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The Playground Poker Montreal Festival is underway today as play has begun in Event 1, a $150 No-Limit Hold'em Reentry tournament with four starting flights and a $100,000 guarantee. Players familiar with Playground Poker Club know not to miss the …

Fresh off the successful inaugural event at Downstream Casino in March, RunGood Gear is heading to Tulsa, Oklahoma next month for the second stop on the RunGoodGear.com Poker Series. Hard Rock Tulsa will play host to the series from Sept. 3-7, and …

It's unclear why Gus Hansen doesn't just stick to live poker, the arena in which he is one of the most successful players in the history of recorded card playing. A horrible past seven days on Full Tilt Poker resulted in the Dane dropping nearly $1 …

One of the great things about the World Series of Poker is that the organizers continue to innovate. Each year there are new variations of poker and new structures. A few years ago, the WSOP introduced the ante-only game, and it was a hit with players.

PKR Poker, the world's first three-dimensional online poker room, which was launched eight years back, has now upgraded its software and launched mobile poker applications. Jez San, the founder of PKR Poker, told CalvinAyre, “We started from nothing.

That's more or less what the state's Supreme Court acknowledged this week when it said that a $75,000 minimum fine levied against a poker dealer who stole $200 was unconstitutional, or “constitutionally excessive.” “The fine at issue here, both in an …

Advanced Poker Training has recently launched a full multi-table poker tournament simulator, which creates a wide range of tournament situations to help players improve their tournament play. Revealing details about the simulator, Advanced Poker …

Live poker tournaments first started seeing their numbers explode about a decade ago, when online poker satellites allowed players to earn seats from the comforts of their own homes. Now, with global online poker traffic seemingly falling year-over …

Four men in their 70s are accused of a cheating scheme while playing poker at Canterbury Park in Shakopee last summer. One of the four men, Duane L. Racle, 75, of Lake City, Florida, was arrested Wednesday and is being held in the Scott County jail on …

California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer released a statement officially confirming PokerNews' previous report that he will author a new bill to legalize Internet poker in the state at the beginning of the 2015-16 session, and explaining why his bill …

The Ice Bucket Campaign, which was launched to raise awareness on Lou Gehrig's Disease, has attracted the attention of celebrities worldwide, including famous professional poker players. The campaign was launched to raise funds for research on the …

Tanita's only recorded cash prior to his big win was a $694 haul in 2012 — with that sum representing just over half of the $1,100 buy-in needed to compete in the Arizona State Poker Championship — and his $257,690 payday proved once again that …

Robert Tanita The 10th annual Arizona State Poker Championship at Talking Stick Resort and Casino in Scottsdale, Arizona drew a whopping field of 1,460 players for their $1,000+$100 main event, creating a total prize pool of $1,460,000. A total of 150 …

Olivier Busquet The 2014 European Poker Tour Barcelona €50,000 super high roller set the record for the largest turnout in such an event on the EPT with 77 entries, building a total prize pool of nearly €3.7 million. After three days of play the record …

PrivateTable will be launched for real-money online poker later this month, according to Chairman of the Santa Ysabel Gaming Commission Dave Vialpando. After a month of justifying its existence to the Internet gaming industry at large, the site is …

“@benmayhew1986 I resent ppl saying my success is just luck. My mom PURPOSELY gave birth to me surrounded by horseshoes and 4-leaf clovers.” Jason Mercier. “Just sat down to play the €50k buyin super high roller at #EPTBarcelona Hoping to start the …

More people would call activities such as cheerleading, fishing, chess and competitive eating a “sport” than would give the label to the game of poker, according to a Deadspin report. Click on the graph in the Deadspin article to see an enlarged version.

During a conference call held on Aug. 14 to discuss the company's financial results for the second quarter of 2014, Amaya Gaming CEO David Baazov explained that the acquisition of the Rational Group will not change the way millions of poker players …