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In a move steeped in election year politics and growing concern about upheaval and warfare in the Middle East, many Senate Democrats joined with their Republican colleague to pass a $612 billion National Defense Authorization Act despite strong …

A Canadian court has found Brian Funes guilty of masterminding the robbery of a live poker tournament in 2011. Funes and Marcus Alexis, his accomplice, both residents of Mississauga in Ontario, planned to rob the players of a poker tournament that was …

Such attacks have hit a number of poker rooms in recent months, including the big boys such as PokerStars and Partypoker. Even the regulated poker sites in New Jersey faced a DDoS incident over the summer, with the attackers demanding a ransom be …

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — An Atlantic City casino locked in a legal battle with poker pro Phil Ivey over an alleged card cheating scam is seeking to have the famous gambler's lawsuit dismissed. The Borgata filed a motion in federal court Wednesday seeking …

Season 4 of the Hollywood Poker Open will move among Hollywood Casinos located across the US, and starts with a regional tourney at Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg in Indiana on November 12. The series then takes in stops in Toledo, St. Louis, and …

Poker Flat's Forward To The Past anthology returns in its third iteration, as lean and mean as it ever was. The label promises an album "precision-engineered to make you jack, dream, and all things in between!" Indeed, the winning formula here remains …

I was recently playing an Omaha eight-or-better session wherein luck broke my way two times. Of course, luck broke against me a time or two, but let's talk about the good hands, shall we? Playing at a full table, I called in a kill pot from the big …

SINGAPORE- An unemployed man who colluded with three croupiers at Resorts World Sentosa casino to cheat at poker was jailed for 12 months on Wednesday (Oct 7). Singaporean Chua Lai Huat, 66, who faced a total of 36 charges, pleaded guilty to 10 …

The Global Poker League — set to start early next year — will aim to redefine how poker is viewed by millions of fans worldwide. Through a dual-conference (Americas and Eurasia), 12-team league, and numerous innovations to the traditional live poker …

The first stop of the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) Poker Tour 2016 will be at the Montesino Casino at Vienna in Austria. The event will last from January 21 to 24. The highlight of the poker event is going to be the MPN Poker Tour Austria Main Event …

Professional poker player Daniel Negreanu has warned aspiring poker pros to be careful about poker books. Almost every aspiring poker player has read books on poker strategies and on how to improve their game. There is no dearth of poker books in the …

Colin Gillon is the latest player to take down a Genting Poker Series Main Event after he won the Edinburgh leg over the weekend. Gillon defeated his fellow Scotsman, Niall Farrell, heads-up to get his hands on the winner's trophy and £25,270 in prize …

Global Poker Index CEO Alexandre Dreyfus has long been promising to “sportify” poker, a vague-sounding claim that he has been nonetheless been elaborating on in slow and steady, piecemeal fashion. For many years, the poker industry was seen as a …

The latest round of Full Tilt Poker payments is on its way, which will bring the remission process to 92 percent of completion, according to Garden City Group, the claims administrator hired by the Department of Justice for the case. Garden City Group …

There are live tournaments galore spread across the United Kingdom and Ireland during October, giving poker players ample choice of where to ply their trade at the felt. From low buy-in tournaments to £10,000 buy-ins, there is something for everyone …

In this edition of Poker Jargon Explained, we continue our look at poker variants outside of Texas Hold'em, such as Stud poker. This time we look at Omaha poker. Omaha is the second most popular form of poker in the world and the most popular in Europe.

It was 2004, and she was at the final hand of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. Annie had beat out some of the best poker players in the world — all men — to get to this point. But she wasn't sure she deserved to be there. In fact …

The eighth stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at The Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, Calif. Sept. 21. The series will continue until Oct. 14 and feature a $1,100 no-limit hold'em $500,000 estimated guarantee main event Oct. 10 …