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SHERMAN – The Late Night Legacy Motorcycle Club is sponsoring the Cork Memorial Poker Rally on Saturday, July 25, to benefit Hospice Chautauqua County in memory of "Cork" Karges, a Hospice patient. The rally will take place at Murdock's Restaurant in …

Daniel Negreanu, already poker's all-time leading money winner and a six-time WSOP bracelet winner, then went about building a 65,600-chip stack on Day 1 of the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Championship and will come into Saturday's Day 2 in the …

The ninth installment of The One Step Closer Foundation Raising the Stakes for CP celebrity charity poker tournament begins at 2 pm Friday, June 19 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Registration for the $330 tournament with $100 re-buys begins at 1 pm …

It's almost time! The most anticipated event of the World Series of Poker, the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship, will attract some of the biggest and most famous pros from around the world on Sunday, June 21. Luckily for us, we've managed to grab …

Since the World Series of Poker is underway, I want to share a hand from last year's WSOP $1,500-buy-in Monster Stack event. This tournament is different from other $1,500 events in that every player starts with an overly deep stack (15,000). This hand …

Planet Hollywood is also hosting additional daily tournaments with buy-ins of $80, $130 and $65 at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. each day. For more information and to check out the full schedule, check out the PHamous Poker Series homepage.

(Newser) – It's one thing to outlast hundreds or thousands of poker players to win one of the World Series of Poker's 68 events and the Las Vegas tournament's coveted gold bracelet. It's another thing entirely to win a game you've never played before.

Perry Shiao, a 26-year-old poker dealer from South Florida, became the latest to scoop a life-changing and mind-boggling sum of money when he won $1,286,942 Wednesday evening in the $1,500 buy-in Monster Stack event. “I came out here to chase the …

Another out for Seed is if he wins two World Poker Tour events, he wins the bet as well. Seed has won four bracelets in his career, including taking down the WSOP Main Event in a 295-person field in 1996. However, his most recent bracelet win was way …

"I ran pretty good, I thought I played pretty good, and I beat a tremendous human being heads up, so it feels good," Idema said. "I think the first one was a bit more of a prize personally, but this feels great." The event returned for a fourth day …

The F.A.T.H.E.R.S. Motorcycle Poker Run will kick off from Massillon Stadium Park in Stark County on Saturday morning. F.A.T.H.E.R.S. stands for Families Against The Heroin Epidemic Rally in Stark. Registration begins at 9 a.m. The first bike leaves at …

Interested in a new way to compare poker players and other members of the poker community? RankingHero has developed this new concept to combine database results with a social component to give HeroScores to those within poker. Anyone can have a …

Most casino poker rooms these days sponsor some sort of promotion or jackpot in an effort to bring in more players. It's definitely worth asking about the existence of any such add-ons either before you sit down to play or sometime soon after you get …

If you still believe that all Italian poker players are just loud, crazy, and don't stand a chance at the table, then you've probably never crossed paths with Mustapha Kanit. With more than $4 million in online tournament winnings (source: PocketFives …

Pennsylvania concluded in a past study that regulated online poker could be worth up to $129 million annually once it reaches maturation. It also found that house-banked online casino games could reach $178 million annually under the same conditions.

The 5th Annual Kayak Poker Event saw over 30 kayaks paddling through the “Buzzard's Glory” section of the Chesapeake Bay, just south of Havre de Grace, Maryland, on the sunny, breezy morning of June 13, 2015, in support of the Harford Land Trust's …

BestPokerCoaching.com coach and student "$teezy" expressed his lack of surprise about this occurring to PokerNews: "First of all, it would be naive to think there is no cheating going on in online poker. If there is money to be made, there's always …

The Poker Hall of Fame (PHoF), established in 1979, honors the game's best players and most influential contributors. Each year either one or two nominees are inducted to join the 48 members currently enshrined in the PHoF, and this year several poker …