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That brought his career poker winnings to $1.3 million — a feat he never imagined when he started dabbling in poker by playing with pretend chips on the Internet back in 2004. Zinno, 32, said by about 2007, he started playing professionally. It was …

It's a day that will go down in poker history, and many in the industry have dubbed it "Green Friday." (Why does this stuff keep happening on Fridays, anyway?) In place of my usual Tweets of the Week column, I've decided to join in the celebration by …

Ronnie Pease For the first time since early September, a new name now rests atop the Card Player Poker Tour leaderboard. A $91,347 payday from the CPPT Foxwoods $1,650 no-limit hold'em $300,000 guarantee main event for Ronnie Pease catapulted …

And while WSOP and 888poker beat Party to the Apple store, Party is the first major player to boast a native application for Android smartphone and tablet devices. I had a chance to download and peruse the poker version of the app, with decidedly mixed …

That brought his career poker winnings to $1.3 million — a feat he never imagined when he started dabbling in poker by playing with pretend chips on the Internet back in 2004. Zinno, 32, said by about 2007, he started playing professionally. It was …

That brought his career poker winnings to $1.3 million — a feat he never imagined when he started dabbling in poker by playing with pretend chips on the Internet back in 2004. Zinno, 32, said by about 2007, he started playing professionally. It was …

The 2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open kicks off on April 8 with a massive $560 event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The series-opening tournament will allow re-entries during the three starting flights. Last month, the $560 opening event of the …

On Monday, February 24th the Florida Senate Gaming Committee released their anticipated gaming reform bill. After hiring a consulting firm to review Florida's gaming industry last year and taking feedback from the public, the Senate Gaming Committee …

Like California, this is one of the states PokerNews will be keeping tabs on in 2014, and for a complete overview of poker legislation in the United States, check out the first part of our series The 50-State iGaming Initiative. Photo courtesy of SXC …

The event lost steam after Black Friday in April 2011, when the major offshore poker sites — Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker — shut down their U.S.-facing operations. The tournament didn't run in 2012. The $20,000 buy-in is an …

Season 2 of the Hollywood Poker Open Regional Tournament Series rolls on this weekend at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania, and PokerNews will be on hand to cover the $1,800 Main Event. "We want the players …

The fifth season of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) is off to a strong start. Mark Sandness won the first stop at Running Aces, and last week Shawn Schoreck emerged victorious at the Belle of Baton Rouge. Next, from March 1-9, the MSPT will be at the …

After 1,050 days, more agonizing to some than others, more than 30,000 American poker players are finally seeing their Full Tilt Poker money in their bank accounts. The Department of Justice made Black Friday a day of infamy in the poker industry, but …

Former World Series of Poker champion Chris Moneymaker will field reader questions live on PennLive today, tentatively from 11:15-11:45 a.m. Moneymaker is at PennLive headquarters in advance of the Hollywood Poker Open main event, which begins …

There are a number of things that set this WPT Main Event apart. First of all, it is the only one to have bounties, but is not a bounty tournament in the typical sense. Each table starts with at least one “Shooting Star,” a famous professional poker …

Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

If someone asked me what it takes to succeed in tournament poker, I wouldn't hesitate to say patience. As a tournament reporter, I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone flirt with elimination only to turn their luck around and emerge victorious.

State police said Tuesday that they have arrested two individuals and are looking for two others for allegedly passing fake $100 chips in poker games last month. The alleged crimes took place at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover. The casino opened its …