According to the Journal Star, Senator Larson is expected to introduce a bill later this week that would legalize poker. The bill would define poker, at least draw and hold'em, as a game of skill, and in theory would bypass wording in the state …
Back in November, the Hollywood Poker Open (HPO) kicked off the first of its eight stops in Season 3 by visiting the Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg. That Main Event attracted a record-setting HPO field of 207 players and saw Jesse McEuen emerge …
The Borgata hosted its debut World Poker Tour event in 2003, early in the tour's second season. They'd quickly become a staple on the WPT, and eventually one of the tour's cornerstones over the next 11 years. Not only has Borgata hosted a WPT event …
Women have been underrepresented at poker tables since the game first caught on in the 19th century, and nowhere is this more evident than at poker's grandest spectacle, the World Series of Poker. Even in 2014 women make up only 5% of the field of …
There's a new player in the world of poker, and he doesn't wear a baseball cap or sunglasses. This new player is Cepheus, a computer program developed by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science alumnus Michael Bowling. According to a …
PokerScout.com reports that at present almost 45% of cash game action on Full Tilt takes place on Rush Poker tables. That presumably includes Adrenaline Rush, an even faster version of Rush Poker that Full Tilt unleashed one year ago. Adrenaline Rush …
The Global Poker Index (GPI) is preparing for the first edition of the American Poker Awards, scheduled to be held at California in Los Angeles on February 27, 2015. Alex Dreyfus, the founder of the GPI, said that the American Poker Awards is an …
The Global Poker Index (GPI) has been a point of interest ever since it was first created in conjunction with the Epic Poker League (remember that?). After the league folded, the ranking system remained, and it has been one of the higher-profile ways …
The 1% of players referenced presumably contribute far more than 1% in total online poker revenue to WSOP. Restricting them will have a serious impact on the site's bottom line, potentially leading to less lucrative promotional offers and further …
The participation on the second starting day of the 2015 partypoker World Poker Tour National Cyprus €2,000 Main Event was slightly lower than expected and the screens showed a total of 63 entries after nine 45-minute levels. Eleven of those would be …
He's back! Andy Beal was spotted late Friday night and early Saturday morning playing heads-up limit hold'em with blinds of $50,000/$100,000 in Bobby's Room at Bellagio against Todd Brunson. According to poker pro Kyle Loman, who was live tweeting the …
Paying full-price for you dinner? Boring! A new pop-up lets you play poker to determine your bill. Time Out's own high-roller Guy Parsons went to try his hand. 'A bit of a gamble' isn't usually considered an endorsement for a restaurant, but there's a …
The poker room at Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip is will close for remodeling at 10am on Sunday, January 25, 2015. The poker room is expected to reopen on or about May 15, 2015. The new poker room's size will be smaller. Vegas Chatter reports that there …
Amid the California online poker legislation talk and the return of Andy Beal to the Bellagio, a small story with the potential for huge industry-wide ramifications has quietly been gaining steam: Nevada Senate Bill SB40. SB 40 is designed to prevent …
January 22, 2015 — Claude Purches, of Grand Blanc, Michigan, participates in a poker game at the World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, Mississippi. (Nikki Boertman/The Commercial Appeal). Nikki Boertman. January 22, 2015 …
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder listens to a question at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced late last week that state and local police will no longer be able to seize property without warrants or criminal …
The bill appears to remove two of the largest stumbling blocks to consensus by (i) removing bad actor provisions and (ii) allowing race tracks to take part in online poker. But it's unclear what the base of support the bill enjoys. For example, the …
Preflop, final table, seven handed, with the blinds at 30,000 and 60,000 and a 10,000 ante, Robl raised to 140,000 from under the gun, Sippl called in the small blind, and Kenney called in the big blind. On the flop Sippl checked, Kenney checked, Robl …
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