Poker News

Poker Tournament Fundraiser to Benefit the VHS Baseball Program
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The Vineland High School Baseball Parent Association is holding its first adults only poker tournament fundraiser on Saturday, February 7th. The tournament will start at 7 pm in the poker room of Harrah's Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. The $100 …

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PokerStars Launches “Pay-by-Poker” Restaurant in London
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Anyone interested in trying out a little poker can head on over to a small table, complete with a dealer, where they'll be paired up with their friends or dates along with other diners to play in a tournament so fast, it makes a hyper-turbo seem …

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New Jersey Online Poker Revenues Finally Looking Up
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The New Jersey online poker scene managed to avoid another loss and reverse its three-month downswing with a positive U-turn in the right direction for December, according to the State's Division of Gaming Enforcement. Although the results weren't as …

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Poker: In the right circumstances, the 'Hail Mary' move can work
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There's a move in poker in that is seldom executed, doesn't have a name, is only applicable in one specific situation, and has a rate of success that's near zero. In fact, in my decades of playing poker, I've only seen it work twice. One of those …

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This Week In Tournament Poker — January 12 – 18
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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 January …

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You Can't Beat the Worlds Best Poker Playing AI
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“Poker has been a challenge problem for artificial intelligence going back over 40 years, and until now, heads-up limit Texas hold 'em poker was unsolved,” says Michael Bowling, lead author and professor in the Faculty of Science, whose findings were …

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Poker Champ Ari Engel Is Flush With Success
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“To me it's very unfortunate that poker takes place in casinos. It doesn't really belong there,” Engel said. “Poker definitely has a lot of things that are beyond one's control, but it has plenty of things within your control. I don't gamble at all. I …

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Poker Community Mourns Sad Loss Of Diamond Flush
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Poker Community Mourns Sad Loss Of Diamond Flush For years anonymous poker reporter Diamond Flush earned the admiration and respect of the poker community through her insightful and revelatory brand of investigative journalism. Unfortunately, the …

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Poker tournament benefits Goshen Volunteer Fire Department
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Organization: The Goshen Volunteer Fire Department, a nonprofit organization that supports the community, is made up of Tulare County firefighters who are on-call firefighters. A Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament Jan. 31 will raise money for its Christmas …

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Ira Glass Talks Dancing, Playing Poker In Las Vegas And A Whodunnit
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It is often said that everyone looks good on the radio. That's because in radio, the pictures are all in a listener's head (as Garrison Keillor once pointed out). Of course, we really have no idea what our favorite radio hosts look like, just what we'd …

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Solaire hosts 5-day Poker festival
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MANILA, Philippines — In celebration of its first anniversary, the Solaire Poker Room follows up the success of the recent World Poker Tour Philippines with a five-day poker festival dubbed as "13th Month Bonus". The event—highlighted by a Main Event …

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Online Poker: Sahamies Starts 2015 With $258K Upswing
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On the flip side, poker pros Phil “Polarizing” Ivey and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom have started the year off on the wrong foot. Ivey is down about $168,000, while Blom is already in the hole nearly $108,000. Both had horrendous 2014 campaigns. An account …

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Poker Hand of the Week: 1/16/15
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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 …

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California Assemblyman Amends Online Poker Bill, Removes In-Person …
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“After meeting with security experts and hearing from poker players and industry professionals, I have concluded that online poker would be best served by making in-person registration an option rather than a requirement,” Gatto said in a press release.

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What Are the Pros and Cons of Subscription-Based Online Poker?
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That's a question I'm asked at least once a week, and unless you live in one of the three states that currently regulate online poker (New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware) my answer is always the same – I don't suggest any of them. The fact of the matter …

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The Global Poker Masters, poker's World Cup, debuts this March
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The very first edition of the Global Poker Masters, where 40 poker superstars from 8 of the top poker nations will battle for to determine just who is the top country in the World, is set to take place at the Hilton Portomaso in Malta on March 21st and …

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Ante Up Poker Cruises to sail from Los Angeles in January 2016
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Ante Up Poker Cruises will return to Los Angeles in January 2016, with a seven-night sailing to the Mexican Riviera aboard NCL's recently revitalized Jewel. "Ante Up has greatly increased its presence in California over the past couple of years, and we …

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Online Poker Bill Back Again in Mississippi
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Online poker may not have found much traction in the Mississippi legislature over the past few years, but at least you can't say that proponents of the game aren't trying. State Representative Bobby Moak (D-53rd District) has once again introduced a …

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