Further spurring rumors that Carbon Poker might be in trouble was a notice to affiliates indicating that their affiliations would be shutting down as of June 1. The letter also said no new players would be accepted into the affiliates program as of …
Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …
Poker pro Phil Ivey won $280,000 on Full Tilt over the past seven days, according to tracking from HighstakesDB. Ivey was the second-largest winner over the stretch, trailing only Ben “Ben86” Tollerene's $373,000 in winnings at the virtual tables …
bestbet Orange Park will offer Poker 101 seminars on Saturday, May 23 and Saturday, June 20 at 455 Park Ave. beginning at 12 pm noon until 5 pm each day. The classes will cover poker basics such as hand rankings and table etiquette along with an …
American high-stakes regular Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates has confirmed his attendance to the upcoming MPN Poker Tour Tbilisi, as event organized by Adjarabet and the Microgaming Poker Network. Built around a five-event schedule highlighted by a $550 …
The company already offers a 138-branded sportsbook and casino, and describes the launch of its poker offering as the addition of its first “mind sport” to its product portfolio. It has launched download and instant play clients, and will follow this …
Last week was another bad one for online poker, as PokerScout reported that the industry's cash game traffic dipped a fairly significant five percent, the fourth straight week of declining numbers. In the top ten of PokerScout's rankings, half the …
Is Tiger Woods the Phil Ivey of Poker? We're about to find out as the fourth annual “Tiger Jam” charity poker tournament gets underway in Las Vegas tomorrow (May 14). Hosted by Woods himself, the star-studded event at the MGM Grand will feature “the …
One of the most successful stops in recent memory on the Mid-States Poker Tour was at FireKeepers Casino last October, where the tour drew 517 runners to the stop in Battle Creek, Mich. That tournament was won by Ryan Dykhouse for $124,500, one of the …
Poker players in Spain decided to call for the country's first-ever poker-related protest on Thursday, demanding legislative changes to stop the decline of the poker industry. Frustrated about the limits imposed by the ring-fenced online poker market …
Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player's results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six …
American high-stakes regular Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates has confirmed his attendance to the upcoming MPN Poker Tour Tbilisi, as event organized by Adjarabet and the Microgaming Poker Network. Built around a five-event schedule highlighted by a $550 …
Consider the implications of this for poker. Poker players typically play sessions that last for hours, which is tiring in itself. They have to stay focussed, observe the action even when not in the hand, and in live games, where such things matter …
The 2015 World Series of Poker, which begins on May 27 with the first two of 68 tournaments scheduled through July, will likely produce multiple events with participation above or similar to last year's monster stack. WSOP officials held their annual …
As of Wednesday morning on the West Coast of the United States, 24 of the 138 events from the 2015 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) had been completed. Of those 24, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier captured two titles, and …
The downfall of the French online gambling industry was covered by the country's mainstream media on May 13 when France's leading newspaper, Le Monde, published an online article titled "Is Online Poker Going Through The Floor Soon?" ("Le poker en …
The next three finishers in this tournament are all well-known poker players in New Jersey with Jonathan "jetsfan14" Borenstein winning $3,640 for third place, Jake "schaf4206" Schafer winning $2,840 for fourth place, and Michael "itWasThatOr0 …
After playing 80,000 hands between April 24 and May 8, a computer program called Claudico amassed slightly fewer chips than its opponents, four top-10 poker professionals; however, the deficit was not large enough to determine conclusively that the …