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PANAMA CITY BEACH– With Breast Cancer Awareness Month just a few days away, the ladies of Thunder Angels are getting ready to ride with pride. Supporting the 10th annual Tickled Pink Poker Run, these fearless woman aim to raise money for breast …

Aaron Mermelstein has emerged victorious in the first-ever World Poker Tour Maryland Live! $3,500 buy-in no-limit hold'em main event. The 28-year-old poker pro topped a field of 337 entries to secure the $250,222 first-place prize and his second WPT …

FlowPlay_5 Card Draft_Gameplay FlowPlay is bringing together casual online games and fantasy sports. The Seattle-based company today unveiled a unique new game called 5 Card Draft that uses mechanics from both fantasy football and online poker.

While the PokerStars UKIPT Isle of Man Main Event is in full swing this weekend, scores of amateur poker players will be descending on the Grosvenor G Casino in Bury New Road, Manchester for the 2015 European Amateur Poker Championship, part of the …

The Irish poker community lost one of its legendary characters on Saturday 26 September when Patrick “Paddy” Hicks passed away. An almost permanent fixture of the Fitzwilliam Card Club in Dublin, Hicks will be fondly remembered by everyone who had the …

WSOP.com NV made a monumental announcement earlier this month when they revealed that online poker players could use PayPal to fund their accounts. Shortly after, WSOP NJ and 888 Poker NJ also started offering PayPal as a funding option for their …

Thanks to a user-friendly format and minimal software requirements, Twitch poker live streaming has caught on in 2015 and expanded to reach poker fans worldwide. Personalities such as Jason Somerville and Jaime Staples have paved the way for …

Groton, CT -(AmmoLand.com)- The Connecticut Citizens Defense League (The state's largest grassroots gun rights group) announces the 3rd Annual 2nd Amendment Poker Run. CCDL 2nd Amendment Poker Run: THIS SATURDAY! Sept. 26th!! On-site …

Back in the days when the Merrion Club was the home of Irish poker, a Danish based American player who had honed his skills as a teenager in Vegas, and later as a pro in Atlantic City, turned up to do his dough at the Irish Winter Festival. In a few …

This year's GPS Edinburgh focal point is the £400+£40 buy-in £100,000 guaranteed Main Event, a tournament that should see the cream of Scottish poker head to their capital city. Whoever enters the Main Event receives 25,000 chips and plays to an …

East coast poker pro Joshua Beckley made the most out of his first trip to the World Series of Poker. In July, the 25-year-old pot-limit Omaha specialist was one of the final nine players when the $10,000 buy-in main event was paused until November …

On Tuesday last week, Party Poker released a software update to address compatibility problems with Windows 10. Unfortunately the update created technical issues in other areas of the site, and many players started to experience problems with lagging …

Back in the days when 7 Card Stud ruled the poker world, an exceptional poker player named Johnny Chan made a name for himself in a hand where he bested 1988 WSOP Main Event runner-up Erik Seidel. That moment was captured by upstart sports …

Bikers may look rough and tough on the outside, but that tough exterior might be hiding a big heart. Sunday, the Hadi Shriners held the 12th annual Toy and Poker Run. The event collects toys and raises money for the Shriners Children's Hospital. The …

Crown Poker Perth: 113 players competed in the 10th anniversary Western Classic Poker Championships Main Event but it was Peter Brasile who came out victorius earning the title, trophy, bracelet and important $61,000 first prize. 11 players would share …

Players in the Winamax Poker Open Dublin Main Event start with a stack of 20,000 and play to 45-minute levels, which increase to 60-minutes on Day 2 and Day 3. Should they manage to dust off those 20,000 chips, players can re-enter once per starting …

Poker entrepreneur Alex Dreyfus, best known for touting the Global Poker Index and his attempts to “sportify” poker, has landed a new gig, as a semi-regular blogger for the Huffington Post. It should be noted that bloggers at Huffington Post aren't …

Pennsylvania and California have a better chance of legalizing online poker than New York State, but a New York State lawmaker is not discouraged by this. New York State Senator John Bonacic is now in the process of revising his online poker bill to …