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Absolute Poker launched in 2003. It was the home of an insider cheating scandal. Black Friday eventually put the site out of business. It owed players somewhere in the neighborhood of $45 million when it ceased operations. I was a prop at Absolute …

Full Tilt Poker, the online poker site that was sold to Poker Stars parent group, Rational in 2013, has now announced that it will moving away from a poker-only environment and focusing more on becoming a comprehensive gaming site. As such, the site …

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 …

With the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event now wrapped up, Sean Gibson takes a look at who won and what is happening in the post-Moneymaker amateur vs. pro event cash outlook, more than 10 years later. Come back tomorrow when we take an …

Jeff Madsen At just 21 years and five weeks old, Jeff Madsen won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in 2006. Less than a week later he won his second, defeating Erick Lindgren heads-up in the $5,000 six-max no-limit hold'em, one of the most …

Twenty-five California card rooms, including popular Los Angeles clubs Hollywood Park and Hustler, issued a letter to state lawmakers supporting Internet poker legislation and explaining their position on a few of the contested issues that may be …

LANSING — The state Gaming Control Board has suspended all millionaire party games Lansing's Trippers Bar and a busniness in Northville after determining a supplier of poker paraphernalia illegally diverted $1.6 million among the two businesses and …

Full Tilt Drops 'Poker' From Website Address In 2013, Full Tilt Poker announced it would be expanding beyond poker into casino games and this year the site then added blackjack, roulette, as well as a number of single and multi-player casino gaming …

Without their supplier and poker room operator, Trippers Bar in the Frandor shopping center and Northville Downs Race Track closed the rooms for the same period. Trippers' ownership received approximately $562,000 from 2008-10 in violation of the state …

LANSING — The state Gaming Control Board has suspended all millionaire party games Lansing's Trippers Bar and a busniness in Northville after determining a supplier of poker paraphernalia illegally diverted $1.6 million among the two businesses and …

Beasley's family set up the foundation in his memory and began hosting the poker run in July 2001 in an effort to raise money to purchase a boat, special underwater cameras and diving equipment that could be used to locate drowning victims on Smith …

Although the site is still called Full Tilt Poker, the rebranding of the URL might only just be the beginning for what we could expect to see in the near future with "Poker" being dropped from the official name. Industry reports have hinted that the …

This year's World Series of Poker has so far been an enjoyable return to tournament play for me. Event 8, the $1,500 buy-in "Millionaire Maker" with $1 million guaranteed to first place, was my first event of the series, and it proved to be an exciting …

PETALING JAYA: Paul Phua, the Malaysian nabbed in Las Vegas for allegedly running a gambling ring linked to World Cup betting, is believed to be a moneyman who made his millions from high-stake poker games. Also known as Phua Wei Seng, 50, …

The El Cortez, an old-fashioned casino located in Downtown Las Vegas, has inked a deal with Ultimate Gaming for Internet poker in the Silver State. Ultimate Gaming is the owner of Ultimate Poker, one of three online poker sites currently operating in …

Lock Poker was recently offline for 12 hours or so due to a "data centre outage in Curaçao" that also affected a number of other sites whose servers are located in the same jurisdiction. But prior to a Lock representative named Emily informing …

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Originally from Maidstone in Kent, the 29-year-old first visited the U.S. in 2006 for the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. “I was very new to the game and didn't really play much poker, so it was more of a vacation,” she says. “However, I got to …