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Before he went into the oyster business, Sybe was a professional poker player. He played big tournaments and has fond memories of his gambling days. He also believes that his poker skills are useful in his new career. “I was first runner-up at the …

Old Trafford, the iconic home of Premier League giants Manchester United, is the venue for the fourth leg of the Grand Prix Poker Tour (GPPT) where a £60+£10 ($109) buy-in gives you the shot at a £250,000 guaranteed prize pool. Known as The Theatre of …

The Global Poker League is on its way to taking form, and the first team to be announced had a familiar name attached to it. The Las Vegas Moneymakers, headed up by none other than Chris Moneymaker, is the teaser to the full GPL revelation that will …

Poker players in the U.S. have had limited choices to play online poker in their homeland since April 2011. The current options for those who desire to play online while remaining stateside are to either take your chances at unregulated poker sites and …

Macau remains a chi-chi gambling town with many high-stakes casino games and fancy hotels. But if recent trends are any indication of what the future may hold, Macau's top revenue stream could be in trouble, and that isn't good for the game of poker.

Even the best poker players in the world often doubt themselves. Pratyush Buddiga, a high-stakes poker pro with nearly $4 million in career live tournament earnings, recently posted a blog entry where he admitted to a near crippling fear of …

ThePokerAcademy.com wants to keep you up to date with its 12-Week Challenge and the associated webinar series. The site ran its first webinar in support of the 12-Week Challenge on Tuesday, Jan 5. More than 200 people attended and it went great!

Today BetCoin™ officially launches its bitcoin multiplayer poker platform with a record-breaking Bitcoin Poker Freeroll Campaign worth hundreds of Bitcoin. Infinite Freedom Freerolls, Massive Luck Daily Freerolls worth 0.1 BTC each, 0.01 Early Bird …

Listen, ladies. Are you tired of swapping left on dating apps and have some cash to spare? Beth Shak may have just the thing for you. The former wife of hedge fund manager and fellow poker player Dan Shak is offering her card skills to teach women “a …

This year, a shootout and a poker rally were added to make the event a little more fun for everyone, said Peterman. “It's something different. Each team gets two cards from a deck of cards to start with, and every game they win you draw two more cards …

The struggles in California to pass online poker legislation have run into a new hurdle — daily fantasy sports. This week, the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization passed a bill from Chairman Adam Gray that would legalize and regulate DFS …

Way back in November of 2014, Steve Jobs screenwriter Aaron Sorkin agreed to craft an adaptation of Molly Bloom's memoir of life as a sports star-turned-poker magnate. Though he was only initially attached to pen the script, it appears he'll now also …

There are a couple of ways to change game formats in poker. One is to change from something like no-limit hold'em to limit hold'em. While the mechanics of dealing cards and such are completely identical, the dynamics of the game can be extremely different.

Poker legend Antonio Esfandiari was disqualified from play in this week's $5,300 buy-in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event for something he did underneath the table. Esfandiari and poker-playing businessman Bill Perkins had a prop bet that …

Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh looks to continue the growth of its robust schedule of poker tournaments and events, while SugarHouse prepares to open a permanent poker room early in 2016 as part of its property-wide $164 million expansion. Glantz will …

As there was no winner, the next drawing will likely offer around $1.3 billion, more than twice as big as any American lottery prize in history. Thinking about how nearly a billion dollars might change my life led me down a mental path of pondering …

The Indiana County chapter of ABATE of Pennsylvania held a poker ride in 2015 and also sold T-shirts. All proceeds ($1,629.08) from the event were donated to the M. Dorcas Clark, MD, Women's Imaging Center and Birdie's Closet at the Indiana Regional …

Georgios Sotiropoulos topped one of the toughest final tables a $2,200 buy-in is likely to produce to take down Latin American Poker Tour Bahamas. He banked $308,220 for topping the 851-player field. It's the second-biggest live cash for Sotiropoulos …