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Ultimate Poker is celebrating the release of their brand new software upgrade with a $100 deposit bonus. Simply deposit $100 or more between now and Sep. 8 and receive an additional $100 after clearing 1,000 XP by Dec. 31, 2013. Players can deposit at …

What do you want from a live poker tournament? Have a think about what would make the perfect live event for you. Would it be a friendly atmosphere with plenty of banter? Would it be being surrounded by like-minded people who are there to win, but also …

Just under a week after this massive event got underway, the huge field has been narrowed down to one player: Blair Hinkle. The 27-year-old poker professional from Kansas City, Missouri emerged victorious, taking home the title, the $1,745,245 first …

The 2013 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker, saw some big changes near the top of it's leader board as a result of some massive tournaments which wrapped up this week in Florida. Here is a look at the events that made the …

Roughly three and a half hours into the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event, on the 58th hand, Mukul Pahuja was eliminated in third place, earnings $872,625. The two remaining players, Justin Bonomo and Blair …

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event came to a close on Wednesday, and the winner was professional Blair Hinkle. With the win, Hinkle now has over $3.5 million in career tournament earnings. Hinkle defeated …

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is about to come to a close, but before it does we thought we'd share some of the best photos of the week with you. These range from the $10 Million Guarantee Championship and the WPT Alpha8. Tags: WPT.

Online gaming operator 888 Holdings has highlighted the performances of its poker and casino divisions as key factors in a 7% year-on-year rise in revenue for the first half of 2013. The company's sales increased to $200.1 million (€149.5 million) in …

HANOVER, Md. (AP) — The 52-table poker room at Maryland's largest casino is set to open to the public. Dealers will start shuffling cards at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover at noon on Wednesday. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 11 a.m..

888 – which runs online poker, casino, bingo and sports betting services primarily in the UK and Europe – was forced out of the US in 2006 after an online gambling crackdown, but the market has slowly opened up. Regulatory difficulties have held up …

Hard Rock poker director Bill Mason says the momentum started on Aug. 8 with the first event of the 33-tournament Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. That first tournament cost $350 to enter and drew more than 3,300 entries. Players who busted out could …

HANOVER, Md. (AP/WJZ) — The 52-table poker room at Maryland's largest casino is set to open to the public. Dealers will start shuffling cards at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover at noon on Wednesday. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 11 a.m..

The 52-table poker room at Maryland's largest casino is set to open to the public. Dealers will start shuffling cards at Maryland Live Casino in Hanover at noon on Wednesday. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 11 a.m.. Maryland Live opened in …

The final table is set in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,300 no-limit hold'em main event in Hollywood, Florida. A gigantic field of 2,384 entries blew away the event's $10,000,000 guarantee, building a final prize pool of over $11.9 million. Now …

Justin Bonomo is second in chips heading into the final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event on Wednesday. On Tuesday, after bagging his chips, Bonomo was kind enough to spend a few minutes with …

In four hours of play on Day 4, 11 players have been eliminated from the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event, and the remaining 10 players have formed the unofficial final table. It looks like this: …

What we have here is an all-in situation from this summer's World Series of Poker main event, which aired during Tuesday's episode on ESPN, deep into the tournament. If you know how to play no-limit Texas hold 'em, the situation is clear. If you don't …

Those are the highlights of recent online poker player traffic numbers as compiled by industry independent tracking site PokerScout. Full Tilt showed an increase of 14% of players last week by offering the Build Your Bonus promotion that allows 37 …