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PETALING JAYA: Paul Phua, the Malaysian nabbed in Las Vegas for allegedly running a gambling ring linked to World Cup betting, is believed to be a moneyman who made his millions from high-stake poker games. Also known as Phua Wei Seng, 50, …

The El Cortez, an old-fashioned casino located in Downtown Las Vegas, has inked a deal with Ultimate Gaming for Internet poker in the Silver State. Ultimate Gaming is the owner of Ultimate Poker, one of three online poker sites currently operating in …

Lock Poker was recently offline for 12 hours or so due to a "data centre outage in Curaçao" that also affected a number of other sites whose servers are located in the same jurisdiction. But prior to a Lock representative named Emily informing …

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 …

Originally from Maidstone in Kent, the 29-year-old first visited the U.S. in 2006 for the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. “I was very new to the game and didn't really play much poker, so it was more of a vacation,” she says. “However, I got to …

One of the most popular online tournament series returns at Full Tilt Poker in the form of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, commonly referred to as the FTOPS. This sixteenth incarnation of the series will begin on August 3 and end on August 17 …

Essentially, Swords & Poker Adventures challenges you to create the best five-card poker hands from a shared board of cards in order to defeat monsters and other opponents. “Swords and Poker Adventures features an enormous library of epic weapons, …

No, I didn't go to Choice Center and have a life changing experience, this conversion is something altogether different. It has to do with my feelings toward a poker player, Dutch Boyd. While I can often be critical (overly critical in fact) I'm not a …

Last year, legendary Hall of Fame poker player Doyle Brunson made a miraculous run in the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, finishing in 408th place, at the age of 79. Many speculated that it was to be Brunson's last Main Event, due to the …

“Thank you to all my friends and fans for the support over the One Drop last few days. I have been in bed since the bust- literally the worst pain I have ever felt. Not just in poker but in life. The sort of pain that only time will heal…I tried to …

Full Tilt Poker, which has perhaps the most storied past among online poker sites due to its mismanagement and eventual acquisition by Rational Group, added a new chapter to its saga by mucking "Poker" in order to broaden its offerings to include …

Baseball, which evolved in the U.S. Northeast around the same time poker was emerging along the lower Mississippi, is now played in dozens of countries, and most of its best players are from Latin America. Basketball, our other 19th-century sport, is …

ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — To the surprise of himself and nearly everyone watching, Chris “Bass Master” Greaves spent the past week tearing through the World Series of Poker leaderboard. A newcomer to the WSOP Main Event, the 39-year-old software …

The study was based on anonymous data collected from PokerStars´ and Bwin´s player database and analysed the betting actions of millions of poker players, online casino gamblers and sports bettors. It concluded that the small percentage of players who …

To the surprise of himself and nearly everyone watching, Chris "Bass Master" Greaves spent the past week tearing through the World Series of Poker leaderboard. A newcomer to the WSOP Main Event, the 39-year-old software developer from Zionsville was …

A recent press release from the DGE revealed that revenue tallies for New Jersey's online poker market were down 9.92 percent from May to June. While prospects for July look marginally better, June marked the third consecutive month in which the state …

On Sunday night Marco Valerio broke the news that despite California not passing an online poker bill, the Iipay Nation (formally known as the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueño Indians) of California were planning on launching their own real-money online …

High-stakes poker player Paul Phua was arrested along with seven others for allegedly “operating an illegal gambling business” out of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The feds said that each defendant is charged with one count of unlawful transmission of …