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A poker game held at an apartment in Michigan was in the process of getting robbed when a player took out his gun and shot the suspect dead, police said, according to a report from MLive.com. The incident happened on Wednesday evening. One of the …

The new gaming-focused dot-poker Top Level Domains (TLDs) became officially available for registration on Wednesday, as they entered the so-called "landrush period." Between March 10 and April 9, 2015, anyone interested in owning a dot-poker TLD can …

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 …

You can choose between full-ring and six-max cash games, sit-n-go single-table tournaments, or full multi-table tournaments that you can configure to match the size and structure of everything from a daily Vegas tournament to the World Series of Poker …

The state's best poker players were in attendance, as were professionals from across the Midwest, but in the end, it was local player Ben Wiora who became the inaugural Wisconsin State Poker champ and took home the $114,512 first-place prize.

For the first time ever, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will award a gold bracelet for an online poker event. On Thursday, July 2, Event #64: $1,000 WSOP.com Online No-Limit Hold'em will be open to players throughout Nevada. When the 2015 WSOP …

Event 5: $50 No-Limit Hold'em of the 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge continued on Tuesday with two more starting flights taking place. After Day 1c and 1d, another 312 entries were generated — 108 on Day 1c and 204 on Day 1d. Leading the …

Season 3 of the Hollywood Poker Open (HPO) keeps on rolling later this month at the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. From March 26 through April 5, the casino will play host to the latest HPO Regional stop, and …

New Jersey poker player "smaulerg" was also successful and continued his winning ways by beating out a 213-player field to win the WSOP.com Sunday $35,000 Guarantee for $10,442. He is the player known as "Mergulas" on PocketFives.com, where he is …

While Simon may have been best known for his work as the writer, director and executive producer of The Simpsons, for which he won seven Emmys, he was also longtime poker player, amassing $356,600 in live tournament winnings since 1995, according …

When the Paradise Cafe was raided by the Warren Police Department late last year, authorities seized more than $36,000, four electronic gambling machines, two poker tables, eight $1,000 poker chips from MGM Grand casino, seven televisions, three …

Over the years Simon quietly amassed quite the list of poker accomplishments. He won three no-limit hold'em tournaments, totaling more than $100,000. Combined with a deep run in the 2011 World Series of Poker main event, Simon collected $344,000 in …

The Latin American Poker Tour Chile Main Event concluded Tuesday at the Enjoy Viña del Mar Casino, and the scene was a familiar one. That's because Oscar Alache of Chile, winner of the LAPT Peru Grand Final last October, was the winner once again.

The UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Season 5 will include five stops between the UK, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Spain during 2015, PokerStars announced on Monday. The newly-released UKIPT Season 5 official schedule features events in …

The Seventh Annual Chicago Poker Classic (CPC), which consists of 10 official events, kicked off late last week at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. Event #1: $360 No-Limit Hold'em featured six starting flights and attracted 2,296 entrants …

Mike Sexton, voice of the World Poker Tour, took to his blog last week to criticize the World Series of Poker for some of the things that he thinks poker's richest and most popular annual tournament series does wrong. Sexton won his bracelet in 1989 …

After the list of the nominees for the European Poker Awards (EPA) became public, a big part of the poker crowd could not help not to notice that this year's edition of the EPA is not going to include any online poker-related award. Built around 13 …

On Monday, Event 5: $50 No-Limit Hold'em kicked off at the 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge. The Niagara Falls Poker Room was abuzz all day long as two starting flights played out and a combined field of 249 entries was generated. After Day 1a …