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While Twitch's Poker Partnership Lead Scott Ball was busy in Beverly Hills attending the 2015 American Poker Conference (APC) and accepting an award at the inaugural American Poker Awards (APA) for Poker Innovation of the Year, The Wall Street …

The second stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Wynn in Las Vegas Feb. 25 and will host a series of 14 tournaments through Mar. 15, culminating with a $2,100 no-limit hold'em $300,000 guarantee main event Mar. 15-18. Here …

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from March 2 – 8.

Three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi has announced the launch of a new poker venture named Blast Longer, an online and mobile optimized app that aims to be poker's new one stop shop for all last-longer bets.

I'm currently reading Colson Whitehead's book, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death, published last year. The premise is that a website (Grantland) has offered to stake him into the World Series of Poker Main Event in exchange for a lengthy …

The Sky Poker UK poker Championship Main Event trophy is heading back to Sheffield, just as id did in 2014 when Alex Spencer won it, because in the early hours of Monday 2nd March, Fraser Bellamy emerged victorious in the £1 million guaranteed event.

On Friday night, the first-ever American Poker Awards took place at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. The event, the brainchild of Global Poker Index CEO Alex Dreyfus, attracted a who's who of poker stars, from players to industry heavyweights. After a …

I was recently playing in a game that was pretty crazy. It was often four or more ways to the flop for a raise and sometimes it was that many for a reraise as well. Pots were big and the players weren't really trying that hard to win them. Instead …

The poker industry had its opportunity to shine this past Friday night at the American Poker Awards in Beverly Hills, CA. The APA was organized by Alex Dreyfus, Global Poker Index CEO. He is currently on a mission to sportify the game of poker and the …

Canadian poker player Harnam Matharn, 21, was arrested at the final table of the Fallsview Poker Classic at the Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario last week for allegedly robbing a fellow poker player in Kahnawake, Quebec in November. Police …

In a notice posted on its website, Seals With Clubs cited security issues but did not disclose the specific events that led to the decision. The site has experienced security problems in the past, having been the target of a database hack in December …

Hooters Casino in Las Vegas closed its poker room early Sunday morning, March 1. The two-table poker room opened at 2pm daily and was often idle. The only game spread at the Hooters poker room was $1/$2 No Limit Texas Hold'em. Tournaments were …

The US online poker scene could welcome another major player in the coming months thanks to a new igaming bill by Pennsylvania's Rep. John Payne. When the news broke earlier this week that HB649 had been submitted to the House Gaming Oversight …

It wasn't a tough decision at all for California native Bryan Paris, who found himself in Amsterdam, where he continued to prove why he's considered to be one of the best online poker players in the world. To date, Paris has racked up more than $7.5 …

TonyBet Poker launches new games on a regular basis. This week, the online poker room, which focuses on Open Face Chinese (OFC) Poker, launched a brand new game called Progressive Pineapple. The new game release is in keeping with the poker …

The Daily Star Sunday got an EXCLUSIVE try wearing the Emotiv headset during a professional partypoker World Poker Tour Tournament, at Aspers Casino in London. After an hour of play against the pros the brain readings gave a great insight into how our …

Preflop, final table, ten handed, with the blinds at 25,000 and 50,000 and a 5,000 ante, Todd raised to 120,000 from late position, and Pfeifer called in the big blind. On the flop Pfeifer checked, Todd bet 130,000, Pfeifer raised to 305,000, and Todd …

Now Cimbolas finds himself at the top of the chip counts in the £1 million guaranteed Sky Poker UK Poker Championships Main Event after finishing Day 1d with a colossal stack of 862,500 chips. Surely he can't go on an win this major event too?