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Jorn Walthaus is a Dutch professional poker player, and someone who is regarded as one of the best high-stakes players from Europe. In 2013, Walthaus earned his most accomplished live tournament score after finishing 26th in the World Series of Poker …

GPI Wants To Take Poker To A Whole New Level First there was the announcement about the Global Poker Masters. Now the Global Poker Index is ready to take the next step in 'sportifying' the game. Five months after announcing the launch of a World Cup …

The Global Poker Index is going to attempt something that their original founders and others could never successfully accomplish, the creation of a new poker league. On Thursday, the GPI announced the creation of the Global Poker League, a move that …

For almost a week now, players have been flocking to the Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel for the 2014 Seneca Niagara Fall Poker Classic. Friday marked the climax of the series as the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event got underway at 11 a.m. ET.

Given the stiff competition, Ivey Poker was always going to have a tough time breaking into that market, and sure enough, it never took off quite like Ivey may have hoped. Last month, Ivey Poker announced a temporary shut down. At the time, the game …

In July, Mark Newhouse became the first player to record back-to-back World Series of Poker main event final tables since Dan Harrington did so in 2003 and 2004. Harrington did it at the start of the poker boom, so the main event field sizes hadn't …

Phillip Hui hasn't been playing poker all that long and found his way to the tables through his golf buddies as he worked his way towards becoming a professional golfer. But life has a way of changing one's course and a couple years later he found his …

What is a poker player to do when stress, anxiety, frustration, boredom and the like present themselves? I'd like to suggest that hypnosis is a useful methodology for dealing with these types of issues. Hypnosis has much in common with meditation which …

As the November Nine prepare to square off next week in the World Series of Poker's Main Event, another card player is making waves. Danielle Andersen, who started playing poker in college as a way to spend more time with her then-boyfriend (now …

The bestbet Jacksonville is the host of the latest stop on the World Poker Tour's 13th season and the Northern Florida poker hotspot is trying out some exciting new things with this WPT main event. The 2014 bestbet Dounty Scramble is a $5,000 buy-in …

The 2014 Seneca Niagara Fall Poker Classic continued Thursday with Event #3, a $300 no-limit hold'em tournament which attracted a total of 141 entries, creating a prize pool of $35,497. After a long day on the felts it was Siavash Banai who emerged as …

CardPlayer.com is the world's oldest and most well respected poker magazine and online poker guide. Since 1988, CardPlayer has provided poker players with poker strategy, poker news, and poker results. Today, CardPlayer.com is the best poker …

"When it came to Phil Ivey, I always saw how much more his brand could really be, so I was excited at the idea of really expanding him from Ivey Poker the app & training site into 'Ivey League' the brand. So a few months ago we agreed that we would …

It's not often you get to pick the brain of someone who is at the very top of their chosen profession, but this is precisely what you'll get to do if you pick up a copy of Chris Moorman's soon to be released and highly anticipated book, Moorman's Book …

In early September, Zynga launched the new Zynga Poker, a new mobile version of the flagship game that has generated more than 100 billion hands of poker since 2007. The publisher has had more than 350 million players over this title's history.

The Playground Poker Fall Classic is just around the corner, and for the third year in a row the annual festival will include the World Poker Tour Montreal. Players from around the world are set to return to the Montreal area for 19 days of fantastic …

It's uncertain what would happen in that respect should any bills regarding online poker hit the president's desk. But what's clear is that Republican majorities in both houses make it more likely that legislation that would ban Internet poker will be …

The 2014 Asia Championship of Poker is currently underway in Macau and while the APPT is set to crown its Main Event Champion this weekend there are a few other events on the schedule that caught poker fans' attention, including the $500,000 HKD …