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Some of the most recognisable faces on the UK poker scene are hoping to parlay their 2013 successes at The British Poker Awards (www.thebritishpokerawards.com) at London's Hippodrome Casino on March 3rd where one will emerge with the title …

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Players in New Jersey and Nevada can win seats into the World Series of Poker via the online poker room at WSOP.com. The best chance for players to win a berth into the $10,000 tourney is through the weekly $215 WSOP Main Event Seat Satellite.

Day 1B chipleader Brad St. Vincent is still alive and well, finishing the day third in chips with 979,000. Perhaps the most recognizable name still in the field, 2012 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Chris Tryba, bagged up 438,000 at the end of …

Despite the Aussie Millions taking away from some of the online action over the past week or so, poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom managed to add another $400,000 to his earnings on the year. He is now up around $2.2 million, according to HighstakesDB.

Toby Mathews started Day 2 third in chips, and was very short during three-handed play, but thanks to a few coin flips and a bit of persistence he is the winner of the Hollywood Poker Open Tunica Regional Championship. Mathews reached heads-up play …

Preflop, final table, six-handed, with the blinds at 50,000 and 100,000 and a 15,000 ante, Jaffee raised to 225,000, Merulla reraised to 595,000 from the button, Jattin reraised to 1,125,000 from the big blind, Jaffee went all-in, Merulla called and …

Ed Miller I was a physics major in college. Physics is very hard — too hard for me it turned out, and I haven't cracked a physics book since the day I got my degree. One reason it's so hard is that much of it is abstract. You're learning about how the …

Another solid week for Viktor “Isildur1” Blom resulted in him padding his profits on the year to $1.8 million, according to data from HighstakesDB. Blom's latest profits came at the pot-limit Omaha and the limit deuce-to-seven triple draw tables. He …

In late November, I attended the World Poker Tour's Caribbean event on the island of St. Maarten. I intended for the trip to be a sun-filled vacation and assumed that I would bust out early, as usual. Instead, I hit one of the best streaks of luck in …

Poker and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) have often had a complimentary relationship, something that has continued with the announcement of a partnership deal between Attack Poker and Bellator MMA. The deal was made public late last week and sees Las …

The third stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Foxwoods Resort Casino February 8 and will host a series of 11 tournaments through February 17, culminating with a $1,650 no-limit hold'em $300,000 guarantee main event February …

Other notables who finished the day with big stacks include Vinny Pahuja (146,800), former card Player tournament reporter and current poker pro Jameson Singer (119,600), Chris Tryba (114,500), 2012 WSOP main event finalist Michael Esposito (98,000) …

Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Alpha8 Johannesburg resumed play on Saturday with seven players remaining from the 10 entries that participated in the event. Daniel "jungleman" Cates began the day as the chip leader, and he would go on to finish in the …

The 45th annual World Series of Poker has released their summer schedule, which is filled with 65 individual bracelet events and kicks off May 27 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The series more or less resembles the 2013 …

Poker players often discuss decision-making processes based on ranges of possible hands an opponent can have. Rarely do they consider that since humans instead of computers are controlling the chips, ranges are subject to conditional probability.

According to their findings,which CI spoke about at the ICE Totally Gaming Exhibition held in London, 35% of New Jersey online poker players only started playing after licensed online gambling was launched in the state. Furthermore, of the 65% of …

Sure, playing multiplayer iOS games via Game Center is fun, but what about the good ol' days of playing blackjack (or go fish, whatever floats your boat) with a simple deck of cards? If you feel like reliving those days, but want to fulfill your inner …