There are a couple of ways to change game formats in poker. One is to change from something like no-limit hold'em to limit hold'em. While the mechanics of dealing cards and such are completely identical, the dynamics of the game can be extremely different.
Poker legend Antonio Esfandiari was disqualified from play in this week's $5,300 buy-in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event for something he did underneath the table. Esfandiari and poker-playing businessman Bill Perkins had a prop bet that …
Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh looks to continue the growth of its robust schedule of poker tournaments and events, while SugarHouse prepares to open a permanent poker room early in 2016 as part of its property-wide $164 million expansion. Glantz will …
As there was no winner, the next drawing will likely offer around $1.3 billion, more than twice as big as any American lottery prize in history. Thinking about how nearly a billion dollars might change my life led me down a mental path of pondering …
The Indiana County chapter of ABATE of Pennsylvania held a poker ride in 2015 and also sold T-shirts. All proceeds ($1,629.08) from the event were donated to the M. Dorcas Clark, MD, Women's Imaging Center and Birdie's Closet at the Indiana Regional …
Georgios Sotiropoulos topped one of the toughest final tables a $2,200 buy-in is likely to produce to take down Latin American Poker Tour Bahamas. He banked $308,220 for topping the 851-player field. It's the second-biggest live cash for Sotiropoulos …
Less than a week before arriving in the Bahamas, O'Dwyer finished fourth in the World Poker Tour $200,000 Triton Super High Roller Cali Cup in Philippines for $953,700 and 300 POY points. Just ten days into the year O'Dwyer already has accumulated …
Normally, the police would release a “wanted” photo when asking for the public's help in identifying suspects on the loose to hopefully capture them. But the Binyang Police of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have found an interesting way to inform …
Less than a week before arriving in the Bahamas, O'Dwyer finished fourth in the World Poker Tour $200,000 Triton Super High Roller Cali Cup in Philippines for $953,700 and 300 POY points. Just ten days into the year O'Dwyer already has accumulated …
Testosterone inhibits poker prowess, according to a new scientific study, which is good news for female poker players everywhere but might be bad news for Dan Bilzerian. The study, by the Department of Psychology at the University of Utrecht in the …
According to Confidenti@l (yes, that's really how it's spelled), an entertainment column on the New York Daily News website, Shak recently launched her own luxury poker set merchandise, as well as a series of private poker lessons that will show women …
Kansas guard Frank Mason III (0) puts up a three over Texas Tech guard Keenan Evans (12) during the second half, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 at United Spirit Arena in Lubbock, Texas. Advertisement. Lubbock, Texas — You wouldn't be able to judge by his …
The state of Massachusetts is in the news of late due to online poker legislation that has a chance of gaining traction. With neighboring Pennsylvania teasingly close to passing its online gambling bill and New Jersey increasing its visibility with the …
On October 31, 2015, an inconspicuous thread popped up in the TwoPlusTwo News, Views & Gossip forum that would alter the poker media news cycle for the rest of the year. That Saturday, the new PokerStars rewards program was published on a …
When you've played poker for years, it's easy to forget that technical poker speak may as well be a different language. Many players just picked up a deck of cards for the first time and are wondering what the hell a reverse implied range merge against …
A poker dealer in the U.K. didn't have a card up his sleeve, but he did have chips in his socks. The dealer at the Cromwell Mint Casino in West London was arrested recently for theft after he allegedly dropped chips into his socks using a secret tube …
BetCoin has announced the launch of its new Bitcoin multiplayer poker platform, which will enable customers to play poker using the virtual currency. The platform is a native HTML5 complete poker suite where players are able to rank up their profile to …
Poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, last year's biggest winner on the Internet, hasn't started this year in the black. The Swede has dropped $115,000 so far in January, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Through the first nine days of the new …
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