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Robert Knight, an amateur poker player from Walsall, UK, went on the run back in 2008 after police seized six kilograms of cocaine at Heathrow Airport. After investigating the haul, investigators linked the drugs to Knight but by this time he'd fled …

Registration is open for the annual Butte County Sheriff's Mounted Posse Poker Ride on April 26, with departure planned for 10 a.m. from the Loafer Creek parking lot in Oroville. Riders should arrive early to sign up. The ride will follow the …

Florida's own Paul Balzano rode a hot last two levels to climb into the chip lead of Day 1C of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. Balzano bagged up 261,800 to sit atop the leaderboard but the bigger story on Sunday was the return of the overlay.

Today, we switch things up and take a look to morning, when you're looking for a place to eat after an all-night poker tournament that ends just as the sun starts to rise. That's right: we're looking at breakfast, the most important meal (or dinner) of …

Registration is open for the annual Butte County Sheriff's Mounted Posse Poker Ride on April 26, with departure planned for 10 a.m. from the Loafer Creek parking lot in Oroville. Riders should arrive early to sign up. The ride will follow the …

New Jersey Legalized online poker revenues in the United States seem to be slumping with figures in each state offering the activity being less than stellar numbers. In New Jersey, online poker revenues have increased from February to March with …

The troubled Lock Poker site has been offline since the morning of April 17. While the content at Lockpoker.eu loads properly, and the download link is operational, the software does not connect to the poker server. The live chat feature is offline …

While Barry Hutter cruised through Day 1A of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown with a big stack, more than a few players took turns with the chip lead throughout the final few levels of Day 1B with Ryan Rivers ending on top – but not by much.

Long hours combined with lots of variance can make for roller coaster days. Don't ask Barry Hutter about that though. He didn't experience much of that on Day 1A of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and finished with 305,700 and the chiplead.

Many people had high hopes for California online poker in 2015, but it appears at least a couple of years away right now. Implementation of an online poker network would take a little while as well, so the first site to launch in California probably …

“Kill” is one of those words that has a specific and non-obvious meaning in poker that seems completely divorced from its more familiar use outside of the game. In poker, a “kill pot” means a hand in which the stakes of the game are doubled from their …

Besides being the proud owner of the Clinique des Champs-Elysées, the leading private centre for aesthetic surgery in Paris, Michel Cohen is also a well-known face in the French live poker scene. A regular at the Aviation Club de France (ACF) before …

On Thursday night, former poker pro Alex Jacob up his winning streak on the TV game show Jeopardy to five while also increasing his earnings to a total of $129,401. The Chicago currency trader breezed past his competition and for the fourth time in …

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 …

Over the past seven days on the Internet, poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom scooped $385,000 in winnings, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. He was one of the top earners. Most of those profits came on Full Tilt, and they more than cut in …

Last month, the RunGood Poker Series made headlines when it crushed its $100,000 guarantee in the $675 Main Event at Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa. That tournament attracted 426 entries, created a prize pool of $251,340, and saw Henry …

Full Tilt Poker has removed a number of games from its games lobby to make it easier to manage, the biggest elimination of games in the industry after the passage of the UIGEA in 2006. According to the Full Tilt Poker website, the games that have been …

Pizzingrilli, per reports from Italy's Assopoker, is a known name in the Italian poker community where he is considered to be a regular in live games at low and medium stakes. He was the first to be stopped by the authorities and did not try to resist …