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While I feel as if I have a solid grasp on how to play fundamentally sound poker, too often I've been calling with good (but second-best) hands when my opponents have been willing to put all of their money into the pot. I have been working hard to plug …

In lieu of our regularly scheduled programming (AKA Five Thoughts), it's once again time to make a few predictions. In 2014, after smashing eight softies over the centerfield wall in the previous year, we really upped the ante. In turn, we only hit on …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge says a Malaysian businessman and his son can't play poker at Las Vegas casinos while they await a ruling on whether the FBI illegally entered their hotel suites to investigate what prosecutors say was a $13 million illegal …

But, as he reports in a paper in this week's Science, Michael Bowling of the University of Alberta has come close enough to solving a version of poker called Heads-Up Limit Hold'Em (HULHE) that a player armed with his strategy can virtually guarantee …

Built with the precise goal to attract recreational players and semi-pros, each of the 2015 Everest Poker Live events in the schedule will evolve around a €300 Deepstack Main Event that the poker room believes will give everyone the opportunity to …

“Even if you played 60 million hands of poker for 70 years, 12 hours a day, and never made any mistakes, you still wouldn't be able to say with statistical confidence you were better than this program,” said study author and computer scientist Michael …

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the first phase of the introduction of a new generic top-level domain for one of the world's favorite card games: “dot POKER” or .POKER. The first phase is the “sunrise” …

A great poker film comes around as infrequently as a straight flush over quad aces. The allure of gambling is easy to understand but difficult to quantify. The peaks and valleys are so emotionally internal that most cinematic attempts to codify them …

The arrest of several prominent Macau poker personalities for their involvement in a World Cup betting scam was PokerNews' No. 7 story of 2014, but for two of those involved — high-stakes poker pro Paul Phua, 50, and his son Darren, 23 — the story …

If you have been waiting to know whether you could book yourself a nice trip to sunny Spain and combine your holidays with some good poker, then you have been served. PokerStars has just announced the stops for Season 6 of the Estrellas Poker Tour …

To win the Card Player Player of the Year award one needs to show an incredible level of consistency on the live tournament circuit over a 12-month period. One year is often far from the whole picture, however, so we thought we'd take a look at the top …

A new online poker site called Get Lucky Poker has emerged, brought to you by pro Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi. The poker room is currently in beta testing with an official hard launch date to be "announced soon," according to a recent tweet from the …

Asia Sands China Ltd., a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands, has received approval from the Macau government to build a $2.7 billion Paris-themed resort in the Portuguese colony. The Parisian Macao will have more than 3,000 rooms, 490,000 square feet of …

At the start of November 2014, the Genting Poker Series (GPS) unveiled the stops in its 2015 tour. The announcement had mixed reactions with the removal of the Nottingham leg at Dusk Till Dawn, Grand Final and reducing the guarantees to £100,000 …

Back in October, PokerStars drew the ire of the poker community when it announced new strategic changes including a rake increase. Now, the world's biggest online poker site has reversed course and cancelled all previously announced rake increases, …

March 21, 2015 is going to be a great day for poker because it is the date that the 2015 Global Poker Masters kicks off in Malta. The inaugural event, dubbed the World Cup of Poker, is set to run during the eagerly anticipated European Poker Tour Malta …

John Bonacic introduced companion online poker bills in 2014. You can view the full bill text here and a summary here. At the time, Bonacic told OPR that he viewed the bill's introduction as a way to “start having a discussion on the issue” rather than …

Last year brought some of most exciting and memorable hands at Full Tilt Poker, the home to some of the biggest nosebleed online poker games. It isn't surprising that the top hands of the year were all played at Full Tilt. What might be surprising …