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The Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open WPT DeepStacks Main Event will take place Jan. 14-18. The $1,100 buy-in will feature a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, 25,000 starting stack and three starting flights. Players may play any of the …

When 2015 began, a number of Bitcoin-only poker rooms were preparing to launch. Get Lucky Poker, BitnPlay and Burnturn Poker were a few that were aiming to take the online poker world by storm, embracing Bitcoin as perhaps the future of payment …

Those of you who have been playing poker for a while will no doubt be aware of which Texas hold'em hands beat others, but not everyone is well-versed in poker hand rankings. Players new to the game of Texas hold'em often struggle, at least at first …

No, the situation is much more like the game of poker. In poker, the hands dealt out are of uneven value, but can be and are enhanced by effective bluffing; that is, poker, unlike chess, is a game dominated by emotion rather than reason, and the …

With the daily fantasy sports industry on the minds of a lot of gambling regulators across the country, the state of Massachusetts, home to Boston-based DraftKings, is considering regulations for the booming industry. It could be good news for poker …

The inaugural NYX Poker Series is about to begin with 22 action-packed online tournaments with €180,000 in guaranteed prize pools. The tournament series takes place on the NYX Poker Network from Dec. 17-23 and is highlighted by a €200+12 Main Event …

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – About 14,000 Kentucky poker players are trying to get a piece of a multi-million dollar judgment against an online poker company. The Kentucky Justice and Public Safety cabinet sued the company that owns PokerStars in 2010 for …

Doug Kim, a former poker pro and finalist of the main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006, has plans to produce a TV show that is partly autobiographical. The show, which intends to show how a professional poker player migrated to the …

Gibraltar-licensed operator 888 Holdings is preparing to shut down Lucky Ace Poker, an online poker brand launched seven years ago to target players in the German market. New customers sign-ups to Lucky Ace were blocked earlier this month, with these …

The New Jersey online poker market celebrated a small victory this week, as according to financials reported by the Division of Gaming Enforcement, Internet poker revenue for November was up slightly over last year. This marks the first time that the …

Former poker player Doug Kim, a memorable member of the 2006 World Series of Poker final table, is taking his act to the big screen. The 32-year old New York native has been given the go-ahead to produce a semi-autobiographical television show that …

Also striking it big as part of the deal were Chile's "padawan911" (2nd – $107,541.31), American poker refugee Daniel "DHUSTLER15" Aldridge (3rd – $78,898.80), Brazil's Pedro "77TheMayor77" Demeyère (4th – $97,565.49), and Slovakia's "16bobco" (5th …

Poker sites in New Jersey collected revenue totaling $1,957,513 in November, an increase of 2.3% over October's total of $1,913,403. Year-over-year, the increase amounted to 4.3%, as ipoker revenue in November 2014 was recorded at $1,877,603.

With 2015 rolling to a close, many of us are crunching the numbers to see whether we're going to finish the year ahead or if we're going to chalk 2015 up to “variance.” Poker players and the industry as a whole have experienced a myriad of wins over …

The global poker community is complicated. In the past decade, the online poker industry has risen to the top of its game during the “poker boom” and fallen when the United States and other countries began booting big operators from their online poker …

The Poker Room's latest Getaway Weekend returns on Jan. 1-3, with rooms at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino only $49 for all three nights with a tournament registration for that day's event. The no-limit Texas Hold'em tournaments for the weekend include:

“If they could craft a bill, which incorporated regulatory priorities, fundamental values, whatever, that could be applied to all of these games – e-sports, [daily fantasy sports], online poker, whatever all the new ones are – maybe then they could …

The new season of Latin America's richest poker tour kicks off in January as part of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), which features 104 events and is the biggest PokerStars live poker festival ever held. The tour then visits Chile, Panama and …