This is the 42nd and final installment of Range Rover, and I end this column at an appropriate time: after around five years of being a professional poker player, I have stopped playing fulltime, and am getting back to writing books. I am the first …
The poker room is one of the most exciting places in any casino. It's filled with energy, and with players ranging from first-timers to seasoned card sharks. If you fall into the beginner category, the poker room can be overwhelming, with so many …
The Sheldon Adelson-inspired Restoration of America's Wire Act, introduced in the House of Representatives by Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), would deal a severe blow to the fight for online poker regulation in the US if it were to be enacted. Just how severe …
One of my first trips to Las Vegas after I turned 21 was with a few software engineer friends. These were sharp guys with degrees from elite universities and already considerable career accomplishments. We played some red chip blackjack. None of us was …
“Online poker and other forms of online gaming are already happening in the state but it is completely unregulated and offers no meaningful protections for minors, problem gamblers or safeguards for consumers,” John Pappas, executive director of Poker …
#“Around 2007, I had these roommates who played online poker from their laptops,” he recalls. “I made fun of them because, to me, poker was the kind of game where you could only lose. The house would always win. And they made this very insightful …
This NJ poker player is better known as "Mergulas" on PocketFives.com where he is currently in first place out of 711 players in the New Jersey Rankings. He is also currently sitting on top of thepokerdb.com 2015 National Leaderboard, which ranks …
I recently made a claim on Twitter that I thought I was probably one of the top five poker instructors in the world. Ridiculous claim, right? The Twitterverse sure seemed to think so, and maybe all of you do too. It's possible that it is a ridiculous …
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) recently announced that it will come to Manila to launch their 9th season which is scheduled to take place at PokerStars LIVE at City of Dreams Manila. The event is expected to run from the 30th of July to the 9th of …
Tiger Woods held his annual “Tiger Jam,” a charity golf, poker, auction and concert extravaganza, over the weekend and he apparently showed off some pretty slick poker skills. A fairly drunk sounding Mark Cuban managed to wrangle Fox Sports' host Lynn …
The first World Series of Poker held in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino was also the first one I attended. It was 2005. I'd satellited in to the Main Event, and I arrived in Las Vegas full of enthusiasm and hope. I proceeded to make all sorts of …
There has been a lot of interest in Bwin.party lately, and now 888 Holdings, which is heavily involved with U.S. regulated online poker in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware, is interested in buying the company. According to the Guardian, 888's interest …
By now, many of you have heard about Chad Holloway's “passion project” entitled World Series of Zombies. The poker-themed zombie comic is currently available for digital download on comixology.com and will be available in print version during the 2015 …
The 2015 California State Poker Championship $1,650 Main Event attracted 462 entries to Commerce Casino and created a prize pool of $693,000. Turnout was actually down a bit from 2013 when Jeff Madsen topped a field of 584 entries to win the title, …
According to PokerStars, Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann, Friend of PokerStars Natalie Hof, and European Poker Tour Season 11 Player of the Year Dzmitry Urbanovich are already registered for the Main Event along with famous YouTube bloggers …
Computers have already succeeded in beating humans at chess and Jeopardy! Soon, they may add poker to that list. Earlier this month, several of the world's best poker players faced off against an artificial intelligence (AI) program called Claudico at …
Dana, host of the 12/13 show on Radio France and author of a book titled Les invités de la fête (The Party's Guests) that focuses on his long adventure in TV journalism, is also a poker enthusiast who has never made a mystery of his deep passion for …
In other news, it was Australia's James "Andy McLEOD" Obst winning $166,980, after beating 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Joe Cada in a heads-up battle in the SCOOP-10-H: $1,050+R PL Omaha [6-Max]. Cada hauled in $116,506 for …