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PokerStars can now focus on its partnership created with Resorts International as it hopes to dominate the online poker market in New Jersey when it launches later in 2013. The company will still pursue legal action as it hopes to recover $11 million …

During this second entry day, 30 players joined the tables of Sky City's poker room. But at the end of the day, there were only 22 players left, after five levels of game. Daniel Laidlaw is at the top of the chipcount with a stack of 85,900 chips …

Michigan regulators have issued strict new rules for the operation of charity poker games in a bid to clamp down on what authorities say is widespread crime, fraud, and non-charity gambling at the facilities, MLive reports. The Michigan Gaming Control …

The Daily Star Poker Clinic with Marbella Slim. Q: WHAT'S my play if I get dealt pocket Jacks under-the-gun at a full table Sit'N'Go? By Marbella Slim/ Published 4th August 2013. Jacks, playing cards, poker Having Jacks is always tricky. A: Repeat a …

Arthur Morris After two day-one flights at the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw $1,500 main event in Durant, Oklahoma the total field size is 735 players. That made for a total prize pool of $1,103,091, which doubled the $500,000 guarantee. There were 66 …

Poker players from Michigan will be faced with restrictions on their favorite pastime after state regulators said that they would be clamping down on charity poker games (aka 'millionaire parties). Under the current Bingo Act, certain poker rooms are …

It was widely expected that Caesars Entertainment would launch its much talked about World Series of Poker (WSOP) themed online poker room to coincide with the live tournament held in Las Vegas last month. However, July has come and gone, the …

Choctaw Durant Casino The next stop on the Card Player Poker Tour is in Durant, Oklahoma at the Choctaw Casino Resort. The 54-event series started on July 18th and ends on August 4th. The $1,620 no-limit hold'em main event is scheduled to begin on …

Andrew Brokos As I, and I think most poker players use the term, a cooler is a situation where you believe that both players were correct to play a big pot with the hands they had. Of course only one of them won, but in your opinion, the loser of the …

Recently, I have being blogging about our Women's Poker League I set up after falling in love with Texas Hold'em poker. The purpose was to get more women interested in poker and dispel the myth that it's a man's game. That first night of my Women's …

Contrary to what some critics say, highly skilled multi-tablers are not playing a mindless form of poker. Undoubtedly, focusing on only one table allows you to think more deeply about each decision than when you're playing ten tables. However, skilled …

The proving ground for amateurs. HOODIED whizz kids with designer shades and more money in their poker bankroll than you have ever saved in your bank account. By Marbella Slim/ Published 3rd August 2013. poker, Amateur poker The Amateur Poker …

In this Thursday, July 18, 2013 photo, proposition player Dane Rhodes, center, poses for a portrait with casino staff Angie Hardesty, left, and Mary Baznik, at the Wildwood Casino in Cripple Creek, Colo. Rhodes works forty hors per week at the Gold …

DESOTO, MO (KTVI) – 145 area motorcyclists fired up their bikes to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The event was Dana's Dream Poker Run on Saturday, July 27th. It's held in memory of Dana Haverstick who died of leukemia at age 25.

Hellmuth won the WSOPE main event last year The World Series of Poker has announced its schedule for the 2013 series in Europe, which will be held, just like last year, near Paris, France. The WSOPE kicks off Friday, Oct. 11 with a brand new event.

Gus Hansen lost $114,498 (according to HighstakesDB) on Thursday, which brings his lifetime losses on Full Tilt Poker to an incredible $10.4 million. The Dane has lost about $3.4 million more than the next worst in the tracking history. Hansen is …

When WPT Alpha8™ premieres on FOX Sports 1 in early 2014, World Poker Tour's brand new series of super high-roller tournaments will introduce two of poker's most popular personalities – Ali Nejad and Olivier Busquet – as the show's commentators …

Since its inception in 2009 the Poker Run has raising almost $80,000. This year it raised over $20,000 which will go towards lifesaving research and patient services, bringing help and hope to patients and their families. The money raised came not only …