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The poker gods smiled on American poker pro Jared Jaffee at his sixth major live final table of his career. The last river of the WPT Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event helped him eliminate his last opponent although he was a huge underdog to …

Preflop, final table, six handed, with the blinds at 10,000 and 20,000 and a 3,000 ante, Huge raised to 50,000 from the small blind, and Spindler called in the big blind. On the flop Huge bet 45,000, and Spindler called. On the turn Huge bet 75,000 …

The overall online poker industry saw 1% more cash game traffic last week, which was the fourth consecutive week of gains. Not much movement occurred among the top ten, except for PokerStars.es grabbing hold of seventh place and knocking Winamax …

The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) visited the Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend. The $1,650 Main Event attracted 353 entries that generated a prize pool of $510,615, and after three long days of play, well-known …

On Monday, the Seneca Niagara Fall Poker Classic began at Seneca Gaming and Entertainment Niagara Falls. The series will run through Monday Nov. 25 and PokerNews is proud to announce that our live reporting team will be on hand to cover both the …

adda52 Gaussian Networks Pvt Ltd's online gaming website Adda52 that lets Indians play rummy and Poker is looking to expand its operations to the global market. However, it is currently not able to go ahead with its plans, due to the regulatory …

Hosted by poker legend Phil Hellmuth, Jr., The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and WPT Foundation's “All In” for Kids Poker Tournament raised $725,000 featuring the Palliative Care Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Held at the …

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — (PRESS RELEASE) — Guillermo Olvera of Mexico conquered the Punta Cana Poker Classic Main Event this weekend, securing a first place prize of $171,100, not to mention bragging rights. For a good chunk of the …

On Friday night online poker legend Phil Galfond offered himself up to Reddit users for three hours, letting them pepper him with questions in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread. Here's a look at some of the highlights.

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 November …

The last two months have been the best two months of Cong Pham's poker career – after finishing third in the 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open in September, Pham won the HPT Daytona Beach Main Event in mid-October. There's one long day of …

That was sort of the concept behind Representative Joe Barton's (R-Texas) HR 2666 (perhaps a portend of its seemingly doomed status in those numbers); the Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2013 was to allow for individual states to opt out of any federal …

September was the coldest and rainiest September in Moscow for the last 100 years. It kept me inside more than I prefer, but it gave me a chance to recover from a knee injury I suffered earlier this year. Part of what I love about the poker life so …

Other notables who made deep runs include World Poker Tour champion Carter Phillips (35th – $4,278), Jonathan Roy (25th – $5,704) and Anthony Zinno (4th – $38,500). This was Zinno's sixth final table showing of 2013, including a win in the WPT Borgata …

Having worked a regular nine-to-five job, I feel very privileged to have a level of freedom now that I previously could not have imagined. As a professional online poker player, I have the ability to work wherever, whenever and for as little or as …

Considering “set-mining” — i.e. cold calling preflop with the aim of hitting a set on the flop? Like crossing a busy road, first you need to check that you can proceed. Look to your right to assess the player that opened the pot. As you will only flop …

This was high-stakes poker. Every fibre of my being was telling me to lean back and relinquish control of my facial muscles. I had a flush … of hearts, and what's worse, I was playing someone who knew my tell. What I eventually noticed about the …

He's done it again. German poker pro Philipp Gruissem won his second straight World Poker Tour Alpha8 title on Sunday, taking down the $100,000 buy-in WPT Alpha8 St. Kitts event for $1,086,400. Gruissem outlasted a tough field of 23 players (28 total …