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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 online poker series will last for 15 days, beginning on October 19th. Poker Fest will begin with a $1 buy-in event that will pay $5,000. Players will have a $200 buy-in with a $300,000 guaranteed in the No Limit Hold'em Event (NLHE) which will …

Bwin.party, the parent company of PartyPoker and bwin Gaming, has released third-quarter financials that show the company posting small single-digit gains in overall company revenue despite continuing to suffer significant declines in its online poker …

Cairo, NE – Around thirty motorcycles roared down roads between Cairo, St. Paul, Worms, Marquette, and Grand Island on Saturday for a one year old boy battling cancer. The Ryker's Ryde Poker Run started off at the Watering Hole Cairo. Family and …

The New Jersey Bureau of Securities has revoked the agent registration of a Jersey City man and slapping him and his Red Bank-based business with a $2 million penalty for defrauding investors spending their money on gambling, football tickets and other …

The first level of play at the final table was one of the most thrilling in the history of televised poker, but interestingly enough of the eight finalists were eliminated from play. Many big hands were made, but some of the folds were even bigger …

UK poker player Darren Woods was in court this week, charged with cheating at online poker. As reported by the Grimsby Telegraph, a small northern English local newspaper, Woods appeared in Sheffield Crown Court to answer 12 charges of fraud relating …

A total of 329 players posted the $10,000 AUD buy-in in the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific no-limit hold'em main event, but only one could walk away the champion. Six days after the first hand was dealt in this event Scott Davies emerged …

The Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Casino main event came down to Los Angeles regular Shan “Pacman” Jing and former online multi-table tournament super star Amit Makhija. After outlasting a field of 527 players, the two made an even chop for the money …

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.

With more than $2 million in cashes, four titles and seven final-table finishes in 2014, the 40-year-old Canadian poker pro is having one of the most impressive years put together by a player in recent years. If it weren't for the absolutely …

FORMER billiards pro Mike Takayama and renowned international campaigner Gerardo “Jay” Lubas lead a versatile selection that will represent the Philippines in the inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) Nations Challenge tournament presented by Solar …

The controversy swirling around Spin & Gos at PokerStars was addressed by a site representative who answered critics by posting on 2 + 2 that the revolutionary, hyper-turbo, lottery-jackpot Sit n' Gos are saving, rather than killing, online poker.

Kane has baseball in his blood, earned a degree in broadcast journalism but chose to make his way as a professional poker player first and finds himself at a crossroads. “Poker offers something else that broadcasting doesn't, which really brings out my …

That moment started what was dubbed “the poker boom” around the country. People around the world began playing poker — specifically Texas Hold 'Em — in basements, clubs and casinos with the hope of one day having their own Moneymaker moment.

[JURIST] The European Commission [official website] filed a lawsuit [press release] against Sweden on Thursday for failing to change its laws on online betting and poker games that breach EU law on the free movement of services. The EU referred Sweden …

Blom was able to secure a win on the week thanks to apparently profitable matches against Russian poker pro Alex “PostFlopAction” Kostritsyn. The largest hand of the past week occurred in a heads-up $300-$600 pot-limit Omaha battle between Blom and …

Online poker in the Republic of Ireland will soon have to obtain a license and pay a new gambling tax, according to the Irish Examiner. Since online poker in Ireland became big business, politicians have been looking for a way to levy those who offer …