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The UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Season 5 will include five stops between the UK, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Spain during 2015, PokerStars announced on Monday. The newly-released UKIPT Season 5 official schedule features events in …

The Seventh Annual Chicago Poker Classic (CPC), which consists of 10 official events, kicked off late last week at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. Event #1: $360 No-Limit Hold'em featured six starting flights and attracted 2,296 entrants …

Mike Sexton, voice of the World Poker Tour, took to his blog last week to criticize the World Series of Poker for some of the things that he thinks poker's richest and most popular annual tournament series does wrong. Sexton won his bracelet in 1989 …

After the list of the nominees for the European Poker Awards (EPA) became public, a big part of the poker crowd could not help not to notice that this year's edition of the EPA is not going to include any online poker-related award. Built around 13 …

On Friday, Feb. 27, the inaugural American Poker Awards took place at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. The event was the brainchild of Global Poker Index CEO Alex Dreyfus, and it was comprised of a conference and night of festivities, and the entire …

On Monday, Event 5: $50 No-Limit Hold'em kicked off at the 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge. The Niagara Falls Poker Room was abuzz all day long as two starting flights played out and a combined field of 249 entries was generated. After Day 1a …

MARYSVILLE, Wash. — A 22-year-old man visiting from Houston is now behind bars, accused of robbing a Marysville bank a day after losing everything he had playing poker at a nearby casino. The robbery occurred at the Homestreet Bank at 1238 State …

Rick Snyder's administration says charity poker rooms have run amok and need tighter oversight. Both sides are awaiting a ruling from the Court of Appeals. The gambling board has said it has no intention of shutting down licensing when the emergency …

RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. —A woman is accused of stabbing her husband with a fire poker during an argument Sunday night. Richland County Sheriff's deputies were called to the house on Heyward Brockington Road at about 9:45 p.m. Sunday for a …

“The event will have a similar setup to the American Poker Awards,” explained Dreyfus. “But this will be the first time the European Poker Awards has been held outside France and hopefully going to Malta while its inaugural EPT event is taking place …

Yet it is still a step forward in the process of what I'd call a high-stakes poker game between a team that is viewed by many as one of the best in the NFL in using negotiating leverage to its advantage and a player who has been known to do the same in …

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from March 9th …

The second stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Wynn in Las Vegas Feb. 25 and will host a series of 14 tournaments through Mar. 15 culminating with a $2,100 no-limit hold'em $300,000 guarantee main event Mar. 15-18. Here …

It's again time for some great poker in Spain, as the sixth season of the Estrellas Poker Tour (ESPT) is set to begin on Monday, March 9, at the Casino Gran Madrid in the country's capital city. With a calendar that includes a good number of side …

Graham's lack of email use is surprising since he is one of the lawmakers spearheading Sheldon Adelson-backed efforts to ban online poker nationwide via a proposal to augment some of the language in a 1961 federal bill called the Wire Act. Doing so …

The RunGood Poker Series Horseshoe Casino Council Bluffs $675 Main Event proved to be a tremendous success. The 426 entries not only crushed the $100,000 guarantee by creating a prize pool of $251,340, it also became the largest event in the tour's …

Donald McArthur came into Day 2 of Hollywood Poker Open Tunica Regional Main Event as the big chip leader with 370,000, nearly double second-place Mark Kehrees. He put that stack to good use, making short work of his remaining competitors to wrap up …

Toronto, Canada's Xiaohu Chen stormed the Niagara Falls Poker Room this weekend and took down the second event of the 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge in the early morning hours Sunday. Final Table Results …