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While Tipton is the chip leader with 319,300, he is joined by World Poker Tour champion Josh Hale, Anthony Nguyen and Amir Dehghan at the top of the chip counts. They bagged 261,000, 228,000 and 219,200, respectively. Other notables who waded their …

There are only a few events remaining at World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific and Player of the Year front runner George Danzer (GPI#63) is closing in on the prestigious title. After fighting it out all summer in Las Vegas, Danzer was amongst one of a …

The Swedish tax authority, known as Skatteverket, is searching for information on poker players who have collected big winnings on overseas sites, but haven't been paying taxes on that money. According to a report from Radio Sweden, in many cases …

Lock Poker, widely known as a U.S.-facing poker site in which withdrawal requests have been languishing and repeated empty promises from customer support that those cashouts are on their way to players, has seen its cash game player traffic decline by …

Robbery at EPT Berlin In Part 1 of this series (sorry it took so long to get Part 2 up) I discussed some of the ways tournament poker has strayed from its true path, and the unintended consequences this straying from the path has brought on – not …

CPPT II – Big Poker Oktober. $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em. Follow-the-action · Andrew Miramontes Shoves River. Melanie Weisner raised to 1,300 from middle position and was called by Andrew Miramontes from the cutoff, a player on the button, the small blind …

The ninth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California Sept. 21 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 15 culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold'em $500,000 estimated …

The European Poker Tour (EPT) and the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) have joined forces once again, this time around in London. The UKIPT began its last stop in 2014 at the Hippodrome Casino on Oct. 7 with a huge £150+£15 super …

Hellmuth is currently fifth in chips of six players remaining in the 2014 WSOP Asia Pacific $2,200 AUD six-max no-limit hold'em event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. This is the 'Poker Brat's' 108th cash and 51st final table finish in a …

According to an interview conducted on Swedish Radio News, Skatterverket spokesperson Dag Hardyson stated that the tax organization was actively investigating players by presenting screen names of poker grinders to various known offshore tax havens.

Like many other stops on the “Tour”, the dates and venue have been specifically chosen to coincide with a regional tour – in this case the Italian Poker Tour (IPT) – meaning that there will be in excess of forty poker tournaments played over eleven …

The Season 3 of the HPO schedule features eight stops, including a new one at the Hollywood Casino Toledo from Feb. 5-16. Each stop will include a Main Event as well as qualifiers for the season-ending championship at the M Resort Casino Spa in Las …

When you are short-stacked in a no-limit hold'em tournament — say, down to less than 10 big blinds — your options are necessarily limited. In a lot of cases, you really only have one “move” left that is available to use, and that's an all-in raise or …

Overall, the online regulars are discontented with the addition of the new format claiming that it will kill their games – the classic Sit & Go's – and poker in general as an environment where skill prevails in the long run. For Daniel Negreanu though …

So far this year, the poker pro is down more than $2.4 million. The 10-time bracelet winner is still facing a lawsuit from Atlantic City's Borgata casino over $9.6 million he won there in 2012. The big loser over the past seven days online was SanIker …

Eventually, and as a result of the Crockfords incident going public, Atlantic City's Borgata casino sued Ivey for $9.6 million, saying that the poker pro also edge sorted against them in 2012. In the Borgata case, the casino is trying to recoup the …

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) hasn't decided to monumentally shift their position on online poker legislation. Unfortunately, this was not the messaging received by the poker community following a PokerNews.com article published Thursday morning …

Thumbnail image for al-martinez-sketch.jpg When old men get together over poker and a few beers they no longer talk only about babes and politics. They also talk about their bladders and their prostate glands. On this night they hit three out of four.