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As technology evolves and new third party online poker software is developed, keeping up with changes is increasingly becoming a problem for today's online poker site operators to manage. Everyone recognizes there is problem, but nobody seems to know …

For the average poker hobbyist, the allure of poker, and indeed the World Series of Poker, has always remained the same. Unlike basketball, football, golf, or tennis, in poker, anyone can take on the best in the world and win. Anyone with the cash to …

Imagine a winner-take-all game of poker with $1 million going to the sole survivor. Imagine there were only 16 players in the game, and you somehow found yourself in the final three. This is a spot Albert Destrade, then 25, found himself in four years …

The 40-year-old professional poker player said he intended to play no-limit Texas Hold 'em but instead inadvertently signed up for a different game happening the same day: so-called no-limit deuce-to-seven draw lowball. The cost? A $1,500 buy-in.

Christian Pham celebrates during a bracelet ceremony after he won the World Series of Poker No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Lowball Draw tournament Friday, June 12, 2015, in Las Vegas. Pham accidentally entered the No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Lowball Draw …

Born in Iran but of Armenian descent, Ghaneian now calls Henderson, NV home and poker his profession. He mostly plays cash games, but this tournament win could hardly have come at a better time. His wife is pregnant with twins, who are expected soon.

On Saturday, many revved up to take part in the Poker Run. At five designated pitstops at various locations in East Sussex and Kent participants drew a playing card to gain the five-card hand needed to play the game and be in with a chance of winning.

Brian Hastings was already considered one of the game's top young players. He's played no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha at some the highest stakes ever seen, once winning over $4 million in one session online. Now he joins the prestigious list of …

On Saturday, many revved up to take part in the Poker Run. At five designated pitstops at various locations in East Sussex and Kent participants drew a playing card to gain the five-card hand needed to play the game and be in with a chance of winning.

Police in Nevada are hunting the gunman who murdered deaf poker player Jonathan Cyril Collins in his car on May 11. The thirty-nine-year-old Collins is a three-time National Deaf Poker Tour (NDPT) champion. He died from a gunshot wound to his chest.

King Kreesa's attempt to win the $300,000 Poker for a second time in wire-to-wire fashion was no bluff as the six-year-old gelding led eight rivals on a merry chase in Saturday's one-mile test on Belmont Park's firm Widener turf. Left alone to set a …

NEW YORK (AP) King Kreesa led all the way to pull a 17-1 upset Saturday in the $300,000 Poker Stakes on the turf at Belmont Park. It was a generous price on a horse that won this race in 2013 using the same tactics. The 6-year-old gelding and jockey …

Since in this “Casino Poker for Beginners” series of articles I have lately talking about types of equipment in use at casino poker tables (chips, buttons, and cards), it seems logical to wrap up that whole line of thought with some tips about the …

In a 2011 interview with Card Player Magazine, after a summer filled with a record three runner-up finishes in World Series of Poker events, Phil Hellmuth was asked how he felt about his then-nine missed opportunities to add to his bracelet count. “Wow …

Ed Miller It's a little presumptuous to call anything the “key” to a game as complex as no-limit hold'em, but I don't think I've overstepped here, because the concept I'm covering in this and a series of future articles is, truly, the key to small …

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player's results over six half-year periods. For a look at the entire list of 300, visit the official GPI …

With California online poker efforts possibly dead for the remainder of 2015 to basically no one's surprise, the state of Pennsylvania is by far the most likely out of any jurisdiction in America to legalize and regulate the virtual version of the card …

Carlos Portes of Marshalltown wanted to honor Spickert's poker-playing skill and ordered the specialized wreath from Marshalltown's Hy-Vee Floral Shop. Spickert was a renown card player and demonstrator of card and coin tricks, taught personally by the …