By Jon Harnish
In a very recent announcement, PartyPoker has announced it will sponsor the new “Montreal PartyPoker Classic” charity poker tournament in the ballrooms of Le Windsor from March 25th to 28th, 2012. The $275 (with re-buy and options) event will be held to help raise money for the Jodi Lazarus Fund for Hereditary Breast Cancer. [more]

New York Federal Judge Dismisses RICO Class Action Suit Against Full Tilt Poker

The Ifrah Law firm today announced they have won a favorable ruling on behalf of Full Tilt companies and the individual poker professionals who were named as defendants in the first class action suit brought by former U.S. players in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York last summer. [more]

U.S. prosecutors seized 16 websites that streamed live sports events on Friday, just two days prior to Sunday’s Super Bowl. A Michigan man was charged with running nine of those websites.

Yonjo Quiroa (AKA Ronaldo Solano), 28, faces one count of criminal infringement of a copyright and will likely not serve any prison time. [more]

From the folks who brought you the uber popular Punta Cana Poker Tour (which heads into its third year this coming November), comes the Latin Series of Poker 2012.

Online tournament qualifiers were set to begin at Americas Cardroom on February 3, 2012. [more]

The 43rd Annual World Series of Poker® Schedule Unveiled with Three More Bracelet Events and Nearly 100 Tables Added to Tournament Footprint

61 total WSOP gold bracelets up for grabs, including

the Main Event which begins on July 7 [more]