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Hope For Our Veterans event poster An poker run and rooftop benefit concert this weekend is aiming to help homeless veterans and prevent veteran suicide. The Hope for our Veterans benefit starts 7 a.m. at the Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington National …

Social poker game income is on the way down — and out of PCs, according to a new study by market analyst SuperData Research. The firm estimates that total revenues are dropping, from $203 million in 2013 to $179 million estimated this year and to $156 …

High-stakes poker pro Isaac Haxton won $310,000 over the past seven days on PokerStars, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. It took Haxton less than 1,200 hands to win the six-figure sum. The other accounts that won big on the week include …

The Sandusky State Theatre has announced its poker run will celebrate Ohio Bike Week in an even bigger way with with an expanded event and increased prize package values. The Run for the Arts Poker Run is put on in partnership with the Chamber of …

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 …

The Card Player Poker Tour will make its way back to bestbet Jacksonville after a year-long hiatus for a 10-tournament series Aug. 13-24. “It's been over a year since our last Card Player Poker Tour event and we are very excited to have them back …

A poker run is played the 15 card numbers and poker chips in a bag. When the participants go to different stops they pull out a poker chip and stamp the number on the card. Once completed, you open the envelope and the person with the best poker hand …

OROVILLE >> A former basketball player turned professional poker player died in a rollover crash that sent the driver to jail early Thursday. Garth Taylor Daniels, 28, was pronounced dead at Enloe Medical Center in Chico after being flown there by …

PAWS of Oroville, the Promotion of Animal Welfare Society, will hold a Five Paw Draw Poker Pooch Walk on May 30 to raise money for its low-cost spaying, neutering and some minor medical services for pets of low-income people and the general public.

Over the course of a few days, and over thousands of hands, Isildur1 tore durrrr apart, first with both players six-tabling at $300/$600NL, then at $500/$1,000. Blom beat Dwan for $5.2 million, and left the online poker world reeling. And no one even …

“Shark Club previously hosted 'millionaire parties', and our investigators discovered poker games were being played on multiple occasions at the Shark Club without any charity involvement,” Rick Kalm, executive director of the Michigan Gaming Control …

Fear not, because Card Player has you covered with the Las Vegas Poker Tournament Schedule. In addition to listing all of the regular daily tournaments in the city, each day the page will refresh with all of the series tournaments scheduled for that …

There are also horse tracks in California, which allow bets via the Internet, and interest from them to operate online poker sites appears to be one of the major roadblocks to having a bill become law. Many other gaming interests in the state don't …

This is the 42nd and final installment of Range Rover, and I end this column at an appropriate time: after around five years of being a professional poker player, I have stopped playing fulltime, and am getting back to writing books. I am the first …

The poker room is one of the most exciting places in any casino. It's filled with energy, and with players ranging from first-timers to seasoned card sharks. If you fall into the beginner category, the poker room can be overwhelming, with so many …

The Sheldon Adelson-inspired Restoration of America's Wire Act, introduced in the House of Representatives by Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), would deal a severe blow to the fight for online poker regulation in the US if it were to be enacted. Just how severe …

One of my first trips to Las Vegas after I turned 21 was with a few software engineer friends. These were sharp guys with degrees from elite universities and already considerable career accomplishments. We played some red chip blackjack. None of us was …

“Online poker and other forms of online gaming are already happening in the state but it is completely unregulated and offers no meaningful protections for minors, problem gamblers or safeguards for consumers,” John Pappas, executive director of Poker …