Bodog Poker, one of the industry leaders in recent years in the sportsbook and casino sector, has really been making strong efforts to bulk up their software in another important part of their operation: the poker room.

The site has been making great strides in the playability and graphics department, completely overhauling their poker software recently to really match up with the big boys in the online poker world. With its current setup, Bodog makes it super easy to multi-table, and has endless customizations in regards to how your table looks and setting up different avatars and buddy notes.

In addition to that, they just added a new Mac-friendly software client to their already-packed arsenal of poker goodies. Right now, new and existing players can go directly to the Bodog Life website and click on the “Instant Play” feature that allows all Mac users to play right through their browser and not ever needing to download the regular software. This makes finding and opening up tables easy as ever and so far there haven’t been many complaints whatsoever as far as lag or dull graphics go.

Players Network, a leader in the industry of “gaming lifestyle,” has announced their partnership with the National League of Poker (NLOP) to invent a new online poker site under the Players Network brand.

Our partner site over at Poker Strategy Forums will be holding FOUR special tournaments all this weekend at none other than the biggest and most popular site in the world - POKERSTARS! These private tournaments will not just be a fun time for new and existing players to get together and play some cards, but each of them will have $100 added to EACH of the prizepools.

My good buddy over at our partner site at Poker Strategy Forums has released an EXCLUSIVE video of Russ Hamilton talking about the scandal surrounding him and his involvement with the AP/UB cheating that went down early last year and spilled over into the latter part of 2008.

The Guru recently came across a pretty cool online poker portal that really appreciated all aspects related to poker - this portal was none other than PokerSense.com. Noobs and veteran gamblers alike will find the layout and navigation of PokerSense very attractive and simple to get around. You can see at first glance why this site’s offerings are informative and beyond generous in regards to its content.

In some surprising news, Duplicate Poker has officially announced the closing of its doors as of this week. The site, which was the first of its kind in terms of a true poker skill game, saw rising growth before its sudden shutdown.

ZOMG! This year’s 2008 PokerStars WCOOP will have $30,000,000 in Guaranteed Prizes! Events begin September 5th.

PokerNewsGuru will be quietly opening its doors this week, so please stick around and enjoy our news reports and opinion articles…