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Associação Nacional de Apostadores Online, a group established to protect the interests of online gamblers in Portugal, has urged its members to boycott emerging ring-fenced sites within the new Portuguese market. Online poker players based in Portugal …

The United Kingdom is one of the largest regulated online poker markets in the world. While there are several countries that do not permit international poker liquidity, that is not the case in the United Kingdom. Players may gain access to any …

Professional poker player Antonio Esfandiari was recently disqualified from a tournament and forced to forfeit his $110,000 stack because he tried to pee into a container while sitting at the table. You may be thinking that Esfandiari was pushed to …

QUESTION: I recently watched an episode of the 1950s TV show “Maverick” online. In the show, Edmond Hoyle was cited as the source of a rule stating that prior agreement of the players is necessary for a five-card straight to be a winning hand. Have you …

Before he went into the oyster business, Sybe was a professional poker player. He played big tournaments and has fond memories of his gambling days. He also believes that his poker skills are useful in his new career. “I was first runner-up at the …

Old Trafford, the iconic home of Premier League giants Manchester United, is the venue for the fourth leg of the Grand Prix Poker Tour (GPPT) where a £60+£10 ($109) buy-in gives you the shot at a £250,000 guaranteed prize pool. Known as The Theatre of …

The Global Poker League is on its way to taking form, and the first team to be announced had a familiar name attached to it. The Las Vegas Moneymakers, headed up by none other than Chris Moneymaker, is the teaser to the full GPL revelation that will …

Poker players in the U.S. have had limited choices to play online poker in their homeland since April 2011. The current options for those who desire to play online while remaining stateside are to either take your chances at unregulated poker sites and …

Macau remains a chi-chi gambling town with many high-stakes casino games and fancy hotels. But if recent trends are any indication of what the future may hold, Macau's top revenue stream could be in trouble, and that isn't good for the game of poker.

Even the best poker players in the world often doubt themselves. Pratyush Buddiga, a high-stakes poker pro with nearly $4 million in career live tournament earnings, recently posted a blog entry where he admitted to a near crippling fear of …

ThePokerAcademy.com wants to keep you up to date with its 12-Week Challenge and the associated webinar series. The site ran its first webinar in support of the 12-Week Challenge on Tuesday, Jan 5. More than 200 people attended and it went great!

Today BetCoin™ officially launches its bitcoin multiplayer poker platform with a record-breaking Bitcoin Poker Freeroll Campaign worth hundreds of Bitcoin. Infinite Freedom Freerolls, Massive Luck Daily Freerolls worth 0.1 BTC each, 0.01 Early Bird …

Listen, ladies. Are you tired of swapping left on dating apps and have some cash to spare? Beth Shak may have just the thing for you. The former wife of hedge fund manager and fellow poker player Dan Shak is offering her card skills to teach women “a …

This year, a shootout and a poker rally were added to make the event a little more fun for everyone, said Peterman. “It's something different. Each team gets two cards from a deck of cards to start with, and every game they win you draw two more cards …

The struggles in California to pass online poker legislation have run into a new hurdle — daily fantasy sports. This week, the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization passed a bill from Chairman Adam Gray that would legalize and regulate DFS …

Way back in November of 2014, Steve Jobs screenwriter Aaron Sorkin agreed to craft an adaptation of Molly Bloom's memoir of life as a sports star-turned-poker magnate. Though he was only initially attached to pen the script, it appears he'll now also …

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 …