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Internet gaming win in September rose 17 per cent to $12.0m, with online casino games contributed 85 per cent of the total as revenue rose 26 per cent to $10.3m. This offset a 15 per cent drop in online poker revenue to $1.8m, its lowest monthly …

A 29-year-old has been jailed for a "vicious" and "unprovoked" attack after he floored a Glasgow man with a single punch outside a nightclub. Ricky Scott left professional poker player Michael Kane lying out cold on the pavement in Nottingham city …

While online casino and sports betting were up, in line with the general trend of growth for those two verticals in the ring-fenced European markets, online poker was down again. Net revenue for ring games in September fell 20 percent, to €6.5 million …

Pennsylvania online poker is shaping up to be a worthy candidate for legalization in the Keystone State. Politicians in Harrisburg on both sides of the aisle are coming together to find new sources of revenue as a continued pension program plagues the …

FALLBROOK – Sound of Freedom Poker Run, hosted by the Fallbrook Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), will be held on Saturday, Oct 17. Registration is the day of the event, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., at the VFW, 1175 Old Stage Rd. The $25 entry fee includes one …

The imminent entry of PokerStars in New Jersey will have far-reaching implications, both in the immediate and the long term. In the short run, a successful PokerStars launch will see the NJ online poker market expanded from two operators to three. As a …

Fresh Deck Poker is the online poker app that you need to get on your electronic gear now. It is the only poker game to have its random number generator certified by GLI, the company that certifies all gaming machines like the slots in Vegas and state …

Just over forty-five hundred hands over the past week on PokerStars for Isaac Haxton resulted in $526,000 in losses, the most in the online poker world during the stretch, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. The losses put Haxton's PokerStars …

There are five players remaining in a major international poker tournament and you are all in the money. You are sitting with 406,000 in chips and the blinds are at 5,000-10,000 with a 1,000 ante, giving you a little more than 40 big blinds to work with.

It seems that the Players Choice concept, one that allows players to play a Day 1 online and choose a future Grand Prix Poker Tour leg if they progress to Day 2, is taking some players away from this weekend's DTD leg, but Yong seems to be unfazed by that.

A total of 580 players put up the €1,650 buy-in at the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe Monster Stack event, creating a total prize pool of €843,900, or $962,932. The top 63 players made the money, earning a minimum payout of €2,785. The eventual …

We're very impressed by Sky Poker's 'Boss?! look busy!!' button. It links to this classic 'don't-disturb-me-I'm-looking-very-busy' fake spreadsheet that every diligent employee should have in case of emergency. We're just hoping our line manager doesn …

Better for us to be able to start delivering $500,000 GTD tournaments more regularly and attracting new players to grow the overall poker economy, rather than decimate our players' bankrolls over the course of six weeks. We hope you understand the …

Erik Audé, the Hollywood bit-part actor who in 2002 was arrested in Pakistan on drug-smuggling charges, has opened up to PokerNews about his unusual poker education. Audé didn't learn to play Texas Hold'em for pennies around the kitchen table like the …

The poker run route goes to Silver City, N.M., and returns to Clifton. The cost is $15 per poker hand and $5 per extra draw. There will be breakfast burros for riders before they start out, and on their return they will be treated to hamburgers. She …

Going into the season finale of CBS' Big Brother late last month, poker pro Vanessa Rousso basically had a 50-50 shot to secure a top-two finish. Unfortunately for the 32-year-old, she ran bad in the last competition and was evicted in third place. She …

Efforts to pass a bill to ban online casino games in America have stalled this year and don't appear to have any momentum, but that isn't stopping billionaire casino boss Sheldon Adelson from continuing the fight. He might have a new avenue to get the …

French online poker has largely underachieved since the country approved the Gambling Act in 2010, the 20th most populous country quickly realizing that adequate player participation is vital to the game's success not only at land-based venues but also …