Amir Babakhani leads the final table of the 2013 WPT Canadian Spring Championship after eliminating Christian Harder on the bubble. @pokernews.com

Klann, who earlier in March won the WPT LA Poker Classic for over $1 million, piled up a massive stack of 1,793,000 on Day 2 to seize control of the leaderboard. @pokerlistings.com

As expected, Day 1B of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, drew a massive number of players for action as they try to put themselves in position to take down the last event on the Season XI WPT schedule prior to the WPT Championship later this month. @pokernewsdaily.com

PartyPoker will end its final Tournament Leaderboard promotion when the current weekly competition finishes on May 5. The only announcement of the promotion’s final days is at the bottom of the main leaderboard promotion page. @pokernews.com

PartyPoker is not winning many fans these days. The latest in a series of missteps: the cancellation of several tournaments in its Pokerfest III tournament series. @pokernewsdaily.com

Redrawing the boundaries: bwin.party pulls out of gray markets. New players from 18 countries in the EU and South America will be blocked from signing up to bwin. @pokernews.com

Kara Scott and Giovanni Rizzo are now engaged to be married after Rizzo proposed in Venice. @pokernews.com

Announced yesterday in the Zynga blog by Chief Revenue Officer Barry Cottle, both ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlusCasino are now available in both download and web versions to players over the age of 18 in the United Kingdom. @pokerlistings.com

It appears that this is the time to release the schedules for online poker tournament series. Already this week, PokerStars revealed a draft of its Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) schedule and now PartyPoker has announced the schedule for this spring’s Pokerfest III. @pokernewsdaily.com

PartyPoker has released the schedule for its third annual Pokerfest tournament series, running four events each day from April 21 to May 5. Buy-ins start as low as $0. @pokernews.com

PartyPoker’s popular live invitation event, the PartyPoker Premier League VI, wrapped up this weekend after several days of opening heats. Holding the championship cup at the conclusion of the final table was Dan Shak, who also received $450,000 for his efforts. @pokernewsdaily.com

Dan Shak has taken down the PartyPoker.com Premier League VI tournament and $450,000 after outlasting Sam Trickett in the heads-up play. In addition to Trickett and Shak, the eight-handed final table featured Antonio Esfandiari, Jonathan Duhamel, Daniel "jungleman12" Cates, Tobias R.. @highstakesdb.com

On Friday, Daniel “Jungleman” Cates won his second heat of the PartyPoker Premier League VI. @pokernews.com

After 2 heats in both group A and group B of the Party Poker Premier League, 3 players have placed both first and second in the respective heats as Jonathan Duhamel took first place in group A, heat 1 and second in heat 2, while over in group B Tobias Reinkemeier and Dan Shak faced each other hea.. @highstakesdb.com

If there is one thing clear from last week’s 2012 financial report and subsequent interviews with bwin.party executives, the policy changes on PartyPoker in the last year—from cutting ties with PokerStrategy, to segregating players based on ability, to ending its top-tier VIP program—are all part of a long-term, network-wide strategy. @pokernews.com

Full Tilt Poker dropped to fourth place in cash game traffic behind PartyPoker and the iPoker Network. @pokernews.com

Tobias Reinkemeier won the first heat in Group B of the PartyPoker Premier League VI. @pokernews.com

Jonathan Duhamel won the first heat in Group A of the PartyPoker Premier League VI. @pokernews.com

A continued shuffling among traffic numbers of online poker sites shows iPoker closing the gap on PartyPoker, with Full Tilt slipping back to forth place. @pokernews.com

Three year stint and sponsored pro comes to an end. The ever-loquacious and self-aggrandizing Antanas “Tony G” Guoga has announced his departure from PartyPoker in order to take his talents to … himself. @pokernews.com

The final table for the European Poker Tour stop at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino (“The Vic”) was set on Friday, with Steve O’Dwyer fending off challenges to his place atop the ladder to lead the eight men left to the big money. @pokernewsdaily.com

Tony G has parted ways with PartyPoker and will be the first poker player to represent TonyBet.com. @pokernews.com

Event 10 – $2,100 No-Limit Hold’em A total of 161 entires were made in event no. 10 of the 2013 Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas, building a prize.. @cardplayer.com

Although specifics are still unknown, certain tables containing a threshold of "new" or "inexperienced" players are apparently hidden from other players. @pokernews.com

A look at the day's top poker stories including Jonathan Duhamel joining the PartyPoker Premier League VI lineup, a new World Series of Poker game for Facebook, and more. @pokernews.com

A look at the day's top poker stories including Tony G's massive heads-up match against a casino owner, two new stops on the World Poker Tour, and more. @pokernews.com

A look at the week's top poker news stories including the release of the 2013 World Series of Poker Schedule, the latest additions of the PartyPoker Premier League lineup, and more. @pokernews.com

A look at the day's top poker stories including the huge charitable donations made by the poker community, Tony G and Phil Laak joining the PartyPoker Premier League, and more. @pokernews.com

A look at the day's top poker stories including Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth joining the PartyPoker Premier League Lineup, the parent company of the Stratosphere launching an online poker site, and more. @pokernews.com

PartyPoker and Full Tilt neck and neck over the last week, according to the latest seven-day average cash game player numbers from PokerScout. Poker players might just have found PartyPoker’s recent $10k giveaway freeroll promotion more attractive then Full Tilt’s 1 UP MTTs. @pokernews.com

NLHE analysis using Combonator, taking live poker notes and the theories behind 3-betting and 4-betting are just some of the topics covered this week in the Poker Training Video Directory. @pokernews.com

A look at the day's top poker news stories including the return of the PartyPoker.com Big Game, the start of a few different poker series, and more. @pokernews.com

PartyPoker announced last week that it will soon make changes to its VIP program, appearing to flatten the VIP structure by eliminating the highest loyalty levels. @pokernewsdaily.com

Palladium Elite will be removed at the end of March, signalling an end of its 50%+ VIP tier. PartyPoker will remove its top VIP tier, Palladium Elite, and remove all bonuses that give more than 30% effective rakeback, the company announced on its website last week. @pokernews.com

Traffic spike over the last two weeks has put distance between it and the resurgent PartyPoker. Full Tilt’s traffic has rebounded strongly since the holiday period, the latest traffic data shows, establishing a 30% lead in cash game traffic against its nearest competitor, PartyPoker. @pokernews.com

The migration of bwin players from the Ongame network and various seasonal promotions figure in the battle for second place. Holiday promotions and player pool mergers have set the running order for 2013 in the battle for online poker market share. @pokernews.com

Hold'em cash and fast-fold games available on the phone and tablet app. PartyPoker announced the launch of a mobile app for Android devices Wednesday, a long-anticipated move to help spur the growth of the site. @pokernews.com

After a day's downtime, bwin.com poker re-emerges on the PartyPoker network. bwin.com successfully transitioned its player base onto the PartyGaming platform on Tuesday, meaning poker players on bwin now share the same player pool as PartyPoker. @pokernews.com

The €3,300 buy in PartyPoker World Poker Tour Prague main event saw 567 entries in the Czech capital over the weekend creating a total prize pool of just over €1. @cardplayer.com

Alexandru Masek won his 5th WSOPC gold ring.(Photo c/o WSOP) Tournament poker is in full swing across two continents. The World Poker Tour held two highlight events, the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio, Las Veagas and the PartyPoker World Poker Tour Main Event in Prague. @bluff.com

Marcin Wydrowski claimed the WPT Prague Title. (Photo c/o WPT) Just six players returned for the final table at the PartyPoker World Poker Tour Prague Main Event. @bluff.com

Bodo Sbrzesny leads the final six players. (Photo c/o WPT) Day Four of the PartyPoker World Poker Tour Prague Main Event began with 22 players returning, all with their eyes on the final table. @bluff.com

Marco Lang leads after Day 2 of the PartyPoker World Poker Tour Prague. @pokernews.com

Yannick Bonnet and Kevin MacPhee topped the counts after Day 1c of WPT Prague. @pokernews.com

The second starting flight of three wrapped up last night at the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event with 179 more players ponying up €3,300 to participate. @pokernewsdaily.com

Day 1a of the PartyPoker World Poker Tour Prague Main Event took place on Monday, and Pasi Heinanen claimed the early chip lead. @pokernews.com