In an attempt to make their games friendlier for recreational players, Bodog released an update today with significant and controversial changes to their poker client: Read More…

The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event drew 6,865 players, and at the end of an event that began back in July, a winner has been crowned. Pius “MastaP89” Heinz entered the final table as one of the shorter stacks, but it took only a few hands to gather enough chips to propel Heinz into the chip lead, a position that he maintained for the majority of the final table. The 22 year old Heinz defeated Martin “filfedra” Staszko to earn his first ever WSOP Bracelet, and $8,715,638 in a grueling heads up battle. Read More…

More than $3 million in prize money was handed out during the PartyPoker Pokerfest, and after 47 events there were countless winners. The biggest prize went to koppiesop, who took the top prize in the $1 million Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em Main Event, taking home $165k in the process. But there were several big winners in the tournament series, including prize winners in three different leaderboards. Read More…