From the lighter side of the poker-news beat this Sunday comes the tail… err, tale… of the recent auction of one of the nine original “Dogs Playing Poker” series of oil paintings done in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Cassius Marcellus …
West Muskingum Black Friday Texas Hold'em Poker Tournaments will be held Nov. 27 at Booster Hall. Doors open at 10 a.m.. The first tournament starts at 11 a.m. is a $30 buy-in with $20 payout and $10 registration fee; the second tournament starts at 2 …
The increase in action comes just as New Jersey is preparing to celebrate two years of offering regulated online poker and gambling later this week. November 26 marks the anniversary date of the real-money launch in 2013, following a soft launch that …
Kiwi poker player Shane Tamihana holds the chip lead over the remaining 19 players at the Sky City Festival of Poker Main Event at Auckland casino. 136 poker players put up $2,300 to enter New Zealand's biggest poker tournament which has generated a …
The fourth and final day of the €4,250 Main Event of the 2015 Master Classics of Poker saw nine hopefuls out of a 291-entry field return to action at Holland Casino in Amsterdam, chasing the exclusive winner's plate, Skullcandy headphones, and a first …
But it was 2014 Seneca Niagara Poker Classic champ Rick Block who earned the spot under Ramsay on the leader board at the end of play. Block's title defense started off a little rocky, as he busted early and fired a second bullet. A swingy day saw him …
The penultimate event of the Mid-States Poker Tour Season 6 kicks off with Day 1a today at 4 p.m. local time. As usual, the MSPT has been running satellites leading up the main event and is expecting a higher turnout than last year's Ho-Chunk Wisconsin …
Immediately, almost apologetically, Sam, the British poker pro who's won over $20 million in career tournament earnings (and that's not even counting the cash pots), explains he's been so busy, he's had to forego his traditional feeding ground of Macau.
Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …
The PokerNews My Stack app is available to players throughout the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event. The popular app connects poker players right to the PokerNews live feed. If you are playing in this, or any tournament that PokerNews is …
Poker pro Phil Ivey dropped $417,602 over the past week playing under his “RaiseOnce” screen name on PokerStars. The 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner logged 6,100 hands during the week, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB.
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's name may not instantly resonate with the poker audience, but he is the artist behind all of the amazing paintings that depict dogs playing poker. According to art auctioneers Sotheby's, Coolidge's 1984 painting Poker Game …
Sometimes, you see contestants on “Jeopardy!” and can't help but be amazed by their intelligence. And then, every few years, somebody comes along who sees like they're from another planet. Chicago native Alex Jacob is one of those Ken Jennings-level …
A 33-year-old poker dealer from across the border in Niagara Falls, Canada, won the third event on the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic schedule inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room on Thursday night. Tyler Hutchinson outlasted a field of 595 entries to …
This format is reminiscent of Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time, the three-volume series co-authored by Eric Lynch, Jon Turner, and Jon Van Fleet. A key difference is that Thinking Tournament Poker includes every single hand Meyvis entered …
A READER WROTE: “At my first live poker events, I always found it entertaining to exchange screen names with people. Nothing like a person having to tell you his name is 'StickItInYourAce69' or whatever. Also funny is when people with those names win …
The third and penultimate day of the €4,250 Main Event from the 2015 Master Classics of Poker saw 36 hopefuls out of a 291-entry field return to the tables. When it began, Donald Rae was in the lead at Holland Casino in Amsterdam, and after five and a …
The popularity of open-face Chinese poker has exploded during the past few years, with tens of thousands of players logging into their favourite Chinese poker app daily and playing against friends, family members and complete strangers. Before open …