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Players who made an appearance on the first day included World Series of Poker bracelet winner Walter Smiley, who won the $5,000 seven-card stud event at the seventh annual WSOP in 1979, CPPT Bicycle Casino main event bubbler Derrick Modeki, …

A little more than a year after launching, the social online game and app from Phil Ivey's Ivey Poker is shutting down — temporarily. The announcement reduces Ivey's IveyLeague.com to a training/coaching site with an accompanying forum. The website …

The Canadian diplomatic representative at the conference, Diana Tan from Foreign Affairs in Ottawa, was equally careful with her words, actually reading from a prepared script. All the government representatives certainly had on their poker faces …

Organizers and the online poker room partner of France Poker Series (FPS) have officially announced the cancellation of the FPS Paris, a poker event which was planned to be held at the Cercle Cadet from November 21 to 30. As mentioned on the statement, …

If you turn back time to the beginning of September, you may recall the sound of the fanfare as the creative minds at Zynga rolled out their new and improved version of Zynga Poker. The hood had been slammed shut, and iOS and Android devices were now …

PokerStars is coming back to the United States and the online poker giant is ready to reclaim the mantle they relinquished after they were forced out of the U.S. market following Black Friday: The title of #1 online poker site in the United States …

Clearly, this is the type of promotion New Jersey needs to see more of, as it simultaneously increases cash liquidity while promoting grinders to play more. And a little healthy competition never killed anyone. WSOP's Fall Poker Festival tournament …

Poker Champions While there are a few casual poker titles available to play for free on Facebook, Socialinus' Texas Holdem Poker Champions looks to offer something others don't: large multi-table tournaments (MTTs), like those players would see while …

In April, after a length heads-up battle, Salter finished second to Italy's Antonio Buonanno in the European Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event for a career-best score of €765,000 ($1,058,369). Fast forward to October and Salter came second in another …

Jack McClelland, 63, was once a semi-professional bowler and poker dealer. He moved out to Las Vegas to help his ailing mother and ended up directing tournaments at the WSOP in the 80's and running the Bellagio poker room from 2002 to 2013. He was …

Teaching the world to play better poker will have to be accomplished for awhile without allowing players to log on and play at IveyPoker.com. A recent tweet by Phil Ivey revealed that "we plan on suspending the current game this Saturday, October 25th.

Online poker sites have been trying to appeal to “Recreational” players since the very beginning, and following the industry-wide shakeup after Black Friday there was an even more concerted effort to target these jilted, disenfranchised recreational …

Social gaming company Zynga has moved to bolster its online poker offering by launching a new title in the form of Zynga Poker Classic. The new game is due to launch on iOS in the coming week and on the Android platform later in the year. Zynga Poker …

Negreanu, Jack McClelland Become 2014 Poker Hall Of Fame Inductees The Poker Hall of Fame has announced that Daniel Negreanu and Jack McClelland are to be this year's newest inductees, with an official ceremony marking their admission to take …

Two Italian poker pros will have a less taxing year ahead, following a key EU ruling in their favor. The European Union Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled against the Italian government in a case that concerned whether the nation could seek to collect …

South Point's online poker website, Real Gaming, received final approval from state gambling regulators today. Real Gaming became the third real-money online poker site to operate in Nevada when it went live in February. Initially, the site was in a …

Global Poker Index editor Eric Danis and CineSport's Noah Coslov talk about some of the most bizarre bets made by poker players including the infamous “boob bet.” Thomas Fitzgerald is co-founder of XN Sports.Follow @FitzyXN …

“Open Face Chinese poker is a fun and exciting game, growing incredibly fast. Being the biggest global OFC poker site, we decided to seize an opportunity and give some live action for the players. And with the entire poker community coming to Prague in …