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The third and final starting day of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Main Event came and went on Sunday, attracting a massive field of 610 entrants. That brings the total amount of entries to 1,625 for the event, smashing the C$1 million guarantee and …

The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Main Event continued on Saturday at the Playground Poker Club attracting 524 players to clear the C$1 million guarantee, and leading the approximately 161 Day 1b survivors is French Canadian Guillaume Rivet. Rivet bagged …

Anthony Zinno has had an incredible year on the tournament circuit making five final tables and banking more than 7 figures in earnings. Recently, he won the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City for $825,099 and now sits in 19th place …

Like each week, the Global Poker Index brings an update in the classification of the 300 best players of poker in the world. For its update of September 25th, this poker ranking didn't know great change, especially in the Top 20. Marvin Rettenmaier …

About nine months ago, Zynga had sent in its application to operate a real money online poker site in Nevada. After the online gaming company had evaluated its second quarter earnings, there were indications that Zynga may retract its decision to …

… and Kieran 'Rashers' Ryan. Barry Duggan – 28 September 2013 07:00 AM. A PROFESSIONAL poker player who was feted on The Late Late Show has lost €36,000 which he claimed was his after a judge ruled the cash came from the proceeds of crime.

Chants of “Oleeeeeeee! Ole! Ole! Oleeeeeee!” filled the Penn & Teller Theater roughly three years ago, as a young French Canadian named Jonathan Duhamel posed with his nearly $9 million in winnings and the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event …

“The GSC were keen to make sure we had a clean break between the past,” Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Comission CEO Steven Brennan said after Full Tilt Poker was granted a license in October of 2012. “And we think we've ensured that a clean break …

“We felt the price point is great for this market and will let someone who maybe typically plays a little smaller play as well,” said Poker Room Director Noah Carbone. Palm Beach Kennel Club is one of the largest multi-table poker rooms in the state of …

Archie Karas became a poker legend 20 years ago when he turned $50 into $40,000,000 during a single streak in Las Vegas. Today Karas — real name Anargyros Karabourniotis — sits in a Vegas jail, arrested for allegedly cheating at the tables. Karas is …

A poker cheat who used infrared contact lenses and cards marked with invisible ink to win has been jailed for two years. Italian Stefano Ampollini – known as 'Parmesan' – was able to take £60,000 in one night at an exclusive casino in Cannes on the …

The nosebleed gambler had been getting mostly crushed on Full Tilt Poker recently, but over the past week put together around $900,000 in profits, according to HighstakesDB. The 37-year-old Ivey is still down a seven-figure sum this year. Before …

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes a player's results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six-month …

On Friday, the C$1,000,000 guarantee Full Tilt Poker Montreal Main Event kicked off with the first of three starting days at the Playground Poker Club outside of downtown Montreal. Day 1a attracted 491 entrants, clearing nearly a half of the guarantee …

One of the trickiest hands to play in poker is middle pocket pairs. As with all situations in poker, the best way to play them depends on many factors, including position, stack sizes and aggressiveness of the other players at the table. So what do you …

A number of innovative concepts have been developed in online poker over the years. Some of these come from the sites themselves, while others have been created to assist players in maximizing profits. Bad beat jackpots, turbo tournaments, anonymous …

I started playing poker soon after Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 WSOP Main Event. Back then, there were around 20 to 50 people playing online poker in Portugal and whenever I told someone how much I enjoyed playing tournament Poker, they looked at …

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 27, 2013 /CNW/ – Ivey Poker announced today the official launch of the Ivey Poker App for mobile devices. Created by Phil Ivey – considered by many to be the greatest all-round poker player in the game – the Ivey Poker App is a free-to …