Amaya Gaming Group is buying PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker for $4.9 billion. Part of the deal involves PokerStars executives accused of fraud and money laundering stepping down from their posts. That would appear to clear the way for PokerStars to …
Norwegian poker players have been required to travel to other countries to play in the annual Norwegian Poker Championship since 2008, when the series was played in Nottingham England. Since then the series has visited Latvia before settling in on …
One of the highest earning live tournaments players to come out of Norway, Andreas Høivold has been living and playing poker professionally in Las Vegas since 2009. The Scandinavian pro initially came to Nevada to appear on season 6 of the show High …
Nick Kost stared across the table from some of the world's best poker players and didn't blink. The 2004 DeWitt High graduate, who is originally from Okemos, bet and bluffed his way to a gold bracelet by winning first place at the World Series of Poker …
Despite a little wind, but otherwise clear, sunny skies, the annual Poker Run, sponsored by the Akron Elks was held Saturday, June 14. This was the 13th annual run and it attracted 417 people on motorcycles and in cars. After stops in Brush, Fort …
Nick Kost stared across the table from some of the world's best poker players and didn't blink. The 2004 DeWitt High graduate, who is originally from Okemos, bet and bluffed his way to a gold bracelet by winning first place at the World Series of Poker …
My friend is an avid Three Card Poker player. He says that when the dealer deals three cards at a time to each player, the odds are stacked against him. I say the odds are the same: It doesn't matter if a player gets three cards all at once or one card …
“Developments in technology and recent legal decisions have created an opportunity to legalize interactive poker as a means to further enhance and complement the benefits delivered by casino gaming, licensed facilities and the communities in which they …
The deal is expected to affect online poker player traffic in the future in a most positive fashion in terms of industry growth. But stay tuned because the bickering is likely far from over in California where a coalition of Indian tribes may not yet …
Candace Collins Northern California pro Candace Collins put her name on the live tournament map with a 14th-place finish in the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star for $39,800 in March of 2014. Collins has nearly $60,000 in tournament earnings, …
When the editor of Grantland magazine offered to pay his $10,000 entry fee for a seat at the World Series of Poker in exchange for an essay on his experiences, novelist Colson Whitehead, who has played penny ante poker since college, went all in. He …
The modern poker champion is likely to be a 20-something college student who plays with designer sunglasses, a baseball cap or hoodie and he listens to his iPod as the game progresses. But how does a millennial go from playing games late at night in a …
Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA), the social gaming operator, recently launched Zynga Poker Leagues, updating its flagship poker app. This is a new competitive feature designed especially for the purpose of delivering a free-to-play variant of an authentic …
A new, re-edited version of the poker documentary Ultimate Beat: too much to lose is set to be released on June 25th. Over the past several years longtime Ultimate Bet investigator Scott “ElevenGrover” Bell took on the monumental task of creating a …
The 25-year-old poker pro from Paris became just the 14th Frenchman to ever win a WSOP bracelet and he credited his mostly French rail for supporting him throughout his heads-up match with Justin Oliver. “My rail was really helping,” said Milan. “It …
Through the first half of the 2014 World Series of Poker, poker pro Nick Schulman recorded six cashes. Remarkably, all of them were top-20 finishes. The two-time bracelet winner turns 30 this fall, but he already has eight-plus years of experience at …
The Seminole Hard Rock Casino Poker Open (SHRCPO) for 2014 has revised its schedule, allowing players to potentially play in both the EPT Barcelona Main Event and the $10 million championship. Poker aficionados might remember that last year the …
On this episode of the Thinking Poker Podcast, Nate and Andrew set the location for the meet up in Las Vegas, break down a cash game hand that listener Jason played at Maryland Live! Casino, and talk with Ari Engel about how to travel the circuit …