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William Luciano won the 2016 Chicago Poker Classic Main Event for $254,892, topping a field of 736 in the $2,000 buy-in event held at Horseshoe Hammond. He drew inspiration from a certain recent World Series of Poker Main Event winner when he was …

Las Vegas-based Poker Central, a 24/7 TV network devoted to all things poker, announced Monday that the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl has reached its 49-player cap. The high-stakes event drew 43 players last year. The $300,000 buy-in event, now in its …

amaya-loss-poker-casino Canadian online gambling operator Amaya Gaming posted a net loss in Q4 2015 thanks to the declining Canadian dollar and the cost of diversifying beyond its flagship online poker operations. Amaya lost C$15.8m in Q4, a dramatic …

Google's AlphaGo beats one of the world's top players in the ancient Chinese board game Go, prompting the question as to whether the program could also beat games of imperfect information like no-limit poker? 10-months ago the quartet of Bjorn Li, Dong …

At every level of the game, poker players suffer losses. In free-play online poker or at a home game, losses may be easier to handle by forgetting, letting go, or learning from the situations. But at higher stakes, where significant money, not to …

The German forward had a decent night at the poker table but on the way home managed to leave €75,000 (£60,000) in the back of the taxi on the way home. Oops! Wolfsburg 's reaction to finding this out? They FINED HIM €25,000 for the trouble, according …

A kid with increasingly expensive demands and a complete unplugging of the old, unregulated online poker world that allowed me to make money in my pajamas put a pretty major dent in my poker time. But it's always there, ready to add another chapter.

Pescatori has four World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets to his name, each in a different variant. In 2006, Pescatori won the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em event for a career-best score of $682,389. He won the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha event two years …

Wolfsburg have fined forward Max Kruse the €25,000 after he accidentally left poker winnings amounting to €75,000 in the back of a taxi. According to Bild, Kruse won the money at a World Series Poker tournament in Berlin back in mid-October after …

The Card Player Poker Tour Wynn $1,600 No-Limit Hold'em $500,000 Guarantee Main Event began March 11 and concludes March 15 with the crowing of the first CPPT Champion of Season IV. The main event drew a total of 499 players and the prize pool …

People have been complaining that entrepreneur Alex Dreyfus hasn't revealed all the details about his Global Poker League project. However, I compared the GPL's decision to slowly trickle out information and keep some of its innovations close to the …

Ever since I stumbled upon the existence of online poker sites in 2002, I've been primarily an online player. Sure, I'll play in occasional home games with my buddies. And I'll visit casino poker rooms from time to time. But for the most part, I play …

The Card Player Poker Tour Wynn $1,600 No-Limit Hold'em $500,000 Guarantee Main Event began March 11 and concludes March 15 with the crowing of the first CPPT Champion of Season IV. The main event drew a total of 499 players and the prize pool …

The annual Sheriff's Posse Texas Hold 'Em Tournament fundraiser will hit the VFW Hall, 329 Douglas St., to help support the Jackson County Sheriff's Mounted Posse, and Posse 100 organizations. The $50 donation includes one buy-in, appetizers and two …

Following the news that Russian officials are considering regulating the poker industry, the International Business Times (IBT) published details of a poll which suggested that 20 percent of the country's 143 million residents currently play the game …

When daily fantasy sports started running into problems in the fall of last year, some proponents of online poker thought the two industries might start working together for legal clarity and regulation. That hope was misplaced, however; the online …

Each year, Nevada collects 10 percent of the revenue its poker rooms generate. So if, say, Bellagio were to rake in $500,000 from poker this year, the casino would owe the state $50,000. Therefore, poker tax revenue is a reflection of the game's …

A Cleveland poker dealer has been cleared of wrongdoing after the king of clubs was judged to have crawled up his sleeve accidentally during a session at the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland last month. Robert Brown, 57, was indicted by a Cuyahoga County …