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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 …

Full Tilt will replace BoylePoker, the Irish online poker room, as the sponsor of the International Poker Open Tour. A tentative schedule has been released, showing seven stops from May to November of 2015. According to this schedule, the tour will …

The final table is set in the 2015 World Poker Tour World Championship and features a stellar lineup that includes three-time WPT winner and all-time WPT money winner Carlos Mortensen, former WPT champion Tony Dunst and two-time WSOP bracelet …

MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren had some interesting comments about the proposed ban on Internet gaming when he was speaking to the LVRJ's Washington Bureau, among other news outlets, on Wednesday. Murren said that it wouldn't be the …

Dykhouse will remain the Michigan State Poker Champ for a while yet – that title won't be contended until the MSPT visits FireKeepers for a second time in October – but the latest stop is still expected to attract some big names such as MSPT pro Nick …

Daniel Negreanu is one of the most famous names in the poker world, which means that he can instantly add credibility to any poker project he lends his name to. That makes him a natural fit for a burgeoning poker network looking to show nothing but …

Bryan Micon once attempted to buy rogue poker site Lock Poker to “make all the players whole,” according to evidence obtained by the Nevada Control Board following a raid on his home in February. Micon, founder of the now defunct Bitcoin poker site …