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The 26-year-old poker pro from Baltimore, MD also earned 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his second title and fifth final table score of the year, moving him into ninth place in the overall POY standings with 2,488 …

Joe Barton (R-TX) re-introduced his proposal, dubbed “The Internet Poker Freedom Act,” on Thursday, just days after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced his legislation aiming to “restore” America's 1961 Wire Act and ban most forms of Internet gaming.

Online poker players, sports bettors, and all sorts of “digital nomads” have been traipsing the globe since laptops became a thing. However, the question of where to live can be pretty overwhelming for most. The world's first and only relocation …

The 2015 World Series of Poker is playing host to the second running of the $111,111 One Drop High Roller. Registration closed at approximately 9:00 PM local time, and the official numbers were as follows: a total of 135 entries were made in this …

After beating a field of 684 entries, Keven Stammen has been crowned the winner of the Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Championship Event at the M Resort. Stammen beat Joe Serock heads up to take home the $347,052 first-place prize after a tough final …

About ten days into the 2015 World Series of Poker, I have had several deep runs with three WSOP cashes as well as an 18th/329 in the WPT Aria 500, where I made the money but bubbled the July 5th Day 2 restart. I want to share with what I think is …

I started playing poker in college in the late 1970s, a rollicking weekly social gathering punctuated by Rolling Rock (for me) and rolling joints (for everyone else). It began as a 25-cent game, and a couple of years later, after much consideration, we …

It's always a major story at the World Series of Poker when a female player wins an open event, but when that female is an amateur player and tops one of the toughest tournaments on the schedule, the story goes to another level. There have only been 21 …

Hocus is like poker for wizards: you're still going for the best 5-card hand, but there are multiple communities, multiple pots to win, and some crazy spells flying around. At a glance: Hocus is for 2 to 5 players, ages 14 and up, and takes about 30 …

New Jersey Poker Pro Matt Stout will be hosting the second annual Charity Series of Poker event benefiting Three Square at the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas Resort and Casino a week from Sunday. Set for Sunday, July 5, at 7 p.m. local time, the event will …

After they reached Shell Point again, they got their last card. The different hands were then ranked in order of best poker hand — such as a Full House or a Royal Flush — to worst poker hand — a mish-mash of cards that don't total any significant …

In recent months, stories of poker players having their bankrolls seized has made headlines; as such, PokerNews legal contributor Maurice "Mac" VerStandig offers his take on asset forfeiture. Alongside high-stakes casino bettors – the increasingly …

Once again, I am not at the World Series of Poker. For five years, I went to every single WSOP – for every single day – but those five years ended five years ago. That's right. The 2015 WSOP marks the 10-year anniversary of my first job in poker. I was …

Starting on June 29, there will be a series of high-stakes cash games at Aria Resort & Casino streaming on Twitch. Poker Central, a 24/7 poker TV network, will be producing the Super High Roller Cash Game, which is no-limit hold'em with $400-$800 blinds.

We just got back from Vegas where I played in the WSOP Seniors poker tournament. This was my sixth year playing that event but this year there was a new wrinkle. The WSOP rolled out a tournament called “Super Seniors” for the 65 and older crowd and it …

Thanks to crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter, budding entrepreneurs have an outlet to seek funding for many types of projects, including those related to poker. In the past few years we have seen Kickstarter help fund ideas that might not …

Despite his past support of online gaming legalization bills, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) now backs the Restoring America's Wire Act (RAWA), a bill that aims to revise federal anti-wagering laws to include bans on online poker. If …

Professional athletes and local celebrities tried their skills off the court at the second annual “Poker with the Pros” event, held on Thursday night at the Grand Wailea in South Maui. The meet and greet celebrity game night is part of the Grand Slam …