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A bill titled the “Restoration of America's Wire Act,” sponsored in Congress by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), would ban all forms of online gambling, including playing poker over the Internet. The bill would change the U.S. Department of Justice's …

Each week, PokerNews brings you insight into the happenings at some of the major poker sites. Featuring the most popular blog posts, BlogNews Weekly is your one-stop shop for all your poker blog highlights. This week, we bring you highlights from …

At first, it appeared that the liquidity sharing compact between WSOP.com in Nevada and Delaware's three 888 powered online poker rooms would breathe new and sustained life into Delaware's fledgling market. On the network's first full day of operation, …

There is one other key thing at play here and it's something that I've been thinking about quite often lately since I started listening to the Thinking Poker Podcast with Nate Meyvis and Andrew Brokos. They regularly talk about a concept called targeting.

Pennsylvania concluded in a study last year that regulated online poker could be worth up to $129 million annually once it reaches maturation. It also found that house-banked online casino games could reach $178 million annually under the same …

The Irish Poker Open is one of the most prestigious and anticipated series on the poker schedule. It's the longest running poker series outside of the World Series of Poker, and the 2015 edition was no exception to the success it's had over the years.

On March 22, 2015, Team Italy took down the first-ever edition of the Global Poker Masters, the "World Cup of Poker" thought and and organized by the Global Poker Index. Seen by many in the industry as a very audacious bet, the competition strongly …

0406-devil-fish-dave-ulliot-GETTY-01 David “Devilfish” Ulliott — a British poker player who got famous on "Late Night Poker" — died Monday following a battle with colon cancer. He was 61. Ulliott's son announced he "died peacefully surrounded by his …

Gerald R. (Poker) Emke. April 7, 2015. Post-Journal. Save |. STEAMBURG – Gerald R. (Poker) Emke, 77, of 2653 Lebanon Road, Steamburg, passed away Monday, April 6, 2015, at the Olean General Hospital. He was born Aug. 15, 1937, in Gowanda, N.Y., …

Effective immediately, the poker room at the Wynn Las Vegas will no longer allow cash to play at the tables, a Wynn poker room representative confirmed to OPR this morning. The decision comes in the wake of a similar move by MGM to end the use of cash …

Recently on the Red Chip Poker forums, a member posted a hand she played. I've changed a few of the details of the hand to make the example more illustrative, but the main concept at play is the same. It's a $1-$3 game with $300 stacks. A player limps …

Seeing swords and a poker game being combined together isn't surprising and some geeks at Konami are taking advantage of how fun it would be by releasing the Swords & Poker Adventures game for Android. You can practice your poker skills with this if …

Poker legend Dave “DevilFish” Ulliott has passed away from his battle with bowel cancer, according to a Tweet sent Tuesday from his personal Twitter account. Ulliott was born on April 4, 1954. Over his decades-long poker career, the poker pro …

(blinds 25,000-50,000 and a 5,000 ante) and it was folded to German poker player Andreas Gann in the small blind with K Diamond Suit Q Diamond Suit , who thought about it for a bit before calling the additional 75,000. The call left him with under 180 …

U.S. Representative Joe Barton is considering the introduction of another online poker bill. Like his other attempts to pass gaming legislation, the Texas lawmaker wants to legalize and regulate online poker at the federal level. The bill is seen as a …

With over 4,000 machines, table games and an exclusive poker room Choctaw Resort Casino is the closest casino resort to the Dallas metropolitan area. The Choctaw Grand Tower has 330 AAA Four Diamond rooms and an additional 160 well-appointed …

Few things go better together than beer and poker. Unfortunately, most (pretty much all) casinos I've been to offer exclusively macro beers. It's really no big deal, but to the discriminating beer guru it can really dampen your evening of cards. Which …

The European Poker Tour (EPT) often features some of the richest grinders in the world staying at some of the plushest hotels on the continent and that combination of cultures has left one player almost €1,000 ($1,097) worse off after an alleged theft.