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Bakersfield Man Wins Chumash Casino Poker Tournament — and $20,000 Prize. Tom Taylor with his winning hand after claiming the Central Coast Fall Poker Classic title Saturday at the Chumash Casino Resort. (Dwight McCann photo / dwightmccann.com).

The World Poker Tour continued on Saturday with Day 2 of the Emperors Palace Poker Classic. Leading the final 27 players is German Dominik Nitsche, who bagged 485,000, and joining him on Day 3 will be Matt Lawrence (449,000), Tom Koral (285,500), …

Amir Lehavot at the WSOP Final Table Amir Lehavot started playing online poker back in 2008, turning pro in 2009. It was a late start for the now 38-year-old from Tel Aviv, Israel, but in that short span of time, he's managed to earn over $6 million in …

That much was clear as a 23-year-old poker professional and a Las Vegas club promoter who considers the game a hobby prepared to make a final run at the World Series of Poker top's prize Tuesday evening. Ryan Riess and Jay Farber beat out a field of …

But at some point early on, the poker companies shuffling all that cash wanted assurances that processing online player payments in Utah — a state, ironically, dead set against gambling — was indeed legal, even though they already had convinced St.

That is because Ultimate Poker will host a special Hall of Fame poker game next Friday night (November 15), which will feature a number of members of the Ultimate Fighting Championship's (UFC) Hall of Fame. There will be no cash prize for the winner of …

Taking place right now, Redbet Poker is running a PokerNews-exclusive rake race for all new and existing customers. During the months of November and December, you will have a chance to qualify for a share of $3,000 from each month. If you are an …

The February stop will be the third stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour and is sure to shake up the current CPPT leaderboard currently led by Harvey Vandeven and Timothy Miles. Foxwoods Resort Casino is the Western Hemisphere's largest …

It can be easy to believe that a small bankroll means fewer opportunities for a poker player. PokerStars does its best to disprove that notion with satellites and qualifiers, and nothing has done more for micro-stakes players than the MicroMillions …

Despite launching five months later than online poker rival Ultimate Poker, WSOP.com has already bridged the traffic gap between the two sites. According to PokerScout.com, earlier this week WSOP.com surpassed Ultimate Poker by moving to a seven-day …

PokerHiro, GearPoker and Heritage Sports signed on to the upstart cooperative poker network, joining Full Flush Poker and IntegerPoker. The additional skins will bring increased liquidity to EPN, which is operating as a not-for-profit cooperative in …

The longest running Texas Hold'em poker festival in Europe is back again in 2014! Next year's €2,250 Irish Open main event will take place at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin from the 18th-21st April. The event will also once again feature a Sole …

LAS VEGAS — The world's newest poker champion started hustling his friends in low-stakes basement games when he was a kid. As a teenager, Ryan Riess vowed to win the World Series of Poker main event, and on Tuesday night, he accomplished that …

“It's always nice to be first in the queue,” the Borgata told the Associated Press after it was licensed for online poker. "Borgata and bwin.party are aggressively pursuing our objective of being among the first to launch online gaming in the state. We …

Gus Hansen lost more than $200,000 on Thursday, which brings his lifetime losses on the Full Tilt Poker software to $13,998,140, according to HighstakesDB. Hansen dropped $2 million over the past seven days to send his career deficit on the software to …

The $25,000 Poker Summit is the largest cash prize, free-to-play tournament structure testing players' skill as they play through each Summit Step. This tournament structure is a virtual pyramid of six-person sit-n-go tournaments that can be played …

Online poker is slowly being reintroduced to the United States, but there are still hundreds of emigrants around the world who left the country to continue playing online. One such player is Jae “YugiohPro” Kim, who relocated to Korea in order to have …

As a live tourney pro, my poker life and my non-poker life are pretty distinct from one another. Either I'm on the road at a tournament series or I'm at home in my other life. If the whole thing were a venn diagram, there would only be the tiniest …