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It took three days, six starting flights and hundreds of re-entries, but Event #2 of the Seneca Fall Poker Classic finally came to a close Wednesday night. A total of 560 entries put up the $125 buy-in, creating a prize pool $53,200 to surpass the $50 …

Poker legend Phil Ivey will be appealing a court decision last month that went against him in his quest to be paid more than $12.4 million that he thinks a casino in London owes him. The casino refused to pay because it said Ivey cheated by “edge …

In poker, an overlay happens when a tournament fails to meet its guaranteed prize pool. As a result, the host venue is forced to go out of pocket to cover the difference. For example, if a casino hosts a $100 buy-in poker tournament with a $10,000 …

Mornings are never fun. The best way to manage them – to get through them really – is to create a routine. For most people that means a shower, a commute, a coffee and spending the first 15 minutes of your day procrastinating before getting your …

This November, Sportsbook Poker is proud to announce the 11th installment of their extremely popular Poker Maximus tournament series. Featuring over $2 million in guarantees this tournament series will run from Nov. 9-23. Buy-ins will range from $1 up …

In less than a week, the 2014 World Series of Poker will come to an end as the November Nine play their way down to a champion. Only time will tell who will walk away with the $10 million first-place prize, but one thing is for sure — more than 200 …

The Seneca Fall Poker Classic continued Tuesday with Flight E and Flight F of Event #2, a $125 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. When it was all over, a total of 550 entries were tallied, meaning the guarantee was …

SugarHouse Casino is the only casino within city limits, though those in the city have easy access to three other poker rooms, according to PokerAtlas. Another casino is on its way in Philadelphia, though state regulators have been slow to pick a license.

While the tribe's proposed real-money online poker venture, PrivateTable.com, has had several false starts, with various provisional launch dates passing without a hint of a shuffle and a deal, DesertRoseBingo.com appeared to launch this week without a …

Many in the poker community were outraged by the changes and felt the moves only served to damage the PokerStars brand, while others defended the move. Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu offered his two cents on the situation in a blog post, while …

The Jennifer Harman Celebrity Poker Tournament on Friday, November 14 at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will see some of world's best poker players joined by stars from Hollywood, the Las Vegas Strip, and the sports world, all to benefit the no-kill …

In less than a week someone will be crowned World Series of Poker Main Event Champion and take home $10M, the biggest first place prize awarded to the Main Event winner since Jamie Gold took home $12M in 2006. The 2014 November Nine festivities …

Season 3 of the Hollywood Poker Open (HPO), which will feature eight stops, kicks off on Thursday, Nov, 13 at the Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg in Indiana. The stop will have a dozen “featured events” culminating in the $1,115 HPO Regional Main Event …

The temporary poker room at the SugarHouse Casino just opened its doors on Nov. 1 — and guess what? It's got that new-car smell. Aside from the 24 new tables with table side food, beverage and massage service, the place looks like Fast and the Furious …

The 2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic continued Monday in Niagara Falls, New York with Event #2, a $125 no-limit hold'em tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament features six separate starting flights across three days, and Flights …

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 November …

There is no way to really know what their plan is for poker, but if it were to become legal they would have a huge advantage over most other companies in the market with their database of users and the money they could spend to build or buy good …

Steve O'Dwyer In recent years Macau has become the new locus of ultra high-stakes poker action, at first in cash games and increasingly in the tournament realm. The latest massive event to go down in the world's largest gambling center was the 2014 …