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So it's no surprise that a couple of tweets really stirred up the poker community this week. Online and live players debated about the difficulties of their respective games, while high-stakes cash players pined for stricter adherence to criteria by …

This is only the second event in this new World Poker Tour series of high-stakes, televised poker tournaments where the minimum buy-in is $100,000 with unlimited re-entries allowed. The first event, held 2 months ago in Florida, attracted just 18 …

The eighth annual Reds Community Fund Celebrity Poker Tournament will be Dec. 7 at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Doors open at 3:00 p.m. for registration and side games and the tournament will begin at 4:00 p.m.. Each table …

Pro poker player Phil Hellmuth finished 29th in the latest World Series of Poker Europe event, a 2,200 euros (that's about $3,038 USD) buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament. While finishing 29th is a terrible thing in most major sports (the Charlotte …

Submit. By Adam Brazeau CORNWALL, Ontario – An equestrian poker run raised $6959 for the local Heart & Stroke Foundation. The fourth annual Hoofbeats for Heart event featured a parade of horses with clever costumes inspired by Heart & Stroke colours.

Betfair Poker has really been on the poker radar in the last few weeks. It is currently the largest Internet betting exchange in the world and the Betfair Poker Room is now located on the top tier of the iPoker network. It shares the same player pool …

Season XII of the World Poker Tour continued on Saturday as the second starting flight of the bwin WPT Grand Prix de Paris took place. Players took their last opportunity to put up €7,500 for a chance to become the latest WPT champion crowned at the …

The Keystone State has clearly taken a 'watch and wait' attitude to the idea of joining neighboring states as they gallop into the world of online poker and gambling, as stressed by authorities at the recent World Regulatory Briefing, held in Philadelphia.

Allegedly, fraudulent documents were used to access loans from the Commonwealth Bank from up to 20 wealthy clients of Scoresby-based accountant Robert Zaia. Jordanou's involvement is linked to him being a business partner of Zaia, and he is also the …

FULL TILT'S “Micro Turbo Online Poker Series” of multi-entry turbo tourneys reaches its final day today, with the biggest of the five remaining events being the $14+$1 “NLH Turbo Pro Bounty” offering up to 8 entries and $500,000 GTD. By Marbella Slim/ …

Sacramento's JC Tran has come a long way since arriving in California as a 2-year-old immigrant in 1979. Tran is chip leader going into the final table of the World Series of Poker's Main Event, the man with the best shot of taking home the $8.3 …

The City of Dreams in Macau would be the setting once again for the third day of the Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$25,000 Warm-Up as 40 players returned to fight it out on their way to making the final table. Tom Alner would be the overnight …

Ultimate Poker has announced several new promotions available in the coming weeks. It all starts with the 20 Million Hand Milestone promotion. Starting with hand number 19 million, which is about 20,000 hands away at the time of this post, the …

Keys Team Pink, an Upper Keys volunteer team for the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, will host a fundraising Poker Run, “Hot Rods for Ta Tas,” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9. The Poker Run will start at mile …

The Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel has hosted five Poker News Mid-States Poker Tour events, and the stop has quickly become one of the most popular tournaments in the upper-Midwest, creating prize pools totaling $1,595,372 since 2012. The next Poker …

SANTA YNEZ, CA – The Chumash Casino Resort will hold its largest poker tournament of the year, the $75,000 Central Coast Fall Poker Classic, at 9 a.m. on November 9 in the resort's Samala Showroom. The entry fee is $200, but players who register on or …

Poker calendar bursting with opportunity. JEEZE, the poker tournament schedule this month has been packed tighter than a Chelsea Charms tank top, hasn't it! By Marbella Slim/ Published 25th October 2013. poker, calendar, tournament, tournaments, …

The 2013 World Series of Poker Europe came to a conclusion on Friday with the final table of the Main Event, and winning the final bracelet of the season along with €1 million was Spain's Adrian Mateos. Mateos, 19, defeated local favorite Fabrice …