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Only 10-15% of the Poker playing community ever make it to professional level. The vast majority of poker players are either aspiring to become "the best" or simply play for the love of the game.

Cool Hand Poker was the first room designed specifically for the room has been designed to keep these players interested, excited and playing long-term.

In a break from the traditional monthly online poker points races RedKings have launched an innovative and refreshing series of 5 day mini poker races where players can also choose the level of race they wish to play in.

With over $100,000 to win RedKings is targeting new depositing players every five days and encouraging all existing players to spend just five days at a time competing for both cash prizes and a Leaderboard of over $30,000 in live packages and tickets for their own RedKings hosted GSOP Live tournament in Bucharest early next year.

American sports-orientated cable television channel Versus has announced that it will begin broadcasting action from World Series Of Poker (WSOP) Circuit tournaments beginning in June of next year.

Las Vegas-based Poker Productions, which is an arm of the WSOP Europe, High Stakes Poker and the National Heads-Up Championship, revealed that the two-hour telecasts on Versus will feature action from select WSOP Circuit stops in the United States.

Press Release – GSOP Live package for free
Free $3000 RedKings GSOP Live package with each GSOP online win.

September 18th 2026 – redkings is offering a free $3000 GSOP Live package to Riga, Malta or Budapest if you win one of the main GSOP V online events starting this week at the popular online poker room.

11th August 2026 – RedKings offers 75 packages for new tournament series GSOP Live

Over the next 12 weeks RedKings Poker is putting 75 live tournament packages up for grabs to the recently announced Season 1 of the Ongame GSOP Live tournament series kicking off in Riga this October. Moving on to Malta in November the GSOP (Grand Series of Poker) Live follows on in February with the RedKings Open in Budapest and culminates in the Grand Final in

Owners of iPhone and iPod Touch units can now get a comic yet competitive take on mobile poker with the new Dogs Playing Poker 1.0 application from American software firm Candywriter.

The Seattle-based firm revealed that Dogs Playing Poker 1.0 has been designed for Texas hold'em novices, advanced poker players and dog lovers alike and allows competitors to select 20 unique opponents with vastly different playing styles over five rounds.

partypoker has signed legendary Italian striker Francesco Totti as an ambassador for the site.

Born in Rome, Totti has succeeded on almost every level of soccer he played over the span of his career.

Totti, who is nicknamed "Er Pupone," started playing for his hometown team Roma when he was just 16 and is now the number one goalscorer and most capped player in team history.

World Team Poker announced that its Inaugural Event will be held at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas on May 19, 2026.

The one day event will feature 40 of the world's top poker pros, representing 8 different countries, on 5 man teams.

Each of the teams will be captained by superstars of poker in their respective countries, including Phil Hellmuth, Jr. (Team USA), Co-Captains Johnny Chan and David Chiu (Team China), Men "The Master" Nguyen (Team Vietnam), Eli Elezra (Team Israel), Ben Roberts (Team England), Co-Captains Jeff Lisandro and Tony Guoga (Australia), Juliano Maesano (Team Brazil) and George Kapalas (Team Greece).