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ALBANY – If New York opens the door to legalized online poker, there will be no shortage of gambling interests trying to get a piece of the action. Representatives from Caesars, MGM Resorts International and the state's racetrack casinos were among …

Poker has only one female world champion—Vanessa Selbst. She also happens to be the top earning female poker player. But she is not sticking to poker alone. The 31-year-old is also a civil rights campaigner and venture capitalist, who has used part of …

The Las Vegas based Binion's Poker Room has announced that it will no longer be offering guaranteed prizes for tournaments comprising its ongoing Binion's Poker Open 2015. The Binion's Poker Open 2015 began on September 8 and will continue till …

Jennifer Harman, the only woman besides Vanessa Selbst to hold two World Series of Poker event bracelets, is easily considered to be among the top five women poker players in the world. Along with her impressive tournament credentials, Harman is …

#The day-long poker run, patio bash, horseshoe games and Texas hold 'em tournament were all part of the charity benefit held each fall to earn money for the Justice McNeeley Foundation, which helps needy children and families. #“We were able to raise …

Vanessa Selbst: just the name alone has been known to make lesser poker players tremble in terror. But one category that delights in Selbst's name are certain nonprofits, who the top poker pro is now taking on as a personal mission with the goal of …

Friday was Day 1b of the 2015 Winamax Poker Open Dublin Main Event, the final starting flight of the €550 buy-in tournament. Players flocked to the Regency Airport Hotel throughout the afternoon to start their quest for glory, a total of 623 players in …

When I was an executive host for MGM, I once got a call once from a casino manager in Los Angeles who said a customer playing small limit poker wanted to go Las Vegas and could I get him a room. As a favor, I booked it at room comp only hoping to get …

Horses, mules, and wagons are welcome. To volunteer, call (270) 924-2007 or sign up at Wranglers. The Briggs & Stratton Relay For Life team holds a Life Poker Run tomorrow. Registration starts at 9:30 at the Briggs & Stratton parking lot, and bikes …

Paredes had previously finished runner-up in the 2014 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open main event last January to fall just short of his first title on the tour but this time he was able to come out on top. In addition to the money and the glory Parades …

In a bid to quell the inevitable backlash from the poker community, Binion's did state that its $200 NLH will keep its $10,000 guarantee. Moreover, the $50,000 Main Event will also keep its prizepool. However, it's worth noting that this tournament is …

Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

Ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil “RaiseOnce” Ivey was the biggest winner in the online poker world over the past week, taking in roughly $447,000 on PokerStars, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. The profits marked his …

PokerStars continued to operate throughout the United States after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) was enacted until the Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down online poker operations of companies such as PokerStars, Full …

The 2015 Winamax Poker Open (WPO) Dublin Main Event got off to a flying start on Thursday when 336 entries were processed on Day 1a, the first of two starting flights. Three-quarters of those starters bust during before the curtain came down on …

Headlines like “The great online poker scam” and “Hackers Use Malware to Cheat at Online Poker” make it appear that online poker players are facing a new (and immediate) risk of losing their money to malware-enabled cheating. I have even heard from …

On poker: Pay attention and win big in cash games with multiway pots. By Ed Miller. Tribune Content Agency. Posted: 09/24/2015 04:37:33 PM PDT# Comments. Updated: 09/24/2015 09:44:00 PM PDT. Multiway pots are a staple of small- and medium-stakes …

Analogies between poker and investing are endless. Many of the world's best poker players speak of the game in terms that evoke the ins and outs of investing, showing how at every decision point — in a given hand or tournament, when choosing a game or …