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The LAPT has announced a collaboration w/ BSOP Millions festival for the much anticipated Season 8 Grand Final. The LAPT is headed to Brazil for their Season 8 finale to join forces with the Brazil Series of Poker (BSOP). From November 25 through …

"If you've played poker in any main event in Canada, Overdijk may have been at your table," he wrote. "From Halifax, N.S., to Richmond, B.C., the 54-year-old Overdijk travelled coast to coast playing Canada's biggest tournaments." When reached by phone …

I never personally worked for Bluff Media, but I did get one of my first paid poker gigs from a licensee of the Bluff brand known as Bluff Europe. It wasn't until very recently that I was even made aware that the two companies weren't the same. Up …

The return of legislated online poker in Russia could fund the Russian National Chess team according to various reports. Russian business mogul Vasily Anisimov, who leads an association of State Lotteries in his home country, hopes that proposed …

I'm a small-stakes tournament grinder who came to Las Vegas this year with the intention of playing $400 tournaments at Planet Hollywood all summer. For some odd reason, my friends talked me into selling action and playing the World Series of Poker …

Laurent Polito survived a field of 428 players to win his fourth World Poker Tour National Main Event in two years. Laurent Polito wins WPTN Brussels Main Event for €56,500. It marked his fourth WPTN title! France's poker pro Laurent Polito made …

real-money There was little change in the U.S.-facing online poker payment processing business during the past month. There was some minor improvement at the bottom of the list. The sites that have shown the ability to process payments in a timely …

In the past year Dreyfus has launched an all-out assault on the poker industry's traditional business models as he attempts to “sportify” poker. First, the American Poker Conference and American Poker Awards. Next came the Global Poker Masters. And …

The first Columbiana County Veterans Poker Run will begin at the AMVETS Post 45, 750 S. Broadway Ave. in Salem, at 11 a.m. Saturday. Entry is $15 for singles, $25 for doubles and cars are $25. Breakfast will be available from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. The …

Already the only operator to offer licensed online poker in the U.S. states of New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware, the deal allows 888 to take over bwin.party's agreement with the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City that has cultivated the largest regulated …

The 2015 World Series of Poker has come and gone for all but nine final table participants remaining in the Main Event. There were plenty of happenings at the WSOP that caught even seasoned media coverage pros off guard in 2015. Here is a look at the …

The November Nine is set in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event. The 9 players who will sit at the final table are vying for $7,680,021 in cash and poker immortality. The players survived a week of poker grind to last longer than over 6000 other …

Poker Run Raises Money For Children's Home Society. July 19, 2015, 5:00 PM by Tanner Chambers. Poker Run Raises Money For Children's Home Society. TEA, SD -. Riders with Those Guys ABATE rolled out for a charity poker run Sunday morning.

LAGs win. Not all LAGs, of course, but if you watch the $5-$10 or $10-$20 no-limit hold'em games in your area, there's a good chance the best player in the pool plays a LAG style at least sometimes. Loose-aggressive, or LAG, play is characterized by …

IT'S NOT YOUR TYPICAL POKER TOURNAMENT. TONIGHT'S FULL HOUSE WAS ALL ABOUT MAKING SURE ONE CLOSE FRIEND DOESN'T FOLD. WE ALL CARE, WE ALL CARE FOR JOSH. HE'S PART OF OUR FAMILY. ALAN: MEMBERS OF THE …

Yates' Cinderella story began at 888poker when he decided to invest $0.01 of his hard-earned bankroll to join one of the WSOP satellites available at the world's second-largest poker site. Yates won, and then kept fighting for the dream. He went on to …

PokerStars has hosted high roller events in the past, but the maximum buy-in has been $25,000. This year's WCOOP Super High Roller more than doubles their record for highest tournament buy-in and is certain to attract an elite crowd of poker pros and …

Thomas Paul, the former chief investment officer of the Fortress Investment Group hit the poker tables at the WSOP after his glorious blackjack career. The name of Thomas Paul might sound familiar to devoted blackjack enthusiasts. He received his …