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According to research completed by Spain's CODERE Foundation and the Institute of Policy and Governance of the Charles III University in Madrid, 43 percent of the country's online players play on illegal sites. The analysis of the Spanish gambling …

John Lane, coordinator for the Cascumpec Bay Watershed Association and field supervisor Grace Fennessey map out a route for a boat poker run the association is planning for Sunday, July 20. Proceeds from the afternoon of boating fun will help the …

Peter Chi is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, CA. While his professional interests lie mainly in biomedical research and genetics, he is an avid poker player and enjoys …

The final day of the $10,000 buy-in seven card stud event at the 2014 World Series of Poker began as a sweat for Phil Hellmuth, who was looking for his record 14th gold bracelet, but once the poker brat hit the rail, the tournament became all about a …

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 …

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 …