Poker News

Foxwoods Resort Casino Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour will continue on this month, making its third stop of the season at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut Feb. 8-17. The stop comes on the heels of the Palm Beach Kennel …

Competitors in Martin Midstream's 2013 poker tournament prepare for the next hand. This year's playoff tournament is set for Thursday, Feb. 6. To continue its fundraising for Relay for Life of Kilgore, Martin Mainstream Corporation will be hosting a …

The 2014 $3 Million Guaranteed WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event came to a close Friday night. In the end it was Anthony Merulla who came up victorious, besting a massive field of 1,229 runners to pocket the $842,379 in first-place prize money.

Wednesday saw the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open continue with Event #21: $100,000 Guarantee Deep Stack NLHE Re-Entry. The tournament attracted one of the largest fields seen at the Borgata this series with 1,002 total entrants. After a marathon of …

Adelaide's Jeff Rossiter made $4 million playing poker tournaments last year, yet outside the cards clique he's never done a media interview until BRW caught up with him at Melbourne's 'Aussie Millions' event last week. The 24 year-old Rossiter won $3 …

The tournament series is designed to aid towns still working to recover from Superstorm Sandy . The event to benefit Toms River/Ortley Beach will begin at 7 pm local time on Saturday, February 1.

Nevada, the nation's top gaming market, debuted real-money online poker in April, when one site (Ultimate Poker) kicked off games. A second (WSOP) joined in during the fall. There's no officially word on what those revenues have looked like so far, as …

In an earnings call covering the final quarter of 2013, executives at 888 Holdings offered an array of insights into the company's performance in New Jersey and the potential for other American states to toe the regulated online poker waters. Taking …

The Swede and the Texan have been fixtures at the high-stakes cash game tables on Full Tilt Poker for quite some time, even squaring off from time to time in epic battles. At one point last year, Tollerene lost $1.7 million to Blom in a single session …

On Thursday, the 2014 $3 Million Guaranteed WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship continued with Day 4 action. The starting field of 1,229 entries had been whittled down to the final 36, all of whom started Day 4 looking for a spot at the …

Although Tonybet Poker launched its open-face Chinese (OFC) poker site just over a month ago, it seems that the new player in the OFC market is making its way for the stars in light-speed. On Friday the site officially announced the signing of 24 year …

The 13th annual Global Poker Index (GPI) European Poker Awards took place at the Salle des Ambassadeurs in the Casino Barriere de Deauville on Wednesday night and it was a great night for British and Irish poker. Five golden spade trophies were …

The online series of poker turbo tournaments runs until 2nd Feb offering you the chance to hit big money in super fast time. PokerStars has guaranteed $15 Million across all events and there is still plenty left to win! When playing Razz poker, your …

Although Harry Hearns was declared the first-place winner at last Saturday's poker tournament, the real winners were the charities supported by the Hialeah/Miami Springs Rotary Club. Seventy players donated $100 each to play Texas Hold 'em in a …

Rick Trigg, a poker pro who resides in Sheffield, has made a comeback to the list of top ten UK online poker players. Trigg, who plays as “TheClaimeer,” has won the PocketFives Triple Crown, the first in his poker gaming career. Trigg's performance has …

Born in South Africa in 1962, Greg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and is co-author of The Bang Bang Club, a nonfiction book on South Africa's transition to democracy. He has spent 25 years doing conflict, documentary and news photography …

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player's results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six …

The long-running TV series “Survivor” will feature another poker player when it hits airwaves in late February. Cash game professional Garrett Adelstein was selected as one of the contestants on the show, following in the footsteps of Jean-Robert …