There’s a new poker face in town folks, and its a pretty face indeed. Its the new Bovada Poker site, complete with a nice 100% match bonus up to $1000 for their new players. Launched by the renowned Bodog brand of online gambling, Bovada is similar in many ways to the Bodog Poker room. There are design and game format similarities, however Bovada offers a fresh new take on your online poker action with some great new software features, brand new tournament formats, and juicy promotions. The Poker Grind is giving this new poker site a big thumbs up, and we’d like to point out that all of Bodog’s expertise and experience shine through on their new USA poker room.  Read more »

Phil Laak, also referred to as the Prince of Poker and the Una-bomber (due to his sunglasses and hoodie apparel worn during play), has not only broken the world record for the most hours played in a single sitting of poker. The previous record was 72 hours, hence Laak set a goal of playing 80 hours to break the record and set his own. Well as it turned out, Laak far surpassed the existing record, and his own goals with an amazing 115 hours played!!!

Read more »

Full Tilt Poker is considered an industry leader for many reasons, and they just gave us one more reason to love them. Now accepting the popular UseMyWallet deposit method option, Full Tilt Poker just jot a little more ‘wallet friendly’, and also grabbed the attention of even more of the online poker community. UseMyWallet is a phenomenal e-wallet deposit option that is convenient, flexible, and USA friendly. While this is certainly big news, we haven’t even gotten to the best part yet…..

Read more »

One of the elite PokerStars Team Pro’s the guy that puts the Daniel in ‘Daniel’s Room’ is none other than the renowned Daniel Negreanu. Considered by many to have the greatest live tournament results record of all time, Daniel is highly regarded as one of the most significant poker authorities, and is easily one of the most popular poker pro’s in the industry. Now that he’s part of the PokerStars Pro Team, he’s designed and endorsed this brand new area of PokerStars and has appropriately name it, Daniel’s Room.

Read more »

The Poker World Record that Laak is going after is the Guiness World Record for Poker Endurance, or in other words, the most consecutive hours played in a single sitting, a record which was set last year by Paul Zimbler when he played 78 strait hours of poker!!  Anyone that has tried to do any activity for that many hours consecutively knows that your ability to concentrate and think analytically suffers, hence making it even more impressive for someone to do an activity such as play poker, which requires critical thinking, for so many hours in a row. Lets face it, Zimbler is a beast, and if Laak is able to beat that record, he’s one special poker grinder bad ass!

Read more »