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Canadian Poker Company Amaya Inc., also known as Amaya Gaming Group, has been the center of a lot of news recently. With its return to the United States as well as its forays into the growing Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) business, you are sure to hear …

Joe McKeenthan is $7.68 million richer after winning the 2015 World Series of Poker's Main Event on Tuesday night. The champion is a native of North Wales, Pa. according to The 700 Level. More importantly, though, he won it all wearing an old school …

All three men are within sight of the grand prize of $7.68 million and the World Series of Poker championship title, a distinction awarded every year since 1970 when the contest started at Benny Binion's Las Vegas casino as an invite-only affair, where …

The 71-year-old Belgian player who got his start as a board game maker before becoming a vice president of Hasbro's European division is out in seventh place at the World Series of Poker's Main Event. Neuville's chips had a few million chips left when …

Out of the 10 months of 2015 already passed, October ranks 7th in online poker revenue. When analyzing year-over-year totals, we find revenue from Internet poker down 2.8%. October 2014 saw the two New Jersey networks collect $1,967,905.

Friday nights at RunGood Poker Series events are a mere appetizer before the two-course meal served on Saturdays, and it was Hasan Haq emerging with the biggest stack after Day 1b/c at Downstream Casino in Joplin, Missouri. He finished with 211,500 to …

A special reality TV poker documentary is being put together by VAMN-TV and will cover the lives of eight women who will player poker in Macau and Las Vegas. The “Girl Got Game” reality TV show is being produced by Katrina Lim and will take a close …

Garry Kasparov is an author, world's greatest chess player, and as a Russian– he is not a fan of Vladimir Putin. He believes that Putin is “evil”, and discusses how he personally is a supporter of the democracy movement in his new book Winter is Coming:.

Poker stars Emily Jillette, Jon Freidberg, Perry Friedman, Mike Matusow, Jeff Gill, Karina Jett, Arlan Levitan, and Flaminio Malaguti are also scheduled to participate, as well as additional Las Vegas notables including the Sin City Sinners; Dayna …

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 …

For the second time in Season 6, the Mid-States Poker Tour visited Golden Gates Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado. The first of three starting flights attracted 126 entrants, but after 16 levels of play just 20 remained with Ross Reichert and his stack of …

The third edition of the World Poker Tour National Paris will be back at Cercle Clichy-Montmartre from Nov. 20-30, 2015, and the €1,200 Main Event will take place Nov. 26-30. With a wealth of the two prior experiences, the Main Event will boast a €500 …

Joe McKeehen doesn't rattle easily. He wears a stoic expression, speaks in a monotone voice, never too high or too low, and watches for those little things. It could be a raised eyebrow, a tapping finger on the green poker table felt, or how quickly …

So our "Best of" section ran in Friday's Showtime section, and each of us writers was encouraged to offer up five picks of our own, forget the fan voting. Two of my choices are gambling-related. I wrote about how Gulfstream Park is my best place to win …

PokerHeaven started on the St. Minver Limited network in 2005 and initially targeted poker players in the United States and Russia. The company faced a number of challenges during its initial years but succeeded in building a core group of poker …

It took New Hampshire native Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky 2,300 hands over the past week to win roughly $223,000, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Sulsky was up $1.2 million in September on PokerStars, but he went on a downswing and is now …

Tonybet Poker ambassador Isabelle Mercier returns with more tips and advice for playing open-face Chinese poker. Hello everyone, and welcome back once more to my “Open-Face Chinese No Mercy Little Guide”! In previous parts we've gone over OFC's …

We don't need to look at the numbers to see that Joe McKeehen dominated the 2015 World Series of Poker main event final table, but the stats produced from the 184 total hands dealt do offer some insight into how the 24-year-old poker pro managed to go …