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The fourth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Atlantis Casino Resort Spa March 21 and will host a series of 31 tournaments through March 30 culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold'em $125,000 guarantee main event March 28-30.

“I wanted to give good reason to play poker at school.” This is junior and Club President Miles Quinn's motivation for co-founding Poker Club with junior and Vice President Daniel Thompson on March 21. Poker Club members playing on their first meeting.

At any rate, a player of this mentality looks at first glance as if he is a good player, but in fact, he is giving up one of the tools that should be in the arsenal of every good poker player — the check. I still remember a hand that was played by T …

LAS VEGAS — MGM Resorts International Chairman Jim Murren wants the American Gaming Association (AGA) to dial down its lobbying and advocacy efforts on behalf of legalizing Internet poker because the activity is fracturing the membership of the …

Though much of the media attention is usually focused on the large poker rooms of Northern California, there are many other rooms that have incredible action and great promotions. No matter where you live in NorCal, you can enjoy a professionally run …

Increasingly, a large slice of that pie is taken up by online gambling, with poker to the fore. It's an area of rapid growth: according to Christiansen Capital Advisors, worldwide revenue from online poker grew from $82.7 million in 2001 to $2.4 …

If those numbers are correct, once you combine them with his earnings in tournaments (around $1.9 million pre-taxes) it's possible to question whether Blom has actually made much money from playing the game of poker. In other words, if you grind $1-$2 …

Licensed French gaming operators mypok and JOAOnline have finalised an agreement to merge their respective online poker offerings under the brand myjoapok.fr. The merger was approved by French regulator L'Autorité de regulation des jeux en ligne …

If you spend enough time traveling the tournament circuit, you gradually gain a sense that poker has evolved differently across the globe. Many of the online players I know are so convinced of this that they consider checking their opponent's location …

GIBRALTAR — (PRESS RELEASE) — Team 888poker ambassador, Justin 'JC' Tran, has won his 2nd World Poker Tour title at the 2014 WPT Rolling Thunder. Located in his home city of Sacramento, California, the $3,500 buy-in No Limit Holdem event drew …

After five days of play, the biggest Eureka tournament to date has come to its natural end – with one player holding all the chips and others probably regretting their missed opportunities or bemoaning their bad luck. That one player standing with his …

After forging the nation's first interstate agreement last month, Delaware Governor Jack Markell and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval are aiming for the new online poker scheme to be up and running in just a few months. Previously, the end of 2014 had …

Johnny Knight The fourth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Atlantis Casino Resort Spa March 21 and will host a series of 31 tournaments through March 30 culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold'em $125,000 guarantee main …

Luck just might have everything to do with it at Martin Resource Management Corporation's sixth annual Bet On It Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament. The tournament, scheduled to start at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 29, will be raising money for American Cancer …

Jonathan Little has made a huge impact on the tournament poker scene over the past eight years. With two World Poker Tour main event titles and more than $5.5 million in career live earnings, his abilities at the table have been demonstrated again and …

Tony “Lazer” Lazar of Plymouth, Minn., earned $48,263 when he won the Ante Up Poker Tour's Spring Poker Classic Main Event on March 16 at Running Aces Harness Park in Columbus, Minn. With the win, Lazar grabs the early lead for AUPT Player of the …

J.C. Tran has emerged victorious in the inaugural 2014 World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder $3,500 no-limit hold'em main event. Tran topped a field of 456 entries at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort just outside of his hometown of Sacramento to earn the …

A hugely positive note for online poker in New Jersey this weekend, as a special edition of the Sunday major at Party Poker / Borgata attracted a record-setting 786 players, easily surpassing the $100k guaranteed prize pool.