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Online gaming operator 888 Holdings has highlighted the performances of its poker and casino divisions as key factors in a 7% year-on-year rise in revenue for the first half of 2013. The company's sales increased to $200.1 million (€149.5 million) in …

HANOVER, Md. (AP) — 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..

888 – which runs online poker, casino, bingo and sports betting services primarily in the UK and Europe – was forced out of the US in 2006 after an online gambling crackdown, but the market has slowly opened up. Regulatory difficulties have held up …

Hard Rock poker director Bill Mason says the momentum started on Aug. 8 with the first event of the 33-tournament Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. That first tournament cost $350 to enter and drew more than 3,300 entries. Players who busted out could …

HANOVER, Md. (AP/WJZ) — 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..

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …