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This week, it was announced that professional poker player Daniel Negreanu will play a role in Four Kings, a new television poker show. The poker pro is not new to acting, having played the roles of himself in Mr. Dee (2012), X-Men Origins, Wolverine …

Phil Hellmuth has come out on top in a World Series of Poker event for the record 14th time. The 50-year-old poker pro who resides in Palo Alto, CA topped a field of 103 players in the 2015 WSOP $10,000 seven-card Razz Championship to add even more …

Under its previous ownership, Full Tilt Poker sponsored dozens and dozens of players, offering some hourly wages in addition to rakeback. At its peak, there were more than 160 “Full Tilt Pros.” In a typical deal, one poker pro earned around $100,000 in …

The OHV EMS High Card Poker Run is a fun way to raise money that funds supplies provided and used by the emergency services at the park. In its 10th year, the event is Saturday, June 27. It begins with sign-ups at 8:30 a.m. at the park, located 35 …

Hollywood icon James Woods lives a charmed life, and it appears it extends to the poker table as well. Woods is off to a hot start in the 2015 World Series of Poker with two cashes and a seventh-place final table appearance in the $3,000 NLHE Shootout.

“I would describe it as Swingers meets Entourage meets gambling and poker,” Negreanu told PokerListings. “What I've liked about the script so far is that it's not about poker. That's what they do, they play poker for a living; but it's not about the …

poker22 In what way can we compare poker to football? Or rugby, or baseball, or any game which involves getting a pep talk from your team coach, running across a field until your body aches and hearing the excited cheers of your loyal fans? None of the …

On Monday, poker pro Phil Hellmuth entered the final day of the $10,000 Razz Championship third in chips with just 12 players remaining. The deep run is Hellmuth's first cash of the summer and 109th life-time at the WSOP. He has 20 more cashes than …

An Israeli took home nearly half a million dollars in winning a tournament at the 2015 World Series of Poker. Idan Raviv, 24, came in first in the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament, a three-day competition at the Rio casino in Las …

Robert Potter has won Event #18 of the Ante Up Poker Tour series at Golden Nugget Las Vegas. Potter of Haymarket, Va., won a $4,000 PPC Aruba prize package in the winner-take-all $175 buy-in no-limit hold'em PPC Aruba satellite event, which drew 13 …

Shane Warne was still playing in the Indian Premier League four years after he retired from international cricket. AFP. by Lucy Kellaway. In Shane Warne's right hand is my son's cricket ball, which he is throwing up in the air and catching again. As he …

Barron played Event #16: Millionaire Maker $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em at the2015 World Series of Poker and spent his Day 2 grinding a short stack of about 10 big blinds during the time PokerNews sweated him. He wasn't able to find a spot to double up, but …

US-Friendly Poker Sites Continue To Thrive While the world's regulated online poker market has shrunk by 23% over the past two years, US-friendly sites have been experiencing some impressive growth over the same period of time and continue to …

An Israeli took home nearly half a million dollars in winning a tournament at the 2015 World Series of Poker. Idan Raviv, 24, of Holon, finished first in the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament, a three-day competition at the Rio …

An Israeli took home nearly half a million dollars in winning a tournament at the 2015 World Series of Poker. Idan Raviv, 24, of Holon, finished first in the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament, a three-day competition at the Rio …

As a high stakes cash game player with millions in tournament winnings, Shaun Deeb already had the respect of his peers. What he lacked was a signature live tournament win and a World Series of Poker gold bracelet. All of that changed on Saturday, June …

Young, whose online handle comes from the character Shooter McGavin in the film Happy Gilmore, is participating in his first event of the summer, and while he may not be the most familiar name in the field, he's certainly not new to poker.

The increasing diversification of the online poker industry continued this week after Playtech, the software provider for the iPoker Network, announced that it was taking control of forex trading platform, Plus500. Currently in the midst of a money …