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Having a plan can help every poker player. Whether you play in a casino, cardroom, home game, or online, there are great benefits in knowing exactly what you want to get out of poker and how you're going to get it. Even if you consider yourself a …

Starting Sunday, Feb. 9, Ultimate Poker is giving New Jersey players even more value with the No-Verlay promotion. For the next month, any time one of Ultimate Poker's nightly or weekend special tournaments meets its guarantee, the site will refund the …

The tournament Silver Championship of the Paris Open of Poker has crowned Marc Trijaud as champion. This event has known a real success as it has gathered 143 players in the poker room of the Aviation Club de France (ACF). Runner-up of the High …

The 2014 World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open continued on Saturday with the second Day 1 flight at the at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino in Florida. After 183 entries were recorded on Day 1a, another 223 were accounted for on Day 1b.

Independent business data provider, Gambling Compliance revealed last week that ten US states are eyeing the introduction of internet gambling this year. According to the group, proposals for new or expanded online poker could be considered in …

The biggest online no-limit hold 'em hand of 2013 was worth $498,028 and was won by a mystery man who plays under the screen name "Denoking." The hand played out at a five-handed $400/$800 Full Tilt Poker table on June 22. A player using the handle …

… winner photo. Thanks to regulated online poker in Nevada and New Jersey, direct satellites to the biggest live tournament series in the world, the World Series of Poker, are once again available to online poker players in the United States via WSOP …

Joe Hachem's latest remarks fired up the whole poker community. From the 2+2 forums to the high stakes professionals playing in the 2014 Aussie Millions tournaments, everybody seem to have taken sides on the never-ending battle of the generations.

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The World Poker Tour was back in action on Friday with Day 1a of the Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino in Florida. The first starting flight saw 183 entries generated, with 75 players advancing to Day 2. At the completion of …

The Seminole Hard Rock posted a tweet on Oct 2, stating that it will host the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown 2014 in April and that the NL Hold'em Main Event will have a buy-in of $5,300 and a guaranteed prize of $10 million. Although Matt Savage …

Unaware the ordinance applied to them, the seniors continued to play poker, bridge, pinochle and other games for cash. In December, the Gambling Commission shut down their game with a letter informing them the games were illegal and needed to end, …

A new app called Bold Poker, created by a German developer called Martin Kavalar, has attracted a lot of attention. It replaces cards so that organizers of home poker games do not have to shuffle and deal. The developer says: “Our poker round was …

Trailing the pack in both regulated online poker markets of Nevada and New Jersey, Ultimate Poker is hoping that the rollout of a new Texas Hold'em variant know as Two Street Hold'em will attract new cash players to its sites. Two Street Hold'em …

Former NFL star defensive end Jevon Kearse, nicknamed “The Freak” for running a 4.43 40-yard dash and having an 86-inch wingspan, will try his hand in poker. The 37-year-old will play in the PPC Puerto Plata Poker Open, taking place from April 1-7 at …

Joe Hachem's interview with Bluff Magazine this week caused quite a stir in the poker community. The 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event champ called out several of his peers, and even blamed fellow Main Event winners Jamie Gold and Jerry Yang for …

Another solid week for Viktor “Isildur1” Blom resulted in him padding his profits on the year to $1.8 million, according to data from HighstakesDB. Blom's latest profits came at the pot-limit Omaha and the limit deuce-to-seven triple draw tables. He …

So even though Millicent Berman has dealt at several South Florida poker rooms, she says there was nothing more difficult than having a potential boss' eyes bearing down on her as she pitched the cards. "I've dealt a million hands, but these five felt …