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After six epic days of poker in the capital of the Netherlands for the 2015 World Poker Tour Amsterdam Main Event, it was poker-tournament debutant Farid Yachou, from the city of Leeuwarden, who came out on top. Yachou defeated a field of 341 entries …

The World Series of Poker revealed the payouts of the DraftKings-sponsored tournament this summer in Las Vegas, but the event will not really mirror the “50/50″ daily fantasy sports contests that it is named after.

Calvert Hospice invites the community to the 10th Annual Calvert Hospice Poker Run Saturday, June 6, 2015. Hosted once again by Chris Bowen and Heather Scott, the Poker Run raises money for the Burnett Calvert Hospice House. Registration is from …

In February of 2014, the New Jersey partnership of Party Poker and the Borgata became the first online poker provider in the US regulated market to release native applications for Android smartphone and tablet devices. Given the technological …

PokerStars might think about renaming the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) to the "Jason Mercier Spring Poker Invitational", at least for the high buy-in events. Since the 2015 edition of the famed online poker series began last Sunday …

There's no doubt that the World Series of Poker Main Event is the world's greatest poker tournament, but with greatness comes great responsibility, and oftentimes immense scrutiny. It's the event that sparked the poker boom with the fairytale emergence …

Garrett Greer is one of the rising stars of the tournament poker circuit, having won more than $2 million since he began to seriously play in 2012. The Newport Beach, California resident has become a recent staple on the World Poker Tour, racking up …

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Carbon Poker sent emails out to affiliates on Friday with bad news. The site decided to stop offering its affiliate program effective June 1. There is a silver lining. Action given by players referred to Carbon Poker before June 1 will continue to …

At launch, the WSOP / 888 Android app was by far the more robust of the two major poker apps in the NJ market. But since, Party / Borgata's offering has received several notable enhancements, whereas the WSOP / 888 app has remained virtually unchanged …

The two facets of New Jersey's online gambling industry continued to move along divergent paths in April, with casinos boasting strong annual growth and poker falling below the $2 million benchmark for the first time since November. Perhaps the most …

Maying a payment Since our April report, it has become clear that Lock Poker is permanently shuttered. We have been warning players about Lock Poker for two years. The scam site went offline on April 17. It ran off with about $15 million in player funds.

New York Seal First reported by Chris Grove of OnlinePokerReport.com, New York State Senator John Bonacic has reintroduced legislation to legalize online poker in the Empire State. Bonacic introduced S 5302, a bill that would amend current New York …

The working week is all but over — unless you work in the poker industry that is — and that means only one thing, it is time for our UK & Ireland PokerNews Roundup. For those of you who have read these before, welcome back, for those of you who are …

Because poker, unlike, say, chess, is a game of imperfect information, game theory algorithms developed by computer scientists can never quite be truly perfect; instead they must approximate a “perfect” poker strategy, which is defined as a strategy …

New York State Senator John Bonacic (R-42) has introduced a bill that would bring regulated online poker to the Empire State. Full text of the bill (S 5302) is available here. You can track the bill's progress here. This marks the second consecutive …

Strange things crop up in a poker game from time to time. But with decades of experience, events that are a complete novelty to a recreational player are old hat to the poker room management, and they have standard procedures in place for handling them.

Further spurring rumors that Carbon Poker might be in trouble was a notice to affiliates indicating that their affiliations would be shutting down as of June 1. The letter also said no new players would be accepted into the affiliates program as of …