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After a long day at the tables on Monday, a field of 33 was trimmed down to six at the 2014 World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open. Shannon Shorr is still in contention for his first WPT title and will headline the six-handed final table on Tuesday …

Ultimate Poker Noverlay. Over the next month poker players at Ultimate Poker NJ will be doing the unthinkable; rooting for UP's tournament to reach their guaranteed prize-pool marks, thanks to a new, extremely clever promotion UP has dubbed NO-verlay.

A new poker training site called 1to5 is allowing its members to join the biggest games in the world alongside players such as Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson and more. The training and entertainment site takes showdowns …

Poker players of all levels from across the globe will have the opportunity to play alongside – or even beat – World Series of Poker champion Chris Moneymaker this spring. Penn National Gaming's second season of the Hollywood Poker Open continues with …

The third stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Foxwoods Resort Casino February 8 and will host a series of 11 tournaments through February 17, culminating with a $1,650 no-limit hold'em $300,000 guarantee main event February …

Season 2 of the Hollywood Poker Open is already underway with the completion of its first stop at Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg. The remaining stops of the Hollywood Poker Open Regional Tournament series will run through the end of May with each …

Season XII of the World Poker Tour kicked off on Fox Sports Network Sunday with the first of three episodes from the Legends of Poker, a $3,500 Main Event that attracted 716 entries at the The Bicycle Casino back in September 2013. The $2,430,820 prize …

Joe Hachem's latest remarks in which he expressed regret that the game of "poker is dying" fired up the whole poker community. From the 2+2 forums to the high stakes professionals playing in the 2014 Aussie Millions tournaments, everybody seems to have …

Yevgeniy Timoshenko was the lone survivor in the 2014 APPT Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em super high roller. The American pro topped a record field of 76 entries, up from just 22 in 2013. For the win he earned $2 million AUD ($1,791 …

Cake Entertainment NV announced that it has entered into a new partnership with the Malta licensed Free Web Holding Ltd., owned by – among others – two industry powerhouses, Francesco Merighi and Carlo Costanzia. Constanzia is one of the founders of …

Barer topped a tough final table that featured the likes of Scott Seiver (7th – $152,235), Darren Rabinowitz (4th – $402,975) and Jacob Balsiger (3th – $582,075). In the end it came to a heads-up battle with fellow Canadian and 2010 Aussie Millions …

Having a plan can help every poker player. Whether you play in a casino, cardroom, home game, or online, there are great benefits in knowing exactly what you want to get out of poker and how you're going to get it. Even if you consider yourself a …

Starting Sunday, Feb. 9, Ultimate Poker is giving New Jersey players even more value with the No-Verlay promotion. For the next month, any time one of Ultimate Poker's nightly or weekend special tournaments meets its guarantee, the site will refund the …

The tournament Silver Championship of the Paris Open of Poker has crowned Marc Trijaud as champion. This event has known a real success as it has gathered 143 players in the poker room of the Aviation Club de France (ACF). Runner-up of the High …

The 2014 World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open continued on Saturday with the second Day 1 flight at the at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino in Florida. After 183 entries were recorded on Day 1a, another 223 were accounted for on Day 1b.

Independent business data provider, Gambling Compliance revealed last week that ten US states are eyeing the introduction of internet gambling this year. According to the group, proposals for new or expanded online poker could be considered in …

The biggest online no-limit hold 'em hand of 2013 was worth $498,028 and was won by a mystery man who plays under the screen name "Denoking." The hand played out at a five-handed $400/$800 Full Tilt Poker table on June 22. A player using the handle …

… winner photo. Thanks to regulated online poker in Nevada and New Jersey, direct satellites to the biggest live tournament series in the world, the World Series of Poker, are once again available to online poker players in the United States via WSOP …