The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) recently completed its second stop of Season 11, which took place at Ameristar Casino Hotel East Chicago. The $1,650 Main Event attracted 498 entrants and created a prize pool of $714,120, and after three days of play, …
The Winning Poker Network (WPN) was forced to cancel its $1 million guaranteed prize pool tournament on Sunday, after an apparent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack caused disruptions and connectivity issues for players participating in the event.
In his book, The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler discusses some reasons that people go on tilt. The reasons are many and varied, but injustice is one of the ones he mentions and the one that applies here. Players, even good ones, can sometimes …
British poker pro Sam Grafton sits third with 2,610,000, triple crown winner Davidi Kitai is fourth with 2,307,000 and Vanessa Selbst sits fifth with 2,040,000. The only player between Sperling and that group of three is Stephen Graner who bagged up 3 …
Of that total, $1,877,603 came from online poker. That's the smallest figure since the Garden State saw the launch of real-money online gambling late last year. October saw $1,967,904 from online poker, which was part of $9.48 million in overall I …
Described as the "largest poker site in the world" by ESPN, Zynga Poker caters for players of all ability levels, from beginners to experts. With support for a number of languages, including Turkish, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Portuguese …
Mornings are never fun. The best way to manage them – to get through them really – is to create a routine. For most people that means a shower, a commute, a coffee and spending the first 15 minutes of your day procrastinating before getting your …
Season 5 of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) began way back in February at Running Aces Harness Park in Minnesota and saw Peixin Liu reach the final table. There, he busted fourth in a tournament ultimately won by Mark Sandness. The tour returned to …
Christmas came early for Mark Evans on Sunday when he walked away from the Genting Club Sheffield with the title of 2014 Genting Poker Series (GPS) Grand Final Main Event champion, a title that's also worth £54,060 in prize money. The final day's play …
As Day 3 action was wrapping up in the EPT Prague Main Event, Simon Mattson was getting ready to bag up a little more than double the average stack. Then he found himself in a raising war with Miha Travnik that ended up with Travnik risking his …
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Professional poker player Dan Bilzerian is no stranger to making headlines and usually not for his card-playing acumen. In April, a porn actress threatened to sue after he threw her, naked, from his roof to a pool below for a photo shoot.
Launched in October 2010, Switch Poker was the world's first mobile real-money poker site compatible with Apple devices such as the iPad and iPhone. It was a technologically demanding feat to get the product up and running but since then Switch Poker …
A new online poker research study put together by the UNLV Department of Economics is asking respondents to offer up their thoughts on poker and regulations. Are you at least 21 years old? Have you ever played No Limit Texas Hold'em for money either …
The Principality of Andorra, a small country in the eastern Pyrenees Mountains between France in Spain, is closer to offering regulated online poker thanks to the final draft of a bill introducing new laws for live and online gambling. The bill was …
Even the most optimistic poker player can't imagine winning the first ever super high roller event they play. That's exactly what Leonid Markin did on Thursday though, beating a 51-entry field to win the €50,000 buy-in Super High Roller at EPT Prague …
Preflop, final table, eight handed, with the blinds at 300,000 and 600,000 and a 75,000 ante, van Hoof raised to 1,400,000 from early position, and Pappas called in the big blind. On the flop Pappas checked and van Hoof checked. On the turn Pappas bet …
“While this social poker offering is not real-money gaming we anticipate social gaming will be an important growth channel for the company,” he said. “Social players show different consumer behaviours to what we find in real-money gaming, and we see it …
Legalizing online poker in California has been a long, slow grind and borne scant results. In Sacramento online poker has been sheer gridlock for over five years. California legislators, tribal factions, card rooms, and other interest groups have …
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