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The Poker Hand Critic is a new series by online pro “gutter23,” one of the top mid-stakes players in the game today. The Poker Hand Critic will break down a hand, street by street, offering up his analysis on all of the action. The following hand comes …

The grand final of the poker tournament France Poker Series of Deauville ended on Sunday with the victory of Niels Van Leeuwen. It was necessary to wait six hours to have a winner between the 8 last players, for a gain included between €21,000 and …

A senior citizen on a fixed income claims that a losing streak at horse racing and poker was the catalyst that caused him to rob a Florida bank with a loaded shotgun last week. John A. Dougherty, 73, disguised his face by wearing black underwear when …

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 January 27 …

Maryland Live! Casino announced it's first-ever $1 Million Live Poker Classic tournament series, which is set to take place from March 10-14, 2014. Maryland Live! opened in 2012 at the Arundel Mills Mall, halfway between Baltimore and Washington.

With a wealth of experience thanks to its six years of existence in the industry of live poker in Ireland, the European Deepstack Poker Championship (EDPC) is going to come back for its seventh season with new changes. Like during its previous season …

A number of media sources have reported that the Merge Poker Network has suspended the accounts of a number of New Jersey and Delaware based online poker players and customer support has told them that they have withdrawn all services to these …

Christian Lusardi, 42, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, flushed $2.7 million worth of counterfeit poker chips down the toilet in a room at Harrah's Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey state police said. He was arrested over the weekend …

According to reports, the situation began when casino officials at Harrah's Resort and Casino in Atlantic City discovered that someone had flushed 2.7 million worth of counterfeit poker chips down the toilet in a hotel room. The Borgata was then …

Poker player Edwin Ting (more than $80,000 in career tournament earnings) was sentenced in New York on Tuesday to five months in prison for his role in the high-stakes gambling ring that was busted by the feds in April of last year. He was among nearly …

The Amateur Poker Association and Tour's annual World Championship of Amateur Poker will return for a seventh year this April as 16 bracelet event festival descends on Aspers Casino in Stratford. With the 2014 WCOAP being held in partnership with …

A letter to support a ban on online poker being pushed by attorney generals from three states at the behest of Las Vegas Sands chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson already has 10 signatures, and the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is making an aggressive …

Preflop, final table, seven handed, with the blinds at 30,000 and 60,000 and a 5,000 ante, Daniel Gamez raised to 130,000 from late position, Srinivasan called in the small blind, and Baron called in the big blind. On the flop Srinivasan checked, Baron …

Christian Lusardi, 42, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, flushed $2.7 million worth of counterfeit poker chips down the toilet in a room at Harrah's Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey state police said. He was arrested over the weekend …

Headlining the day was the exciting conclusion to the six-max event. After a total of 373 entries, the field was whittled down to the final 43 on Day 1. Many notables returned to the felt for the second day, but it was ultimately Matt Affleck who was …

"We are very pleased that the New Jersey State Police Casino Gaming Bureau has apprehended a suspect in connection with the counterfeit chip activity that compromised Event 1 of the Borgata Poker Open," Borgata senior vice president Joe Lupo told the …

A Birmingham poker ace, who ranks royal love rat James Hewitt and Sir Mark Thatcher among friends, has vanished from his luxury Costa del Sol home amid a major cash probe. Broker “Sir” Nigel Goldman – he boasts of paying for the peerage – is being …

Wow, it's been a while since I've written a Poker Player Tweets of the Week column! My last piece came on Dec. 13, or a whopping six weeks ago. Where have I been? Or a better question: Does anyone care? I'll preserve the multitude of excuses I could …