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Bob Ciaffone Bluffing is the part of poker that attracts the most attention and interest from those who are not really poker players themselves, but know what a bluff is. For poker aficionados, bluffing, of course, is also of great interest. Running a …

Vee Quiva Hotel & Casino The brand new Vee Quiva Hotel & Casino, located just outside Phoenix, Arizona, is rewarding their poker players with the Super 49 Ticket Giveaway, a promotion that will send a lucky pair of players to Super Bowl XLIX in …

Over the weekend, the World Poker Tour Emperors Palace Poker Classic — a tournament that attracted 166 players and created a prize pool of $475,836 — played out in South Africa. After three days of play, poker pro Dylan Wilkerson emerged victorious …

The Global Poker Index (GPI) has finally released some details about the first-ever American Poker Awards (APA), a ceremony set to take place on Feb. 27, at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Created to bring together all the top names of the …

Monthly regulated online poker revenues were reported once again in New Jersey, and they dipped below $2 million in the month of October for the first time since its inception in November 2013. According to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement …

The patent claims at issue related to management of online poker. Defendant challenged the validity based on lack of patentable subject matter under Section 101 in light of the recent Alice decision, alleging the claims related to the abstract idea of …

Andoni Larrabe was the first player from Spain to make the World Series of Poker main event final table since Carlos Mortensen won it all back in 2001, but the 22-year-old poker player couldn't do better than sixth place when all was said and done …

Poker pros Phil Ivey and Alex Kostritsyn had quite the heads-up battle last week, as seven of their pots were above $100,000, two of which were well above $230,000. Even though it wasn't their largest in the hundreds of hands they played against one …

The most dangerous opponent at the table is the one you underestimate. With a calm, stoic demeanor, it would be easy to underestimate poker pro Darren Elias. The 27-year-old phenom is almost robotic at the poker table, taking great care with each …

The World Series of Poker November Nine were back in Las Vegas playing down to a winner earlier this week as Swedish superstar Martin Jacobson (GPI No. 9) became the first player from his country to become WSOP Main Event Champion. The Top 10 …

"Dam I was playing in a poker tournament last night and something crazy happened to my finger that I shot off and they put back on. I knew something crazy was going to happen with this dam finger cause it felt like it was falling off…My finger should …

Martin Jacobson, a professional poker player from Sweden, emerged from a starting field of 6,683 to become the new World Series of Poker Main Event champion and take down a first prize of $10 million. Jacobson began the final table with the second …

ultimate-poker-desktop The writing was on the wall following their withdrawal from the New Jersey market and the subsequent trimming of their Nevada staff, but the announcement on Friday that Ultimate Poker would be shutting down its online poker room …

Ultimate Gaming has decided to leave the Nevada online poker market, a move some saw coming, but which the company had earlier denied was in the offing. The move must cast a kind of foreboding over US online poker operations, given that Ultimate was …

Day 1c of the Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates attracted 194 runners, which brought the total field up to an even 500 entrants. That's 47 more than the last time the tour rolled around last spring. After 15 levels of play, Mike Wright finished the 41 …

Norway's unluckiest gambler Felix Stephensen is to lose half his 35 million kroner prize money, won at the Poker World Championship held this week in Las Vegas. The Norwegian government will take just over half in tax deduction, it was revealed Friday.

Delaware's online poker market is now one year old, and all three of the racinos in the state that launched Internet gambling sites a year ago are still in business. But while the state's poker sites are operating, there has been little to celebrate in …

Canseco's left middle finger apparently fell off while he was playing poker, according to multiple outlets, including SI.com. Canseco's finger was surgically reattached a few weeks ago after the ex-slugger shot himself accidentally while cleaning some …