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BOSTON — The Massachusetts Lottery plans to launch a new electronic monitor game this summer to replace its existing "Jackpot Poker" game, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg said Tuesday. Goldberg announced the new game, called "All or Nothing," during …

New York passed an online poker bill out of a committee hearing for the first time since the topic of iGaming regulation was introduced in 2013. Bills have been introduced in recent years to regulate online poker in the state, but this is the first …

Poker began booming in the UK years before Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 WSOP Main Event. The show Late Night Poker went a long way to influence a generation of poker players and player such as David “DevilFish” Ulliott were among the most …

When we asked if he played poker, he told us that he didn't know her. Regardless of whether he can really play, he has the name recognition that online poker sites love so today we present you five reasons that Deadpool should be signed to an online …

Ray Bitar, the ex-CEO of Full Tilt Poker (FTP) is not a popular man in the United States as Bitar along with other key executives Rafe Furst, Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer were alleged to have used the online poker website to run a racket that …

Some of the top poker players in the world make a lot of their money by becoming brand ambassadors for poker establishments. So when Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson signed online poker pro Annette Obrestad to be the poker ambassador …

Parx Casino, located in Bensalem just 20 minutes north of Philadelphia, has had a very vibrant and popular poker room since they first opened their doors in 2010. This month, the casino will bring back the Big Stax XV poker series, which will run from Feb.

Crown Casino flew Paul Phua into Melbourne three weeks ago on one of its corporate jets. – crownhotels.com.au pic, February 1, 2016.Paul Phua, the Malaysian at the heart of a World Cup betting scandal and one of Asia's biggest unregulated bookmakers, …

The quick succession of events in New York — a new companion bill from House gaming committee chairman J. Gary Pretlow surfaced in January, followed by the scheduling of the Senate hearing — indicates some real momentum for online poker regulation …

MONTREAL – Amaya's chairman and CEO is looking to take the world's largest online poker company private about 18 months after it acquired PokerStars for US$4.9 billion. David Baazov and a group of investors announced Monday their interest in paying …

Poker rooms in Nevada won $118,023,000 in 2015, according to figures released Friday by Silver State gaming regulators. The figure was a 1.57-percent decline compared to last year's $119,904,000. Poker revenue was $123,891,000 in 2013. That includes …

A Sunday afternoon with some free time on my hands and I found myself thinking of ways to fix some of the problems associated with poker. I should be working on my game, trying to plug the leaks that caused me to bubble my last two tournaments.

2 poker room 888poker (2,400) picked up 100 players, not a small feat considering its new Live the Game promo directs players to the tournament tables and away from cash game action. The iPoker Network (1,600) experienced the largest increase other …

First launched back in 2008, the event took place during the Aussie Millions at the Crown Casino in Melbourne and featured a host of poker pros and Australian celebrities, including former cricketer Merv Hughes and AFL footballers Brendan Goddard and …

And yet Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad has become an ambassador for the Venetian Poker Room. For many, me included, Obrestad was the epitome of online poker chic. Playing under the pseudonym “Annette_15” she amassed $2.7m in cashes playing …

On Thursday the Venetian announced Annette Obrestad has been hired to serve as an official ambassador for the property's poker room. Obrestad almost certainly expected this to be an “exciting announcement,” and for the news to be received by a slew of …

2016 marks the 15th anniversary of the world's largest poker site, PokerStars.com. This begs the question: why the name, PokerStars? Why was this brand identity chosen for what would become the world's largest poker site? To find out why, I decided to …

It was an unbelievable way to end an absolutely epic event, with Ari Engel becoming the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event champion inside Crown Poker Room on Sunday. Engel's AU$1.6 million victory came at the end of a hard-fought heads-up battle when …