Poker News and Poker Gossip

Canada is home to some of the World’s best poker players. Daniel “kidpoker” Negreanu, Michael “Timex” Macdonald, Ryan “GotSkillz” Fisler, Glen “Choron” Chorny, Mike “SirWatts” Watson, Sorrel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Maxime “beepbeepimajeep” Villemure, the list goes on and on! Unlike the United States, Canadians have access to most of the best online poker sites.

The Canadian players are really performing incredibly at all of the international poker events and bringing home many of the biggest titles in poker to Canada.

Most of these players got their start playing poker online, winning lots of money in the process. They all play at the best online poker sites because these are the sites that hold the biggest and have the most action. We play alot of poker so we know how to find the best sites and have compiled some good lists of the best sites for Canadians to play poker.

Top 5 Canadian Poker Sites

1) Pokerstars
2) Full Tilt Poker
3) Party Poker
4) Betfair Poker
5) Chan Poker

Here are a few other choices for Canadian Poker Players when picking a room:

Top 5 Poker Sites - These are the current list of the best all around poker sites in the World. This is based on traffic levels, bonuses, tournaments, promotions, support, security and a few more factors.

Easiest Poker Sites - Looking for a site with a lot of loose and novice players? These are some of our favorite sites to go make some easy money (but this isn’t always good because you will probably see more bad beats).

Best New Poker Sites - Looking for the sites with the cool new features? These are the latest sites to enter the online market ranked in order of which ones we expect to be big names in the near future.

Good luck!

Want to go to the 2008 WSOP* (World Series of Poker) for FREE?  Well, now you can!  Bodog Poker has just announced that they will be running a series of WSOP freerolls for their players where they can win a 2008 WSOP package without spending a dime!

From May 1st to May 31st 2008, Bodog Poker will run (4) 2008 “WSOP* Seat Giveaway Qualifiers” each and every day at 3:00am, 9:00am, 3:00pm and 9:00pm ET. Registration will be open 2 hours prior to the start of each tournament and will be limited to 5,000 players per tournament.  The top 25 finishers will receive an email in early June inviting them to participate in the finale that will be hosted on June 7th (more details regarding the finale below).

Here is the structure for each of these tournaments:

WSOP* Seat Giveaway Qualifier
Date:  4 times a day, every day from May 1st to May 31st
Time: 9am ET, 3pm ET, 9pm ET, 3am ET
Players:  5000 max per tournament
Buy-In:  5 Bodog Poker Points
Prizes:
1st- T$29 in order to buy into a Main Event Quarterfinal
1st – 25th- Top 25 players in each WSOP* Seat Giveaway Qualifier will be invited to play in this “WSOP* Seat Giveaway Finale”
26th – 50th- T$1.50 in order to buy into a Main Event Cheap Seat
Levels:  10 minutes
Starting Chips:  1,000
Structure:  Standard Bodog Poker MTT Structure

To start qualifying for the 2008 WSOP for FREE visit Bodog Poker today and as an additional bonus, get a 110% bonus up to $500 on your first deposit!

* World Series of Poker and WSOP are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (”Harrah’s”). Harrah’s does not sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with Bodog or its products, services, promotions or tournaments.

Yesterday Pokerstars.com held their monthly $500 buy-in version of the Sunday Millions Tournament which brought about a prize pool of $1,559,500.

As in many weeks, the players agreed to chop the final prize five ways and play it out for the remaining $30,000. When it was all said and done, KipsterDK was the winner and made an amazing $149,861 for a few hours work.

The final results were:
1. KipsterDK — $149,861*
2. Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin — $133,397*
3. tshooter1970 — $143,314*
4. futilewar — $108,479*
5. pearljam1012 — $112,297*
6. iamhiv — $45,226
7. caicu — $32,750
8. jmmeijer — $20,585
9. DCal Zone — $12,164
* Values after the chop

Congratulations to KipsterDK on the nice win!

The Sunday Millions Tournament runs every week on Sunday at 16:30 on Pokerstars.com with a GUARANTEED prize pool of $1 Million Dollars. You can qualify using player points, through low dollar buy-in satellites or buy-in directly for $200 (except for the month end game). To learn more visit Pokerstars.com

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) may never get the presidency nomination he vied for this year, but that’s not going to stop him from working on behalf of his country’s citizens. As a dedicated representative, he will continue to introduce legislation he deems beneficial to all concerned parties until his term in office ends. Proof of this was seen earlier this month when on April 10 he and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass) presented Congress with a bill on behalf of us, the poker players of America.

The legislation, H.R.5767, is meant to lessen the limitations currently imposed on online gamblers by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The Act has prevented many from playing in their favored game rooms, as it severely restricts the types and amounts of transactions that can be made. It lumps poker and similar games in with varying forms of illegal gambling, in an unfair generalization of online activity.

H.R. 5767 would stop the government’s activity in regard to these regulations. It would ensure that the U.S. Department of Treasury and Federal Reserve System did not create new or implement any further regulations. It would essentially block the UIGEA, allowing for a much-needed reprieve in the poker world.

Unfortunately, H.R. 5767 is still in the initial stages of legislation. While the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative has announced its support, the bill still only has Paul and Frank as co-sponsors. To get through Congress and eventually be enacted it will require many more supporters. However, that should not be a problem. There is already a considerable amount of outside support from gambling and financial institutions. Many other representatives feel strongly about the UIGEA having introduced their own bills that would lessen the restrictions on poker players. So it should just be a matter of time until the acts against online poker become acts for it.

Stay informed and keep up to date on all the action, and take action to move these bills forward.

Looking for the easiest poker sites? After a long search and a few revisions, we have finally put together a list of what we think are the Top 5 easiest poker sites to win money. Here is our updated list of poker sites with the most fish. Topping the list was PKR Poker due to the fancy graphics that seem to attract really bad players

After the success of last year’s European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP), VC Poker has brought the event back for a second showing, making it bigger and better than last year. This year, they are offering over $3.6 million in cash prizes, which will be spread over 10 separate tournaments. The 10-day online event starts on May 23^rd, with the $1.5 million main event taking place on June 1^st.

Qualifiers have already started and are running several times a day at VC Poker’s website. With buy ins starting as low as $2.20, players of every bankroll and caliber can take their chances to become a part of this world-class event. Winning a seat in any of the tournaments 10 events will earn you a place at the virtual felt with online poker’s elite. Of course, you cannot forget the prestige of winning an ECOOP bracelet and the bragging rights that go along with it.

Capping off the monumental event is a 100 player MVP freeroll, being played on Wednesday, June 4^th. To take part in this $50,000 prize pool tournament event, players must accumulate MVP points within the regular tournament events. Those with the top 100 points totals after the Main Event on Sunday, June 1^st, will be invited to take part in the freeroll, giving them an additional chance to win, based on their amazing performance in the ECOOP.