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The occasion was a poker run and pool tournament to raise money benefiting Rachel “Ladybug” Lukasik, an 11-year-old girl badly injured in a fiery single-engine plane crash Sept. 2 near Showdown Ski Area in the Little Belt Mountains. It was organized by …

The 2014 Poker SA Diamond Series drew to a close on Sunday evening. A massive week of poker was capped off by Henry Szmelcer winning the $2,400 Diamond Event and Bruno Portaro winning the $3,700 Diamond High Roller. It's been an absolutely …

Jeffrey Gross is a 50 year-old semi-professional poker player from New Jersey that won a satellite on partypoker.nj for his seat in the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open. He turned a $100 investment on the site into a seat worth $3,500 and has …

The One-Eyed Jacks poker room at Sarasota Kennel Club will award five Ante Up Poker Cruise packages to the top finishers in the main event of its Fall Classic tournament series. The Fall Classic will run Oct. 3-12 and feature eight events, including a …

Ameristar East Chicago reopened its poker room on July 24 and Jeremy Smith, who has been involved with every northwest Indiana poker room opening, again managed a smooth, problem-free opening, with an experienced staff. After opening, Smith was …

New Jersey State Sen. Ray Lesniak indicated he has reason to believe that PokerStars will be approved to offer online poker in New Jersey in the next few weeks. “It's going to be soon and it's going to be huge,” Lesniak said in a phone interview with …

NetBet, a Malta-licensed gaming operator that recently rebranded poker network, has finished migrating Poker770 players to its gaming platform. The move will enable NetBet Poker players who previously played at Poker770 to also enjoy games at NetBet …

Daniel Negreanu has final-tabled the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame (PHOF) after reaching the minimum age requirement of 40 in July. In a press release sent out earlier this week, the WSOP revealed the names of ten players being considered for the honor, and …

After another terrible week online, Gus Hansen is now down more than $20.3 million lifetime on Full Tilt Poker, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Hansen has dusted off roughly $921,000 online this month, bringing his losses to a new all …

The feds were tipped off to the whereabouts of the underground poker game after a plainclothes detective with the NYPD happened to spill the beans about the Staten Island gambling club while wearing a wire. Twelve other suspects were arrested in …

Kornuth walked away with $18,000 for winning the $1,100 no-limit hold'em main event on Card Player Cruises Allure of the Seas Sept. 10. Kornuth, a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, now has more than $1.77 million in live tournament winnings.

18, Poker Run participants are to ride Overseas Highway from Miami to Key West, stopping at designated points to draw cards. Entrants who draw the 10 best poker hands are eligible to play in a winner-take-all round of Texas Hold 'Em, competing for a …

Fresh of a successful stop in Tulsa, Okla., the RunGoodGear.com Poker Series is gearing up for its final stop of 2014. The tour heads back to Downstream Casino, located right outside of Joplin, Missouri, where it will again offer its signature player …

Lock Poker's cash game traffic rose 14 percent over the past month, according to industry observer PokerScout.com, despite warnings that the increasingly mistrusted site should be avoided. While the regulated American markets seem to be slowly …

Online poker in California is being hailed as the next big development in the iGaming world, but could the state's hardball tactics hamper its chances of success? Over the past five years, California legislators have been working on an online poker …

An Idaho Coeur d'Alene tribal casino must cease and desist from offering poker, as Texas Hold'em poker tournaments are against the law in Idaho, a federal judge ruled this week. In a case that could have ramifications for the California-based Santa …

There is a long history of the law cracking down on illegal poker games in New York City. Last year, the FBI Eurasian Organized Crime Squad cracked down on an illegal gambling ring connected to Russian organized crime, which resulted in charges against …

Underground poker games have long been a popular subject for the depiction of the popular card game in movies and television shows. In the past, such as in movies like Rounders, these have typically been fictional and sensationalized accounts. Now, two …