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Alex Dreyfus, the CEO of Mediarex Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the Global Poker Index (GPI) has worked really hard during 2015 to promote a number of new initiatives such as the American Poker Awards and the concept of a Global Poker …

Poker has grown in popularity over the years and it has sparked an increase in the number of poker related movies such as Rounders (1998), Lucky You (2006), Casino Royale (2006), The Grand (2008), The Poker Club (2008), Poker King (2009) and Runner …

The 12th annual North Dakota Texas Hold 'em Championship is being held at the Vegas Motel starting Wednesday night. The event is modeled after the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Advertisement. North Dakota tournament co-founder Wendy …

Blom won the year's top hand, a pot worth $365,000. That figure was slightly less than 2014's largest online poker pot, which was roughly $382,000. Poker pro Phil Ivey was also a player in many of the year's largest pots, but things didn't go his way …

A Detroit man pleaded guilty to charges brought against him for his role in a home invasion and armed robbery of a June 5 poker party in Genoa Township. Tyler Terrill Ayers Jr., 25, pleaded guilty as charged after a conference Wednesday before Judge …

There is a Team Pro Online chat that the Team Pro Online Manager, VIP Club Manager, Poker Room Manager and other Stars employees are a part of and we can put our views across and have discussions in there, as well as being able to talk to these …

Some veterans are hoping to change the lives of Purple Heart recipients who are down on their luck. Danielson resident Brent Walker, an Army veteran who served in Iraq, is organizing the Purple Heart Poker Run to raise money for Purple Heart recipients …

One of our favorite interviews of 2015 was with poker superstar Jennifer Harman, who discussed, among many topics, her fourth nomination to the Poker Hall of Fame and her passionate involvement with NevadaSPCA. Harman was subsequently inducted …

(PRESS RELEASE) — The PokerStars.com-sponsored Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), an Amaya Inc. brand, today released the schedules for the 2016 Macau Millions and Macau Poker Cup (MPC) 24, which both take place at the 'PokerStars LIVE Macau' …

End 2015 in the Top 10 of the Global Poker Index- I didn't put in enough volume especially in the second half of the year to contend for a top 10 spot, finishing a respectable #39 in a very competitive field. My goals of playing less events certainly …

Card Player has been given access to the course, and is reviewing it, session by session to give our readers some insight into how The Poker Academy can take your game to the next level. See the session 1 review here. That's right. Between January and …

Vince Van Patten, known as the jack-of-all-trades co-anchor of the World Poker Tour alongside Mike Sexton, is currently gearing up for his latest project, a movie focused on the Los Angeles gambling scene. The 58-year-old former tennis pro, who was …

The current seven-day average of cash game players at the world's most popular poker site sits at 17,000, according to PokerScout. That's an increase from 14,500 when December began. Five more top ten poker sites experienced a boost in player traffic …

The PokerNews Top 10 Stories of 2015 is presented by PLO QuickPro, the fastest way to learn PLO. As far as the poker world is concerned, the 2015 calendar year has come to a close. In PokerNews tradition, our staff has scrolled through the archives and …

I will open my game up more to the power of the three-bet, poker speak for making the hero re-raise. It has a way of injecting instant strength to both your hand and your table image. Opponents usually react to a three-bettor with much more caution. I …

Currently, there are three states operating licensed, regulated online poker sites (Nevada, Delaware, New Jersey), with more on the horizon in the coming years. Pennsylvania could well be the next state ready to join in the fun, possibly as soon as …

An avid poker player, he quit his plush, handsomely rewarding investment banking job and took to playing poker professionally, for a living. A little known, yet growing sport in India, poker is now turning into the next big wave in the young sports …

The possibility for California online poker in 2015 began with a sense of optimism for regulation in the Golden State. Despite the numerous divisions of the state's various gambling stakeholders, whose inability to see eye-to-eye had led to an impasse …