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On Saturday, the final two starting flights of the 2015 RunGood Poker Series Hard Rock Tulsa Main Event took place. Combining with the 125 entries from Day 1a, the 112 from Day 1b and 126 from Day 1c generated a field size of 363 entries and a prize …

The day prior to hosting the World Poker Tour World Championship, Borgata in Atlantic City concluded the 2015 Borgata Spring Poker Open Main Event, a tournament that attracted 447 entries. After four days of intense play, Brian Lemke emerged victorious …

The 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final is just days away, and the anticipation couldn't be higher for one of the greatest poker festivals of the year. Once again, the Grand Final will take to Monte Carlo Bay Hotel …

Preflop, with the blinds at 1,200 and 2,400 and a 300 ante, Jorry van Hoof raised to 5,700, Drinan called in the cutoff seat, Altman reraised to 24,000 from the big blind, van Hoof folded, and Drinan called. On the flop Altman bet 17,000 and Drinan called.

Last weekend's apparent cessation of services at US-facing online poker site Lock Poker likely came far too late to reclaim the player funds embezzled from Lock by primary owner Jen Larson and other Lock execs. However, at least it signals the probable …

lock-poker-logo-150×150 Lock Poker, the beleagured online poker site, has shut its website down and it is claimed that the business owes its players millions of dollars. According to PokerFuse, the website remains up but does not connect to servers …

lock_image Lock Poker, the long-troubled online poker site that continued to cater to American poker players after Black Friday despite severe legal and financial hurdles, has seemingly gone offline for good – leaving an estimated $15 million in player …

The 2015 World Series of Poker is just a little over a month away with the first events starting on May 27. Playing the WSOP is a bucket list item for many players. The prospect of earning fame, glory, and perhaps even piles of cash can be …

Poker players dedicated to improving their win rates eventually realize keeping close records of their results is imperative. Not only does it help for the purposes of bankroll management and knowing at a glance whether they are winning or losing, but …

Day 1a saw 136 players pony up $675 and push the 2015 RunGood Poker Series Hard Rock Tulsa Main Event prize pool to over 80 percent of the $100,000 guarantee, with two starting flights still to play. After 12 levels of play at 30 minutes per, it was …

Carnegie Mellon University's artificially intelligent program Claudico will play four human poker pros in a heads-up, no-limit Texas Hold'em competition testing its capabilities. The games are streamed live (with a 30-minute delay) on Twitch. Photo by …

Many poker rooms will reduce the rake (i.e., the fee that the house keeps from every pot as its payment for running the game) under certain conditions, such as a game being short-handed or just starting up. This is done to encourage people to play when …

A week after he won $385,000, poker pro Viktor Blom gave $340,000 of it back, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Blom had a very nice stretch from April 10-17, but since then has lost most of the profits. It took the Swede roughly 1,800 …

Peddler Brewing (1514 NW Leary Way) will be hosting the Ballard stop for the city wide Poker & a Pint event this weekend. The event comprises of five breweries, in five neighborhoods, with attendees collecting poker cards at each stop to play the house …

The penultimate stop on Season XIII of the World Poker Tour (WPT) came to an end on Wednesday night. The $3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown attracted 1,476 entrants over the course of three starting flights, but after five days of action, …

888poker Spain has dramatically increased its market share in the Spanish online poker marketplace over the past year. PokerFuse reported, that according to PokerScout, 888poker Spain has increased its market share from 18 percent a year ago to 24 …

Running through May 3, the biggest online open-face Chinese (OFC) tournament series, Tonybet Poker's OFC Grand Prix, starts this Sunday, April 26, with a $10 buy-in OFC poker poker event that features a €1,000 guaranteed prize pool. With 17 events …

The third exciting year of the Hollywood Poker Open is in full swing and heading to the Midwest. Hollywood Casino Columbus will host the upcoming HPO Regional Tournament beginning May 14 through May 25. Once again, regional play features poker …