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TOLEDO – It's 2 p.m. on a Wednesday, I have about $575 of fake poker chips staring at me, and I'm looking at a queen-nine offsuit. I go all in — only to be called by four other players, all representing media outlets in Northwest Ohio and Southeast …

Former NFL player and Edison High School alumnus Ickey Woods will be in Fresno next week to promote his upcoming celebrity poker tournament at Club One Casino on Oct. 10. Woods is expected to visit with patients and staff at Valley Children's Hospital …

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 …

Poker rooms across the state of Nevada collected $11,458,000 in rake in July, which was a 0.59-percent uptick year-over-year, according to figures released late this week by Silver State gaming regulators. There were 68 poker rooms with a combined 743 …

Brazilian online poker players can probably relax if they were worried about the possibility of facing punishment for playing Internet poker while out in public. Despite a rash of stories earlier in the month about a change to Brazilian law, it seems …

Over the past four weeks on PokerStars, online poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has turned in one of his best upswings in his career. The Swede is up more than $2.2 million, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Blom was actually a slight loser …

The World Poker Tour rakes in the dollars but sometimes it also rakes in the dollars for charity under the auspices of the WPT foundation. That's the case next month as the Pala Casino Spa & Resort hosts the WPT Foundation Pala Poker Open from Sept.

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player's results over six half-year periods. For a look at the entire list, visit the official GPI website …

With this in mind, it should be of little surprise that the online poker room recently introduced its own version of lottery-style games aptly named Jackpot Sit & Gos. Unlike many new features introduced at PKR Poker in the past, lottery-style sit-and …

Businessman and high-stakes poker play Dan Bilzerian is known for showing off his wealth and status on social media. On Thursday, his online persona was the subject of an in-depth article by Vice.com that makes the claim that Bilzerian “is a …

Houston-based poker player Mina Greco is coming off a final table at the World Poker Tour main event at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. The $175,673 score for fifth place is the largest to date for 38-year-old long-time poker player. She had …

Poker pro Phil Ivey is using an unusual defense to allegations he and a partner cheated Atlantic City's Borgata casino out of $9.6 million at cards, claiming the casino uses free liquor served by scantily clad waitresses to distract gamblers. Both …

He goes by “Butters.'' Whenever he is playing poker, which is probably right now, Tom Kearney goes by the screen name he borrowed years ago from a “South Park” character, Butters Stotch, as cards became both his life and life's work. Kearney, 29, grew …

This year's ATV poker run is set for this Saturday. Aug. 29. The eighth annual event starts and finishes at 10101 Jellyby Rd. at Rocksprings Road in North Augusta. Registration runs from 10 a.m. until noon. Participants will make their way along the 42 …

One of the biggest mistakes that beginning poker players make during poker tournaments is sizing their bets. They tend to bet according to how strong or weak their hand is and quickly become predictable. While there's many schools of thought regarding …

The RunGood Poker Series' new season will begin at Iowa's Horseshoe Casino, located at Council Bluffs. The series runs under the slogan, “The Road to the RunGood Cup.” The series will stop at Iowa from August 16 to August 30, and the stop will start …

California has made several attempts to legalize online poker, but has always failed. Despite its failures, the state is slowly but surely moving towards legalization. In 2015, a bill finally made it to assembly, but there is hardly any chance of it …

But one Spanish man came up with a rather unique way to get the money to pay off the money he owed to a poker club. The unnamed gentleman concocted a fake kidnapping plot with the express intent to extort money out of his own parents, money that …