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The M Resort, an off-the-Strip casino in Las Vegas, has closed its 14-table poker room to make way for a slot machine tournament area, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Monday. Slot tournaments at the casino were previously held in a …

Dennis Bowen works on a poker table at BBO Poker Tables in Pittsburg, Calif., on Friday, May 31, 2013. While the tables themselves are made in China, the custom finishing and upholstery work is done at the company's Pittsburg warehouse. The company …

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York has reinstated the gambling conviction of a man who operated an underground poker club. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan says Lawrence Dicristina should be sentenced for his …

LAS VEGAS — M Resort closed its 14-table poker room last week to make space for additional slot machines that will be used for tournament play. Rina Foster, a spokeswoman for the casino, said employees displaced by the closure were offered other jobs, …

The Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker tournament series, long considered one of poker's elite events for pros and amateurs, has begun its month-long series. Thousands of players are expected to step up their game and take their shot, vying for an …

Mo Abedi-Arani When the final card was dealt in the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw $1,500 main event it was cash games specialist Mo Abedi-Arani who received the chips, the title and the money after overcoming a heads-up chip deficit that was at one …

The 3rd Annual Poker Run of the Men's Auxiliary of Ramona Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3783 will be held Saturday, Aug. 10. All proceeds will stay in San Diego and will benefit the Men's Auxiliary Post 3783 Relief Fund, service projects of the Navy …

For the first time in the history of Nevada's legalized Internet poker regime, a website won final approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission to continue its operations. The website, Ultimate Poker, was launched by Ultimate Gaming for the mandatory …

In January the Garden City Group created a website devoted to the payback of American Full Tilt poker players called fulltiltpokerclaims.com. The site laid out all the information that almost every player already knew. Namely, the site told how the …

When the WPT was last in Montreal it smashed the attendance records for a poker tournament in Canada thanks to 1,173 players turning out for the $3,650 buy-in main event. That record-breaking tournament was eventually won by Jonathan Roy, a talented …

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from August 5th …

London, August 5 (ANI): Ex Australian cricketer Shane Warne, who is also a professional poker player, is apparently giving his partner Liz Hurley, lessons on how to play his favourite card game. The Brit model recently took to Twitter and posted a snap …

Day 2 of the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw $1,500 Main Event wrapped up with the final nine players still alive and in the hunt for the title along with $220,626 in first place prize money. Lou Barlow will return as the chip leader over the remaining …

At the FTP Galway Festival the ‚€2,300 + €200 buy-in "Irish Poker Championship" kicks off today, while online FTOPS XXIII features three events today with combined guaranteed prize pools worth $650,000! Comments. More News. Jacks, playing cards, poker …

Craig Tapscott: How do you approach these big field events like the WSOP events strategy wise? Are you aggressive early to build a stack, patient till the antes kick in, etcetera? Kevin Saul: The structure in these events is amazing. It might not seem …

A benefit and poker run for Michael "Double B" Higginbotham will be held on Aug. 10 at the Anacoco Spillway Park. email · print · LDL Staff Reports. Leesville Daily Leader – Leesville, LA. LDL Staff Reports. Posted Aug. 3, 2013 @ 2:00 pm. Leesville, La.

PokerStars can now focus on its partnership created with Resorts International as it hopes to dominate the online poker market in New Jersey when it launches later in 2013. The company will still pursue legal action as it hopes to recover $11 million …

During this second entry day, 30 players joined the tables of Sky City's poker room. But at the end of the day, there were only 22 players left, after five levels of game. Daniel Laidlaw is at the top of the chipcount with a stack of 85,900 chips …