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During Day 1a of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Queenstown Snowfest Main Event, acclaimed Australian tournament director Danny McDonagh revealed three new Full Tilt Poker ambassadors for the ANZPT. McDonagh announced that …

Previous articles in the series have focussed on high stakes tournament and cash game players, but in this latest edition we speak to Dave Hulmes who is attempting to change the game for recreational players by creating a brand new pub poker league.

Police in Chiba, Japan have arrested nine people suspected of distributing a malicious Android dating app that harvested personal information from people's phones. Among the arrested, and the group's suspected kingpin, was professional poker player and …

Choctaw Casino The Card Player Poker Tour has pulled into Durant, Oklahoma at the Choctaw Casino for a 54-event series that kicked off July 18. The series will conclude with a $1,500+$120 no-limit hold'em main event that begins on Aug. 1 and features a …

This is the first in a weekly series that will recap what is happening at all of the US facing poker sites. This first installment will only look at the major rooms with more being added each week. I will look at withdrawal times, deposits, promotions …

This spoof poker news site is like The Onion …only for poker. One of my favourite recent posts from them is “A Day in the Life of Phil Hellmuth”, an exclusive copy of big Phil's day planner, with such gems on the schedule as, “6:00pm – 6:25pm: Quiet …

DANBURY — The Concordia Society will host its fifth Charity Poker Run to benefit Ann's Place, The Home of I Can cancer support services on Sunday. (Rain date is Aug. 11.) Bikers will take a scenic route through western Connecticut. The first bikes …

Most players learn poker's explicit rules pretty quickly: the “one-chip rule,” for example, or “verbal declarations are binding.” But not everyone seems to have digested the game's vast book of unwritten rules, admonitions like “don't berate other …

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 July 29th …

A bumper crowd of 246 players bought into the £200+£20 Sky Poker Tour Six-Max Main Event at the Dusk Till Dawn club in Nottingham over the weekend, creating a prize pool of £49,200. This impressive total was £9,200 more than the guarantee, and the …

The 44th edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), which ended last week with the Main Event, brought great changes in the ranking of the week, in the Global Poker Index (GPI). Intractable since a few weeks, Jason Mercier keeps the head of the …

Motorcycles, food, and games all helped in raising money for American Veterans. A poker run and bike show was held at the Disabled American Veterans building on Moxahala Avenue. This was the first year for the fundraiser and coordinators say they had …

The Western Kentucky Fairgrounds were rumbling and roaring Saturday morning for the 11th annual Lexi Sabatino Poker Run. Landrey Basham, 5, Tyler Watts, 3, and their families were introduced to the crowd before the procession of 325 motorcycles …

The first event of the PokerNews Mid-States Poker Tour following the short hiatus during the summer is taking place at Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, Iowa. The $300,000 Main Event has reached the final table with the following players: …

The Lacey Faircloth Benefit Poker Run is Saturday. Registration starts at 10 a.m. at Starr's, and the first bike will leave at 11:30 a.m. Barbecue plates will be available for $10. Along with Starr's, other sponsors are Fubar, Legends, Crow's Nest and …

Ed's newest book, Playing The Player: Moving Beyond ABC Poker To Dominate Your Opponents, is on sale at notedpokerauthority.com. Find Ed on Facebook at facebook.com/edmillerauthor and on Twitter @EdMillerPoker. Tags: Poker Tips, Poker Strategy, …

Scott,. I was playing in a deep-stack tournament and had seen my stack fall from 10,000 to around 7,500. With blinds at 100-200, a guy in middle position with about 15,000 made a standard raise of three times the big blind. I was in the small blind and …

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwired – July 28, 2013) – Titanpoker.com, the leading online poker room in Europe, is offering its players the opportunity to win seats at the upcoming PokerFest 2013 poker tournament in Mamaia, Romania. Winning …