Cereus Poker continues to excel just two months after a widely publicized security flaw the company quickly fixed.

This week, Cereus has pushed aside Ongame to become the 5th biggest online poker network globally.  The network is home to both UB.com and Absolute Poker, proud Gambling911.com sponsors.  Smart marketing and excellent branding visibility can be attributed to the company’s steady growth.

More importantly perhaps is that Cereus has a shot at cracking the top 3 by summer’s end.

PartyPoker, the world’s number three online poker room, has witnessed a decline from just over 5000 real cash players six months ago to around 3700 this past week.  It appeared to be in little danger of falling out of that spot for the next two months as the number 4 online poker network, iPoker, also continues to lag somewhat.

Cereus was only 800 real cash players behind the iPoker Network however. 

The company also announced plans on Monday to build on its German player base. &qu

(Read the full post about ‘Cereus Poker Makes Serious Inroads On PartyPoker, iPoker’…)

Notable exits were multiple bracelet-holders Phil Ivey and veteran Doyle Brunson, whose son Todd was also a casualty.

(Read the full post about ‘Ivey, Ferguson and Brunson busted out in WSOP Main Event day 2b’…)

Lindsay Lohan

Lohan now will have some time to get her thoughts together while serving the sentence, and another thing she may find herself doing is playing poker. (Read the full post about ‘Lindsay Lohan Jail Time May Lead To Strong Poker Gambling Skills’…)

Judging by the interest in the main event so far, the organisers expect another bumper registration field over the four Day 1 heats which started Monday with the Day 1a field already attracting 1,125 players.

Last year’s main event entries were lower than those in 2008, probably because of the depressed economic environment, but still reached 6,494 players, generating a $61,043,600 prize pool that enabled 648 entrants to cash.

(Read the full post about ‘WSOP registration numbers already up 20% on last year’…)

It took five hours to reach the final nine during Day 3 of the event, necessitating the final table nine going into a fourth day of action with Manuel Davidian, who had been in the lead as Day 3 started, ending it as the bubble boy on the final table.

When the fourth day action kicked off Wednesday afternoon Adam White was the chip leader on a table that comprised Allan Baekke, Shawn Busse, Owen Crowe, Ilya Andreev, Chuan Shi, Jason Mann, Pekka Ikonen and Wenlong Jin.

By late Wednesday night the affair had been decided when Owen Crowe was eliminated at level 29 in second place for $300,494 after a tense heads up against Busse, who collected the bracelet and $485,791) as the winner.

Crowe had held a 2 to 1 chip lead when the heads up started and he was to increase that even further, making Busse’s achievement all the more remarkable.

By late night Wednesday only 4 players remained in event 49 – the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em contest which had started out two days earlier with 2,543 hopefuls taking their seats.

Day 3 of the event started with 23 survivors led by Michael Linn but still plenty of opposition threats in the form of players like Mihai Manole and the UK’s Johnathan Spinks.

(Read the full post about ‘Shawn Busse wins after four tough days of WSOP event 47′…)

As was previously reported, this year, poker fans had a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on one of the more prestigious tournaments at this year’s World Series of Poker. Specifically, the tournament directors opened up fan voting to decide 20 of the participants in this year’s 27-person Tournament of Champions. The first 5 slots were reserved for past Tournament of Champion winners and the Main Event winners at the US WSOP and WSOPE, and there were also two sponsor exemptions. One of the exemptions went to the winner of an invitation only sit and go among the best poker pros to never win a WSOP bracelet.

(Read the full post about ‘Tournament of Champions Field Now Final at the WSOP 2010′…)

“It’s definitely worth the wait,” a delighted Mizrachi said.

(Read the full post about ‘Mike Mizrachi wins WSOP $50k player’s championship’…)

Australian gambling remains politically red hot. With the changes in town comes a new watchdog… yep, a man of a different breed who appears to be a shoot straight, and takes a balanced view of the industry. Media Man, Gambling911 and our pack of sniffer dogs pound the pavement and sniff out the story… Ruff

Meet Mr Ches Baragwanath, Australia’s new Gambling Watchdog.

(Read the full post about ‘Australia Gets New Gambling Watchdog in Town: Woof!’…)

Europe’s largest dedicated gaming television network, The Poker Channel, has announced its expansion into Africa and Latin America with deals in Argentina and South Africa.

In Argentina, a new agreement will see The Poker Channel serving as the only all-poker network broadcast in the country. It will offer six hours of daily programming including international tournaments, interviews with top players, training shows and coverage of major tournaments such as the World Series Of Poker to an estimated audience of one million subscribers.

For South Africa, the network will be telecast via digital satellite to nearly two million subscribers from June 7. (Read the full post about ‘The Poker Channel is expanding its borders – Online Casino News’…)

The folks from Two Plus Two posed an interesting question this weekend:  Who are the biggest losers in online poker?

Full Tilt Poker should be thrilled.  Most of the biggest losers play with them.

Sure they’re the number two biggest online poker room in the world, but PokerStars has only a single biggest loser among the top 20.

Matatuk, Beardos, Brian Townsend and Patrik Antonius all rank among the top 5 biggest losers in online poker.  Matutuk is down $1.5 million so far.

Other big name players in the world of online poker include Ziigmund, down over $500,000, and Josh Arieh, down more than $300,000.

These are the losing amounts during the past year.

(Read the full post about ‘Online Poker: Who Are The Biggest Losers?’…)