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The 52-table poker room at Maryland's largest casino is set to open to the public. Dealers will start shuffling cards at Maryland Live Casino in Hanover at noon on Wednesday. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 11 a.m.. Maryland Live opened in …

The final table is set in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,300 no-limit hold'em main event in Hollywood, Florida. A gigantic field of 2,384 entries blew away the event's $10,000,000 guarantee, building a final prize pool of over $11.9 million. Now …

Justin Bonomo is second in chips heading into the final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event on Wednesday. On Tuesday, after bagging his chips, Bonomo was kind enough to spend a few minutes with …

In four hours of play on Day 4, 11 players have been eliminated from the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event, and the remaining 10 players have formed the unofficial final table. It looks like this: …

What we have here is an all-in situation from this summer's World Series of Poker main event, which aired during Tuesday's episode on ESPN, deep into the tournament. If you know how to play no-limit Texas hold 'em, the situation is clear. If you don't …

Rafael Nadal will be hoping to polish his poker when he downs racquets temporarily to play in his first pro poker tournament as part of his sponsorship with the PokerStars website. The Spanish tennis powerhouse is set to playing an event in the Czech …

Those are the highlights of recent online poker player traffic numbers as compiled by industry independent tracking site PokerScout. Full Tilt showed an increase of 14% of players last week by offering the Build Your Bonus promotion that allows 37 …

Reuters reported that the U.S. casino lobby is going to be using the release of the online poker flick Runner, Runner to advocate the need for regulation on real-money Internet gaming activity. According to an email obtained by Reuters, American Gaming …

Season 10 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour kicked off this week in Barcelona, Spain. PokerNews has already set the stage with our EPT Barcelona Numbers Look and a special Where Are They Now featuring all nine past champions. Now, we'll …

Mukul Pahuja is a professional poker player who grew up in New York and then moved to Florida. At the time this was published he was the chip leader of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event, and he discusses …

When Greg Merson got hooked on poker as a Laurel teenager in the mid-2000s, he had to find private games if he wanted to play locally. “I started playing in home games around the area,” Merson said. “I played all different stakes in underground games …

Coming off the $10 million guarantee Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open being held at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida Aug. 22-29, bestbet Jacksonville will offer players from that tournament an incentive to come north. Players who …

I won 40 times in a row and thought I was surely the best poker player in the world. I won $8,000 in those 40 sessions. In 1959, that was just amazing. So, I thought I was not only the best poker player in the world, but one of the richest ones. I soon …

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from August …

The game of poker is well known for attracting players from many walks of life. Tennis is one of a number of sports that has spawned some solid poker players, with some of the most accomplished tennis pros finding a new life at the poker table. This …

This year Team 888poker will be at its strongest and should bring some exciting content and opportunities to our continuously growing poker room. Good luck to Tran and the rest of our Team.” Tran said in a statement: “I am extremely excited to work …

On Sunday, the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event continued with Day 2 action in Hollywood, Florida. Leading the remaining 100 players is professional Justin Bonomo, who bagged 2.722 million chips. Bonomo …

bestbet Jacksonville Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour will begin Aug. 29 at bestbet Jacksonville in Florida and satellites are up running for entry into the $1,500 buy in $300,000 guarantee main event Sep. 6. $185 satellites will run at 12:30 pm …