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Other successful fights between poker pros include Gus Hansen and Theo Jorgensen boxing in 2009, with the latter taking a five-figure sum from Hansen, and Lex Veldhuis and Bertrand Grospellier kickboxing several years ago. Veldhuis won that fight …

The Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots lobbying group on Capitol Hill, said on Twitter that HB 649 will get the much-anticipated House vote. The measure passed a House subcommittee last month. The bill also includes plans for expanding brick-and …

A masked man robbed a poker gaming being held at a firehouse in Union Beach, New Jersey this past weekend, according to a report from NJ.com. The thief was wearing a ski mask and entered the side door of the establishment at around 8:45 p.m. on …

For poker players and enthusiasts, well-known poker players become an integral part of the game. We remember certain hands they played, specific television show episodes in which they were featured, and qualities that made them stand out from the …

In addition, Mobile Poker Club will offer special deposits with free tickets to MPS tournaments everyday. Mobile Poker Club supports Texas hold'em and Omaha on mobile devices with iOS, Android, Java, and Windows. Besides traditional real-money and …

UNION BEACH — A gunman clad in dark-colored clothing and a ski mask robbed a poker game being held at the Union Beach firehouse on Saturday night, police said. Police Chief Charles Ervin said at around 8:45 p.m. a man entered the side door of the …

You probably know the poker term “rabbit hunt.” It's when a player asks after the hand is over to see what cards would have come. I've recently been playing in a weekly home game where this request is made with a frequency I've never encountered before …

Though the rule has been around since late last year and some well-known poker players are already sponsored in New Jersey, the Division of Gaming Enforcement will put final approval on it after a public comment period concludes in early February, …

One-time poker pro Antanas “Tony G” Guoga, who was elected last year to represent Lithuania in the European Parliament, isn't having things go his way in his recent bid for a seat in Lithuania's government. According to a report from the Lithuania …

I'm not sure if it can be said that a kind of generally accepted poker wisdom infected these books about home game poker — with the authors doing little but transmitting in writing what was common knowledge of the time — or if some of these writers …

Each week, PokerNews brings you insight into the happenings at the major poker sites. Featuring the most popular blog posts, BlogNews Weekly is your one-stop shop for all your poker blog highlights. This week, BlogNews Weekly brings you highlights from …

Many in the high-stakes poker community see the changes as an attack on the company's most loyal players, and for some, it's being framed in a way that makes it seem PokerStars has broken some mythical nonaggression pact it had signed with its top …

Mr Gladwell told the court the defendant and Mr Reed had been at a poker tournament at the Conservative Club and during the event Salisbury, who had been drinking, had started swearing at a friend of Mr Reed's. When Mr Reed challenged Salisbury about …

The World Poker Tour has made its way to Prague after a sizzling event in Montreal, and today the Main Event of this tournament series will kick off. The WPT Prague poker festival started on Sunday with the Warm Up event, which concluded last night …

In addition to Ireland, previous years of the Norwegian Poker Championships have been held in Sweden, Latvia, and England. The event was able to be brought back home due to a change in gambling laws prompted by a recommendation last year by the …

23-year old Robert Carmona and 29-year old Victor Perez were watching boxing and playing poker at Perez's house when an argument over the poker game broke out. According to police, Perez and Carmona brought the fight outside and began wrestling.

The eighth season of the Latin American Poker Tour has come to a close, with the ultimate event being the LAPT Grand Final in São Paulo, Brazil. A total of 426 entries were made in the R$10,000 Brazilian real ($2,572USD) buy-in event. In the end Yuri …

The poker legend will have a court hearing Dec. 10 after being granted permission to appeal a ruling in the United Kingdom that allowed a London casino to keep the money he won while edge sorting in baccarat, according to a press release from his legal …