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Americas Cardroom joined the Winning Poker Network in 2011 and is best known as the home of the $1,000,000 GTD Million Dollar Sundays, with the next one on Apr. 12th. Americas Cardroom accepts players from the US market and the rest of the world.

Online poker players in Québec, Canada, may soon be losing the ability to play on all the major online poker rooms, including PokerStars, Full Tilt, 888poker, and partypoker. Québec's Finance Minister, Carlos Leitäo, released the province's new budget …

Professional poker player and poker coach Michael "ned_plimpton" Gagliano collected $7,481 for his runner-up performance in this tournament. Gagliano is currently second on the rankings on PocketFives.com where he has accumulated almost $2.4 million …

One of those stories, produced last July at the World Series of Poker, caught the attention of thousands of readers. More than eight months later, the story won't let go. From late May to mid-July, the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas hosts …

Rep. Joe Barton While some of his colleagues on Capitol Hill debate banning online poker nationwide, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) has indicated that he will introduce another one of his pro-online poker bills in the next month or so, according to …

High-stakes poker player Dan Shak has agreed to pay the federal government $100,000 to settle a dispute over betting on derivatives, according to Bloomberg. Shak admitted to accidentally trading two gold futures contracts 14 seconds into the closing …

If you are on Twitter and you're into poker, check out the top accounts you should follow. These, of course, are subjective. But we're tried to organize them into categories, depending on what you're looking for in your Twitter feed. This isn't meant …

The New Jersey Championship of Online Poker (NJCOP) is back this April at BorgataPoker.com. If you played in last year's inaugural NJCOP, you're going to love the second edition with even more guarantees. This time, there's a $1 million at stake …

Lucky The luck factor–how much luck is in poker? Depends on the sample size. In one hand it's huge, but over a million hands it has a tiny effect on your win rate. It also depends on the game, your style, your skill advantage and a host of other things.

The young poker gaming community of Minnesota is rapidly developing; in fact, they introduced a new poker tour recently. Check Shove Poker is organizing its inaugural poker event this week at Minnesota's Running Aces Harness Park. The event will …

Europe's longest-running poker tournament, the Irish Open, returns on April 3 with the 34th installment of arguably the most fun live event of the year. First organized in 1981 by legendary bookmaker Terry Rogers, the Irish Open has grown in size and …

The Silver State kicked off its online poker industry in 2013, and earlier this month began a soft launch phase of online poker liquidity sharing with the state of Delaware, which also had its own intrastate online poker, in an effort to boost poker …

Shawn Busse captured the title, but not the biggest chunk of the money, in the $2,700 Foxwoods Poker Classic Main Event in Mashantucket, CT. He got $95,024 as part of a four-way deal, while Justin Schwartz took $104,000, Busse's fellow bracelet winner …

US Representative Joe Barton (R-Texas) plans to introduce a bill that would regulate online poker at the federal level, a move that would put him in stark opposition to some Republican colleagues who support a total ban on Internet poker and casino games.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a retired Tennessee Valley Authority police officer to home detention and probation for his role in providing police protection for an illegal $1 million poker game. U.S. District Judge Pamela Reeves ordered Benito D.

Cirque du Soleil majority owner Guy Laliberté has reportedly asked for offers to purchase most of his share of the entertainment company. Laliberté is known well by the poker community for playing in high-stakes cash games and also forging the …

Newsweek is the latest mainstream news source to tackle whether poker is a game of luck or skill. The story comes from Dennie van Dolder, who set out with a research study to prove that poker is not just random luck, as some would have you believe.

Each week, the Talking Poker series will highlight a particular poker term. We'll give you a clear, to-the-point definition of the term and an example of the strategic concept to which it refers, so that you can start using the term and implementing …