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Before this summer, 27-year-old Martin Jacobson was already one of the top players on the tournament circuit, having racked up nearly $5 million in live tournament earnings. Then the Swedish poker pro went to Las Vegas and won the 2014 World Series of …

WASHINGTON, D.C. —A criminal investigative report obtained by The Associated Press says the Navy admiral fired last year as the No. 2 commander of U.S. nuclear forces may have counterfeited $500 poker chips with paint and stickers. Although Rear Adm.

Do you use a Heads Up Display (HUD) while you are playing online poker? What statistics does it relay to you? More importantly, do you know what this information means and how to interpret it? By the time you have finished reading this article you will.

Rafa Nadal defeated Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo in a charity poker match organized by PokerStars, winning $50,000 for his charitable cause, the Rafa Nadal Foundation. Nadal emerged victorious at the end of a 20-minute session that tied up with one …

Last week, Jorryt van Hoof returned to Las Vegas, Nevada, to compete in the final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event. The Dutchman took third for $3,807,753, and starting today he'll be back in action in his home country's largest poker …

Season 3 of the Hollywood Poker Open (HPO) kicked off last week at the Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg in Indiana, and tomorrow — Saturday, Nov. 22 — the stop will culminate with the $1,115 HPO Regional Main Event, which will feature 2003 World …

Although his good run at the 2014 World Series of Poker is probably what made his name known to many, Chile's Nicolás Yunis is a player with a solid record of online and live results. During his seven-year-long career, the 29-year-old poker pro from …

The Norwegian government also finished runner-up in the World Series of Poker main event and it didn't even have to buy-in. Second-place finisher Felix Stephensen will lose slightly more than 50 percent of his $5.14 million in winnings, according to a …

The 10-time WSOP bracelet winner played a couple of six-figure pots at stakes of $300-$600 over the past seven days (online poker action isn't what it once was). The first one was a chop, as Ivey and his opponent both held K-4-X-X on a board reading K …

Human brains are excellent pattern detectors, able to predict the future results of many events. All our lives, we consider the potential outcomes of situations and weigh the possibilities to make decisions. Usually, we avoid the biggest risks, like …

Four-time World Champion boxer Carl "The Cobra" Froch took some time away from the ring earlier this week to take part in the World Poker Tour's WPT500 tournament presented at the Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. The £500 buy-in event drew well over …

It looks like Jose Canseco pulled a fast one on the world. The ex-MLB player's shot-off middle finger, which he had surgically reattached earlier this month, did not fall off at a poker table, as Canseco said last week. Canseco admitted that he made …

This means that even with very fast computers, you can't write a program to play the game very well without lots of specialized software to estimate values and approximate ranges — all of the same stuff you'd need to build for a strong poker-playing bot.

The inaugural American Poker Awards will be handed out Feb. 27 at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The latest in a string of initiatives from Global Poker Index, the American Poker Awards will closely resemble the European Poker Awards, which is …

Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

LIHUE — The Garden Island Motorcycle Club and Kauai Motorcycle Racing Association will host a Holiday Charity Poker Scramble Sunday in Omao to raise funds for three Kauai residents who are either battling or have lost their lives to cancer. “The …

Have you watched Poker Night in America and thought you could compete with the game's top pros? Well, now you will have the chance to prove it thanks to 888 Poker New Jersey. Through 888's America's Got Poker promotion, players have a chance to earn …

The 2014 Pittsburgh Poker Open $1,100 main event at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, PA has been won by one of the living legends of Poker, Phil Hellmuth. The 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and 1989 World Champion earned $54,000 for …