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The eighth edition of the annual Grand Poker Series kicks off at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino on Wednesday, May 27. The series is set to keep poker players busy until July 3 with an action-packed tournament schedule and a guaranteed prize pool of …

Shortly after his first victory, Conniff was scheduled to play a $1,000 high-roller game online, except that he accidentally misclicked and entered into a $1,600 qualifying tournament for the $15,000 live poker main event that was happening the very …

The legalization of Internet poker would open a new revenue source to San Diego County's American Indian bands. Eight of them run brick-and-mortar casinos on their San Diego County reservations and at least one has prepared a poker website. In addition …

“A lot of Caesars properties around the country/world already were cashless in their poker rooms, either by local/state regulatory standards or their own policies/procedures. In light of the rest of Las Vegas moving in this direction, we took a closer …

Season 11 of the European Poker Tour is coming to an end this week, but the excitement is already building for Season 12, which was announced on Monday at the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final. "Right from the stunning …

While that number seems high and may contribute to a belief among many within the industry that the heyday of Internet poker is over and that the online game is perhaps dying, deeper analysis of player traffic reveals otherwise. Traffic is not exactly …

Caesars Entertainment announced on Friday that it would no longer allow cash to play. This move was effective immediately. No notice was given to players. A press release from Caesars Entertainment states that the move applies to its Las Vegas poker …

Before the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final began, one of the things we hyped was that the €100,000 Super High Roller field could be the largest ever. With 71 entries, our prediction was spot on. One thing we …

Dice Poker has always been featured in both the previous Witcher installments as a mini-game for players. With The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, however, that mini-game has been replaced with a card game called Gwent. According to Lead Writer Marcin Blacha, …

On this day in 1997, Boris Kasparov, the world's top chess player, faced off against IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue — and lost. This week, professional poker players are trying something similar in Pittsburgh, and they're winning.

The influx of poker players into Malta over the last few years seems to have had a negative impact on at least one grinder according to a recent report by Malta Toda. Despite being a small island, Malta is now home to some of the industry's leading …

With double-digit final tables, over $1.5 million in earnings, and two bracelets, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" had a breakout Series, and this year looks to be even bigger with an extra 45 seats to WSOP events given out by iNinja Poker leagues in its …

Now only Antonio Esfandiari ($26.1 million) and Daniel Negreanu ($29.8 million) have cashed for more in live poker tournaments than the eight-time WSOP bracelet winner. Seidel didn't just add to his legend and his earnings with this win. He was also …

As spring makes it efforts to warm up in the EUP, the Rudyard Pool Committee will be hosting a Poker Run on Saturday, May 16 to encourage individuals to get out and enjoy the area. The Poker Run is for ATVs, cars, trucks and more; participants can …

Casino managers need to make their clients happy, and the Pascua Yaqui tribe's Casino Del Sol team thinks they've done so by introducing The Hot Poker Spot, an optional side bet wager for live Texas Hold 'Em games. “This is groundbreaking,” Casino Del …

The energy inside Maho Bay, St. Maarten's Casino Royale was high as the final table of the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten main event played out to the sounds of the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight in the background. The 138-player $1,650 …

On May 16, the Moonlight Inn in French Settlement is hosting a Car & Bike Show and Poker Run for Dreams Come True of Louisiana. All proceeds go to send terminally ill children or children with life threatening illnesses on Dream Trips or shopping …

The Assembly Governmental Organization Committee (GO) has passed California's online poker bill, but the move is more procedural in nature as the bill had to be advanced before May 1 in order to stay alive for the rest of this year. The piece of …