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Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas has distanced his organization from the new Mike Gatto California poker bill, which he described as flawed. In an interview this week with PoketFives, Pappas criticized Bill AB 9, known as the …

In this week's Inside Gaming, a new feature presents Amaya's CEO and how he made the deal that landed his company PokerStars and Full Tilt, California takes another legislative crack at an online poker bill, and sports betting gets sidelined in New …

TonyBet is also organizing its inaugural live OFC Poker event, called the OFC Poker World Championship, which will begin at Prague in Czech Republic on December 8. A TonyBet Poker representative told PokerNews.com that the event “will celebrate the …

This week, Betfair ended its online poker offerings on its Internet gambling platform in New Jersey, according to USPoker.com. Betfair will continue offering other casino games thanks to a partnership with the Golden Nugget Atlantic City. Betfair …

Park City's Josee Nadeau, an internationally-renown visual artist, sketches donors during last year's Waterkeeper Celebrity Poker Night fundraiser. This year's event will be held Dec. 5, at the Montage Deer Valley. (Courtesy of Josee Nadeau).

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7, you can win your way into the $1,100 buy-in Heartland Poker Tour main event aboard the Oasis of the Seas, one of the world's largest cruise ships. The $5,000 package not only includes the main event buy-in and seven nights in an ocean-view stateroom …

5 December 2014, London, UK (Press Release) — The British Poker Awards (www.thebritishpokerawards.com) is set to recognise grassroots poker once more, as five of the country's leading poker groups are in contention for the Best Poker League award.

A new bill that seeks to legalize California online poker in 2015 has been introduced by Assemblyman Mike Gatto this week. Bill AB 9, dubbed the “Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015,” aims to establish a regulatory framework that would …

Mexico Gambling Bill Would End Haven For US Online Poker Refugees The Mexican Parliament will decide next week whether to pass the country's Gambling and Gaming Bill, a new piece of legislation which seeks to introduce sweeping changes to …

Only card rooms or Native American casinos would be allowed to operate online poker sites, essentially freezing the horse racing industry out of the game. In addition, there is a bad actor clause in the new legislation, one that would likely be used …

Most of my game theory studies have been for poker, where I could either only approximate solutions to real-life games (and then usually deviate from them) or else find exact solutions to toy games (that I would never actually be playing for money …

Poker pro Phil “Polarizing” Ivey continued his upswing over the past week on Full Tilt Poker, winning roughly $137,000, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Ivey took most of the week off, but logged on Wednesday and put a nice dent into his …

This was his third final table of the year, having finished runner-up in the $1 million guaranteed WPT bestbet Poker Scramble main event less than a month ago in Northern Florida. For that deep run he earned $284,371 and 1,200 POY points. With his win …

“We are thrilled to welcome back the CPPT and host this exciting event for the second year in a row,” said Terry Chiaradio, Director of Poker Operations at Foxwoods Resort Casino. “At Foxwoods, we pride ourselves in establishing partners to best serve …

Poker players will tonight pay tribute to a Teesside takeaway owner who was also a king of the table. Cheung Tai “John” Law came to England as a teenager and became a successful businessman, running the popular Sun Lok Curry House on Beaumont …

888 Poker appears to have recovered from a six week stretch of intermittent connectivity problems that kept their technical team working “around the clock”, while players took to the major poker forums, including CardsChat, to air numerous frustrations …

Betfair has shut down its New Jersey online poker site, ending an unimpressive run for a site that simply never caught on in the Garden State. The close of the poker room won't affect Betfair's more successful online casino business, which continues to …