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The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) is extremely popular with players that like to follow various poker tours; after all, the locales offer not just the chance to win some poker, but also the opportunity to visit some beautiful countries. On July 23 …

An interesting debate was recently hatched on Twitter (which seems to be the Standard Operating Procedure for an exchange of ideas these days) after PokerNews.com's Donnie Peters questioned the reasoning/logic behind the World Series of Poker policy …

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 July 21st …

Ed Miller Many no-limit players like to keep the preflop betting small, see a flop, and go from there. They'll limp into pots with hands like A-K offsuit, 8-7 suited, 6-6, and so on. I take nearly the opposite strategy, especially in cash games with …

The Michigan Gaming Control Board said it temporarily suspended the license of Aces Gaming, the state's largest charity poker game supplier, after the company allegedly admitted to side agreements that diverted more than $1 million to a Northville race …

One month after thirteen Californian Indian tribes reached an agreement over language in a potential online poker bill, 25 card rooms have issued a letter to lawmakers supporting the idea of legislation. The card rooms include the Hustler and the …

The Michigan Gaming Control Board said it temporarily suspended the license of Aces Gaming, the state's largest charity poker game supplier, after the company allegedly admitted to side agreements that diverted more than $1 million to a Northville race …

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 …