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Want to play poker with a WSOP main event champions Chris Moneymaker, Ryan Riess, Greg Merson, and Carlos Mortensen and help support a great charity, the Three Square food bank? Many top poker pros will be in attendance July 6th for the first Charity …

Tommy Hang, who has been playing poker professionally for over 10 years, played low-stakes poker till a bad beat jackpot gave his poker bankroll a boost. Now 34 years old, Hang resides at Seattle in Washington. Once he mustered the courage to play …

Shortly after the poker media reported the disappearance of German poker pro Johannes Strassmann in Slovenia, his body was discovered in a Slovenian river. The Slovenian authorities released an official statement, in which they confirmed that the …

Full Tilt Poker is giving online poker players the opportunity to grab some free money—a $25 bonus, to be exact. This is possible because Full Tilt Poker enjoys a special relationship with PokerNews, a prominent poker news portal. To make things …

888 Signs Sponsorship Deal With TV Show 'Poker Night in America' Aside from the World Poker Tour and WSOP, poker shows in the USA have all but vanished since Black-Friday dried up interest from the TV networks. The country's nascent online poker …

The 28-year-old — “ancient for poker,” he says — is a new addition to the informal brotherhood of about 150 mostly young men, the majority American, who have flocked to this beach resort on the so-called Riviera Maya to make their fortunes at online …

The $1,500 no-limit hold'em mixed max event at the 2014 World Series of Poker drew a whopping 1,475 players, creating a total prize pool of $1,991,250. In the end, it was Brooklyn, New York pro Jared Jaffee who came away with the victory and the …

By around 7:20 Tuesday night, only two remained of the 42 players who entered the Big One for One Drop — the three-day, $42 million charitable poker tournament that requires a $1 million buy-in. Dan Colman, a quiet 23-year-old online specialist from …

Put your money where you mouth is at the 2014 Outlaw Poker Tournament in Mountainair this Saturday. The Texas Hold'em style game will be held at the Dr. Saul Community Center, and the last player standing will receive half the pot, second place gets …

'Kid Poker' reclaimed the title of all-time leader in tournament earnings after raking in $8.2 million Wednesday with a second-place finish at the Big One for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in charity tournament at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas …

Indian online poker operator Adda52 have partnered Israeli marketing and customer retention software supplier Optimove as it looks to develop a more efficient marketing strategy. The deal will see the India-facing operator gain access to the same …

This week, Party ran its $50K Sunday Major, drawing in 266 runners over last week's 248. At the end of the day, pokermaster24 rose to the top and banked the impressive $10,000 first-place prize. Traffic in both the $5K and the new $10K nightly …

Just days after hearing the confirmation of the accidental drowning death of poker pro Johannes Strassmann, the poker world was hit with yet another devastating blow. Chad Brown, a poker player who made a name for himself with numerous televised final …

Massachusetts resident Daniel Colman won more than $15 million Tuesday in the Big One for One Drop poker event in Las Vegas. It's the second-largest payout in the series' history, behind only the $18 million paid out in the inaugural Big One event in 2012.

In a local poker room where I sometimes play, there is an inscription on the wall that says: 'It's unlucky to be superstitious.' As this is the 13th installment of Range Rover, it's an auspicious time to take on this subject. Sportspeople tend to be …

LAS VEGAS — A 23-year-old online poker star has beaten the reigning World Series of Poker Player of the Year in a $1 million buy-in charity poker tournament. Massachusetts resident Daniel Colman won more than $15 million Tuesday in the Big One for …

The European Poker Tour's 11th season kicks off in Barcelona in only a few weeks, and it will likely be remembered as the 'sweetest' one ever organized by PokerStars. On Monday, the EPT announced Austrian chocolate distributor Suesswaren Grasel as the …

If New Jersey's iPoker operators don't already feel a sense of urgency to improve their poker products, then I suggest that they look at their calendars. In just 90 days, Amaya Gaming is expected to complete its acquisition of the Rational Group. Given …