Poker News

The St. Helena Wine Center will host a poker night from 6-10 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 27 at their store, 1321 Main St. The event includes drinks, food, one cigar and plenty of poker. Cost is $40 per person in advance and $50 at the door. Attendees must be …

On Tuesday, the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open continued as the remaining 606 players from a 1,226-entry field returned to compete for a share of a $3,924,426 prize pool. After eight levels of play, the man best positioned to make a run at the …

The social poker app Poker Friends has just crossed the 500,000-downloads line, as was announced today by creators of the game, mobile gaming startup Big Blue Parrot. The free-to-play app, which was released in early 2013 for Android and iOS, allows …

A poker run has been scheduled for Saturday to benefit Sharon Budd, a Perry Local Schools teacher who was seriously injured when she was struck in the face by a rock thrown from an interstate overpass. Sign-up will be from 10 a.m. to noon, with the …

On a day in which New Jersey players were primed to compete for nearly $400,000 in guaranteed prize money, Party / Borgata dished out the worst bad beat in US regulated poker history. During the early levels of the Garden State Super Series' three main …

iPhone6 is the most buzzed-about mobile device to hit the market in a while and now HighStakesDatabase is teaming up with William Hill Poker for a chance to win one. Both companies are not missing out on the opportunity to involve poker with the …

A leading Bitcoin online sports book will this week launch a poker client that will use the digital currency. Nitrogen Sports, which is based in Costa Rica, is joining the likes of Seals with Clubs, Silk Poker, Betcoin Poker, Switch Poker, WinPoker …

I think that quality applies well to poker also. I always wonder why some people muck their cards when they are caught bluffing. First of all, you never know when you might have the best hand or your opponent might have misread their hand. The equity …

The World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open continued Monday as 826 entrants turned up for Day 1b, which brought the total field up to 1,226 entrants – the fourth largest WPT in history. A prize pool of $3,924,426 will be distributed to the top 120 players …

The man named "Mr. Devil" has signed a sponsorship deal with online poker room partypoker, which currently operates legal online poker in the State of New Jersey, which will see Daneyko represent the company in various poker tournaments both live and …

Mansion Poker Abandons UK iGaming Market Ahead of the UK's new online gambling legislation due to be implemented on October 1st, Mansion Poker has become the first main operator to withdraw from the country's online gambling market. Up until now …

Police are searching for a man who allegedly attacked another man with a fireplace poker in northeast Colorado Springs on Monday night. Officers responded to a disturbance in the 6100 block Gunshot Pass Drive, west of Powers Boulevard, just after 6 p.m..

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from September …

Bernard Lee Before the 2013 World Series of Poker, I wrote a column in Card Player about common betting mistakes that I see many amateurs make at the poker tables. These errors included oversized chip betting, accidental raises, string betting, unknown …

Not by a straw poll. Not by a man named Mr. Straw. An actual straw. But the 177-177 special election runoff tie between alderman candidates David Glenn Bolin and Stephanie Bounds could have been even crazier. It almost was, because of a brand-new law …

The World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open kicked off on Sunday as 400 entrants turned up for Day 1a action. After eight levels of play, just 172 advanced to Day 2 with Ben Bianco and his stack of 389,000 leading the way. Also sitting with healthy stacks …

The US has been slow to regulate online poker since the Department of Justice effectively closed down the market in 2011 when it indicted executives of the three largest online poker sites in the world. In the three and half years plus since “Black …

Daniel Negreanu may be on the nominee short list himself this year, but when the latest Poker Hall of Fame finalists were unveiled this week, it caused an unexpected uproar from “Kid Poker” and certain members of the poker pro community. As word of the …