Andrew Burnett

John Eames added the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Luton Main Event title to his already impressive resume when he outlasted a field of 239 entries to take home the £68,350 first prize.

Phil Ivey’s disappearance from the tournament circuit this past year or so has been as much of a mystery as Tom Dwan’s similar situation a couple of years ago

The weekend saw a big cash in CashVille for Russian Kamil Isabekov when he took down the The PartyPoker EAPT Kazakhstan Main Event fending off a strong field dominated by his Eurasian counterparts.

It has already been hailed as the death-knell of chess, go and yes, even poker, but the rise in AI - Artificial Intelligence - still has a long way to go before it solves the games we love completely.

Mike ‘the Mouth’ Matusow was once again at the centre of controversy when he shared his thoughts on the Harvey Weinstein alleged rape and sexual abuse scandal.

A bomb threat was made against the Hollywood Casino at the Penn National Race Course by an elderly woman ‘concerned about North Korea'.

The launch of PokerStars’ brand new game Power Up proved to be a short-lived affair this week as the gremlins got into the system – forcing the company to remove the game from their lobby.

Scott Tom, co-founder and former president of Absolute Poker, has been released from jail in the US after serving just 7 days and has flown home to Antigua.

England’s John Hesp cashed again last week – his first since hitting the headlines with his amazing run, outlandish attire and down-to-earth behaviour.

Justin Boggs emerged as the WSOP Circuit champion in Horseshoe Southern Indiana on Monday, taking home almost six times his previous career tournament earnings in one fell swoop.

Matt Affleck bagged the 7th six-figure score of his poker career this week by taking down the Wynn Fall Classic Championship Event for a $139,348 payday in Las Vegas.

Dan Bilzerian and Dakota Meyer are still squabbling away – the son-in-law of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin challenging the Instagram king to a fistfight to settle their differences.

The new PokerStars game which mixes elements of poker and card-games like Hearthstone is being rolled out in a real-money version this week after several months of play-money testing.

Czech poker pro Vladimir Burstein more than doubled his lifetime tournament earnings at the weekend when he scooped the Party Poker LIVE GrandPrix Main Event for $47,520 in the Austrian capital of Vienna.