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Alain “Frenchie” Barataud, a regular around the poker scene in Australia, allegedly spearheaded a sophisticated ticketing scam at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, this according to a Sun-Herald investigation. According to Sun-Herald senior investigative …

Each week, PokerNews brings you insight into the happenings at some of the major poker sites. Featuring the most popular blog posts, BlogNews Weekly is your one-stop shop for all your poker blog highlights. In this week's BlogNews report, we bring you …

“The world lost a great guy when James Garner died last night. I met him when him, myself and Gus Hansen were inducted in the Commerce Walk of Fame. He was incredibly nice and we exchanged letters a few times. 86 is a long life and he will be missed.

And all indications are that acquiring this UK licence will require operators to exit some grey markets (markets where the legality of online poker is questionable), meaning that players in those markets – among the biggest in the online poker industry …

The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) is extremely popular with players that like to follow various poker tours; after all, the locales offer not just the chance to win some poker, but also the opportunity to visit some beautiful countries. On July 23 …

An interesting debate was recently hatched on Twitter (which seems to be the Standard Operating Procedure for an exchange of ideas these days) after PokerNews.com's Donnie Peters questioned the reasoning/logic behind the World Series of Poker policy …

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from July 21st …

Ed Miller Many no-limit players like to keep the preflop betting small, see a flop, and go from there. They'll limp into pots with hands like A-K offsuit, 8-7 suited, 6-6, and so on. I take nearly the opposite strategy, especially in cash games with …

The Michigan Gaming Control Board said it temporarily suspended the license of Aces Gaming, the state's largest charity poker game supplier, after the company allegedly admitted to side agreements that diverted more than $1 million to a Northville race …

One month after thirteen Californian Indian tribes reached an agreement over language in a potential online poker bill, 25 card rooms have issued a letter to lawmakers supporting the idea of legislation. The card rooms include the Hustler and the …

The Michigan Gaming Control Board said it temporarily suspended the license of Aces Gaming, the state's largest charity poker game supplier, after the company allegedly admitted to side agreements that diverted more than $1 million to a Northville race …

Charity poker games are on hiatus at Northville Downs and Tripper's bar in Lansing until next month after the state suspended the license of the supplier, claiming it made more than $1 million in illegal payments to the venues. The Michigan Gaming …

Reid Young What if I told you that sometimes pot odds don't matter? You might say that it flies in the face of fundamental poker knowledge. Right. Well fortunately for my side of the argument, there is an area of mathematics that is specially dedicated …

The seventh stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma July 17 and will host a series of 81 tournaments through August 4 culminating with a $1,500 no-limit hold'em $500,000 guarantee main …

When the final table of the Venlo Poker Series Event #1 got underway, it was hard to imagine anybody outside of the top three chips counts winning the tournament. Overnight chip leader Kees Aerts (207,100 chips) had an eight big blind chip advantage …

Remember when you played Dead Rising 2 and you got to play a bit of strip poker? That was fun, right? Well, now you'll have even more fun when you get to play it for real. Now available to purchase from the Capcom store is the Dead Rising 2 Fortune …

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has announced that it is using its “sovereign right under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act” to launch online poker services, despite the fact that California is still deliberating the passage of online gambling legislation.

Hundreds of poker tables inside the Amazon Room were packed July 7 on the third starting flight of the Main Event. At each table, you could spot several players with headphones on listening to their mobile device, others checking Twitter or Facebook, …