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Parx Casino, located in Bensalem just 20 minutes north of Philadelphia, has had a very vibrant and popular poker room since they first opened their doors in 2010. This month, the casino will bring back the Big Stax XV poker series, which will run from Feb.

Crown Casino flew Paul Phua into Melbourne three weeks ago on one of its corporate jets. – crownhotels.com.au pic, February 1, 2016.Paul Phua, the Malaysian at the heart of a World Cup betting scandal and one of Asia's biggest unregulated bookmakers, …

The quick succession of events in New York — a new companion bill from House gaming committee chairman J. Gary Pretlow surfaced in January, followed by the scheduling of the Senate hearing — indicates some real momentum for online poker regulation …

MONTREAL – Amaya's chairman and CEO is looking to take the world's largest online poker company private about 18 months after it acquired PokerStars for US$4.9 billion. David Baazov and a group of investors announced Monday their interest in paying …

Poker rooms in Nevada won $118,023,000 in 2015, according to figures released Friday by Silver State gaming regulators. The figure was a 1.57-percent decline compared to last year's $119,904,000. Poker revenue was $123,891,000 in 2013. That includes …

A Sunday afternoon with some free time on my hands and I found myself thinking of ways to fix some of the problems associated with poker. I should be working on my game, trying to plug the leaks that caused me to bubble my last two tournaments.

2 poker room 888poker (2,400) picked up 100 players, not a small feat considering its new Live the Game promo directs players to the tournament tables and away from cash game action. The iPoker Network (1,600) experienced the largest increase other …

First launched back in 2008, the event took place during the Aussie Millions at the Crown Casino in Melbourne and featured a host of poker pros and Australian celebrities, including former cricketer Merv Hughes and AFL footballers Brendan Goddard and …

And yet Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad has become an ambassador for the Venetian Poker Room. For many, me included, Obrestad was the epitome of online poker chic. Playing under the pseudonym “Annette_15” she amassed $2.7m in cashes playing …

On Thursday the Venetian announced Annette Obrestad has been hired to serve as an official ambassador for the property's poker room. Obrestad almost certainly expected this to be an “exciting announcement,” and for the news to be received by a slew of …

2016 marks the 15th anniversary of the world's largest poker site, PokerStars.com. This begs the question: why the name, PokerStars? Why was this brand identity chosen for what would become the world's largest poker site? To find out why, I decided to …

It was an unbelievable way to end an absolutely epic event, with Ari Engel becoming the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event champion inside Crown Poker Room on Sunday. Engel's AU$1.6 million victory came at the end of a hard-fought heads-up battle when …

“Casino VR: Poker” is a play-money game, currently in beta testing, that transplants you into a large fully explorable casino lobby with multiple poker tables to choose from. Players assume avatars that can interact with others in the game, utilizing …

Online poker players and fans watch as state after state expedites bills to legalize daily fantasy sports, while online poker gets shoved to the side. On the other hand, states like New York and Washington jumped into the mix with online poker bills …

Preflop, final table, seven handed, with the blinds at 250,000 and 500,000 and a 50,000 ante, Blumenfield raised to 1,200,000 from early position and Neuville called in middle position. On the flop Blumenfield bet 1,600,000 and Neuville called. On the …

The man who should be the head coach or the very least the assistant responsible for the defence and power play for the Montreal Canadiens is in town. Legendary defenceman Larry Robinson held court January 29 at Playground Poker Club on Route 138 …

A poker dealer who tried skimming tiny amounts of money out of the games he dealt last year has been sentenced in Cleveland, according to a report by Cory Shaffer on Cleveland.com. Randall White, who formerly dealt poker games at Horseshoe Cleveland, …

The German poker pro entered the stacked final in the middle of the pack, but was able to survive to four handed play and then knock Connor Drinan out in a flush-over-flush confrontation. Quoss' nut flush sent the American pro and his queen-high flush …