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On Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security discussed the anti-online poker bill from Rep. John Chaffetz (R-Utah). It featured re-runs of old arguments against the popular web card game, as the Poker Players Alliance …

888 Holdings has announced the Multi-State Poker Network (MSPN) is now live, connecting regulated poker sites powered by the 888poker client software together in Delaware and Nevada. On Tuesday, March 24, the ground-breaking soft-launch began, …

A private poker game in the back of a Chicago cafe was robbed by a pair of armed men pretending to be police officers, according to a Wednesday report from dnainfo.com. Police said that the cash game, held in the back of Cafe Zippo at 5645 N. Lincoln …

Any player worth a pair of deuces will tell you that poker is a game of skill. In the words of Lancey Howard, the unbeatable master in classic film The Cincinnati Kid, it's all about “making the wrong move at the right time” – a snippet of wisdom he …

New Jersey's "Sveinbinder099" was the Garden State's biggest winner over the weekend, winning $10,834 after finishing on top of a 314-player field in the partypoker NJ/BorgataPoker.com $50,000 Guarantee. "TonyL0c0" collected $7,481 for his runner-up …

At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security will discuss H.R. 707, which is the anti-online poker bill dubbed the “Restoration of America's Wire Act”, or “RAWA” for short. Online poker players apparently are …

Georgios Zisimopoulos captured the title at the biggest event in Italian Poker Tour history, the IPT Malta Main Event, for €142,205. The score was the largest live cash the Greek has registered to date and pushed his live earnings to more than $500,000 …

888Poker indicated in a financial report released Tuesday that this month would see the “successful deployment of [a] shared poker network across states of Delaware and Nevada…creating significant competitive edge for 888 and its operating partners.”.

Each week, PokerNews brings you insight into the happenings at some of the major poker sites. Featuring the most popular blog posts, BlogNews Weekly is your one-stop shop for all your poker blog highlights. This week, we bring you highlights from …

Frank Patti cooked the opposition at Heartland Poker Tour Ameristar Kansas City as he dominated the final table, holding the chip lead most of the way through en route to a $103,326 payday. The $1,650 event drew 312 runners through three Day 1 flights, …

A new study by academics in England and the Netherlands could convince the UK Government to begin taxing poker winnings after the research suggested that poker requires a certain level of skill in order to win. Researchers from the University of …

The third stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nev. Mar. 20 and will host a series of 19 tournaments through Mar. 29, culminating with a $1,080 no-limit hold'em $250,000 guarantee main …

Acting New Jersey Attorney General John J. Hoffman said a Jersey City man has been indicted on charges he stole over half a million dollars from clients of his investment firm and spent the money on personal expenses, including playing poker at casinos …

Brian Rast didn't exhibit the demeanor of a man who'd be playing poker for more than $1.2 million in a mere 12 hours. But then again, why should he? He'd already won over $7.73 million in tournaments by that point, which included three seven-figure scores.

The Hollywood Poker Open's (HPO) next Regional stop will kick off this Thursday at the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. From March 26 through April 5, 32 events — 11 of which are HPO-sanctioned "featured" …

Every year, starting in late May, the poker world descends upon Las Vegas for this biggest event in the industry, the World Series of Poker. However, not everyone can afford to pony up tens of thousands of dollars to play a series of high-profile …

In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, there is a scene in which the White Queen claims to Alice that she's “one hundred and one, five months and a day.” “I can't believe that!” responds Alice, but the White Queen insists she “Try again: draw a …

On Wednesday, there will be a hearing on Capitol Hill to discuss a bill known as RAWA (Restoration of America's Wire Act) which seeks to ban online poker nationwide. A list of witnesses was recently released. Scheduled to testify are John Kindt …