Party Poker has announced that it will implement a new concept for cash games, but several regular players are unhappy as they feel that the online poker room is doing too much to protect its recreational players. The brand new feature will give those …
Famed cross-country skier and poker enthusiast Petter Northug totaled his car last weekend after hitting a guardrail and admitted to being intoxicated while driving. The Norwegian, who finished in the money in the 2010 WSOP Main Event and cashed for …
The World Series of Poker gets underway in a matter of weeks, with events starting at the end of May. It's easily the biggest single event in the poker industry, live and online. This year's Series will be the first with a real-money poker site live on …
The MPN, formerly called the Microgaming Poker Network, has created the MPNPT, which is set to make its debut in London on May 29. Aspers Casino in Stratford is the venue for the inaugural event, which sees seven action-packed events being played over …
The last seven days of action on Full Tilt Poker for Gus Hansen resulted in losses of around $335,000, according to HighstakesDB. With that performance the Gus Hansen screen name has dropped to an all-time worst of $17.8 million in lifetime losses on …
A 206-page report released Wednesday by Pennsylvania's General Assembly's Legislative Budget and Finance Committee revealed how lucrative online poker could be in the state, should it authorize the activity sometime in the coming years. The study of …
I played an interesting cash-game hand recently, and in the end, I listened to my gut and won the hand. We were playing nine-handed, $2-$5 no-limit Texas hold 'em. I had 7s 2c in the big blind. I had been playing tighter than normal, and I had an …
The sixth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at bestbet Jacksonville May 1 and will host a series of 12 tournaments through May 12 culminating with a $1,500 no-limit hold'em $300,000 guarantee main event May 9-12. Here is a look …
An article that appeared in The Press of Atlantic City, purportedly written by poker legend Dewey Tomko and one Bill Byers, entitled “Poker Pros: Test Gambling Sites for Cheating” is a fraud. The article, which had a largely anti-online poker slant …
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 …
The poker industry will celebrate the career accomplishments of two new inductees at this year's Women in Poker Hall of Fame Luncheon Celebration sponsored by bestbet Casino Jacksonville and hosted by Golden Nugget Casino on Wednesday, June 25, …
Karen, Annette, and George (not their real names) meet every Friday morning to play poker, laugh and engage in what they call "jolly good folly." This threesome is part of what I have fondly dubbed my "high school dweeb group." There were eight of us …
Playground Poker Club and PokerStars are thrilled to introduce a new series on the global poker calendar, the PokerStars Canada Cup, which is slated to run May 16-28, 2014. The Main Event will be a five-day, $3,300 tournament with three starting …
“I've been playing poker for more than 20 years and I've never won a tournament, until now,” said Casiday, who won the $15,777 top prize. “This feels so good, but I'm really tired and I need to get something to eat.” The champion explained that the …
Tell-all poker book: The Poker Princess, Molly Bloom, is going to write a book about the high-stakes poker game she ran that included the likes of actor Tobey Maguire. It's called: “Molly's Game: High Stakes, Hollywood's Elite, Hotshot Bankers, My Life …
Following the approval of expanded land-based casino gambling by New York voters last November and an online poker bill introduced in March, lawmakers now have a new option to take under consideration in the form of a second Internet poker bill …
The New Zealand Poker Open 2014 (NZPO) gives appointment to poker fans from May 29 to June 2. The great poker event will be held in the poker room of Skycity Auckland's. Various interesting programs will be displayed there. The Main Event of NZ $ 770 …
Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player's results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six …