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The Mid-States Poker Tour announced a groundbreaking new partnership on Friday. The popular U.S.-based tour has teamed up with Delta Air Lines to provide poker players with discounted airfair to and from MSPT tournaments, which are now expanding as …

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has had its hands full lately in combating Sheldon Adelson's Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling as well as assisting players in the Full Tilt remission process. However, the grassroots organization working on behalf of …

Sin Melin close up 2 200×300 Sin Melin: Full Tilt Pokers latest star and her As a teenager, I couldn't think of anything I'd rather do than travel the world to play poker professionally. For a number of years, a friend and I tried. We read the books …

Mikhail Shalamov Credit: Gipsy Team Russian online poker pro Mikhail “innerpsy” Shalamov is just 26, but he has logged around 10 million hands lifetime of online poker. His normal game is $10-$20 shorthanded no-limit hold'em, but he has played as high …

Poker professionals, aspiring players, spectators and party-goers are invited to attend this exciting fundraiser offering entertainment, food and drink, and a grand prize seat at the 2014 World Series of Poker's Main Event (WSOP). The Texas Hold 'em …

Poker pro Patrik Antonius scooped more than $900,000 over the past seven days on Full Tilt Poker, according to data from HighstakesDB. Since starting to play again on the software under his old screen name “FinddaGrind”, Antonius has won more than $2.5 …

Promotional tournaments are a common occurrence across poker rooms and casinos. What better way to reign in players than days of events promising large prizes? If the tournament was a resounding success the first time, then it makes sense to keep the …

… with help of the Tribal Internet Gaming Alliance (TIGA). Now a grassroots campaign by Wisconsin players, which is being supported by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), is taking place to answer the question whether or not poker is legal in the …

To celebrate the launch of Snap Poker, 888's version of fast-fold poker, 888 kicked off a promo on April 24 that will give away $250,000 in cash prizes over the course of four weeks and 48 freeroll tournaments that each boast a prize pool of $5,000. In …

In the latter, she would beckon to the pupils to come behind her screen. The instant they obeyed, she would strike them with a fire-poker. Nine out of ten of them could not escape her beating. The enlightenment: Crazy ass. This has been "Zen Koans …

David Stephens spent six years as a nuclear electronics technician in the Navy before getting into professional poker. In the World Series of Poker last year, he placed 45th, earning him more than $185,000. Now, he's using some of that money to open a …

Cheyne Capital, one of London's most seasoned hedge funds, has swooped on senior employees of Meditor Capital Management, the $3bn fund that closed its European equities fund in December. Martin Glen, a portfolio manager overseeing the deals desk …

After unsuccessful attempts to get back into the U.S. market via Nevada and New Jersey, PokerStars, the world's most visited poker site, is looking at California as the gateway. The firm, which also owns Full Tilt Poker, was kicked out of the American …

Sharpen your math skills at the poker table. Gaze at the stars. There is surely something to intrigue anyone with a curious mind at the fourth annual citywide Philadelphia Science Festival, a nine-day extravaganza that starts Friday. Led by the …

Jesse Sylvia had been playing poker as a successful, yet anonymous cash game grinder since 2008, but his runner-up finish in the 2012 World Series of Poker main event for a $5.3 million payday thrust him into the unfamiliar territory of the poker …

Whether PokerStars should be barred from participating in a California online poker system became a hot topic at Wednesday's hearing in the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee, even if everyone involved went to great lengths never to mention …

Thomas Page had no experience in the tech industry or in venture capitalism when he sat down for his first job interview, a meeting with Sequoia Capital's billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz. But he sure knew how to play poker, and that's …

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