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It was finally his time! After years of grinding the live tournaments and after several frustrating eliminations including a second place finish in the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville Main Event, James Calderaro got his wish and won his first …

Crack open your calendars, poker players. The wait is over. On Tuesday, Caesars Entertainment released the official schedule for the 2014 World Series of Poker. Beginning Tuesday, May 27, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the 45th …

Mike McDonald It's been an incredible eight-month stretch for Canadian poker pro Mike McDonald. The 24-year-old from Waterloo, Ontario has been on a tear since May of 2013, making nine final tables and earning over $5.4 million in tournament earnings.

Calderaro outlasted a field of 415 to win the 2014 World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino for $271,103. The Florida native bested a tough final table that included Shannon Shorr and Keven Stammen, eventually …

With almost two months of operation in the rear-view mirror, we may now be getting an accurate picture of the long-term potential for online poker in New Jersey. That picture is of a market that can handily support two networks. But whether New Jersey …

The Aussie Millions main event, now part of the PokerStars-owned Asia Pacific Poker Tour, boasted a 6 percent increase of attendance and featured one of the most star-studded final tables we've seen in a major. If there's ever a final table that can …

According to WRAL, more than 37,500 pirated DVDs were found inside Lusarsdi's home of Fayetteville, N.C. along with DVD burners and packaging equipment to make bootleg discs. Even more, it was revealed that authorities have had a close watch on …

After a long day at the tables on Monday, a field of 33 was trimmed down to six at the 2014 World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open. Shannon Shorr is still in contention for his first WPT title and will headline the six-handed final table on Tuesday …

Ultimate Poker Noverlay. Over the next month poker players at Ultimate Poker NJ will be doing the unthinkable; rooting for UP's tournament to reach their guaranteed prize-pool marks, thanks to a new, extremely clever promotion UP has dubbed NO-verlay.

A new poker training site called 1to5 is allowing its members to join the biggest games in the world alongside players such as Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson and more. The training and entertainment site takes showdowns …

Poker players of all levels from across the globe will have the opportunity to play alongside – or even beat – World Series of Poker champion Chris Moneymaker this spring. Penn National Gaming's second season of the Hollywood Poker Open continues with …

The third stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Foxwoods Resort Casino February 8 and will host a series of 11 tournaments through February 17, culminating with a $1,650 no-limit hold'em $300,000 guarantee main event February …

Season 2 of the Hollywood Poker Open is already underway with the completion of its first stop at Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg. The remaining stops of the Hollywood Poker Open Regional Tournament series will run through the end of May with each …

Season XII of the World Poker Tour kicked off on Fox Sports Network Sunday with the first of three episodes from the Legends of Poker, a $3,500 Main Event that attracted 716 entries at the The Bicycle Casino back in September 2013. The $2,430,820 prize …

Joe Hachem's latest remarks in which he expressed regret that the game of "poker is dying" fired up the whole poker community. From the 2+2 forums to the high stakes professionals playing in the 2014 Aussie Millions tournaments, everybody seems to have …

Yevgeniy Timoshenko was the lone survivor in the 2014 APPT Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em super high roller. The American pro topped a record field of 76 entries, up from just 22 in 2013. For the win he earned $2 million AUD ($1,791 …

Cake Entertainment NV announced that it has entered into a new partnership with the Malta licensed Free Web Holding Ltd., owned by – among others – two industry powerhouses, Francesco Merighi and Carlo Costanzia. Constanzia is one of the founders of …

Barer topped a tough final table that featured the likes of Scott Seiver (7th – $152,235), Darren Rabinowitz (4th – $402,975) and Jacob Balsiger (3th – $582,075). In the end it came to a heads-up battle with fellow Canadian and 2010 Aussie Millions …