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ultimate-poker-desktop The writing was on the wall following their withdrawal from the New Jersey market and the subsequent trimming of their Nevada staff, but the announcement on Friday that Ultimate Poker would be shutting down its online poker room …

Ultimate Gaming has decided to leave the Nevada online poker market, a move some saw coming, but which the company had earlier denied was in the offing. The move must cast a kind of foreboding over US online poker operations, given that Ultimate was …

Day 1c of the Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates attracted 194 runners, which brought the total field up to an even 500 entrants. That's 47 more than the last time the tour rolled around last spring. After 15 levels of play, Mike Wright finished the 41 …

Norway's unluckiest gambler Felix Stephensen is to lose half his 35 million kroner prize money, won at the Poker World Championship held this week in Las Vegas. The Norwegian government will take just over half in tax deduction, it was revealed Friday.

Canseco's left middle finger apparently fell off while he was playing poker, according to multiple outlets, including SI.com. Canseco's finger was surgically reattached a few weeks ago after the ex-slugger shot himself accidentally while cleaning some …

Delaware's online poker market is now one year old, and all three of the racinos in the state that launched Internet gambling sites a year ago are still in business. But while the state's poker sites are operating, there has been little to celebrate in …

Just six hands after the elimination of Bruno Politano in eighth place in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event, 30-year-old Daniel Sindelar followed him to the rail in seventh place. Sindelar, a poker pro from Nebraska who now lives in Las Vegas …

Canseco's left middle finger apparently fell off while he was playing poker, according to multiple outlets, including SI.com. Canseco's finger was surgically reattached a few weeks ago after the ex-slugger shot himself accidentally while cleaning some …

new jersey flag Online poker has been up and running for almost a year now in the state of New Jersey and has seen major highs and major lows. Players have the opportunity to visit online poker sites in the state and take part in tournament and cash …

In a stunning turn of events for legalized online poker in the United States, Ultimate Gaming announced on Friday that they are ceasing operations in Nevada. The Las Vegas Review-Journal broke the story and reported that employees of the company were …

Poker pro Phil Ivey has been having an up-and-down month playing the nosebleeds on Full Tilt. The 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner won $368,000 yesterday, according to data from HighstakesDB. Over the last 30 days, Ivey is up $483,000 …

Ultimate Gaming, which last year became the first company to launch regulated online poker in the United States, announced Friday that it is ceasing operations in Nevada effective immediately. The company cited a challenging operating environment as …

Amaya, of course, owns and operates PokerStars, the world's largest online poker room. While online poker in California is not regulated or legal as of now, further unification from Native American tribes is seen as a very positive step in the right …

The 2015 Sky Poker UK Poker Championships are set to run at Dusk Till Dawn in February with the £500,000 guaranteed Main Event pencilled in for February 25 through March 1. Once again, the Main Event features a £1,000 buy-in and satellites to it are …

Check out Card Player Poker. It offers free, legal poker play, welcomes U.S. players, and just announced the iBink tournament series, where players can qualify to win Apple gift cards, an Apple TV, iPads and even a 13" Macbook Air. The way it works is …

Early this week, the 29-year-old finished ninth in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event just a year after finishing in the same spot at the 2013 November Nine final table. It was a feat that required incredible play, but what were the odds of back …

According to Deadline, Sorkin is reteaming with his Steve Jobs producer Mark Gordon on an adaptation of Molly Bloom's memoir "Molly's Game," which details how the author, a law student, ended up running an exclusive high-stakes Hollywood poker game, …

In the end, all that matters is how you finished and what you cashed for, but it's still interesting to analyze the stats behind how each player performed at the WSOP main event final table. There were 328 total hands played over about 18 hours. It was …