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At this point in the season, all teams are within striking range of first place. After all, this is a game of poker where a little thing called variance creates many ups and downs. So even though Sao Paulo faces a 16-point deficit, they aren't down and …

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida is kicking into top gear this week, with several massive tournaments awarding titles and massive payouts over the coming days. The first huge event to reach …

Poker is a game with a rich history that goes back centuries, but there are some gaping holes in the timeline. Nobody really knows who or where it was invented with complete accuracy. There's just a lot of guesswork that kind of makes timeline sense.

888poker, the world's second largest real-money online poker room, inked a two-year deal with Svenska Pokerförbunde, otherwise known as the Swedish Poker Federation, to host the online portion of the Swedish Poker Championships known as Poker-SM.

The state of Michigan has joined the likes of California, New York and Pennsylvania in considering regulating online poker sites operated by brick-and-mortar casino groups. The legislation, Senate Bill No. 889, was introduced Friday by State Senator …

CardPlayer.com is the world's oldest and most well respected poker magazine and online poker guide. Since 1988, CardPlayer has provided poker players with poker strategy, poker news, and poker results. Today, CardPlayer.com is the best poker …

Poker players love making prop bets. These bets are often simple bets that are used to spice up the game or to pass time. However, among top pros these bets can be a way to make some serious money. High stake prop bets often come with numerous …

Heads-up poker is an aggressive and slightly terrifying format of the game that throws all of the standard thinking processes out of the window. It's usually played in a unique environment such as a specific heads-up tournament format or the end of a …

PokerStars made news in the past few weeks when it launched online poker and casino games in New Jersey. And just after that launch, PokerStars announced that it was partnering with that state's chapter of Autism Speaks for the month of April and going …

The developers of AlphaGo certainly think so, as the lead researcher just posted a paper in which he claimed to have created a program capable of playing poker at the level that "approached the performance of human experts and state-of-the-art methods.

Partypoker Prepare For Powerfest, Pure Poker, and WPT Structures It's all change at Partypoker as they prepare to launch their 172-event Powerfest Online Poker Series; return to Pure Poker after the removal of re-entries, and bring online tournament …

The 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner said in a statement that “it is not in my nature to cheat, which is why I was so bitterly disappointed by the judge's decision [in 2014].” “This wording from the Court of Appeal, that the grounds of our …

The World Poker Tour has inked a licensing deal with India's biggest online poker site, Adda52.com, which will give the online poker room rights to distribute select seasons of the WPT TV show, as well as create its own WPT merchandise, and leverage …

For the first time in it's 14-season history the World Poker Tour will be ending it's season with a new event, the WPT Tournament of Champions. The tournament will feature the champion of every WPT main event from this season, who each won their $15 …

HAMPDEN, Maine — Playing poker for Ron Mansell is like going hunting. “You're out in the woods and you hear a rustling sound. Now, you might wind up shooting at a partridge or a big ol' bear and you might take one of them down but, you might not,” the …

“On the other hand with online poker, there are some issues there and we're not really prepared to introduce legislation that's going to go to the floor for a vote, so you're looking at a 100-to-one shot to hit the floor,” Pretlow said on a panel. He …

It's that time of year again, time for the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Western New York Poker Challenge (WNYPC). Running April 15-25, this year's series will feature nine different events with buy-ins ranging from $120 to $1,000. It will all kick off …

What one might not know is the biannual Westfield Lions Club Poker Tournament for Sight, occurring once in the spring and once in the fall, is the club's largest fundraiser and the largest Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament in the central part of the nation.