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2014 has got to be a year to break fresh ground, fight your way out of old ruts and habits, explore new territory, and push your Poker game to new levels. By Marbella Slim/ Published 6th January 2014. If you don't keep punching your way forward, those …

Borgata President and COO Tom Ballance stopped by CNBC's “Squawk Box” for a quick chat covering the first full month of regulated online gambling in New Jersey. Borgata operates both an online casino and an online poker room that shares a platform …

State regulators in New Jersey have confirmed that over 125,000 accounts have been created so far at the online poker rooms and casinos that became legal within the state's borders in November of 2013. The precise total provided by NJ Division of …

Onlinecasinoarchives.com reported on 26th December, 2013 stating that according to security experts, online poker players are increasingly coming under attack by hackers. Their theory is greatly supported by online poker player Jens Kyllonen who was …

Party Poker and Borgata will have to introduce better promotions and rewards for loyalty to encourage their customers to remain loyal to them. Currently, players at BorgataPoker.com are not happy about the fact they must collect 483 iRewards Points in …

PokerStars, the world's top online poker site, has so far failed to secure entry into both Nevada and New Jersey online gambling markets, but it will not give up on figuring out a way to re-enter the U.S. in 2014, according to a company blog post …

YOU'VE accumulated 33,000 in chips by the middle stages of the No-Limit Hold'em tournament. By Marbella Slim/ Published 5th January 2014. poker Take a free card here and re-evaluate on the turn [GETTY IMAGES]. The blinds are up to 800-1,600 and …

Poker pro Jason Mercier took to Twitter recently to see if anyone in the gambling community was up for a prop bet that involved abstaining from drinking for an entire year. Anyone want to do a no alcohol bet for 2014? Minimum 100k please. — Jason …

ENVIOUS No-Limit nutters will be grabbing up their poker player voodoo dolls and stabbing a few pins in the heads today. By Marbella Slim/ Published 5th January 2014. poker In 2013 this event drew 47 entrants, creating a prize pool of $5,724,180 [GETTY …

Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker went on an absurd heater during the fourth quarter of 2013 on Full Tilt Poker to end the calender year up around $6.3 million, which was tops in the online poker world, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. By the way …

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 …

Cyber War News reports that hacker @smitt3nz, a.k.a. "rubber," recently claimed to have breached the Web site for the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League (WPTAPL) and published 175,333 e-mail addresses and plain text passwords online (h/t …

The final seven-figure score of the festival went to Team PokerStars Pro member Vanessa Selbst, who topped a field of 204 entries in the $25,500 no-limit hold'em high roller to earn more than $1.4 million, making her the highest earning female poker …

The Winter Holiday Break is almost over for the live poker professionals; they have only two days left until the New Year's first major tournament event. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) festival will start things off in what seems to be an …

Esteemed California gaming attorney I. Nelson Rose recently told The San Francisco Chronicle that since 2014 is an election year (there will be a battle for the governor's seat) online poker legalization likely won't happen within the next 12 months …

Be careful poker players. A card table sold at Wal-Mart is being recalled after reports of the item causing finger tip amputations and one full finger amputation. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released a posting to its website on Thursday …

Beginning in February, Southwest Poker News will merge into Ante Up Magazine, one of PokerNews' established partners. The merger, announced by Ante Up Poker Media LLC and Arizona Poker News LLC on New Year's Eve, is expected to increase Ante …

Arthur Pfeiffer, a local software engineer who's lived in Palo Alto since 1968, created his own version of poker years ago but plans to launch an upgraded version next year called Texas Block 'Em. The new game is very similar to two other poker …