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In April, after a length heads-up battle, Salter finished second to Italy's Antonio Buonanno in the European Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event for a career-best score of €765,000 ($1,058,369). Fast forward to October and Salter came second in another …

Jack McClelland, 63, was once a semi-professional bowler and poker dealer. He moved out to Las Vegas to help his ailing mother and ended up directing tournaments at the WSOP in the 80's and running the Bellagio poker room from 2002 to 2013. He was …

Teaching the world to play better poker will have to be accomplished for awhile without allowing players to log on and play at IveyPoker.com. A recent tweet by Phil Ivey revealed that "we plan on suspending the current game this Saturday, October 25th.

Online poker sites have been trying to appeal to “Recreational” players since the very beginning, and following the industry-wide shakeup after Black Friday there was an even more concerted effort to target these jilted, disenfranchised recreational …

Social gaming company Zynga has moved to bolster its online poker offering by launching a new title in the form of Zynga Poker Classic. The new game is due to launch on iOS in the coming week and on the Android platform later in the year. Zynga Poker …

Negreanu, Jack McClelland Become 2014 Poker Hall Of Fame Inductees The Poker Hall of Fame has announced that Daniel Negreanu and Jack McClelland are to be this year's newest inductees, with an official ceremony marking their admission to take …

Two Italian poker pros will have a less taxing year ahead, following a key EU ruling in their favor. The European Union Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled against the Italian government in a case that concerned whether the nation could seek to collect …

South Point's online poker website, Real Gaming, received final approval from state gambling regulators today. Real Gaming became the third real-money online poker site to operate in Nevada when it went live in February. Initially, the site was in a …

Global Poker Index editor Eric Danis and CineSport's Noah Coslov talk about some of the most bizarre bets made by poker players including the infamous “boob bet.” Thomas Fitzgerald is co-founder of XN Sports.Follow @FitzyXN …

“Open Face Chinese poker is a fun and exciting game, growing incredibly fast. Being the biggest global OFC poker site, we decided to seize an opportunity and give some live action for the players. And with the entire poker community coming to Prague in …

From December 5th through the 9th the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey will play host to one of the largest bar poker events of all time, the $100k Guaranteed Bar Poker Open. The five-day Bar Poker Open tournament series will …

Jennifer Shahade criss-crosses the globe changing hats as a professional poker player and master chess player. Sometimes she dons both, like at the recent UKIPT event on the Isle of Man where PokerStars hosted an international chess tournament and …

Can you still call a Hall of Fame member a kid? We will soon find out as the World Series of Poker announced on Thursday that "Kid Poker" Daniel Negreanu was one of two members of the poker world who would be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame this …

The 2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic is just over one week away, with the festivities kicking off Saturday, Nov. 1 with a $500 No-Limit Hold'em event. The series will feature five events running Nov. 1-9, highlighted by the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main …

It's where a boy borrowed $100 from a friend, lied to his parents, snuck into a poker club and doubled down on his future. It's where Pat McAfee turned $100 into $1,400. It was the money he needed to buy a plane ticket to Miami to prove to college …

Matt Kirby capped a successful Fall Poker Classic tournament series by winning the $1,000 Main Event on Oct. 20 at Canterbury Park. The 30-year-old tournament pro from Bemijdi, Minn., defeated 362 other competitors and captured the top prize of $84,502.

Last month the list of 10 nominees for the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame was released by the World Series of Poker, and now after the 21 living Hall of Fame members and a 20-member media panel have cast their votes, two finalists have been chosen.

The tenth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Hollywood Park Casino in Southern California Oct. 17 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 26 culminating with a $340 no-limit hold'em $100,000 guarantee main event Oct.