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Garry Kasparov is an author, world's greatest chess player, and as a Russian– he is not a fan of Vladimir Putin. He believes that Putin is “evil”, and discusses how he personally is a supporter of the democracy movement in his new book Winter is Coming:.

Poker stars Emily Jillette, Jon Freidberg, Perry Friedman, Mike Matusow, Jeff Gill, Karina Jett, Arlan Levitan, and Flaminio Malaguti are also scheduled to participate, as well as additional Las Vegas notables including the Sin City Sinners; Dayna …

Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

For the second time in Season 6, the Mid-States Poker Tour visited Golden Gates Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado. The first of three starting flights attracted 126 entrants, but after 16 levels of play just 20 remained with Ross Reichert and his stack of …

The third edition of the World Poker Tour National Paris will be back at Cercle Clichy-Montmartre from Nov. 20-30, 2015, and the €1,200 Main Event will take place Nov. 26-30. With a wealth of the two prior experiences, the Main Event will boast a €500 …

Joe McKeehen doesn't rattle easily. He wears a stoic expression, speaks in a monotone voice, never too high or too low, and watches for those little things. It could be a raised eyebrow, a tapping finger on the green poker table felt, or how quickly …

So our "Best of" section ran in Friday's Showtime section, and each of us writers was encouraged to offer up five picks of our own, forget the fan voting. Two of my choices are gambling-related. I wrote about how Gulfstream Park is my best place to win …

PokerHeaven started on the St. Minver Limited network in 2005 and initially targeted poker players in the United States and Russia. The company faced a number of challenges during its initial years but succeeded in building a core group of poker …

It took New Hampshire native Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky 2,300 hands over the past week to win roughly $223,000, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Sulsky was up $1.2 million in September on PokerStars, but he went on a downswing and is now …

Tonybet Poker ambassador Isabelle Mercier returns with more tips and advice for playing open-face Chinese poker. Hello everyone, and welcome back once more to my “Open-Face Chinese No Mercy Little Guide”! In previous parts we've gone over OFC's …

We don't need to look at the numbers to see that Joe McKeehen dominated the 2015 World Series of Poker main event final table, but the stats produced from the 184 total hands dealt do offer some insight into how the 24-year-old poker pro managed to go …

Fall is in full effect and as the leaves change colors and the temperature drops in Western New York, the collective attention turns to the Buffalo Bills playoff hopes and the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino where the …

He moved up from dealer to dealer-manager to night tournament director at the Isle under the tutelage of Mike Smith, who left in 2013 to open the poker room at Maryland Live! Casino. "I am very, very proud to call Mike Smith my mentor," Burns said.

The Delaware Lottery has announced that despite having recorded an increase in online gaming revenue during October, the amount generated by internet poker in the state fell to an all-time monthly low. Revenue for online gaming in October amounted to …

Florida poker player Cemal Egilmez (pictured right) was arrested this week after allegedly slapping a fellow poker player at the Gulfstream Park casino in Hallandale, according to a report from local10.com. Egilmez was allegedly taunting the player he …

The Global Poker Index (GPI), live poker's leading ranking authority, has inked a multi-year content partnership with the USA TODAY Sports Media Group that will see USA TODAY Sports host a dedicated poker portal surrounding the GPI and many of its …

It was a huge week for New Jersey poker players both on the virtual and live poker felt. To start things off, the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event final table featured two players from the Garden State with Josh Beckley battling his way to second …

FanDuel and DraftKings have flooded commercial breaks of sporting events in recent months in a $200 million advertising campaign telling fantasy sports fans to break out of their private pool play and join the big-time players pocketing six figures on …