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Last week, Jorryt van Hoof returned to Las Vegas, Nevada, to compete in the final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event. The Dutchman took third for $3,807,753, and starting today he'll be back in action in his home country's largest poker …

Season 3 of the Hollywood Poker Open (HPO) kicked off last week at the Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg in Indiana, and tomorrow — Saturday, Nov. 22 — the stop will culminate with the $1,115 HPO Regional Main Event, which will feature 2003 World …

Although his good run at the 2014 World Series of Poker is probably what made his name known to many, Chile's Nicolás Yunis is a player with a solid record of online and live results. During his seven-year-long career, the 29-year-old poker pro from …

The Norwegian government also finished runner-up in the World Series of Poker main event and it didn't even have to buy-in. Second-place finisher Felix Stephensen will lose slightly more than 50 percent of his $5.14 million in winnings, according to a …

The 10-time WSOP bracelet winner played a couple of six-figure pots at stakes of $300-$600 over the past seven days (online poker action isn't what it once was). The first one was a chop, as Ivey and his opponent both held K-4-X-X on a board reading K …

Human brains are excellent pattern detectors, able to predict the future results of many events. All our lives, we consider the potential outcomes of situations and weigh the possibilities to make decisions. Usually, we avoid the biggest risks, like …

It looks like Jose Canseco pulled a fast one on the world. The ex-MLB player's shot-off middle finger, which he had surgically reattached earlier this month, did not fall off at a poker table, as Canseco said last week. Canseco admitted that he made …

Four-time World Champion boxer Carl "The Cobra" Froch took some time away from the ring earlier this week to take part in the World Poker Tour's WPT500 tournament presented at the Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. The £500 buy-in event drew well over …

This means that even with very fast computers, you can't write a program to play the game very well without lots of specialized software to estimate values and approximate ranges — all of the same stuff you'd need to build for a strong poker-playing bot.

The inaugural American Poker Awards will be handed out Feb. 27 at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The latest in a string of initiatives from Global Poker Index, the American Poker Awards will closely resemble the European Poker Awards, which is …

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 …

LIHUE — The Garden Island Motorcycle Club and Kauai Motorcycle Racing Association will host a Holiday Charity Poker Scramble Sunday in Omao to raise funds for three Kauai residents who are either battling or have lost their lives to cancer. “The …

Have you watched Poker Night in America and thought you could compete with the game's top pros? Well, now you will have the chance to prove it thanks to 888 Poker New Jersey. Through 888's America's Got Poker promotion, players have a chance to earn …

The 2014 Pittsburgh Poker Open $1,100 main event at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, PA has been won by one of the living legends of Poker, Phil Hellmuth. The 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and 1989 World Champion earned $54,000 for …

Chairman of Trustees Ben Elliott believes poker and charity are perfect together. As the charity event was commencing, Elliot told PokerStars, "Poker brings people together; it's convivial. Everyone's competitive, and there are some serious players …

While the poker world was debating whether or not Phil Hellmuth is a good ambassador for the game, or if poker will thrive with representatives like Dan Colman, in an attempt to impossibly quantify what's “good for the game,” the 2014 Mid-States Poker …

As most of the people in the UK were focusing on the action at the World Poker Tour in Nottingham, two of the biggest sports stars of all time met at London's Hippodrome Casino for a charity poker game hosted by PokerStars. Together with the thousands …

“Ongame has been renowned in the gaming industry for its excellent poker products, platform and service," said Matt Davey, CEO of NYX Gaming Group. "Not only does this acquisition provide NYX Gaming Group with one of the best poker products in the …