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In my last two “Casino Poker for Beginners” articles, I introduced you to the poker room personnel you're likely to meet. These people are paid to be there. Who pays them? You do, directly or indirectly. The “indirectly” part is what they get in pay …

After five days of action, it was L.A. poker pro Osmin “Oddie” Dardon who came out on top, pocketing $155,535 for defeating a final table that included the likes of Lily Kiletto (second place), Duey Duong (third place) and Xuan Nguyen (seventh place).

Just as football has the NFL, soccer has the MLS, and golf has the PGA, poker could soon have a professional league of its own. Alexandre Dreyfus, the poker-industry impresario behind the Global Poker Index player ranking, plans to start a poker league …

Chattaway had a fantastic set of results during the 2015 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) and PokerStars and it is here where he had yet another four-figure score last week. Chattaway finished fourth in The Big $162 on Monday night for …

You may recognize Adam Friedman from ESPN's coverage of the 2005 World Series of Poker main event. The then fresh-faced 23-year-old was playing in his first major event and rode a combination of natural talent and some fortunate naiveté to a 43rd-place …

Xantopoulos' victory came just under a week after Makarios Avramidis took down the kickoff event of this year's WSOP Europe festival, the €2,200 no-limit hold'em six-max event. Avramidis was the first player from Greece to win a WSOP gold bracelet event.

The ninth stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Hollywood Park Casino in Southern California Oct. 16. The series will continue until Oct. 25 and feature a $500 no-limit hold'em $150,000 guarantee main event Oct. 22-25. Ninety …

If you have read my past columns, by now you are familiar with the idea that you need to be using your chips as weapons on a steady basis in poker tournaments. Today, I want to talk about some of the fundamental differences between the various strategies.

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Internet gaming win in September rose 17 per cent to $12.0m, with online casino games contributed 85 per cent of the total as revenue rose 26 per cent to $10.3m. This offset a 15 per cent drop in online poker revenue to $1.8m, its lowest monthly …

A 29-year-old has been jailed for a "vicious" and "unprovoked" attack after he floored a Glasgow man with a single punch outside a nightclub. Ricky Scott left professional poker player Michael Kane lying out cold on the pavement in Nottingham city …

While online casino and sports betting were up, in line with the general trend of growth for those two verticals in the ring-fenced European markets, online poker was down again. Net revenue for ring games in September fell 20 percent, to €6.5 million …

Pennsylvania online poker is shaping up to be a worthy candidate for legalization in the Keystone State. Politicians in Harrisburg on both sides of the aisle are coming together to find new sources of revenue as a continued pension program plagues the …

FALLBROOK – Sound of Freedom Poker Run, hosted by the Fallbrook Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), will be held on Saturday, Oct 17. Registration is the day of the event, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., at the VFW, 1175 Old Stage Rd. The $25 entry fee includes one …

The imminent entry of PokerStars in New Jersey will have far-reaching implications, both in the immediate and the long term. In the short run, a successful PokerStars launch will see the NJ online poker market expanded from two operators to three. As a …

Fresh Deck Poker is the online poker app that you need to get on your electronic gear now. It is the only poker game to have its random number generator certified by GLI, the company that certifies all gaming machines like the slots in Vegas and state …

Just over forty-five hundred hands over the past week on PokerStars for Isaac Haxton resulted in $526,000 in losses, the most in the online poker world during the stretch, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. The losses put Haxton's PokerStars …

There are five players remaining in a major international poker tournament and you are all in the money. You are sitting with 406,000 in chips and the blinds are at 5,000-10,000 with a 1,000 ante, giving you a little more than 40 big blinds to work with.