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The recent push to “level the playing field” by online poker providers PokerStars and partypoker is now being backed by the UK's iGaming governing body, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). Following a spate of incidents involving bots and collusion in …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) national regulatory body has announced that it is to launch a review into the use of third-party software in online poker. Confirmed in a statement by the regulator, the review will include a number of stages, the …

With Intertops Poker's blackjack jackpots players can win up to $1,000. According to the popular online poker room, there are three special online blackjack titles that can provide high rewards. With two or more natural blackjacks the player wins an …

His name may be Fast, but it was hardly a short road to victory for Germany's Dietrich Fast in the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe €550 no-limit hold'em Oktoberfest event. A total of 2,144 entries were made in this huge tournament which began four …

"Each player with both a gaming and poker account will now have one main account that consolidates all comp earnings across the Seminole casinos," says Jason Newman, director of poker marketing for Seminole Gaming. Players will receive $1 per hour …

The WSOP.com Fall Poker Festival runs from October 25-November 1, marking the start of another glorious year for the World Series of Poker and the second for this event series. This online tournament series is open to players in New Jersey and Nevada …

Poker champion Annie Duke, who won top honors at the World Series of Poker and was once in Columbia cards University's PhD program for cognitive psychology, spoke to the Investment Management Consultants Association recently. “Poker is a game of …

The Mid-Atlantic Poker Championship in Wilmington, Delaware at Delaware Park gives you every opportunity to take home the money, offering an expanded variety of events in a jam-packed schedule running from Oct. 14-26. The three championship titles, …

It has a 12-table poker room, but it isn't open 24 hours during the week. It has $2-$5 and $5-$10 no-limit hold'em, according to its website. Two hundred and twenty miles away, Von Kennel opened his Texas Card House earlier this year, and it was dubbed …

In New Jersey, the combined prize pool guarantees for the Fall Poker Festival are slightly more than $60,000, while players in Nevada will be competing for over $80,000 in guaranteed prize money. The fests in both states will award an exclusive …

Fortunately for online poker supporters, the Chaffetz bill hasn't made any progress this year, so it appears to be a non-factor for the rest of 2015. A hearing on his bill was held in March. If the 48-year-old Chaffetz became Speaker of the House it …

Although DFS and online poker are two separate forms of real money wagering, both take place on the Internet and have attracted large amounts of players over the years. The legislative carve-out that Daily Fantasy Sports enjoys has been a topic that …

Nipun Java headlines the day 1B survivors in the Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Casino $1,100 no-limit hold'em main event. The World Series of Poker Circuit ring winner ended the day with 268,300. Java has upwards of $1.2 million in live tournament …

Over the last couple of week, the world of Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) has been placed under a microscope. The industry is under fire from multiple sides and the legality of DFS has become the primary topic of discussion for the industry. Some of you …

The path to winning any poker tournament is paved with twists and turns. And sometimes, those twists and turns come before you're even dealt your first card. For Schuyler Thornton, the road to winning the Pearl River Poker Open Main Event started with …

Hosting its second Card Player Poker Tour event in two years, Hollywood Park Casino has upped the ante this time around for the upcoming stop Oct. 16-25. Tournaments at the LAX-area casino will be more plentiful and feature larger prizepools compared …

Chips were bagged for the night after 14 levels of play on Day 1A of the Card Player Poker Tour Big Poker Oktober main event at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, Calif. with Pierce McKellar leading the pack with 323,600. Five-time World Series of …

That hallowed wall was created a couple of months ago by 2 + 2 pokercasters Terrence Chan and Adam Schwartz, who were miffed that PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg was not nominated for enshrinement in the 2015 class of the Poker Hall of Fame.