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Poker-related crimes in 2015 were seemingly straight out of a Hollywood script, theft abundant and the takes bountiful. Scandal has a long history with the game of poker dating back to its earliest days when players put cards in the air in the back of …

In April 2013, Kevin "1sickdisease" Eyster topped a field of 542 to win the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown for $660,395, which came the same month he won the FTOPS XXII Event #34: No-Limit Hold'em Six Max Reentry for $333,680.

Negreanu, Ivey, Colman The Most Popular Poker Players of 2015 The Hendon Mob website is one of the most useful databases when it comes to compiling the results of poker players taking part in live tournaments. Another feature that the site provides is …

A UK court has found poker author Nigel Goldman guilty of being cheated by eBay customers. He has been convicted of running an illegal rare coins business. Goldman, the writer of “Make a Million from Online Poker,” could now be extradited to Spain …

Online poker has become a saturated market since it hit a peak in 2004/2005 in the post-Moneymaker years, but the changes introduced by the largest online poker sites in 2015 have all been designed to inject some new life into the game. Arguably the …

Brett Richey has been a successful poker player, having earned $1,379,172 in the course of his poker career. He has been playing poker for the past 10 years and has been the runner-up of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) two times. In April 2005, he …

New England's top professional poker player and media personality Bernard Lee on Dec. 23 donated holiday packages to over 50 children in the Milford, Mass. area as part of The Full House Charity Program, which has provided a minimum of $10,000 worth …

Crown, the widely acclaimed gambling company, today announced that Jason Somerville, the professional poker player will broadcast the Aussie Millions Poker Championship live on his Twitch.tv channel. The Aussie Millions Poker Championship is one of …

For many players, the main object of playing poker is to win money. Others enjoy the challenge presented by the game and others hope to one day become insanely famous while playing poker. Regardless of your reasons for playing poker, anyone that plays …

Many poker players laugh at the notion of free-play online poker. For those who have been playing the game competitively for years and working hard to move up in stakes, playing for meaningless coins may seem like a waste of time. However, it is …

2015 started off with an interesting move by 888 and WSOP.com as the two independent online poker rooms decided to pool liquidity across many, but not all of their cash games and tournaments. The pooling allowed the new network to surge past rivals …

Over the years, I have been unkind to ABC play. The subtitle to my book Playing The Player is Moving Beyond ABC Poker To Dominate Your Opponents. I regularly write articles about how to beat ABC-playing opponents. If you read too much of my stuff, you …

Phil Ivey Biggest Online Poker Loser of 2015 With 2015 almost in the bag, 10-times WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey is currently the biggest loser of the year with $3,7 million in losses. That is also a situation that is unlikely to change over the next …

While the NBA is fairly predictable compared to other Daily Fantasy Sports offerings, a lot can change from week to week. Being aware of injuries, role changes, or even just a player who is all of a sudden playing markedly better or worse than he was …

Based on number of “hits” (clicks on a certain player on the Hendon Mob website), the poker database has available a list of most popular players in 2015. Some of the list probably won't come as much of a surprise to most poker fans. The player that …

Pechanga Resort & Casino, one of the biggest casinos in California, includes a live poker room. Located right above the casino's Round Bar on its second floor, the live poker room offers a wide range of no-limit and limit poker games ranging from Five …

As stated in a note sent to the media on Tuesday, the Unibet UK Poker Tour will be organized in cooperation with Caesars Entertainment, and will comprise of five stops with the first one kicking off at the Brighton Marina Village in Brighton, from Feb …

Last I time I introduced four pieces of conventional poker wisdom about home games, suggesting that while they each make sense and have elements of truth to them, as general rules of thumb they are in fact mostly wrong — and in fact better not to follow.