr” Dwan took center stage.

One time boyband singer and now budding racing driver Shane Lynch is the latest celebrity to take to the poker tables.

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…

Mainstream media coverage of the Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act introduced in the Senate two weeks ago often didn’t even mention the bill’s clause to license and regulate Internet poker.

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That’s the Isildur1 we know and love! In a massive session at Full Tilt Poker, Isildur1 managed to win seven figure before losing the majority of it. He took on Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies at $300/$600 and $500/$1,000 PLO, winning over $1,000,000 before losing $550,000 to Brian Hastings in PLO and a further $300,000 to Cole South and Justin Bonomo at NLHE.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan scored yet another win in the Durrrr Challenge versus Patrik Antonius, who must be strongly considering buying out by now. The young American earned a $342,157 victory in their last 364-hand session which takes his overall lead to $1,755,708 with almost 70% of the hands played.