Poker News

From December 5th through the 9th the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey will play host to one of the largest bar poker events of all time, the $100k Guaranteed Bar Poker Open. The five-day Bar Poker Open tournament series will …

Jennifer Shahade criss-crosses the globe changing hats as a professional poker player and master chess player. Sometimes she dons both, like at the recent UKIPT event on the Isle of Man where PokerStars hosted an international chess tournament and …

Can you still call a Hall of Fame member a kid? We will soon find out as the World Series of Poker announced on Thursday that "Kid Poker" Daniel Negreanu was one of two members of the poker world who would be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame this …

The 2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic is just over one week away, with the festivities kicking off Saturday, Nov. 1 with a $500 No-Limit Hold'em event. The series will feature five events running Nov. 1-9, highlighted by the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main …

It's where a boy borrowed $100 from a friend, lied to his parents, snuck into a poker club and doubled down on his future. It's where Pat McAfee turned $100 into $1,400. It was the money he needed to buy a plane ticket to Miami to prove to college …

Matt Kirby capped a successful Fall Poker Classic tournament series by winning the $1,000 Main Event on Oct. 20 at Canterbury Park. The 30-year-old tournament pro from Bemijdi, Minn., defeated 362 other competitors and captured the top prize of $84,502.

Last month the list of 10 nominees for the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame was released by the World Series of Poker, and now after the 21 living Hall of Fame members and a 20-member media panel have cast their votes, two finalists have been chosen.

The tenth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Hollywood Park Casino in Southern California Oct. 17 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 26 culminating with a $340 no-limit hold'em $100,000 guarantee main event Oct.

The Poker Hall of Fame says it will honor Daniel Negreanu and retired poker executive Jack McClelland next month in Las Vegas. The hall's governing council announced Thursday that the induction will be at Binion's Gambling Hall on Nov. 9. That's a day …

The ongoing battle between French authorities and part of the national gambling industry has a new victim, as PokerStars has decided to cancel the next leg of the French Poker Series (FPS), an event set to kick off in Paris on November 21. The festival …

The Open Face Chinese (OFC) Poker Live World Championship, the first event of its kind in poker tournament history, will be played at Prague in the Czech Republic from December 8 to December 10, 2014. The event will comprise a €1,000 buy-in Main …

The Philadelphia SugarHouse Casino is about to become the premium destination for poker players in the City of Brotherly Love. While many states in the US are focused on bringing poker and other casino games online, brick-and-mortar locations scattered …

Let's Sportify poker. This is the rallying cry of Alex Dreyfus, one of poker's best known entrepreneurs who also happens to be one of the game's biggest cheerleaders. Dreyfus, who first appeared on the poker scene as the owner of Chili Poker, is …

Dan Smith (GPI#1) continues to dominate the GPI World Poker Rankings. Smith is spending his 9th straight week atop the poker rankings. He is currently the only player sitting with more than 4,000 points. The news, however, isn't as good for Daniel …

Although we had to wait a little longer than expected to find the new champion of Barcelona's World Poker Tour National, poker pro and international business student Edu Garcia Freixa finally managed to leave Casino Barcelona with the Main Event's …

The news is good for online high-stakes pro Ola “Odd Oddsen” Amundsgaard, who has been fighting for poker players' rights in Norway for quite some time. Last year, Amundsgaard played a politician in heads-up battle to highlight the fact that poker is a …

The Czech Poker Festival 2014, the 6th edition of the International Poker Championship of the Czech Republic, will take place in the second half of November 2014. The traditional host will be Smíchovské Card Casino Prague and newly opened Kings Casino …

Social gaming company Zynga is taking fan feedback into account and will offer the older version of its popular poker game on mobile. After months of live testing, the new mobile version of Zynga Poker launched in September. But a significant …