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Charity poker games are on hiatus at Northville Downs and Tripper's bar in Lansing until next month after the state suspended the license of the supplier, claiming it made more than $1 million in illegal payments to the venues. The Michigan Gaming …

The seventh stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma July 17 and will host a series of 81 tournaments through August 4 culminating with a $1,500 no-limit hold'em $500,000 guarantee main …

Reid Young What if I told you that sometimes pot odds don't matter? You might say that it flies in the face of fundamental poker knowledge. Right. Well fortunately for my side of the argument, there is an area of mathematics that is specially dedicated …

Remember when you played Dead Rising 2 and you got to play a bit of strip poker? That was fun, right? Well, now you'll have even more fun when you get to play it for real. Now available to purchase from the Capcom store is the Dead Rising 2 Fortune …

When the final table of the Venlo Poker Series Event #1 got underway, it was hard to imagine anybody outside of the top three chips counts winning the tournament. Overnight chip leader Kees Aerts (207,100 chips) had an eight big blind chip advantage …

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has announced that it is using its “sovereign right under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act” to launch online poker services, despite the fact that California is still deliberating the passage of online gambling legislation.

Hundreds of poker tables inside the Amazon Room were packed July 7 on the third starting flight of the Main Event. At each table, you could spot several players with headphones on listening to their mobile device, others checking Twitter or Facebook, …

Absolute Poker launched in 2003. It was the home of an insider cheating scandal. Black Friday eventually put the site out of business. It owed players somewhere in the neighborhood of $45 million when it ceased operations. I was a prop at Absolute …

Full Tilt Poker, the online poker site that was sold to Poker Stars parent group, Rational in 2013, has now announced that it will moving away from a poker-only environment and focusing more on becoming a comprehensive gaming site. As such, the site …

The seventh stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma July 17 and will host a series of 81 tournaments through August 4 culminating with a $1,500 no-limit hold'em $500,000 guarantee main …

With the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event now wrapped up, Sean Gibson takes a look at who won and what is happening in the post-Moneymaker amateur vs. pro event cash outlook, more than 10 years later. Come back tomorrow when we take an …

Jeff Madsen At just 21 years and five weeks old, Jeff Madsen won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in 2006. Less than a week later he won his second, defeating Erick Lindgren heads-up in the $5,000 six-max no-limit hold'em, one of the most …

Twenty-five California card rooms, including popular Los Angeles clubs Hollywood Park and Hustler, issued a letter to state lawmakers supporting Internet poker legislation and explaining their position on a few of the contested issues that may be …

LANSING — The state Gaming Control Board has suspended all millionaire party games Lansing's Trippers Bar and a busniness in Northville after determining a supplier of poker paraphernalia illegally diverted $1.6 million among the two businesses and …

Full Tilt Drops 'Poker' From Website Address In 2013, Full Tilt Poker announced it would be expanding beyond poker into casino games and this year the site then added blackjack, roulette, as well as a number of single and multi-player casino gaming …

Without their supplier and poker room operator, Trippers Bar in the Frandor shopping center and Northville Downs Race Track closed the rooms for the same period. Trippers' ownership received approximately $562,000 from 2008-10 in violation of the state …

LANSING — The state Gaming Control Board has suspended all millionaire party games Lansing's Trippers Bar and a busniness in Northville after determining a supplier of poker paraphernalia illegally diverted $1.6 million among the two businesses and …

Beasley's family set up the foundation in his memory and began hosting the poker run in July 2001 in an effort to raise money to purchase a boat, special underwater cameras and diving equipment that could be used to locate drowning victims on Smith …