J.D. Salinger died on Wednesday at age 91.

PokerStars.com is bringing back its annual World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP), a seven-day event running from January 25-30, 2010 and giving poker playing bloggers the chance to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes. The series are open for all verified bloggers and will feature six preliminary tournaments awarding seats to the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), plus SCOOP Steps satellite tickets. In addition, Poker Stars will award spot prizes for the best live blogs and Twitter posts.

WDIAV is glad to announce the winner of our first $1500 freeroll of the year held on January1st and hosted by Full Tilt Poker . A total of 2868 players including forum members, WDIAV rakeback players, and noted book author, Steve Bourie, known for his “ American Casino Guide ” series, gathered on Full Tilt to play WDIAV’s New Year’s Day Tournament, which featured a grand prize consisting of a 2010 WSOP $1,500 ticket for the event of their choice. WDIAV $1500 New Years Day Freeroll went off without a hitch, lasting one almost 6 hours and 32 levels to crown the winner

Hard-Boiled Poker 2009 Year in Review (3 of 3)

We are almost there. The last day of the year.

Hard-Boiled Poker 2009 Year in Review (2 of 3)

Continuing what we started yesterday … It was another summer in Las Vegas for yr humble gumshoe helping cover the world’s biggest annual poker circus, and so these middle months are largely taken up with the before, during, and after of the WSOP. May The rumble at the start of May was that new legislation was a-comin’ that might affect Americans and their online poker, and anticipating that I wrote a post called “The States of Online Poker ” that speculated some about that possibility. Then Rep.